Ukraine one year on: ‘Why should I leave my home, my world, my country?’

‘What Putin is doing is terrible, but Ukraine is not afraid. This is the end for him’

Friends Zhanna Zvereva and Nadezhda Mukhoyan in Kharkiv back on the morning of February 24th, 2022, when they met to 'meditate for peace' hours after Russia launched its invasion. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin

Yet Kharkiv still stands and continues to defy Russia at close range, after a year of unprecedented violence from a neighbour that many here once regarded as a friend, which has made Zvereva and Mukhoyan prouder than ever of their city and country.“We’ve been here the whole time and never thought of leaving Kharkiv. All our children are still in Ukraine and all our grandchildren too. I never felt fear or panic, I was just thinking about what to do next,” says Zvereva.

“In those first weeks we never knew when a missile would hit, and we lived under strict curfew. But some of us had dogs to exercise,” Zvereva recalls. Kharkiv is just 30km from Russia and has been badly damaged during a year of all-out war. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin

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