Their mother lived nearby but, due to illness and drug addiction, did not take care of the children. Therefore, #Platon had to feed and give water to his brothers daily, clean the house, and during shelling, take them down to the basement. When the Russian attacks intensified, social services contacted the "#City_of_Good" centre in #Chernivtsi, where the children were urgently evacuated. At that time, the 13-year-old boys each weighed only 8 kg.