Stories of Our Children

“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...

When the occupation began, 17-year-old Vladyslav from the Kherson region categorically refused to study under the Russian curriculum. But...

16-year-old Artem from the village of Husynka in the Kharkiv region went to school in Kupiansk to collect his...

In October 2022, 10-year-old Mykyta from the Oleshky boarding school in the Kherson region was taken to Russia by...