"We're sleeping in the car, eating in the car, basically living in the car for these five days," she explained.
"Two women and an 11-year-old boy," she continued, adding that thousands of cars are on the road, with drivers instructed to avoid major roads and to take smaller rural roads to try and avoid military action. As of Monday morning, Vika is in a lengthy queue of traffic as they inch closer to the Polish border.
Asked if she came across specific instances of conflict during her journey thus far, Vika said she saw explosions at military caches and checkpoints.has – they just want people not to have any weapons," she said."I took a video, but it was only a small flash; the rocket itself flew [past] in one second, just above our car.