“At the last second, I realised that I could not leave my country… No one knows how much time we have left, but we’ll spend it together.”
Almost our entire editorial team was in the country when Russia invaded Ukrainian soil. Now, we have found the strength to tell you about how we survived those miserable days in our lives, which began with the words: “We have been attacked.”“On 24 February at 6am, I was woken up by a neighbour’s phone call. ‘We have been attacked. They are bombing Boryspil Airport. If you want to come with us, pack your bags. We’re leaving.
“I have a certain trait that in crises I am very quick to mobilise: the main thing is to think of something to do. And during a war there is a lot to do. I also wrote to my colleagues on the site at about 8am [to say] that I will stay in Kyiv and am ready to cover the war for.
“Every morning at 8am, I wake up in hiding to my father calling me on the phone. He is staying in Odessa and… for us these are the most important phone calls in the world. Was I really scared those first days? I think not. I am constantly thinking about those who are on the front lines and who are really important.
“I am still in [shock] – I cannot imagine that it is possible in the centre of Europe in the 21st century for one country just to take over another country. I can’t help but watch the news and cry out – every day I reach out to relatives and friends and wonder whether they’re alive and safe. It is unbearable to see how they maim, destroy my Kyiv, our Kharkiv, Chernigov, and all the other cities. How [ordinary] people [and] children die. There will be no place to go back to.
“On 24 February I woke up from a nervous sleep to learn the news. And after a few minutes, I felt the vibrations. But I still couldn’t grasp that this was war. It is the 21st century, in civilised Europe, Hitler was gone. But now it looks like he has been reincarnated.
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