ogan, 32km from Ukraine's north-east border with Russia, but decided to take the village two weeks into the war.
"I saw what they had done to my home, what remained of it. What emotions could I afford? Material possessions are not worth your life," the widowed mother-of-four, 67, said."So I thought, 'I'm happy, that with God's will, I'm alive.' Everything lost is material, we can rebuild or renew it." At the top of the hill, one house is so badly scorched it looks volcanic, obsidian walls rising above piles of personal effects and Russian soldiers' boots.
Six explosions of varying intensity - almost certainly shell fire a few kilometres away - rang out as Ms Kios worked through lunchtime. Amid heavy shelling in the village, the 69-year-old sent them away again and fled with her husband on March 19.