23-year-old Anna about life under shelling in Mariupol: “It was like I was in the TV game “Fort Boyard”
“The constant whistling of shells overhead was no longer so frightening, but the night bombing of the city was really terrifying.” The story of a man from Chernihiv who lived through the siege of the city
“It seemed to me that I die every day, with every person killed in Ukraine”, — a woman from Kyiv tells about her second forced evacuation
“I overcame nearly 5000 kilometers on my own car” — Liudmyla Hanshyna, the woman from Kharkiv, who was fleeing the war moving to Ireland
“When they are called collaborators, they start thinking that Ukraine abandoned them”: how Melitopol residents survive in occupation
“What security service department do you work in, priest?”: Father Vasyl Vyrozub tells about torture in Russian captivity
“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
“The walls and the windows were shaking from the explosions, the glass was scattering around, the vibrations of the floor were so intense that it almost collapsed under our feet:” The story of a woman from Severodonetsk who spent one month under shelling
“If it happened again, I would still do the same”. The story of a nurse from Makariv
“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
“I sincerely love Ukraine, but at any moment I can be deported” — the story of a Russian who has been living in Kyiv for 6 years
Valeria Mazurenko on the detention by “DPR” terrorists and evacuation from Mariupol
“I bake bread from Ukrainian flour”, — the story of a journalist from Odessa Vira Tolmachova, who became a refugee in Ireland
“At that time I had already done enough to be killed” — the story of journalist Kostyantyn Ryzhenko, who was a guerrilla in occupied Kherson
“I realized that I have no right to break my child’s psyche” — woman from Cherkasy tells about evacuation to Spain
“We didn’t know how to live an ordinary life during the war”. The story of a volunteer on the situation in Enerhodar and Kharkiv
“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
“We were cooking food on the street while planes were flying past and the city was burning and glowing” — the story of a girl who spent 20 days in the besieged Mariupol
“One first-aid kit costs 130 euros, it’s cosmic.” The story of a volunteer from Berlin who is engaged in tactical medicine
“I had to choose a country for the climate that will be good for my health.” This is a story of a pregnant woman, who was forced to evacuate due to her allergy
“A week after evacuation, our stable burned down”: the story of rescuing horses from Kreminna
“When the bridges in Kyiv started to block, we decided to leave so not to get stuck,” — the story of a woman fleeing war for the second time
“Russian World” in Mariupol: the story of a volunteer of “Khalabuda” who survived in the besieged city
“I received a marriage proposal on a bench in the shelter. Our movie continued.” The story of military fiancee from Pervomaisk
“If it hadn’t been for the volunteers, I think that a city like Chernihiv could have fallen,” — a Kyiv citizen about the role of volunteers in the war with russia
“I knew that every ride could cost me my leg, arm or even life”. The story of a volunteer from Mykolaiv
“Helping the Armed Forces is my purposeful goal” – the story of a volunteer who evacuated from Kharkiv
“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
“Whatever story I shared, my mother said it was fake news”: a story of one volunteer from Tel Aviv
He quit his job in Poland and went to the front: this is the story of a defender of Kherson
“We managed to leave just in time — the very next day I went into labor”— the story of a woman from Kyiv, who had to evacuate a day before she gave birth
“We weren’t running away from poverty, but here we have to ask for basic things”: how Tetiana Ponomar evacuated from Cherkasy to England with two children
“I fell to the ground, and after 5-7 seconds there was an explosion and my dog was thrown 5 meters away” – the story of a woman who evacuated from Kramatorsk
“I want to burn Moscow so much. After what they have done here, there is no pity for them”, territorial defense fighter tells about the defending of Makariv
“Mariupol is the “Brest Fortress” of Ukraine”. The story of the woman from Mariupol who spent two months in the destroyed city
At night we would go to bed, kiss and say goodbye: 45 days under shelling and evacuation on foot
“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
From delivery of humanitarian aid to evacuation of people from hot spots — how the volunteer from Fastiv helps people in Donbas, risking his life
“I have very unique footage”: Oleksiy Merkulov from Kramatorsk worked at the railway station during civilian evacuation when it was hit by Russian missiles
Dmytro Androshchuk, military surgeon, chief medical officer of medical battalion “Hospitallers”: “We are short of good doctors. There is always place for them in our crew”
“I crossed the border on my own on foot”. The story of Cherkasy journalist’s evacuation to the Czech Republic
“We were told – either save it now or it will be demolished” – a girl from Irpin lost her home and asks for help
“In order to cross the border, we were standing in the middle of the forest, in the frost for 14 hours”, – the story of a woman from Zaporizhzhia who evacuated through the first days of the war
“I was forced to travel to other countries and I understand that the best place is where your home and family are” — the story of a woman who fled Zaporizhzhia for the United States
“If this is the last day of my life, well, then I have done my best in every period of it.” The story of a volunteer from Kharkiv
“The volunteer said just a few phrases into the phone, hung up, and said that we had fallen for fraudsters” – the story of evacuation from Odesa to Germany
About air raids and evacuation with two young children: the story of a pregnant woman from Izium
“Dnrvtsi collected and burned dead bodies at night so as not to leave evidence of their crimes,” – this is the story of a woman from Mariupol who had lived in a cellar for two months
“Thanks, your scope worked well today”: the story of volunteer Olena Ivanova, who started helping Kyiv residents and the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the first days of the war
“The walls of our houses heard more prayers than a church”. The story of a Kharkiv resident evacuated to the town of Shpola
“One day it was so quiet that it was terrifying”: how Donetsk region lives under daily shelling
“The village prayed for us to deliver everything they handed over”: a Kyiv citizen about how he helped the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and why he decided to join the army
Russians steal a toilet. A fighter from “Azov” told us about what he has seen in enemy positions
“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
“We are losing the information war, in Italy for sure,” – the story of a woman from Cherkasy, who has lived with her children in Europe for five months
“Let’s set aside the man of the cloth taking up arms discussion until we win”: the story of Oleksandria priest defending Ukraine
“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
“We are alive, Masha and I lost our legs”. The story of a family that was affected by the shelling in Zaporizhzhia oblast
“Russians broke into our houses: they looted everything, expelled people from there, mined everything and are using our homes for their needs”, — the evacuation story of the head of the project “Children’s Eco Village”
“It turned out we are the only ones in Ukraine making tactical makeup.” How a makeup artist from Odesa helps the army
“Mother used to say: ‘Take it as a vacation’: the wife of a soldier told how she was leaving Kyiv under the explosions
“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
“It was very loud and scary in Kramatorsk, so one day we just got on the evacuation train and left,” – a story of a woman who was forced to flee the war for the second time
“I don’t know a single person in Kramatorsk who is looking forward to russian world”: Karina Yefremova told about leaving the city, which came under the fire of invaders for the second time in 8 years
The “Azov” fighter got out of the complete encirclement of the enemy, with two wounds. He had been crawling for around 10 hours
“I’ve lived through this war with every fellow Ukrainian” — a woman from Ukraine, who works in Paris, told us how she has experienced the war
“We work 24/7 and are always looking for new ways”. A story of a disabled girl who helps people to leave the occupation
“I don’t have the right to go abroad, because I promised the boy with a disability and myself that I would bring him to the Ukrainian record.” The story of the evacuation of the Kharkiv athletics coach
“I was forced to run through a minefield,” – is the story of a man who escaped from occupied Kherson
“They did not know that they would die so quickly”: a serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine about everyday life in combat
The story of the owner of the outerwear brand: about life under the sounds of explosions, evacuation from Kharkiv and relocation of production
“We have made a decision not to return as long as there is a war.” A story about the life of a woman from Kyiv abroad
“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
«We must become a reliable rear for the Armed Forces of Ukraine»: how pensioners from Cherkasy set up a zero-waste sewing production and help defenders
«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
“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
“We had no illusions about russia, that’s why we left Sloviansk on the very first day,” – the story of a woman fleeing russian aggression for the second time
“We were expecting the war, not the genocide of the Ukrainian people.” The story the married a couple’s evacuation of from Bucha in wheelchairs
“In the current conditions, all mothers have become stronger.” The story of a woman from Kyiv who escaped from the war and went to Germany
“Can you imagine, there are no sirens here and there will be no sirens…”: how a Ukrainian woman from Vyshhorod, fleeing shelling, ended up in Germany
“There were fighting 2 km from us. Our district was erased from the ground.” A girl told us about the siege of Chernihiv
“For me, the war did not start on February 24, 2022, but much earlier, back in 2014, when I lived in the Donetsk region.” The story of a woman with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy who evacuated to Georgia on her own
“We worked like the best Swiss watch”: Honored doctor of Ukraine spoke about volunteering and helping injured defenders
“My boyfriend and I were celebrating our engagement in Sri Lanka when the war started.” The story of a successful Kharkiv woman who remotely evacuated her daughter from shelling
“I felt shame for fleeing, but I reassured myself with a thought that children are the future of Ukraine and I had to save their lives”
Activist on participation in pro-Ukrainian rallies in occupied Kherson: “We were pelted with tear gas and stun grenades”
“In three months, eight rockets landed on the territory of the zoo”: how the Mykolaiv Zoo survives in the conditions of war
«Do not worry, everything is OK»: the message from her mother became the most terrifying memory for the Ukrainian writer living in Poland
«There was a window frame on me and an icon next to it»: the private sector was fired upon in Dachne, Odesa region
“We all have mental wounds”: how volunteers help Mykolaiv residents survive under shelling
“His message started with the words ‘I’m still alive.” The story of a woman soldier who died in Mariupol
“Everything the rashists have reaches us”: how people are living in Mykolaiv under constant shelling
From teacher to be requalified as a military serviceman: the story of a girl from Gostomel, who protects Ukraine
“Instead of a flourishing, always full of life city, I drove through the catacombs,” a military servicewoman from Mariupol told how she survived in a surrounded city
“My mother cried, and my father simply said, ‘Take care of yourself’: Dmytro Tverdokhlib told about his journey from a volunteer to the Territorial Defence Forces and vice versa, and a way from the Dnipro to Kharkiv
“Until the last moment, I hoped that russia would not dare to launch a full-scale attack, but relying on 2014, I knew that someday it would happen,” – this is a story of a woman from Luhansk who is fleeing the war for the second time already
“War is such a terrifying thing that it is even difficult to tell to what extent.” The story of a woman from Mykolaiv who evacuated to Germany
“I can’t bear to run away from the war for the third time“: Natalia Korol ran away from the war twice — from Donetsk, and seven years later from Cherkasy
“My mother asked the doctor if I would walk, and the doctor replied: “Pray at all that she survives” – the story of the rescue of a girl who was injured as a result of a rocket attack on Kramatorsk
“Two days behind the wheel, five countries behind”: Tetiana Didenchuk from Kyiv found shelter in the Netherlands
I heard such powerful explosions that I crouched down. After that I decided to flee the city. — This is a story of a woman from Kramatorsk, who escaped to Germany in the middle of March
The story of a resident of Mariupol, who managed to escape from the occupation in the sixth month of pregnancy and founded a charity photo project to help affected children
«My son woke up to loud explosions and ran to tell me that there was a large firework somewhere outside». The story of a family from Kharkiv, which spent a week in the basement
«Products were exchanged in city chat rooms»: how the journalist from Odesa lived in occupied Kherson
“If all the journalists go to shelter, who would have done the work?” This is the story about a correspondent from Mykolaiv fighting an information war
“It’s horrifying when children suffer.” Story of a family from Severodonetsk
“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
“Before the invasion of russia, the special services called me and warned me that I should pack and be ready to leave as soon as the war starts,” — the story of a journalist who evacuated from Bakhmut
“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
“We were ready to give everything to our boys if only they would keep the city.” The story of a volunteer from Makariv
“My daughters asked what was going on, and I told them that they were just making a film about the war here.” As a well-known radio host from Kharkiv and her family evacuated to Majorca
“You can’t stand aside.” The volunteer from Cherkasy helps hundreds of displaced people
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 story about “spiders” from Cherkasy who weave camouflage suits for snipers
«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
«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
Oleksii Maslo about large-scale evacuation from the occupied zones of Kharkiv region: “It costs 106 UAH in fuel to rescue one person”
“During each explosion my dog would fall to the ground”. How a woman from Irpin evacuated herself and her dog, and lost a home
Living under the muzzle of a machine gun:“ We couldn’t imagine how long it is going to be, what happened to our dearest and if we are to survive this night”
“Face up to the facts and rely on your own strength,” – Words of A founder of NGO “Our Battalion” about a good work plan which could help hold out the war
5 cities in 5 months. This is a story of a paraplegic woman from Kharkiv who fled the shelling at the last moment
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
“My kids still get scared of any loud noise.” The story of a woman from Kharkiv who had to bring her family 3,000 kilometres from their hometown
“I would not forgive myself if something happened to my children,” – the story of a woman from Bila Tserkva who managed to evacuate to Poland
“To calm down, my son played chess in the basement.” The story of the rescue of a family from Chernihiv
«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
“Whoever lived abroad changed his attitude towards Ukraine”: a journalist from Odesa about moving to Poland and communicating with refugees here
“Kherson is dying now, little by little. It’s not life, it’s constant animal fear” – story of a teacher who managed to break free from the occupied city with her child
“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
“We have been standing in a queue only to be given one apple and a bottle of water.” A story of woman from Kharkiv who told about her life under shelling and evacuation to Cherkasy
Combat medic Bohdan Zhuravel about rescuing people after a rocket attack on Vinnytsia: “People who were at the epicenter of these events were burned to the ground”
“We hoped that the city was about to be liberated.” A story about occupied Kherson in the first months of the war
“It is very morally difficult to live under explosions and sirens”. The story of a minor refugee who found shelter in Poland
Ksenia Kayan: “My son was killed before my eyes”
The sister of Bogdan Krotevich the defender of Mariupol says: “They could have defended Azovstal for much longer, if not only bombs constantly dropping on them”
Head of NGO “Every animal” about vegan parcels for Armed Forces of Ukraine: “Such support is rather moral than material”
“I had a feeling that one day it might happen again,” – a story of a Lysychansk who for the second time experiences Russian aggression
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”
Up to 80% of us will come out of this war without significant trauma, which would break us forever. A psychologist from Cherkasy told about the evacuation from Kyiv to Prague and adaptation in a new country
“I secretly thought it would be better for a shell to hit us than I would go to an unknown place alone with my children and without my husband,” this is a story of a woman from Kyiv who is fleeing the war for the second time
«We realized that we want to do everything possible so that people can return to their previous lives» . The story of one volunteer project
16,000 lunches in 4 months: how Cherkasy business feeds our defenders
“Frightened, we sat in the school basement. Azovtsi told us that everything is going to be alright, we will deal with everything, and we will win,” — this is a story of a woman from Mariupol who was at the hottest spot
“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
“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
Tetiana Kopanytsia about her daughters’ participation in charity photo exhibitions: “We must draw attention to children, who has to flee from the war”
Victory first, career second: a volunteer from Cherkasy helping Ukrainian defenders for 8 years
“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
Olena Ralchuk: “When we were hiding from the shelling in the basement, my dad remained upstairs, confined to his bed. At the time, my soul was torn into pieces”
“Every minute counts to stabilize and get the injured to the hospital.” The story of a paramedic working in the Donetsk region
“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
“I was the most afraid for our tiny daughter who hasn’t seen the world yet, and we desperately wanted to show it to her”. This is the story of a woman from Kyiv who was evacuated together with her daughter to Montenegro
About the arrival of a rocket in the house, the evacuation from Mariupol and the story of love with a captured “Azov” soldier: the story of 21-year-old Anna Babicheva
“I was constantly thinking about my unborn child”: how a journalist ran away from the war when she was eight months pregnant
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”
A Russian woman living in Ukraine: “This war was started by the president of Russia and all people with a burgundy passport are also responsible for his actions”
“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
Alyona Zaporozhets: “It’s as if I dropped my cameras from a cliff somewhere. Opened a new direction and ran into the other direction”
Liudmyla Afanasieva: “There is no “male” and “female” work during war. All are equal”
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”
Iryna Tarasenko: “It was difficult to accept the fact that you leave not because you want to, but because you have to”
“It broke my heart when my daughter asked for a warm bed and just to sleep on her birthday”
Editor-in-chief of Kharkiv publishing house “Vidkryttia”. Our office nowadays is a bench in the park
The driver from Cherkasy risks his life and experiments with camouflaging of the cars in order to help the defenders of Ukraine
“I would have been at work in 5 minutes and then I heard a strong explosion”, a press secretary of the head of the Kharkiv Administration told us about peculiarities of her work during the war
“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
Daria Kartashova “A day spent in Sievierodonetsk was equal to a whole week. There was so much going on that it seemed endlessly long…”
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”
“We knew that there were people in the city, and we needed to help them. Someone had to do it. That’s why we stayed there,” – the story of police officers from Sievierodonetsk
«It would be easier for me if it burned down»
On the lookout for mental peace: how a brigade chaplain from Cherkasy helps to heal servicemen and their families
Kateryna Yalova: «There was not a day that I regretted becoming a police officer»
Vitalii Radchenko: “Ideological and patriotic people have gathered here, we have no weaklings here, they simply do not linger in our team”
Shvets L. “At night our train was shelled, but it all worked out”
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”
Liudmyla Stadnik: “Kherson is gradually becoming deserted, many people, especially the elderly are begging alms as they have no money to buy food”
Anna Piatakova: “If your only child dies in the war, then what’s the point of living?”
Olena Saltanova: “A home for Ukrainians is a treasure trove of values. This is a place where you always want to return”
“I stand by the position that there are no good Russians”, — the story of a Russian woman who left her homeland
Valentyna Artiuh “If we were in the house, no one would be left alive”
Stanislav Kuharchuk: “You can’t relax. This is a war for survival”
“Most young people in Donetsk want to live in Ukraine and be free“
“After we left Bucha, the Russian soldier killed my friends’ father”
Anna Sakun: “If you and your child were destined to die, the war would catch up with you everywhere“
Stewed meat with a message to soldiers: how a powerful production of goodies was created in Cherkasy and sent to the front
Liudmyla Melnyk: “As soon as we crossed the bridge, we heard that they launched a ‘Grad’ firing”
“I have always been involved in volunteering during peacetime. Since the war started, even more,” – a story of a volunteer from the Kyiv region
Anastasiia Lysenko: “Russians were taking away phones from those who tried to call their relatives in Kherson”
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”
Yelena Lanivska: “He spent his entire adult life in the war. It was his element. He was a real warrior. If there ever was one”
Nikita Tretyakov: “There were only four of us: two elderly women, me and my uncle against twelve armed and angry rashists”
Olena Trutneva: “What we saw cannot be described with words. It was like a scary movie about the end of the world”
“As they started helicopter shelling, I fell down and covered my child with my body” – a story of one family from Kyiv region
Daria Shycheva from Mariupol: “Four of us were sharing a chocolate bar. It was the only food we had in days”
Anna Bortnyk: “We spent three days in line at the border checkpoint!”
Denis Hryanyk: “I had a supply of meat in the freezer and a warehouse with cereals. So he started handing out food”
Mykhailo Lavrovsky: “The motto of our battalion is – “For the sake of every life”
Pavlo Maistrenko: “The Poles cried and the border guards paid tribute to us and asked us to return alive and victorious”
Daryna Podolyan: “It was a kind of non-stop regime, when you don’t know where you are going to spend the night with your children and where you will go tomorrow”
Kyrylo Zaklunnyi: “We were leaving Bucha on foot. On our way, we bypassed the bodies of the mercilessly killed people”
Eugenia Golovacheva: “We came across a Russian tank, which stands in the middle of the road, with a barrel aimed at us”
Sergyi Reznichenko: “Eight years ago there had been no shelling in Bakhmut. We thought this time it would be the same”
Vira Tuz about the evacuation from Pylypovychi: “March 3rd is the second birthday of our family”
Oleksandra Homonai: “If you open your heart, you can help even if you don’t know what”
Dmytro, a soldier, artist and sculptor: “I also joined the charity auction of artists – I gave out two of my sculptures”
Maksim Shevchenko: “Once when I stood with two 5-liters bottles in a queue, a missile flew just over my head. In a moment there was an explosion 500 meters away from me”
Tetiana Nesterenko: “Women are as if in a parallel world. Giving birth here, but their thoughts are somewhere else. I have never delivered babies in such conditions”
Oleksandra Dudka: “I believe, I know that my city is remembered and that it is necessary to release it, because Berdyansk is Ukraine”
Inna Glushko: “There were 14 people in one compartment, the whole vestibule was also full of luggage and people”
Lyudmila from Sumy: “The length of the column of military equipment, as we met, reached several kilometers. At night she was already bombing the city”
Alina Peliukhivska: “It’s more frightening to be abroad without loved ones than to stay at home under shellings”
Evhenii Kompanets: “Our varenyky allow soldiers feel a part of the house”
Alyona Babko: “Even a kilo of potatoes can save a grandmother’s emotional state for a few days”
Marfa Vyhovska: “The only thing that saved me from going insane after what I had seen was God”
Anastasya Rokytna: “Volunteering is always tough, you need to do several tasks simultaneously because you want to help everyone…”
Ivan Lutkov: “I didn’t believe the war would start. I didn’t think they would take such a step”
Kaleria: “Nadia tells me all the realities of Kherson. And then hides the phone”
Liliia Volovelska: “It felt like a page of our life in Odessa was about to close”
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”
“A life under the occupation is like prisoning where the entire city is your prison cell”
Marina Frolova: “The word” Witches “was written in huge letters on a piece of paper and hung on the windshield”
Nataliia Vasylieva: “Survival instinct made me strong and determined”
Svitlana Azovska: “People who just sang Ukrainian songs were role models. And then just kicked”
Tetyana Danyliak: “I didn’t want my husband to give his life for russia”
Tetiana Chernyshova: “I want to come back to Mariupol and find my child’s grave”
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”
Karina Goroshkova: “We saw people burned alive in cars who just left at the wrong time”
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”
Alyona Chausova: “In those days, many people lost their human form. I believed that life would go on, so we must remain human”
Dmytro Antonyuk: “The airfield in Starokostiantyniv was bombed just at the time when we refused to go that way”
Alyona Zaporozhets: “I was sure that I would meet love like the one I photographed”
Irina Mi: “I am in Munich with my body and in Mariupol with my heart”
Vira Hvust: “Every day I cry on my husband’s shoulder. I tell him I want home because I think I could do more at home”
Oksana Bersan: “In the course of a day, I knew there were no people left in Russia. Only slaves and butchers”
Yuliia Polishchuk: “War ruined everything. I was boomeranged back to the cold countries”
Oleh Husak: “You should look “Saving private Ryan” or “Sniper” films to realize what we survived in Mariupol”
Tetiana Sichkar: “Don’t say that we lost my Mom, she had made for all of us something we can never lose”
Olha Kasianova: “We are a very strong nation. We are the nation of will and action”
The Pamphlets frontwoman Alia: “Never stop thinking about Mariupol. As long as we speak about it, while we scream, write, or sing about it—it will live!”
Oleksandr Stepanov: “There’s nothing to be afraid on war, even injury or death is expected although terrible thing”
Dmytro Yevtushenko: “We were shocked, I couldn’t accept the fact that we would leave our city for an indefinite time”
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”
Mykola Miroshnik: “I felt like ironman during the evacuation”
Christina “Curly”: “We have a unique chance to destroy the evil that has kept us from being ourselves for so many years”
Kateryna Oleksandrova: “They shamelessly stole you in front of the whole world, and forced you to live under a government you didn’t want”
Liubov Kroshchenko: “Russians didn’t manage to reach us, so they fired the missiles deliberately”
“I lost my job because Russian soldiers put tripwires in a building where my office was”
Khrystyna Chumachenko: “He directed the plane away from the village and saved hundreds of lives”
Mykhailo Starodynov: “At first, they didn’t understand what happened to me, then they examined my leg, it was smashed like minced meat”
Marietta: “Volunteering is the motivation to fight for the lives of people we love when strangers become like family to us”
Anna Panova: “Orcs blocked the exit from the village and shot people who tried to escape”
Taras Turelyk: “When I left Popasna, that place could no longer be called a town. There was no undamaged building left”
Ksenia Laukhina: “I would never have imagined telling my children about the war not from the textbooks but from my own experience”
Viktor Orlov: “If everyone would do something useful where they are, we will definitely defend and rebuild our country”
Yaroslav Tsvetkov: “On the first day of the war, I set my heart on becoming a volunteer”
Olena Yarmolenko: “When there was shelling, I was very worried about my children. With each explosion sound, everything inside me turned upside down”
Nataliia Makhno: “War is like a scar on a body that will remain with all of us”
Nataliia Nikitina: “Every night I have nightmares about bombing as if I come back home and get under shelling”
Rita Bakum: “I want my son to communicate with his peers in his native language because he does not understand German children”
“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”
Riabov Stanislav “I can say about the situation in Mariupol that it was a kind of hell on Earth…”
Anastasiia Tykha: “When you go with 20 homeless dogs, there’s no time to fear”
Tetiana Tymoshchenko: “That was the moment I realized how merciless the war can be”
Maryna Medvedeva: “To be a refugee is to feel an unspeakable longing for home and an unwillingness to accept reality”
Uliana Vasylieva: “Until recently, we didn’t believe that we would run away from our own home”
Yaroslava Kaminska: “This is not a war. The Ukrainian people are being wiped out. It is genocide”
Volunteer from thе Yuzhny Ilya Yurchenko: “Some purchases are the purpose of special operations to find a suit for a helicopter or to transport a refugee in a wheelchair”
Karyna Ryzhkova: “A bullet stopped short of the body, pierced a jacket and a shirt, and scorched my mom’s back”
Yuliia Tsekhosh: “The support we received from the people of Poland is incredibly important. I think without their assistance Ukrainians wouldn’t survive a day here”
Olena Moiseeva: “Air strikes were the scariest. It was sunny and the sky was clear, and they saw whom they were firing at”
Oleksandr Semenchenko: “They knew we had no information, but they kept beating us”
Svitlana Voloshyna: “I managed to save 26 years of selection work”
Oksana Savchenko: “My main motivation is to tease orcs”
Alla Kopylovska: “I had no idea I can hate so much”
Khrystyna Kovalevska: “My boyfriend called me and even shouted at me, “You shall leave! You must stay safe!”
Maryna Poliashchenko: «Either we escape together or we die together…»
Kateryna Myronenko: «Ways converged when both families were looking for salvation»
Olena Lesechko: «We left home and 15 minutes later it was shelled»
“I hope they liberate Donbas because if it’s not Ukraine, I’m not coming back”
Victor Boiev: “They took away our phones and shut us in the basement. They wouldn’t even let us go to the bathroom”
Victoria Gaidai: “Knowledge that Kyiv is ours gave us the strength to live and fight”
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”
Kateryna Furman: “Polite people” are those who wish you a safe trip and then cover you with hail in the back”
Nataliya Chornovil: ‘It was like a movie about the apocalypse. Burned and overturned cars, destruction everywhere. I did not recognize my village”
Iryna Selyuk: “I was afraid that we would be buried under the rubble of the house, leaving the children orphaned”
Tetiana Raizova: “On March 13, the world was split into before and after”
Sukhorukova Nadiia “God left Mariupol. He was afraid of everything he saw”
