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When I come back
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...
Apr 2, 20222 min read


Where does the bread grow?
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...
Apr 2, 20222 min read


Who but we will do it?
At first, we got lost. Who knew that there were two villages called Peremoha in the Brovary district. After we had travelled along a...
Apr 2, 20224 min read


Please bring some flour!
This nation survived hundreds of years being repressed and humiliated by "Big Brother" Russia as an empire and Soviet Union either. This...
Apr 1, 20222 min read


We will be so great, we’ll reach the sky!
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...
Apr 1, 20222 min read


Disgust and rejection
Imagine the most disgusting thing in your life. Something that causes you to have a gag reflex, contempt, and rejection. Imagine being...
Mar 31, 20225 min read


A quiet moment
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...
Mar 30, 20223 min read


I have no more words
Journalists are mostly not allowed in Novi Petrivtsi now — the village is regularly shelled by the Russian occupiers. Recently, they hit...
Mar 29, 20222 min read


Aim it at the enemy
In the feed, one political scientist tells a story about how he learned that some girls on a nearby street provided sexual services to...
Mar 29, 20222 min read


We aren’t sleeping
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....
Mar 27, 20223 min read


Hello, World!
I know you’re watching us right now. Through Poland’s scared eyes. France’s uncertain gestures. Germany’s measured moves. Latvia’s...
Mar 27, 20222 min read


Kremlin has been defeated but hasn’t conceded it yet…
Switch on the enemy’s mass media and listen to them for a minute. Their propagandists are in despair and change their rhetoric....
Mar 25, 20222 min read


Our Kyiv
Our golden, majestic, ancient and native Kyiv. That’s what the damn Moscow horde makes to you. It wants to mutilate, intimidate,...
Mar 25, 20222 min read


Do you realize why we will overcome Mordor?
We will win because there is a fundamental difference between our peoples, between our struggles. Because each of our defenders is...
Mar 25, 20222 min read


He is safe now
This exhausted elderly man is Ihor Dmytrovych Poklad. Yes, the very same outstanding Ukrainian composer who wrote dozens of the most...
Mar 25, 20221 min read


Think about it
Dear Proud, Great, Courageous and Wise Ukrainians. It is already the eighteenth day of the Moscow war! We start every day and night,...
Mar 25, 20223 min read


Despite the shootings
It seems nowadays that the Ukrainians have emerged from a Scandinavian epic. Their heroism is unparalleled in world history. Despite the...
Mar 25, 20222 min read


In the memory of them all...
Today, I have a very tough time with words and feelings. In the morning, my daughter was preparing for class, flipping through a notebook...
Mar 25, 20222 min read


It is difficult to find the right word
It is difficult to find the right word for those lowdown beings. There are the words “scumbag”, “freak” that somehow explain what...
Mar 25, 20222 min read


Mom, is Dad still alive?
March 5, at 3:44 pm, original text “Mom, is Dad still alive?”—my 7-year-old daughter asks me every day. She knows that Michael Schchur is...
Mar 25, 20221 min read
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