I put my car into first gear and set out. My heavy vehicle jerked and went on crawling past completely rubbled buildings. Changing into...

I am patriarch Lubno. They say I am one thousand years old, but ye should not believe it! I am even older. Mammoths were roaming in my...

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...

#stories_of_the_unconquered Yesterday I received a message from the one I was looking for in all group chats of Kharkiv. My Liuba. A...

God lowered his head, painfully. “Peter, shall we call it a day?” “No, God, the souls from Kyiv Oblast haven’t stood before the Judgment...

There was a marvelous enterprise in the Kharkiv region. It’s scary to write “was”. Agromol Fest in the Kharkiv region was a great dairy...

This morning we woke up in Irpin. Anxious people were hastily passing under the blown-up bridge. A girl was crying in her mom’s arms, so...

The neighboring villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka were liberated. Baba Galka received a call from her sister in Lukashivka, Baba Lida,...

As it turned out, Ivan went to a better place. A jacket-clad man meets home buyers at his yard. The place’s spacious: a cellar, a well,...

…Imagine you were a mother burying her little daughter “somewhere under the fifth oak tree in the third alley in the park” and crawling...

I dream about a harvest-ready field. The one with tall ripe ears of wheat rippling and rustling in the wind, it's full-grain glistening...

The boys and I went to a village because of work so that our furious guys could see from the air how things are going there and how’s...

It's been a month since the full-scale war broke out. My Mum's early phone call woke me up. My mother told me that war broke out. I was...

Last night, I woke up to an explosion that made the window glasses shake. In the morning, I was already planning the next shooting. After...

War… Soon it will be a month since this horror began. The horror not only for me but for all Ukrainians. Now I will tell you how it was...

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that the moronic day of February 24 is still passing. It is interrupted by sleep, by work, by...

Today Hrystia and I were walking around Kyiv… “Mom, let’s go to the Golden Gate. There is one little yard there, it’s my favorite. Let’s...

Today, for the first time in a few days, I slept in. I scrolled the newsfeed; no new instances of shelling. Wouldn’t have to get ready in...

I had quite a hilarious incident with a Russian TV crew once. They were filming a story in Belarus, and people were supposed to speak...

When I come back, I will wash my windows monthly — slowly rub every pane, down to the last speck of dust, because they are mine, and I...