Russia’s relentless assault — now targeting the south and east with daily barrages — has transformed everyday Ukrainians. Here are some of their stories
Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, sparking the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. They have traveled on buses and trains, folded their dearest possessions into suitcases. They have crossed into foreign lands, their futures unknown.their country. Some have taken up arms, but others are helping in different ways. There is the teacher who now peels potatoes in a soup kitchen.
It’s a lot of stress, because you have all this news about the war, you have air raid sirens, sometimes you hear friends have died. It’s just really overwhelming.Before the war, I was a DJ at fashion events. I traveled a lot. I went to restaurants with my friends. On the first day of the war, we woke up to explosions. My husband and I set out in our car for the west. We drove for two hours, but we ended up coming back to Kyiv because we realized that we couldn’t leave. If we were in some other less-dangerous city, we would think all the time about how we left our family in Kyiv and we didn’t do anything to help.We have a group of restaurants, and we’ve been donating food.
Mentally I’m very tired. I miss the feeling of being relaxed. It’s the feeling, you know, when you’re lying on the beach, watching the sea. In eight years I haven’t felt relaxed. I’m a psychologist and I have an NGO that provides early intervention services for children with developmental delays. But during the war, a lot of the parents we work with lost their jobs and salaries. So we began providing humanitarian help. We bought diapers and food and other supplies and we deliver it to them every week.
I think we are all becoming stronger. I see it every day. I see mothers who I thought were fragile, but now they are so strong. One mother who has a child with autism spectrum disorder moved to Poland, and it was a very long and very hard trip, but now she is delivering humanitarian help from Poland to our soldiers in Odesa. Another mother, she’s helping take care of the dogs and animals that were left when people had to flee. I think that each person is finding himself.
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