In the spring of 2022, 52-year-old mechanic Vyacheslav Zavalny was detained by the Russian military at a checkpoint in city of Pology when he was on his way to evacuate his son and wife from Mariupol. Ten long months of imprisonment followed, where he survived together with other Ukrainians, both civilians and military.Читати українською

Tetiana and Oleksandr Muzyrov took in nine-year-old Oleksii in January 2023. A year earlier, on February 28, 2022, in the first days of the Russian army's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, their 26-year-old son Dmytro was killed in the village of Kyinka near Chernihiv.Читати українською

The editorial office learned about Svitlana Trubachova's decision on the day this article was published. The article describes what preceded her decision to sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and how she approached it through volunteering and involvement in the affairs of the unit in which her husband fought and died in the first days of the Great War. "I'm going to serve, to continue my husband's work," she told us.Читати українськоюAn ordinary electronics store in Kyiv. There are cell phone and laptop accessories on display and a small queue inside. Meanwhile, the seller is packing a case with a drone into a large box: a woman in a black jumpsuit with long hair is trying to buy two Mavics. She only has enough cash for one. Due to a power outage, she was unable to withdraw the required amount from her card. She pays for the second one with her card: the store gave her a discount on the commission charged to the customer's card for this purchase. The woman breathes out a sigh of relief: "It's people's money, and it's so hard to save it, I can't spend it on commission," she explains.

"My family plans to return. Because there is no right to leave a country for a father who wants to see his children, wants them to remain Ukrainians and wants his family not to fall apart. I've seen many good families fall apart since 2022 simply because they were separated. I don't want that to happen to my family," says Oleksii Erinchak, the founder of the "Sens" bookstore in Kyiv.