by Mary Banko | Mar 11, 2022 | War. Stories from Ukraine, Bila Tserkva
Illustrated by Asia Timofeyenkova “In the first days, there was panic and a lot of tears. Now it looks like a stupor. Although sometimes it is still scary. It is scary when a husband’s number appears on the phone but it is not his voice, but instead, there is a...
by Mary Banko | Mar 3, 2022 | Kharkiv, War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine
Anna Hruver is 25. She is a poet, essayist, and critic. She was born in Donetsk but in 2014, after the war broke out, her parents moved to Kharkiv to start over. On the first day of spring, March 1, 2022, Kharkiv was bombed. “Today at eight a.m. I was woken up...
by Mary Banko | Mar 2, 2022 | Kyiv
Anya is 34 years old. Before the war, she was a manager of a popular restaurant in Kyiv. Now she organizes work in volunteer kitchens using the facilities of a restaurant. No professional chefs work next to her, but neighbors who have decided to help. ‘I have just...
