Kyiv region. During the last trip, we asked a few proactive villagers for their phone numbers, so this time we were prepared. “Shovels,...

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...

“When I shout “on the floor”, you fall down immediately, understand?” Pilgrim puts on tactical gloves on the front passenger seat of our...

This is Northern Saltivka, a residential area in Kharkiv and a straight road to the village Tsyrkuny, which had been occupied for a long...

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...

Evacuation trains departing from Kyiv are tensed, silent, and crammed. Flabbergasted and frightened children, nervous animals, exhausted...

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...

The detachable calendar at my home is still on February 24. It feels strange to recall my pre-war life. There were so many fears to start...

When I will meet my friends. Every single time, I will recall how strongly I wanted to hug them. And I will be crying. When my son will...

“I visit the cemetery five times per day. Five crosses with photographs on them. That’s all,” says Volodymyr Obodzinskyi. His entire...

My schoolmate has managed to get out of Melitopol to Georgia. Unfortunately, through the parashia [russia], cause that was the only way....

Ukraine will prevail because Ukrainians have a dream. And we gave that name to the largest aircraft in the world not without a reason...

A boy lived with his mother, who worked as a cleaning lady at the railway station. When she was leaving for work, she gave him money to...

There was an unexpected and maybe a little harsh (but considering the circumstances) ethics lesson. Nana, who turned seven the other day,...

“During the first days of the war, the Russians were entering as numerous military convoys. Approximately 60 tanks came to our village...

His friend’s charred body has been lying in the apartment for more than a month. Bohdan takes us to the top floor of his house. Barely...

This is one of mine. It is 45 years old. My father once studied in Italy. He brought it from there. Back then he was a young atheist :)...

Volodka arrived after the liberation of the village. In camouflage, with an assault rifle, in armor. He was a little shell-shocked (but...

A family returned to one of the liberated villages in the Kyiv region. They cautiously walked into the yard, and they saw a brazier, a...

When I was in fifth grade, the house of my classmate went up in flames. The fire broke out in the kitchen, then moved on to the corridor....