The Sunday before the Russian invasion, 34-year-old Natalia Holdovaniuk packed her bag and took a train west to Ukraine.
She traveled with some of her colleagues from the Swedish software company Vchain, which sells logistics solutions and has offices in Zaporizhia in eastern Ukraine.
- I am so grateful to be here but I am worried about my family and my friends who are left, says Natalia Holdovaniuk.
Wanted to be close to the border
Her Swedish managers offered their staff to come to Malmö.
Together they planned how the trip would go.
A first step was to leave the eastern part of Ukraine and travel to Lviv.
- Half of them wanted to leave Ukraine.
One flew to Dubai and six were to come here, but the men had to turn around at the border, says Jerry Lindholm, HR manager at Vchain.
Jerry Lindholm traveled with his boss to the Slovak border to receive three women and a teenage daughter who had fled the war in Ukraine.
The women are now working in the office in Malmö, waiting to be able to return to their home country.
- It feels completely inconceivable that this can happen in 2022, says Jerry Lindholm.
Hear Natalia Holdovaniuk talk about the flight from Ukraine to Malmö in the clip above.