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“I will protect the innocent.” Why foreigners from Morocco, South Korea, and Romania fight in Ukraine

“I will protect the innocent.” Why foreigners from Morocco, South Korea, and Romania fight in Ukraine

by Liza Siviets | Jul 18, 2022 | War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine

Illustrated by Darya Klochko June 9, 2022 The room of so called “court“ of the terrorist quasi-state Donetsk People’s Republic, Ukrainian territory temporarily occupied by Russia. Three foreigners who took part in military operations as part of the Ukrainian...
“I lost my dad. I’m scared of losing someone else in my family”, Sofia Denysenko, 25, Vasylkiv

“I lost my dad. I’m scared of losing someone else in my family”, Sofia Denysenko, 25, Vasylkiv

by Liza Siviets | Mar 22, 2022 | Kyiv region

  Shot through the eye. That is how the father of 25-year-old Sofia Denysenko, a recruiter for the SoftServe IT company, died. Sofia then lived in Rivne, and her parents and other relatives were in her native Vasylkiv, Kyiv Region, when the war started. Her...
“I pulled the children out from under the rubble while I was bleeding,” Yulia Matvienko, 33, Chernihiv

“I pulled the children out from under the rubble while I was bleeding,” Yulia Matvienko, 33, Chernihiv

by Liza Siviets | Mar 22, 2022 | Chernihiv

Illustrated by Oleksandra Fedarkova A bloodied young woman with a small child in her arms: these photos of the 33-year-old Yulia Matvienko from Chernihiv have been shared widely on social media. Now there is a huge hole from a Russian air bomb under her windows in a...
“Any trip may turn into a one-way trip. But my cancer will kill me anyway”, Olexandr Drimanov, 46, Kryvyi Rih

“Any trip may turn into a one-way trip. But my cancer will kill me anyway”, Olexandr Drimanov, 46, Kryvyi Rih

by Liza Siviets | Mar 18, 2022 | Kryvyi Rih

  Illustrated by Liubov Miau  46-year-old Olexandr Drimanov from Kryvyi Rih had all the formal reasons to stay away from the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Since then he’s had 40 chemo sessions....
“Dead bodies had been lying in the streets for three days because no one could pick them up”, Stephan, 23, Nova Kakhovka

“Dead bodies had been lying in the streets for three days because no one could pick them up”, Stephan, 23, Nova Kakhovka

by Liza Siviets | Mar 10, 2022 | Nova Kakhovka, War. Stories from Ukraine

  Illustrated by Tanya Guschina “Non-stop shelling from Russian military equipment: numerous tank columns, rocket launch systems. On the first day, at 11 a.m., we saw the news that almost all cities were being bombed, occassionally even Lviv. That was a...
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