“We heard the sound of an explosion. A nearby apartment building suddenly got reduced by a quarter and was burning”, Ivan Perepelytsya, 33, Bucha

“We heard the sound of an explosion. A nearby apartment building suddenly got reduced by a quarter and was burning”, Ivan Perepelytsya, 33, Bucha

  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...
“The Russians kicked the door down and settled in the house of acquaintances of mine who had left before. They even wore their clothes”, Kateryna, 37, Bucha district

“The Russians kicked the door down and settled in the house of acquaintances of mine who had left before. They even wore their clothes”, Kateryna, 37, Bucha district

  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...