When Viktor ran down the street after hearing the bombing, his wife Natalia Kolesnik she was already dead. She had come out of their house Kharkiv, in Ukraine, to bring food to cats, as she used to do every day, paying attention to the thunder of the shots that never stopped in her city. She […]
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Have we (already) forgotten the war in Ukraine?
Four months of war in Ukraine. It was dawn on February 24th when Russia launched the invasion of the country by dropping the first bombs from the sky. “I was going to the bathroom when there was an explosion. I lost consciousness and fell. When I recovered my face was covered in blood, now clotted. […]
Ukraine, John Cena goes to visit a boy with Down syndrome fleeing the war
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Misha Rohozhyna, nineteen with the down syndromehe was terrified when, on February 24, Russian missiles began hitting Ukraine and Mariupol, his hometown. It is an even tougher war that people with intellectual disabilities experience. Suddenly changing the daily routine, running away from home, taking refuge wherever it happens can cause one extreme stress. The explosions, […]
Ukraine, Valerie’s red dress and the rubble of her school
An evening dress on and as a background the rubble in post that is going viral. Valerie16, according to her aunt in a post Facebook, chose to be photographed with the red dress she had chosen for the party at the end of the school year. She put him in front of her school in […]
The return exodus: Ukrainians return to their homeland
Lidia, the name is fictional, she is 12 and a half years old and spent the last few in Italy. She left theUkraine shortly after the Russian invasion. Now he is returning to his country, even if the war is still there. He has spent the last two and a half months in an Italian […]
Ukraine, 100 days of a war with no end in sight
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. It has been 100 days since that attack that most of the world did not consider imaginable in the heart of Europe. 100 days have passed and there is no end to what Moscow thought was supposed to be a blitzkrieg, indeed a special military operation as the […]
Syria, Layla who tells her life at war with a GoPro
“When I received an award at school, my father hung it on the wall of our house. He had left a space next to it saying that more would come. But he didn’t have time to see them, because he died first, in the war ». Layla she is 12 years old and has a […]
Ukraine, the story of Vitaly and Alla, married and dead in the steel mill
They got married in Azovstal, the steel mill that remains Mariupol’s last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance. Vitaly and Allochka (aka Alla) Taranov were also have become parents of a child for a few months. This new family, who grew up in the steel mill, was destroyed by the war, as the deputy commander of the […]
Ukraine, mother Vladislava, 17, fled with her premature baby
She is, too, little more than a child. Vladislava, 17, from Ukraine, fled with her little Camilla, who came into the world 25 days ago, when the war had already begun. Together they fled Sloviansk, Donetsk oblast, in search of a safer place. Camilla was born premature, in the 34th week of gestation, and it […]
Ukraine, Elena: “Mom, dad, our house in Mariupol is gone”
Every afternoon, when not working, Elena takes a walk along the seafront of Castiglione della Pescaia with her parents, Ivan and Larissa. They sit on one of the benches overlooking the sea and remain silent. Only when she passes a plane, Larissa does as if to hide. Last time they had a passer-by take a […]
