There will be no deal
If a weird thought about reconciliation ever comes to my mind… …I will recall… …my feverish child sleeping in a cold basement… …windows...
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Jul 25, 20226 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #5
Personal diary of Oleksa Melnyk, a Ukrainian volunteer fighter PART V DREAM 7. PORTRAITS Once in the Territorial Defence unit, I got out...
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Jul 6, 20226 min read
The language of war
I am the cause of this war. Yes-yes, war became possible because of me. I’m always thinking about that. Now I’ll try to explain it. Once...
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Jul 4, 20224 min read
On the road again…
Kyiv region. Today our “gypsy camp” went to the Ivankiv district. Kuhari. We have heard from friends on Facebook about a large family in...
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Jun 27, 20222 min read
Daily routine
Marian Burak May 20 at 11:22 p.m. Time… Day by day hours and minutes are the same, everything is the same. Silence, shooting, explosions,...
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Jun 25, 20224 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #6
DREAM 8. HOW WE WENT TO BUY BEER ➖➖➖➖➖ One morning, right after the formation and the daily nationwide minute of silence, our company...
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Jun 24, 20225 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #4
DREAM 6. DAY OFF I profited from my first let-out. It was a whole day off. Legally, you can’t do this, but I’ve spent almost a month on a...
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Jun 22, 20224 min read
We are alive!
“Aren’t you afraid to die?” They will ask. “Aren’t you afraid you’re already dying?” I will answer. Only three months ago, I would leave...
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Jun 22, 20226 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #3
DREAM 4. WHERE DID I REALLY END UP? From the first day of my mobilization, I had herpes, which made my lip tear and bleeds when talking....
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Jun 22, 20226 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #2
DREAM 2. GET AT THE READY Immediately after the shelling, we began to prepare for the worst — for the lack of electricity and heat. Stock...
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Jun 22, 20225 min read
Memories of an ordinary volunteer fighter #1
We are starting a series of posts that are in fact a personal diary of Oleksa Melnyk, a Ukrainian volunteer fighter This diary is a...
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Jun 16, 20222 min read
How well do you know me?
When we are together, you hear only complimentary things about me because people are hypocritical and won’t tell the truth to my face....
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Jun 13, 20222 min read
Keep the faith until the end
A boy was jumping on the road, glancing curiously at the adults. His tender blue eyes that looked like a clear sky had no anger or...
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Jun 6, 20224 min read
First signs of revival
Kyiv region. During the last trip, we asked a few proactive villagers for their phone numbers, so this time we were prepared. “Shovels,...
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Jun 6, 20226 min read
We do our thing
The seventeenth day of the great unannounced war is coming to its end. The nauseous and piercing sound of sirens is heard in Kyiv, in the...
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Jun 2, 20224 min read
Yellow zone turns red
“When I shout “on the floor”, you fall down immediately, understand?” Pilgrim puts on tactical gloves on the front passenger seat of our...
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Jun 1, 20222 min read
Waiting for good news
This is Northern Saltivka, a residential area in Kharkiv and a straight road to the village Tsyrkuny, which had been occupied for a long...
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May 28, 20223 min read
One day of march...
A crowd of grim men aged from 18 to 65 was stomping in a bomb shelter with papers in their hands. Reservist contract of the TDF AFU...
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May 23, 20223 min read
War Stories
Evacuation trains departing from Kyiv are tensed, silent, and crammed. Flabbergasted and frightened children, nervous animals, exhausted...
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May 22, 20222 min read
From my city’s current life
What the Russian occupants chat about with their not-so-loyal wives we’ve heard plenty by now, and those talks made any sensible person’s...
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