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  • Yulia Zarudnitska

    Shulyak family before the war

    “We found ourselves in the centre of a triangle, from each point of which there were artillery duels”: the story of a family from Mykhailivka

    Love with a military man

    “I received a marriage proposal on a bench in the shelter. Our movie continued.” The story of military fiancee from Pervomaisk

    Family from Kharkiv

    “In order to survive, we melted the snow and drained the water from the batteries in the apartment.” The story of a family from Kharkiv that was living in a bomb shelter under constant shelling, without water and food

    Anastasiia Kashoid

    “I crossed the border on my own on foot”. The story of Cherkasy journalist’s evacuation to the Czech Republic

    The ruined orphanage in Kharkiv

    “The walls of our houses heard more prayers than a church”. The story of a Kharkiv resident evacuated to the town of Shpola

    The Kopiiko Family

    “I walked the path of inner storms and went through the “dirty” work period.” A story of a journalist from Cherkasy who fled to Poland

    Diana Urikh

    “We work 24/7 and are always looking for new ways”. A story of a disabled girl who helps people to leave the occupation

    Vasilisa Levchenko

    “Some russians don’t unsubscribe and constantly donate in line with their principals.” This is a story of the woman, who collect money from russians and gave them to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    Yuzhne Yulia conducts training

    “The desire to help and join the common victory was higher than the “search for ideal opportunities”. The story of a psychologist who has been volunteering since the beginning of the war

    Khmelnytskyy Military

    “His message started with the words ‘I’m still alive.” The story of a woman soldier who died in Mariupol

    Vinnytsia To live happily

    «I turn my head to the window, and there I see two rockets, then an explosion, a glow and smoke». In Vinnytsia, a woman recorded a rocket hit and an explosion on a children’s video

    Damaged house after a missile hit

    “During each explosion my dog would fall to the ground”. How a woman from Irpin evacuated herself and her dog, and lost a home

    Hanna Lazurenko

    Women prayed aloud and it was like witnessing my own funeral. It’s a story about people who dwelled in a cellar and fled Irpin

    Valeriy Lysenko

    «I believed it was not the house on fire but the life of some family». How the man from Irpin lived under intense shelling and sought shelter

    Olena Hanzyuk

    “I don’t expect gratitude, I see it in people‘s eyes,” the story of a woman from Kyiv who actively volunteers even in the occupied territories

    A wounded soldier

    Yaroslav Voloshyn: “I didn’t have much choice because I’m a doctor by profession, and that’s probably the best thing I can do in this life”

    Debris Removal Brigade

    «We realized that we want to do everything possible so that people can return to their previous lives» . The story of one volunteer project

    Maksym Snitkovskyi

    “A two-meter window frame fragment flew into our apartment.“ The story of a Kyiv citizen who was left homeless due to shelling of the city

    Military medic "Lastivka"

    “Every minute counts to stabilize and get the injured to the hospital.” The story of a paramedic working in the Donetsk region

    Military artist Oleksandr

    Oleksandr Khudozhnyk: “War teaches you to adapt to any conditions, to make a shelter from a couple of boards, a box and a rusty nail”

    Liudmyla Afanasieva

    Liudmyla Afanasieva: “There is no “male” and “female” work during war. All are equal”

    Halushka Kateryna

    Kateryna Halyshka:“ My work is to do everything possible that could make women feel less frustrated about losing their loving husbands. The lost and pain that I went through”

    Byshiv Volunteer Serhiy with a military man

    “I have always been involved in volunteering during peacetime. Since the war started, even more,” – a story of a volunteer from the Kyiv region

    village Bobryk Food on the street

    Vitalii: “The most difficult thing was to keep calm during the shelling because the women were very afraid”

    Volunteer Denis Hryanyk

    Denis Hryanyk: “I had a supply of meat in the freezer and a warehouse with cereals. So he started handing out food”

    “Hospitallers”

    Mykhailo Lavrovsky: “The motto of our battalion is – “For the sake of every life”

    Kyrylo Zaklunnyi: “We were leaving Bucha on foot. On our way, we bypassed the bodies of the mercilessly killed people”

    Berdyansk Oleksandra Dudka

    Oleksandra Dudka: “I believe, I know that my city is remembered and that it is necessary to release it, because Berdyansk is Ukraine”

    Volunteer help to the military in Mykolaiv

    Anastasya Rokytna: “Volunteering is always tough, you need to do several tasks simultaneously because you want to help everyone…”

    Kherson: the realities of today

    Kaleria: “Nadia tells me all the realities of Kherson. And then hides the phone”

    Volunteers provided the military with ammunition

    Anton Fortunatov: “Things that were scary to do before the war are not scary at all now. On the contrary, it’s scary not to do it”

    Halyna from Kherson

    “A life under the occupation is like prisoning where the entire city is your prison cell”

    Dnipro Alla Savchenko. Photo with patriotic symbols

    Alla Savchenko: “The only thing to think about is how to make the assignment hibernate happy in the current conditions. And then we will deal with the rest”

    Irina Mi filmed this sunset

    Irina Mi: “I am in Munich with my body and in Mariupol with my heart”

    Donetsk Oksana Bersan

    Oksana Bersan: “In the course of a day, I knew there were no people left in Russia. Only slaves and butchers”

    Moshchun

    Oleksandr Stepanov: “There’s nothing to be afraid on war, even injury or death is expected although terrible thing”

    Berdyansk Евакуація Бердянськ

    Olha Borodko: “We felt that it would be a disaster and I wrote to my friends that I wanted to hug my loved ones”

    Ivano-Frankivsk Christina "Curly"

    Christina “Curly”: “We have a unique chance to destroy the evil that has kept us from being ourselves for so many years”

    Lutsk Khrystyna Chumachenko

    Khrystyna Chumachenko: “He directed the plane away from the village and saved hundreds of lives”

    Hostomel Ksenia Laukhina

    Ksenia Laukhina: “I would never have imagined telling my children about the war not from the textbooks but from my own experience”

    Stanislav from Mariupol

    Riabov Stanislav “I can say about the situation in Mariupol that it was a kind of hell on Earth…”

    Bombed Mariupol

    Olha Berezka: “I wasn’t scared, I just asked God to take us all away at once. In one go. So that no one would suffer”