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Kharkiv — Izium — Dnipro

I have not come to terms with the fact that my house continues to be shelled. But I'm ready to go back to Izium. And it doesn't matter what it looks like. I'll be fine, spend a few years there, do something. The main thing is that it should be territory under the control of Ukraine. The way home for me will not be blocked by the IDP certificate.

Andrii Tretiak, 22 years old Andrii Tretiak, 22 years old
Andrii Tretiak, 22 years old

Donetsk — Zaporizhzhia — Dnipro — Kharkiv — Chernivtsi

After I left Donetsk, people often ask me where I am from. I am from Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Torez. Now I can probably call Kharkiv my home.
Serhii Boichenko, 37 years old Serhii Boichenko, 37 years old
Serhii Boichenko, 37 years old

Horlivka — Kyiv — Kharkiv — Kremenchuk — Kyiv

It is as if my internal matrix superimposes on both Kharkiv and Horlivka the image of what they were like before the war. That is, I continue to visualize them as normal, undamaged, and war-free. 

Staska Padalka, 33 years old Staska Padalka, 33 years old
Staska Padalka, 33 years old

Sloviansk — Kharkiv — Horodenka — Kharkiv

I carried 20 guinea pigs from Sloviansk to Kharkiv. There was no public transport then, the bridges were destroyed. My dad drove us to Barvinkove, and from there a shuttle bus went to Kharkiv. I took a plasma box, made shelves for the pigs and they sat there like sprats — there was no other option. Then they got out, and I had to catch them on the bus.

Vladyslav Myrnyi, 25 years old Vladyslav Myrnyi, 25 years old
Vladyslav Myrnyi, 25 years old

Kharkiv — Horishni Plavni — Kremenchuk

What struck most painfully was the feeling of being a refugee. You had a home, a hometown, and a life with achievements and accomplishments. And now you are a nobody. You run around social services asking for help because you have nowhere to live. I mean, we ride with our newborn son, and we know there's a chance we'll be spending the night in a field.

Luiza Ryzhkova, 33 years old Luiza Ryzhkova, 33 years old
Luiza Ryzhkova, 33 years old

Mariupol — Zaporizhzhia — Lviv — Kyiv

At first, we would hear the sounds from afar, but then the aviation started flying right above us. We listened carefully to figure out which way a fighter jet was heading and counted: "The first explosion - not here, that's cool.” You stand still and wait, and then: "The second one... run!"

Olga Cherkashina, 34 years old Olga Cherkashina, 34 years old
Olga Cherkashina, 34 years old

Kharkiv — Kyiv — Kharkiv — Dnipro

I am a mentally stable person, so I tried to just work and help, not paying attention to what was going on. That worked until March 2, when a rocket hit our office at the Palace of Labor. With my friend Slava, I was standing in the courtyard, recording a video message in which I was reporting on the money I had received and spent.
Mykyta Demenkov, 35 years old Mykyta Demenkov, 35 years old
Mykyta Demenkov, 35 years old

Kharkiv — Horishni Plavni — Lviv

And now I'm writing a new song, already being put together. It's about Joseph, you know, that person from the Bible. If you read his story without knowing the end, it seems like that's the end of Joseph. Every stage —  there are four or five chapters —  you think, "That's a total shithole." But when you know what the ending is, you're like, "Oh, that's interesting!"

Illia Budko, 21 years old Illia Budko, 21 years old
Illia Budko, 21 years old

Kharkiv — Chernivtsi

On that day, the city centre was bombed. "There's a fighter jet in the rearview mirror," he said to us. — If you hear any sound now, jump out of the car and get on the ground."

Olga Maklyakova, 46 years old Olga Maklyakova, 46 years old
Olga Maklyakova, 46 years old