War. Stories from Ukraine

Ukrainians tell stories about their life during the war

“A shell hit our apartment in Mariupol. It is unknown whether our grandmother was there at the time of the attack. I haven’t been in touch with my family for two weeks now”, Kateryna Radyk, 21, Mariupol—Kyiv

“A shell hit our apartment in Mariupol. It is unknown whether our grandmother was there at the time of the attack. I haven’t been in touch with my family for two weeks now”, Kateryna Radyk, 21, Mariupol—Kyiv

  “I learned by chance from social media that a shell hit our apartment in Mariupol and it burned down. My grandmother could have been in the apartment. We asked her to go down to the shelter, but whether she was there at the time of the attack is unknown....
“You open the window and see black and deserted blocks of flats. Not so long ago, Bucha was a cozy and bright place. I can’t believe it…”, Viktoria Kurylenko, 46, Bucha

“You open the window and see black and deserted blocks of flats. Not so long ago, Bucha was a cozy and bright place. I can’t believe it…”, Viktoria Kurylenko, 46, Bucha

  Illustrated by Nastya Kryvonosiuk “A trayful of food would be drawn out from the grocery, and people would rush toward it to try and grasp at least something. I couldn’t believe that we were also characters in this scene,” recalls Vika, 46, a screenwriter in...