Recording
For me every photoshoot is like another therapy session
She was 19 when she lost her leg from a missile that struck Kramatorsk. Two years later, she’s finishing university and posing for Vogue and Playboy
Anastasiia Shestopal06/21/24
Loss of Home and Emigration
Accounts of people losing their homes during shelling or leaving the country due to the war and pressure from the authorities. Stories of evacuation, destroyed homes, temporary shelters, border crossings, relocations, and the impossibility of returning home.
28 Testimonies
- Recording
I was told to my face that we invited Russia ourselves, that it’s our own fault
A resident of Sievierodonetsk on evacuation — through Russia and Poland to Germany
Anonymous01/12/24 - Recording
When we evacuated from Kharkiv, we walked on foot along the metro tracks
A Crimean Tatar on his volunteer work at the Poland-Ukraine border
Ruslan Abliakimov04/04/22 - Recording
They’ll have to drag me out in some creative way
A wheelchair-bound man from Kupiansk on his evacuation with his 98-year-old grandfather through Russia
Yevhen Yaroshenko08/31/23 - Recording
Our house in Kherson still stands — that gives us strength. The house in Abkhazia — nothing’s left but the foundation
The story of a Ukrainian woman and a Georgian man who 30 years ago fled the war in Abkhazia and now flee the war in Ukraine
Tetiana and Zauri Kviraia09/20/23 - Recording
Dad’s house is flooded, Mom left for Russia, my brother is in the Armed Forces
A Ukrainian woman on the consequences of the destruction of Kakhovka Dam for her family, her mother in Russia, and her brother at the front
Maryna Sokolenko06/08/23 - Recording
Grandpa comforts her: 'The skin will peel off — you’ll be pretty again'
A grandson told the story of his grandparents who were caught in a shelling in Chasiv Yar
Oleksandr Pedchenko11/26/22 - 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
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 - Text
If they restore my sight, I want to go to Ukraine
The life of a Ukrainian woman whose portrait became the first face of the war
Olena Kurylo12/18/22 - Text
I was already saying goodbye to life and didn’t believe I’d make it out
A story of escape from the Donetsk People’s Republic
Anonymous04/30/22 - Text
I wasn’t eating, but I was constantly throwing up from fear
What it’s like when you flee Russia first from Donbas, and then from Kharkiv
Oleksandra04/24/22
