Viktor had got a new job four months before the war. He had worked as an adult Orthopaedic surgeon for fifteen years and was offered a job as a head of trauma and orthopaedic department at the Dnipro’s […]
Eugenia was on call at her Maternity Hospital on the night of the Russian invasion. She remembers finishing an emergency Caesarean at midnight, then going to bed only to be woken up by a call to the Emergency […]
Andriy had been positive that the war would start soon since Autumn, 2021. It was in the air – constant provocations on the border, building up of enormous amounts of troops and military hardware. The war, although largely […]
Before the war, Anton lead a very peaceful life. He was a well-known film critic, and he loved his job. He is still passionate when talking about it. To him, cinema is a visual study of human behaviour […]
This is an incredible story of Ivan, a Ukrainian marine who has been wounded three times since the beginning of the war, and has come back to the frontline every single time. He has written it in France, […]
Natalia On February 24, 2022 Natalia woke up at 5 a.m. in order to walk her dog as per her normal daily routine. She did not check the news that morning, so she was unaware that Russians had […]
On the night of the February 24, 2022, Maxim was in the operating theatre of a private hospital in Kyiv. In the evening before that day, they had seen Putin announcing the start of a “special military operation”, […]
Glib Glib took his oath of enlistment into Ukrainian Marine Corps on February 24th, 2021 – exactly one year before the start of the Russian invasion. For him, it had been a logical choice – both his brother, […]
Oleksii does not remember much of what had been happening before February 24, 2022. He looks through the pictures on his phone, places he had been to, people he had been there with and does not remember what […]