As refugees, fighters and survivors, Ukrainian women document life in war

Ukrainian women document what life is like amid war with Russia.

When one Ukrainian woman woke up and answered a frantic call from her mother on the morning of Feb. 24 -- before the sun had even risen -- she heard screams and tears on the other side of the line, telling her what she feared the most.

"My mom called me crying and screaming: 'Run away right now to the bomb shelter, because the war has been started,'" she said.

The woman looked through her kitchen window and saw half the sky had already been overtaken by dust from explosions in the region. Since that day, when her life shifted drastically, she and other four women have been documenting video diaries of their journeys to safety as they escape the war.

"My country is at war right now," one woman said. "We forgot what is sleep. We forgot what is food. We forgot what is normal life. We forgot what is work. We forgot what is not to shake with any noise outside. We now know what is death."