Helping the defense of Kyiv, evacuating families from Chernihiv, a run to Slavutych.

Within a few days a tour company became a supply and evacuation service.

We had no choice. "Doing something is much easier than doing nothing. When you are constantly on the move, there is no time for despair and no room for helplessness," says Kateryna Aslamova. Yaroslav Yemelianenko remembers racing through empty Kyiv to a military unit in the first weeks, sleepless, running on adrenaline. And suddenly the feeling was painfully familiar: this is exactly what an ordinary working day in high season had looked like.

We collected and delivered aid to the Territorial Defense of Kyiv and the region, to doctors and to children. Combat boots came from Ternopil; we even found contact lenses for soldiers. Our tourist BRDM went to defend Kyiv - that is a separate story.

In two SUVs we drove families out of Chernihiv. Near Brovary we came under fire.

Slavutych, the town of nuclear workers, was cut off from the rest of Ukraine at the time. The pharmacies were empty, and the town hospital sent us lists of medicines - hormonal, anti-cancer, vital ones. We delivered them by roundabout routes, bypassing russian checkpoints. We made the humanitarian run to Slavutych together with Lala Tarapakina and Oleksandr Chyzh. We also collected medicines and hygiene supplies for Liubech.

One of the lists included an eleven-year-old child who urgently needed cancer medication. For several days it could not be found in Kyiv: the pharmacies still working opened for an hour or an hour and a half, with huge lines. We were very worried. The medicine was found and delivered. Later word came from Slavutych: the child was all right.