I am Polish and all four of my grandparents are still alive and lived through the war. One of my grandmas recalls how Russian soldiers would come to their house to eat, and each time her father had to hide his wife by rolling her in the carpet so she doesn't get raped. One of the soldiers constantly "joked" about kidnapping my grandma, taking her as his daugther as his own had died.

One of my grandfathers was born where Ukraine currently is (Polish borders were moved West after the war), he has a pretty bad dementia so my grandma (another one) protects him from the war news. His family had to run and leave their farm behind when Russians came. He was sleeping somewhere on the farm and couldn't be found so they left him behind. His parents had to protect their other children (I think he had like 7 siblings) so they couldn't wait. He was wandering alone in the fields for a few days before he reunited with his family, a small child.

I am sure plenty of those poor Ukrainian gradmas and grandpas have stories like that.