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Kharkiv — Khrystynivka — Uman

The planning time frame was one day or even a few hours. It felt as if somewhere behind me, somewhere behind the car there was Godzilla, who was about to crush us or pull our car out of the line at the checkpoint
Daria Spasova, 34 years old Daria Spasova, 34 years old
Daria Spasova, 34 years old

Donetsk — Mariupol — Kyiv — Bucha — Kyiv

"What is home?" is a question without an answer for me. I don't fully understand if I have one. Little by little I try to solve this mystery, then it gets confusing again. But at that time, in Donetsk, I realized that it was not my home.

Oleksandr Manukians, 29 years old Oleksandr Manukians, 29 years old
Oleksandr Manukians, 29 years old

Simferopol — Kyiv — Yahotyn — Khmelnytskyi — Kyiv

 I don't know how to describe this feeling —  is when they say that the war started in February 2022... We all need to realize that the war has been going on for eight years and it is the case for the whole country.

Muslim Umerov, 28 years old Muslim Umerov, 28 years old
Muslim Umerov, 28 years old

Kharkiv — Ternopill — Romanove Selo (Ternopil region)

It took us a while to adapt to life. The emotional state was a strange one. Work had kept us distracted from all the stress of the war, and we felt a lot of fatigue. And when we arrived and were able to exhale a bit, the stress came back like a spring. Everything that we experienced during the three weeks of volunteering came crashing down, and we could not do anything. Going to a store became incredibly difficult, and speaking to people  — even more so.

Kostiantyn Molchanov, 21 years old Kostiantyn Molchanov, 21 years old
Kostiantyn Molchanov, 21 years old

Donetsk — Kyiv — Kharkiv — Kharkiv Oblast — Ivano-Frankivsk

For eight years, people would ask me: "Why didn't you take your parents out of there?" And I would answer: "They're not a suitcase to take them out." My father had always told me, "If we leave, who's going to stay? But you believe this is Ukraine, don't you? Well, then Ukrainians should live here."
Svitlana Kolodii, 35 years old Svitlana Kolodii, 35 years old
Svitlana Kolodii, 35 years old

Pervomaisk (Luhansk region) — Crimea — Russia — Belarus — Kharkiv — Lviv — Chernivtsi — Berehomet (Chernivtsi region)

It was the morning of February 24. And when my wife got a wake-up call from her father, I just felt déjà vu — all the same for the second time. 

Aleksandr Chudnovec, 27 years old Aleksandr Chudnovec, 27 years old
Aleksandr Chudnovec, 27 years old

Alushta — Kharkiv — Horishni Plavni — Kharkiv

I realized that my wife is almost at the epicentre of the explosions. I rushed to her. At that point, the Grad multiple rocket launcher systems started firing. Tree branches were flying over us. Shells exploded some 50-60 meters away. Shell-shocked by the explosions, birds fall to the ground. I knew then that I was running towards my death.

Dmytro Yurchenko, 27 years old Dmytro Yurchenko, 27 years old
Dmytro Yurchenko, 27 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

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