What do I feel? It seems I’m in some kind of infernal reality show, where we — the military — are fighting for our lives, using every...

Fair-haired girl in poppy wreath. Ukrainian costume, traditional necklace, and bandura [a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument — Ed.]...

Today we were talking with Katia for 3 hours. She is also from Mariupol. She is 16 and has a five-year-old brother. The following are her...

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...

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...

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...

The main thing is not to go crazy because the unknown is scarier than bombs. His name is Lyosha and he’s still there. He could have left,...

It is not easy to establish life under shelling. You listen to every sound and divide them into joyful and scary ones. Earlier, for...

When you are scared, you have to do something. That’s what my friend, a therapist, advises. During an air raid, she cleans the floors in...

When we get through all this, I will definitely write about how scary it is to live inside a war. About different people and situations,...

Mariupol is invincible. Nothing and nobody can defeat it. We are not afraid of tanks, Grads (soviet multiple rocket launchers), or...

Anya comes from Odesa, Alyona comes from Kramatorsk, Natasha comes from Kharkiv, Galya comes from Irpin! We went to bed in a turbulent,...