Before the war she worked as a costume designer, now she helps with army clothes.
Mariya has no plans to leave Kyiv despite the war approaching.
Her friends, who have already left, call every day and ask her to leave.
- But it's their choice, not mine.
But both choices are okay, I think, she says.
What would make you leave?
- If a bomb went off in my house, I might leave, or find another house in Kyiv, she says.