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Kharkiv — Uzhhorod

Yes, we are Roma. But the passport speaks for itself. Why am I not a Ukrainian, if I was born in Kharkiv? If I lived and studied in Kharkiv, I know the laws, I love my city, and I live by it. I want to help my country, I represent the same people as all Ukrainians, I've also experienced the same stress, people I know and care for with all my heart are dying too.

Rodion Khrystov, 20 years old Rodion Khrystov, 20 years old
Rodion Khrystov, 20 years old

Donetsk — Kniazhychi — Trebukhiv

Now I feel that the victory is ours, but I didn't feel that back in Donetsk. We finally found a home in the Kyiv region and we definitely don't want to start life all over again this time. This is my land, why the fuck should I go?

Olga Tishevska, 42 years old Olga Tishevska, 42 years old
Olga Tishevska, 42 years old

Bakhchysarai — Poltava

We have everything to make our city and our country better. Because we know how to think and how to do things. The difference is that the initiative comes from below, here it's us who's evolving, while in Crimea the initiative comes from above, from the state, making people passive.

Natalia Barannyk, 28 years old Natalia Barannyk, 28 years old
Natalia Barannyk, 28 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

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

Donetsk — Kharkiv — Kramatorsk — Lviv — Kyiv

At that time, I hoped that I was leaving temporarily, but already in the winter of 2014 it became clear that was not the case. The need to leave everything in Donetsk was also motivated by the fact that I worked in a library for children there. So I knew that I would be required to propagate the pro-Russian ideology to children. And that was unacceptable to me.
Darya Zorina, 33 years old Darya Zorina, 33 years old
Darya Zorina, 33 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

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

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