This article is published in number 12 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 23, 2022
When war has broken out I was sleeping. A call from a colleague of my husband’s, a nurse, woke us up at 5:37: «It has begun. Explosions in Boryspil ».
I had imagined that terrible scenario in my head a million times, thinking exactly about what would have happened if Putin had gone ahead with the idea of attacking. But none of my fantasies, when everything really took shape, had anything to do with reality. An hour later, my husband was called back to work – he is a doctor in a military hospital – so at 7 in the morning, under the incessant sound of sirens, he went out.
Daria Slobodianyk, 34, journalist from Vogue Ukraine. In these shots, his life before the start of the armed conflict.
What was I supposed to do? I packed a backpack, a suitcase, fed the cat and sat down at work. A few hours after the conflict, the site of Vogue Ukraine it turned into a news bulletin on the war. We wrote how to help the army, how to stop a bleeding wound, where to go to donate blood, how to apply a bandage correctly. Could I have thought that a fashion magazine would turn into a war bulletin? Ever and never.
It is true, in recent months, the whole world has been saying that Putin could have launched his attack, but very few of us really believed that, in 2022, entire cities in the center of Europe could be bombed. To those who perhaps think that Ukraine is a backward country, I would like to say that this is not the case at all. Ukraine is a young European state and Kiev is a dynamic, trendy and bohemian city. Near my house (I live in Podol, in the old town) there is a nightclub that organizes famous musical events all over Europe. Our designers participate in fashion weeks, from Paris to New York. Could we, a vital country with the ambition of joining the European Union, ever think that we would be bombed?
Source: Vanity Fair
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