Svitlana moved from Odessa. The day we publish this story, her daughter Kateryna was born.
read more“A rabid crowd like an endless snake stretched across the entire station and underpasses for the trains to west Ukraine. People sat on bags, stood, walked, and chattered in the twilight, with trunks, children and pets… »
read moreWe learnt that the priest tried to get the column out but it came under fire. A mother and her two children were in one of the cars. The mother got shot in her arm, one of the kids in the belly and the other one in the arm, too. I still…
read moreFebruary 24, 2022. The day when the life was divided into before and after. The events of that day became a point of no return. That day I woke up at 7 am from the alarm clock with a feeling of imminent trouble. After reading the…
read moreI'm from Kiev. I remember standing on the Maidan in 2004 and 2014. Then we did not allow them to do to us what happened in Belarus. The bells rang and we ran to the square to fight for the right to live freely. This struggle continues to…
read moreMy name is Agnia Bohun. I am a Ukrainian author residing in Kharkiv. The war in Ukraine has become a complete surprise to me. The threat had been around long ago, at the border, which is just 30 kilometres away. The build-up of the…
read moreKateryna Paierska has been working in Roma camps for 12 years. Being a part of Caritas of St. Martin (Caritas-Spes Transcarpathia), she visits 7 Roma settlements, where she organizes work with children. In Katya's car, we visit camp after…
read moreEven from the corridor I feel the chypre notes of amber and sandalwood, the smell coming from Mrs. Halyna’s room. She is 96, but a woman will be a woman, no matter how old she is.
read moreAn industrial district of Kyiv with a five-story residential complex and a busy highway nearby, transporting millions of people every day. Above the road there are rows of small "Khrushchev" windows that seem to peer into those driving…
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