“When they are called collaborators, they start thinking that Ukraine abandoned them”: how Melitopol residents survive in occupation
“If the patriotic symbols had been found on someone’s phone, no-one saw them after that”. It’s a story of an Izium resident about the occupation
“My father was tortured with electrical shocks”. A story of a young girl from Kherson
“Dad says “Aviation!”, we run to the cellar, fall on the floor and hear this noise – how missiles are fired from a fighter jet” – the story of a girl who has been in occupied Izium for six months
Valeria Mazurenko on the detention by “DPR” terrorists and evacuation from Mariupol
“At that time I had already done enough to be killed” — the story of journalist Kostyantyn Ryzhenko, who was a guerrilla in occupied Kherson
“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
“Russian World” in Mariupol: the story of a volunteer of “Khalabuda” who survived in the besieged city
“There was a collaborator among my colleagues,” — this is the story of Larysa Boyko, who has miraculously been evacuated from Sievierodonetsk
“I believed that when I stitch eyes into icons, the war would end”: an embroiderer from occupied Kherson created a series of Ukrainian cities depicted as female characters
At night we would go to bed, kiss and say goodbye: 45 days under shelling and evacuation on foot
“It’s not the first time they “greet” us with Independence Day with gunshots”: IDP from Luhansk region tells how Russia took her hometown eight years ago
“Unarmed, we are walking in a large column through the center of Berdyansk, while the occupiers with machine guns are walking along the sidewalks.” The history of the struggle against the russian occupation
“I was forced to run through a minefield,” – is the story of a man who escaped from occupied Kherson
«We knew that there had already been rape attempts in our village. We also knew that there were kidnappings, tortures, and murders». A story from an occupied village in the Kherson region
«Products were exchanged in city chat rooms»: how the journalist from Odesa lived in occupied Kherson
“There were shells flying over our heads, we saw a red glow and heard loud explosions” – the story of a girl from Zaporizhia who escaped from the occupation
“In someone else’s house, without a basement, I brought my children to their death – that was what echoed in my head as I was crying my eyes out” – the story of a woman who, together with her children, escaped from occupied Kherson
“Now I’m scared of how many scum are trying to destroy us and wipe us out,” is the story of a woman from Chernihiv who, having left for Germany, could not withstand constant shelling
Iryna Mykhalchuk: “I feel that I will not be able to return to Kherson, but I am trying to plan the future for the sake of my daughter”
«The second army in the world» is a great shame. Dirty and disgusting». The story of a pensioner from Chernihiv region who had lived under occupation for 2 months
“We hoped that the city was about to be liberated.” A story about occupied Kherson in the first months of the war
“Our house was completely burned down, after it was hit by fragments of a downed rocket,” — the story of a resettled woman from temporarily occupied Melitopol
“Lying on the bed, I was holding my wife’s hand and thinking if a missile is going to hit me or not,” – a story of a man from Chernihiv who decided to stay rather than flee
“I am going to shoot you right in the head If you don’t tell me password from your Facebook account,” – a story of a captive from Bucha
“We were bombed every day and every night, the hum echoed through the ground and through the house, everything was shaking, the explosions were very loud and bright, like the flash of a camera,” — the diary of a woman from an occupied village in the Kharkiv region
“Crows had already eaten their eyes out, but they wouldn’t let us take the bodies” – a witness tells the story about the occupation of Bucha
Oleksandra Kondrasheva: “We were leaving the place among shot cars, corpses, body parts, destroyed equipment that was still smoking”
Stanislav Kotliar: “The driver of the car, who was following the third bus from our convoy, was shot by a sniper”
“We have a lot of strangers. They behave self-confidently, they go to the beach and say that they are here for a long time”: a resident of Kherson told about the situation in the city and region
Olga Kotrus told us about the life of her parents in occupied Kherson: “The psychological pressure was the worst part for them: the lack of freedom, the uncertainty of the future”
Liudmyla Stadnik: “Kherson is gradually becoming deserted, many people, especially the elderly are begging alms as they have no money to buy food”
“Most young people in Donetsk want to live in Ukraine and be free“
“After we left Bucha, the Russian soldier killed my friends’ father”
Liudmyla Tomko about life in the occupation: “We understood that this moment could be the last”
Vitalii: “The most difficult thing was to keep calm during the shelling because the women were very afraid”
Eugenia Golovacheva: “We came across a Russian tank, which stands in the middle of the road, with a barrel aimed at us”
Oleksandra Dudka: “I believe, I know that my city is remembered and that it is necessary to release it, because Berdyansk is Ukraine”
Marfa Vyhovska: “The only thing that saved me from going insane after what I had seen was God”
Kaleria: “Nadia tells me all the realities of Kherson. And then hides the phone”
“A life under the occupation is like prisoning where the entire city is your prison cell”
Svitlana Azovska: “People who just sang Ukrainian songs were role models. And then just kicked”
Sergyi Khitryi: “The dairy of 12 days under occupation between Makariv and Borodyanka”
Svitlana Malezhik: “It’s so scary when you know that someone is in trouble, but help in any way”
Tetiana Sichkar: “Don’t say that we lost my Mom, she had made for all of us something we can never lose”
Lilia Dudnik: “We thought we had fled the war, but it was following behind”
Olha Borodko: “We felt that it would be a disaster and I wrote to my friends that I wanted to hug my loved ones”
Kateryna Oleksandrova: “They shamelessly stole you in front of the whole world, and forced you to live under a government you didn’t want”
“I lost my job because Russian soldiers put tripwires in a building where my office was”
Olena Yarmolenko: “When there was shelling, I was very worried about my children. With each explosion sound, everything inside me turned upside down”
“I know how it feels to live every moment thinking it could be my last — to think that I might meet my unborn baby but in the otherworld”
Yaroslava Kaminska: “This is not a war. The Ukrainian people are being wiped out. It is genocide”
Svitlana Voloshyna: “I managed to save 26 years of selection work”
Victor Boiev: “They took away our phones and shut us in the basement. They wouldn’t even let us go to the bathroom”
