For a month and a half, Marina Maksymets and Marina's 3-year-old daughter Nicol lived with their relative Elena Maximez in Barkarö in Västerås.
But eventually Marina chose that they should go back to her hometown of Kyiv, where she works in a shop.
- We do not work according to the usual schedule because it is martial law.
The "curfew" begins at 7 p.m.
You must not be outside, then the police will come, she tells us via the film camera on her mobile phone.
Air raid alert
Every day there are alarms about air raids.
- At work, it is very often that the alarm is set off, we have a siren that wails and then everyone runs to the shelter.
Every Ukrainian also has a program in their mobile phone that notifies when there is a threat of rocket attacks, says Marina Maksymets and continues:
- At night, we take shelter in the hall far away from the windows.
It is dangerous to sit near the windows as splinters and such can fly.
We call it the rule of two walls, that you have some kind of protection, says Marina Maksymets.
The daughter lives in a village
At the same time, she talks about the contrast.
That the children are out playing and that you hardly believe that there is a war going on in the country.
Marina lives with her husband in Kyiv.
Daughter Nicol lives with her grandmother, in a village 80 kilometers from Kyiv.
It's safer for her and a nice environment in the summer, says the relative and Western Asar Elena Maximez.
In the village, the family grows food to survive the winter.
In the clip, Marina Maksymets talks about her everyday life in Ukraine, where the war has almost been going on for six months.