From 24 February 2022 until the week of 13 March, Shashenok lived in a
bomb shelter where she documented her family's survival techniques, and the destruction of her hometown (which is on the border of Russia and
Belarus), in a comedic manner. Meanwhile, her friends fled Ukraine to other countries, including
Bulgaria and Italy. In mid-March, she escaped alone to
Poland, while her parents stayed in Ukraine. According to her account, she went from
Kyiv to
Lviv, then from Lviv to Poland's
Przemyśl. Although she lacked her passport, she used documents from Ukraine's
Diia app and was allowed into the country. From Przemyśl, she traveled to
Warsaw via
Łódź and was interviewed by a Polish journalist from
Telewizja Polska who recognized her at a train stop. During this journey, she was also interviewed by
CNN en Español,
Cosmopolitan Italia, and
la Repubblica. By August 2022, Shashenok was a
refugee in Italy, where she lived with relatives. In September she visited the
European Parliament, where she met
First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska. == Book ==