"I simply could not believe that the events of World War II would become a reality again, not the past," she now writes on Instagram.
On the night of February 24, she left Kyiv with her two sons.
After four days by car, they finally reached the border with Romania, which they crossed on foot.
On Instagram, Susana Alimivna, whose stage name is "Jamala", talks about the escape from the war and the great sadness she feels.
"Millions of women and children are leaving their homes," she wrote, appealing to Russian and Belarusian mothers for help to stop the war.