by Svitlana Oslavska | Apr 27, 2022 | Mariupol
Illustrated by Tanya Gushchina In March, many people could see the video where a fragile woman, an army doctor, urged all Ukrainians and the whole world to talk about Mariupol. “We do not want to be heroes and martyrs postmortem,” said Alyona Kushnir. On...
by Svitlana Oslavska | Apr 16, 2022 | Kyiv region
On February 27, a shell hit a museum building in Ivankiv, north of Kyiv. This museum was home to Maria Prymachenko’s paintings. Reports that the artist’s works burned down along with the museum immediately appeared on the Internet. But later the...
by Svitlana Oslavska | Mar 26, 2022 | Kharkiv, War. Stories from Ukraine
Illustrated by Liubov Miau Stanislav Sierhieyev, 36, left Kharkiv on the eighth day of the war with his mother, wife and eight-year-old daughter. On the 27th day of the war, they left Ukraine. This brief story is about how each person and each family experiences this...
by Svitlana Oslavska | Mar 23, 2022 | Severodonetsk, War. Stories from Ukraine
Illustrated by Tanya Guschina The Russian troops have been shelling my hometown, Severodonetsk, since the beginning of March, every day. Volodymyr, my stepfather, is 64. He wasn’t accepted to the local defense units, he had nothing to do in the city but did not...