Damn, I could never understand it, ever. Didn’t give a damn for forty years. For me, bread grew in stores. But I was driving through...

At first, we got lost. Who knew that there were two villages called Peremoha in the Brovary district. After we had travelled along a...

This nation survived hundreds of years being repressed and humiliated by "Big Brother" Russia as an empire and Soviet Union either. This...

What will we be like after the war? We will return home immediately after our Victory. At the border, long queues will line up in the...

Imagine the most disgusting thing in your life. Something that causes you to have a gag reflex, contempt, and rejection. Imagine being...

The war, day 30. The moments of happiness. This lovely chubby boy’s name is Ivan. On March 16, he turned four months. Vanka [diminutive...

A quiet moment. After a crazy day, with me being a bundle of nerves and two air raid sirens that are so particularly worrisome for...

Journalists are mostly not allowed in Novi Petrivtsi now — the village is regularly shelled by the Russian occupiers. Recently, they hit...

In the feed, one political scientist tells a story about how he learned that some girls on a nearby street provided sexual services to...

My neighbor said that God has left Mariupol. She was scared of everything she saw. She assumed this a week ago, and the day before...

Natalia Dedova Vic Dedoff Sasha Dedov It is me, Natalia Dedova, who is writing. 9 days ago, on March 11, at lunchtime, my world...

I will never walk down Myru Avenue [Peace Avenue — Ed.] with my dog again. I will never again open my apartment with a key and will not...

Do you know how scary it is to leave beloved ones now, even for a few minutes? I repeat to myself that I am no longer in hell, but I...

I’m drifting off all the time. Day and night. As if a sleepy dormouse crept into me. I am nodding off even during the horrid airstrikes....

I still can’t understand how people care about something different apart from saving their lives. When we got to the first safe place and...

Hello, my darlings, I am alive, and now I have a long life to live. While my city is dying in an excruciating death. And me too, I’d been...

Good evening, Ukraine’s here. We aren’t sleeping. We’re not. We’re not even sure what day it is today. Looks like a painfully long one....

I know you’re watching us right now. Through Poland’s scared eyes. France’s uncertain gestures. Germany’s measured moves. Latvia’s...

I was dreaming in the basement. Especially the days right before the flight. I was sitting on an old chair, listening to the plane...

If we hadn’t left this morning, we would have been gone. I would, at least, for sure. There were fewer people in our basement. They were...