by Liza Siviets | Mar 6, 2022 | Kharkiv, War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine
Oleh Romaniuk is 36 years old. He is a nurse by training but recently has been working as a cook in a restaurant. Oleh is from Luhansk region. His former home is only 15 kilometers from the demarcation line, which was the boundary before the full-scale invasion...
by Liza Siviets | Mar 5, 2022 | Donetsk, Kyiv, War. Stories from Ukraine
“I’m from Donetsk, so now Russia has come to occupy my home for the second time,“ says 24-year-old Yuliia Kabanets, a resident of Kyiv, and a communication manager for the Cedos think tank. In 2014, Yuliia graduated from school in her native Donetsk, then...
by Liza Siviets | Mar 4, 2022 | Berdiansk
Illustrated by Liubov Miau Kateryna, 26, is an analyst for an IT company and an environmental activist. Recently, she had lived in Lviv, but a couple days prior to the full-scale attack of Russian troops she arrived at her hometown, Berdiansk, to visit her family....
by Liza Siviets | Mar 3, 2022 | Kharkiv
Bohdan Syniavsky is 28, he is an actor and musician. He was born in Debaltsevo, Donetsk Region. He has lived in Kharkiv since 2010, so he did not experience the battles for Debaltsevo and the occupation of the city in 2015. But he did experience battles for...