Life stories
"We dream of going to bed peacefully, knowing that we will wake up."…
"Mother, save us. Take us out," Iryna recalls the words of the children on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion. The village of Tsyrkuny, where the family lived, is located immediately outside the Kharkiv district - on the road…
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On the second of June, our family celebrated another birthday. That day a…
We met this wonderful family in the village of Petrivske, Kharkiv Oblast, as part of the "Humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable population of Kharkiv region". Petrivske has been under the occupation of Russian aggressors for more than…
read more«We lived in the basement for nine months. When rockets were flying at Kharkiv…
Marina and Yuriy are a married couple from Kharkiv. Their apartment in North Saltivka is on the 16th floor. So at the beginning of the great war, the planes over the houses, the first fires and explosions were clearly visible. "My two…
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"Mom, what should we do?" - children ask as soon as they hear…
Oleksandr and Nataliya are residents of Kozacha Lopan, an urban-type village in Kharkiv Oblast, 5 kilometres from the border with Russia.
read more"My children and I are alive, and this is what matters the most..."
A large Kharkiv family dreams of Victory and the time when they will be able to restore their damaged home and return to their native Saltivka.
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Becoming parents to their own great-grandchildren: The fate of the Pryshchep…
Natalia and Volodymyr are 63 years old. They have been together since high school, and have raised four children in a happy marriage. After retirement, they made real their long-held dream: to work on the land and have their own house.…
read more"Our family is our boundless joy and belief that Ukraine will definitely…
The war broke into their lives on February 24, 2022, with explosions in Piatykhatky, a northern suburb of Kharkiv.
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If not for the war...
After being seriously wounded in Donbas, Eduard Maliovanyi from Zhytomyr found the strength to return to life and with his optimism inspires others to keep going.
read moreIt's nice to be useful and needed." The story of Andrii from Kharkiv
Andrii lives in Saltivka. This long-suffering neighborhood in Kharkiv was shelled by the enemy the most and most fiercely over the past year. In fact, the first explosions woke Andrii up at five in the morning on February 24, 2022. He saw…
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Death has been chasing me all my life, but God takes care of His children: the…
Svitlana and her five children were caught up in the war in the village of Plakhtianka, not far from Makariv. From the very first day, the sounds of fighting came from Bucha and Hostomel, and later their village was caught in a ring of…
read moreThe children said, "Mom, we don't want to die!" For the ninth year in…
When they are asked, "Did your home survive?", they immediately think: which home are we talking about? The one they were forced to leave in Donetsk in the summer of 2014? Or the home in Sloviansk, from which they fled to the sound of…
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Someone will return home, and someone will have to accept new places as their…
Before the full-scale war, Nadiya and her large family lived in the village of Mytrofanivka in the Kharkiv region. In addition to their own children, she and her husband also adopted three more kids. Immediately after February 24, their…
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