Recording
I kept bragging to all my friends in my dreams: 'See, Ira is alive'
A resident of Dnipro lost his wife in a strike on an apartment building strike. His story continues two years later
Oleksandr Bulhak07/03/24
The Loss of Loved Ones
Stories of people who lost family members to shelling, occupation, and military action. Testimonies about searching for bodies, funerals, identifying the dead, and life after tragedy.
20 Testimonies
- Recording
We won’t be here, but it will remind people that a Russian missile hit and killed half the village
A resident of the village of Hroza about the strike that killed 59 people
Volodymyr Bespalyi09/04/24 - Recording
When you’re dragging a wounded man, you have one prayer: 'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck'
A boxing commentator on evacuating the wounded from Bakhmut and losing his son
Yurii Nesterenko03/08/23 - Recording
She recognized me, she was screaming. But by the time we got there, she’d already bled out
A resident of the village of Hroza about the Russian strike that killed 59 people
Volodymyr Bespalyi10/11/23 - Recording
It was someone’s birthday. The relatives were sitting in the cemetery
A nurse from Dnipro about her only son, killed in a Russian bombardment
Tetiana Bohutska04/13/23 - Recording
Sasha, you’re alone now
A resident of Dnipro remembers his wife, killed in Dnipro in a strike on an apartment building
Oleksandr Bulhak02/27/23 - Recording
You’re like a Spartan wife. If I die, it will hurt, but you’ll survive
A Muscovite moved to Ukraine to be with her soldier husband. In May 2022 he was killed; now she is struggling to stay in Ukraine
Tatiana Milennaia07/10/23 - Recording
For me they’re alive — I talk to them constantly
A Ukrainian who lost his family returned to Mariupol to rebury his relatives
Serhii Demchenko12/12/22 - Recording
All we have left of Vova are rubber slippers
An resident of Izium on life under occupation, her husband’s death, and evacuation
Liliia Maichenko09/09/22 - Recording
The owner came out, all cocky, so we shot him
A famous racing driver’s daughter on how Russian soldiers murdered her father
Nataliia Dreval-Pechorina12/14/22 - Recording
I need to go to the morgue. My husband is there
A mother of three lost her husband during the bombing of Mariupol
Olha Berezka08/16/22 - Recording
Three generations in one strike: granddaughters, their mother, and grandmother
A resident of Mariupol lost nearly his entire family during a shelling
Serhii Demchenko06/24/22
