They lived in a three-room apartment at the railway station and did not believe in any war. They were raising their two sons. One of them...

Russia's economy only mimics life. It may seem that the ruble is stable, and the Russian stock market is even growing. Banks work, and...

He was allowed 20 minutes to collect the scattered parts of his late friend and bury him. This is Mykola. He's 53 years old. He lives in...

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,...

…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...