Life stories
"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…
read more"We will definitely return home": a family from Bakhmut hopes their…
One year after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Olena still can’t believe what she sees on the news about her hometown of Bakhmut.
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At dawn on February 24, my son called from Azovstal, "Mom, it's war. Pack…
At dawn on February 24, my son called from Azovstal, "Mom, it's war. Pack your things, I'm going to the military commissariat"
read more“We would wash bed linen at our homes – and these were whole bags of it”: how…
As a shelter volunteer at the St. John Paul II Catholic Church in Lviv, Ms. Bronislava has heard dozens, maybe hundreds of stories. Stories of homes being gone, of leaving everything behind, of worry about those who stayed.
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The cats were the first to fall behind, and the dogs held on longer. I look…
Her town was wiped out by Russian aggressors. The only thing left of Mariinka are the foundations of houses and memories. Yuliia keeps these memories in her heart. They are her fragile talisman and amulet.
read moreWhen my son says: "Mom, you are the queen!" I forget everything. How…
Svetlana’s hometown in Ukraine is unrecognizable today. In Rubizhnye in the Luhansk region, barely a house remains, and in the former cozy courtyards and playgrounds you see only graves. Svetlana experienced both incredible happiness and…
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“We are alright now, but in our thoughts, we are back home.” Agnia Bohun from…
On February 24, 2022, Agnia Bohun woke up at dawn in her Kharkiv home to explosions. The air was roaring and houses were collapsing. Not far away, high-rise buildings were turning into charred skeletons. “We packed emergency suitcases and…
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