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...

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...