Despite everything, people in the war zone try to live a normal life and support each other. Shops are perhaps the only oases that remind of pre-war life.
Viktoriya Kondratenko, 41, who works as a shop assistant, is one of the few who has never traveled anywhere. She’s a mother of three children aged 21, 18 and 13. They took the children to the capital, and they stayed at home.
Read the story of Viktoriya Kondratenko, a saleswoman at the Viktoriya store in Velyka Pysarivka, the Sumy region.