'Our ceiling immediately started to collapse... I ran into the hallway holding my daughter and it was really scary.' How six ordinary Ukrainians have lived through the war
Olena and her family headed out of Kyiv to the west of the country past burnt out vehicles and with the Russians targeting the road they were traveling on. They ended up in Cologne, Germany on March 8 but knew they had to go back home eventually.
Konstantyn Kopelyuk had to have his foot amputated following a Russian attack in the Donbas Oblast. Thanks to prosthetics, he is able to walk and is recuperating.Konstantyn Kopelyuk knew his foot was injured when a missile hit the trench he was in. At the end of December, he was flown to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was given a partial foot filler. Part of the recovery process involves the use of OneStep, an app in which Konstantyn's gait can be monitored remotely via a smartphone, allowing his progress to be assessed and treatment plans to be adjusted if necessary.
After grabbing essentials, they raced outside and headed to a bomb shelter amid the sounds of sirens and further blasts.The constant howl of sirens and explosions in their home city of Mykolaiv triggered an anxiety disorder in Andrii that he is still struggling with. The family spent a week underground, not knowing when they could emerge safely.
"I used my studies to distract me from the awful invasion," she said."Our university was destroyed and I don't know how we will work after the war.""I believe we will rebuild our country and all our university facilities as well—I believe in our victory," she said. From serving award-winning cuisine to discerning diners to feeding troops and refugees simply needing sustenance gave Ievgen an understanding of the true value of food.
Ievgen has always sourced ingredients from around Ukraine but now his purchase of regional products for Rokiv 100 provides vital revenue for farmers struggling in a wartime economy. Marta is a quality assurance expert for mental health and psychosocial support services at the NGO Community Self Help, which was formally founded at the end of 2021, less than two months before Vladmir Putin launched his latest invasion. The idea of Community Self Help started in 2015, when the Development Foundation was promoting NGOs across Ukraine with U.S. Embassy support.
"I am working with the same kinds of difficult cases that I have done for all these years," she said."It is because the Ukrainian army was able to liberate territories that were under Russian occupation that the international community has found out about the degree of torture and murder and rape that happened there."
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