by Tetiana Gonchenko | Mar 12, 2022 | Kyiv
Illustrated by Daria Borodenko Yevhenia Zakrevska, a lawyer, is 38 years old. She joined the Territorial Defense in advance. She knew that she would defend Kyiv if a full-scale war broke out. “I’ve been training with the Defense for several...
by Tetiana Gonchenko | Mar 12, 2022 | War. Stories from Ukraine, War. Stories from Ukraine
29-year-old Anastasia Starostenko has been unaware whether her parents are dead or alive for a whole week now. They are in the occupied Mariupol at the moment. On Saturday, March 5, they had a phone call. Her parents said they didn’t have food supplies and were...
by Tetiana Gonchenko | Mar 10, 2022 | Kharkiv, Sumy
Illustrated by Vlad Korniuk A 44-year-old Andriy Fomenko last held an assault rifle at school in pre-draft training lessons for young men, but now he has taken it again, defending his native Sumy as part of the military defense. The city is surrounded by...
by Tetiana Gonchenko | Mar 8, 2022 | Kherson, War. Stories from Ukraine
A few days before the war, 27-year-old Li Biletska from Kherson bought two training courses abroad. She wanted to study blogging and photography. These courses go on without her. Now Li is not up to professional development. She stays in Kherson, a city...
