Diary of war

Sunlight shines through the blinds  The war started exactly one month ago. Bombs continue to fall on Mariupol every 10 minutes, but I’m no longer

We’ve been here for over 20 days now. Stuck in this hotel, stuck at this point in our lives. No one has answers for us.

We are absolutely exhausted. We decide to take a walk around the centre of Berlin. We go to the very centre of Berlin. Its scale

The German attitude to registration is interesting. In order to get your documents, you have to go through more than one authority, many of which

We make Ukrainian borscht for our new friends. We manage to make it a perfect red colour. The vegetables are fresh and flavourful, the beetroot

Our mayor reports that the Russian invaders used a BM-30 Smerch, a modern multiple rocket launcher system dubbed “Whirlwind”. It’s a truck with a large

I wake up early again and begin browsing on my laptop. Believe me, my laptop is my only source of leisure in the cold country

In Germany, people turn out to be as polite and attentive as the Poles. We can stay with Sylvia, a kind and sensitive girl from

I’m having panic attacks. I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and immediately check my newsfeed. The artillery attacks,

Three days ago, Mom left to find some food and water. She never came back.  I’m hungry and I’m tired. I’m alone.  For the past

Our next destination is Berlin, but there are so many people at the station that we can’t get on the train. Everyone wants to be

[[After a train ride of 12 hours, we arrive in Lviv. We want to have breakfast, but we have to get in line for the