A walk on Google Maps
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...
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Apr 5, 20221 min read
First day with no bombs
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...
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Apr 2, 20222 min read
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...
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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...
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Apr 1, 20222 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...
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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...
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Mar 31, 20225 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...
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Mar 30, 20223 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...
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Mar 29, 20222 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...
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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...
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Mar 27, 20223 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....
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Mar 27, 20222 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...
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Mar 25, 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....
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Mar 25, 20222 min read
The economical time machine
The Russian economy has died and is spiralling towards a default on its foreign debt payments. Putin has invented the time machine. It is...
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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,...
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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...
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Mar 25, 20221 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...
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Mar 25, 20223 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,...
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Mar 25, 20222 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...
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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...
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