by Olexandra Lan'ko | Mar 31, 2022 | Cherkasy
Illustrated by Daria Borodenko “Since March 3, 2022, there has been no communication, electricity, water, or gas supply. We don’t know how she is.” “Dear friends, I beg you 🙏🙏🙏 to contact me if you know anything about this family.” “Russian...
by Olexandra Lan'ko | Mar 19, 2022 | Bucha, War. Stories from Ukraine
Illustrated by Nataliia Shulga Ivan Perepelytsya, a 33-year-old swimming coach, escaped the town of Bucha in Kyiv region by miracle—maybe that is why all the sentences in his written account end with exclamation marks. He ended up in Bucha almost by...
by Olexandra Lan'ko | Mar 16, 2022 | Kharkiv
Illustrated by Galochka Ch “On the very first evening, a woman who lost her eye because of a splinter was brought in. She was conscious, she talked to us and she felt pain,” Oleksii Bozhko recalls his first wartime duty at the surgical...
by Olexandra Lan'ko | Mar 16, 2022 | Bucha
Illustrated by Darya Borodenko “We drove on the roads where our 200s [an euphemism for “killed”] lie. No-one can bury them because this is a firing zone. Bodies are simply not allowed to be taken away.” This is Kateryna’s story (we changed the original...
by Olexandra Lan'ko | Mar 12, 2022 | Volnovakha, War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine
Illustrated by Тanya Guschina Mykyta Motalygin is about to turn 20. In his ordinary and peaceful life, he is a street musician. But during the first two weeks of the war, he hid from a bombardment in the basement, saw a photo of dead acquaintances, and...
