Stories of Our Children

At the beginning of September, russian soldiers — in civilian clothes, wearing masks and balaclavas — burst into the...

Emine is a Crimean Tatar — a mother of two daughters. And since the arrival of Russian authority, she...

Sofia is a 17-year-old foster child from the occupied Kherson region. When the Russians arrived in her home village,...

“You’re 18? A wonderful age to go to war!” — that is what Dmytro heard at the military recruitment...

Olha was sixteen and Marharyta was thirteen. And they spoke surzhyk (a colloquial mix of Ukrainian and Russian).” Yet...

Yevhen was 14 years old when the full-scale invasion began. He lived in the east of Ukraine, watched only...

Tymofiy was in the 8th grade when the occupation began. He never concealed the fact that he was Ukrainian....

At the age of 12, Maria came to understand her sexual orientation. From that moment on, her world split...

Eighteen-year-old Olena remembers well the night her little brother stood by the window and silently watched as tanks moved...

15-year-old Rostik from a village near Oleshky was left completely alone on the third day of the occupation, after...