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Tag: stories from the war

The Stories We are, Natalya: “I ran away to Rome but my heart is in Kiev”

The Stories We are, Natalya: “I ran away to Rome but my heart is in Kiev” The Stories We are, Natalya: “I ran away to Rome but my heart is in Kiev”

Natalya Martininka he worked in Kiev as an English teacher. A few days before the outbreak of war in her country, Ukraine, she had come to Italy to visit some of her friends. “P.The invasion began and I immediately returned to take away my son, who had stayed in Kiev with his uncle“. When she […]

Ukraine, the story of the girl with the gun and the lollipop of the viral photo

Ukraine, the story of the girl with the gun and the lollipop of the viral photo Ukraine, the story of the girl with the gun and the lollipop of the viral photo

She is holding a rifle and has a lollipop in her mouth, she is sitting on the windowsill of a smoke-blackened house and is clearly at war. It is not a photo taken by chance, it is a posed and deliberate photo, it is a photo of denunciation of the war in Ukraine. The title […]

The war doctor: “I bring with me the gaze of the people we have treated”

The war doctor: “I bring with me the gaze of the people we have treated” The war doctor: “I bring with me the gaze of the people we have treated”

“It is reasonable to imagine that the new NATO camps and hospitals, built in Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, will be used for the treatment of the wounded and for the reception of a new wave of refugees, whose origin, day after day, always seems to be clearer: a new war, this time in Europe, which […]

Vera, the violinist under the bombs: “My music for Kharkov”

Vera, the violinist under the bombs: “My music for Kharkov” Vera, the violinist under the bombs: “My music for Kharkov”

The Dnieper crosses Russia like a vein, goes down to Belarus and then to Ukraine. Today the blood flows with the current, the bodies slip away crossing borders. When Vera Lytovchenko picks up the violin e the notes of the Dnieper song begin to resonate, it all seems even more absurd and unreal. Because that […]

Ukraine, Wali, the most dangerous sniper in the world, now fights against Russia

Ukraine, Wali, the most dangerous sniper in the world, now fights against Russia Ukraine, Wali, the most dangerous sniper in the world, now fights against Russia

He is considered “one of the deadliest snipers in the world”. Wali (this is his nom de guerre: it means “protector” or “guardian” in Arabic), 40 years old, Canadian, left his job as a computer programmer, his wife (who disapproved of his decision) and one-year-old son to cross the Ukrainian border and fight the Russian […]

Ukraine, Iryna Guley: “Every awakening is a return to war”

Ukraine, Iryna Guley: “Every awakening is a return to war” Ukraine, Iryna Guley: “Every awakening is a return to war”

“This morning, at six, I heard a very loud knock on my door. For a few seconds I didn’t realize what was happening and my immediate thoughts were two: the Russians came to get me; there is a nuclear alarm ». Thus begins the diary from the war that Iryna GuleyUkrainian journalist of channel 1 […]

Marianna Podgurskaya, the woman in the photo from the Mariupol hospital, has given birth

Marianna Podgurskaya, the woman in the photo from the Mariupol hospital, has given birth Marianna Podgurskaya, the woman in the photo from the Mariupol hospital, has given birth

Life beyond the war. Last night at 10pm Marianna Podgurskaya, Ukrainian blogger, whose bloody face has become the symbol of the Russian bombing of the Mariupol hospital, has given birth to a girl. The Ukrainian journalist announced it Olga Tokariuk, who contacted a person from Marianna’s family. “They are fine but in Mariupol it is […]