(Not recommended reading for the faint of heart) I am a ghostly “200”… That’s my official designation. I have the document to prove it. And yet, here I am. I move about, I eat, and I sleep. Just a few hours ago...
I am not a military man. I never wanted to be in the military. I am a researcher, have a PhD in history and work at a museum. I am also sort of a writer. I am supposed to be researching history, writing scientific and popular science...
Dearest daughter, I’m writing to you from a distant place where the sky and the earth are ablaze with savage flames, where life has almost disappeared, where death is everywhere. The only thing that keeps me going is you. Memories...
Mariupol residents Mariya and her family spent almost one month hiding from Russian shelling and bombs. 17-year-old Mariya Vdovychenko lived happily with her family in Mariupol. She played the bandura, was elected school president, and...
A large modern metropolis spending a week without electricity. Could anyone imagine something like that happening in Ukraine before the war? The damages to the electric grid are a direct result of targeted strikes by the Russians against...
First days of Russian war against Ukraine On 24 February, when the war started, I was in Karavan village near Kharkiv, working my shift at the equine-assisted rehabilitation center. I saw how it all began, how the MLRS were fired at...
My world before and after On 24 February 2022 at 5.30 a.m. my grandmother woke me up with a phone call and the words: “Grandchild, the war has begun.” I did not hear explosions and slept peacefully in my apartment in Cherkasy....
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
