Due to the name of the village, local museum curator and embroidery collector Mr. Yurii urgently hid his collection, fearing that the occupiers would claim it as "theirs". He managed to save the treasures and continued embroidering rushnyks despite Russian military equipment in the streets of the village.
Myroslav returned from Spain to Ukraine in 2022 to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He lost his life in Kyiv region, but his vyshyvanka continued its journey to help Ukraine.
The Borysov family from Nova Kakhovka was sheltered in Odesa. After recovering from the horror of the occupation, Anastasiia, a mother of two, found solace first in weaving camouflage nets and later in embroidering chevrons for the military
While living in Poland, Iryna Zemliana started embroidering a rushnyk about the war, which reflected all the new symbols that united Ukrainians around the world