When Ihor Sumiennyi arrived, a recent missile attack in Kiev, many people who lived nearby looked at him with skeptic eyes.

The police stood guard in the street.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

He picked it up, stuffed it in a backpack and walked home.

Ihor Sumiennyi held a piece of weapon collected at an apartment in Kiev, Ukraine.

That shaggy, ugly steel fragment now becomes a star in the Collection of strategic items from the Ukraine -Ukraine conflict.

The collection of such weapons seemed eccentric, even creepy for some people.

Ukrainian artists turn them into artworks and auctioners to sell them to donate thousands of dollars to soldiers on the battlefield.

This trend is obviously showing something bigger.

With patriotism, they want to find something tangible, able to hold, represent a period of fluctuations of the country.

Each piece of bullets has a story, famous artist Ukraine Serhii Petrov in Lviv, shared.

Maybe it was someone's last bullet, Petrov said that when he was making a mask from the bullet.

At a charity auction at LVIV on 24/7, Valentyn Lapotkov, a computer programming engineer, paid more than 500 USD for a shoulder -carrying missile launcher used to destroy a Russian armored vehicle,

Storing war memorabilia, even if it may be a long time to end, is a way to show solidarity with soldiers or civilians who suffered.

One of Kiev's largest museums has recently held an exhibition of artifacts collected since Russia launched a military campaign in Ukraine in late February.

On the personal aspect, Sumliennyi is doing the same thing.

This is very interesting, Sumiennyi explained.

The building was hit by a rocket in Kiev, where Sumliennyi found a cruise missile piece.

At LVIV, Tetiana Okhten helped run the UAID fund, the volunteer network sold more than 15 artifacts of the conflict, including some Rocket tubes and missile tubes used by Ukrainian army.

We are using things that used to kill people to save life, she said.

Okhten said a young Ukrainian soldier fighting in the Donbass region helped them a lot in finding artifacts from the front line.

In the front line, many residents are surprised to learn that items from the war are becoming a collection target.

So crazy, Vova Hurzhyi, a resident from a town in Donbass, where he was attacked every day, said.

Even so, Sumliennyi continued to hunt.

The cruise missile piece found by Sumliennyi.

Incidentally, they stepped into a yard, where they found a Russian military jacket and a pair of black boots.

We didn't go to Becha to search for this, he said.