"I’m a scout. I need to be prepared. I’m a mom, I need to be doubly prepared. I’m packing food into several backpacks, so if we get split up, everyone will have something to eat."
"The war is scary. Insanely scary. It’s the second one for us. The first war came to Ukraine in 2014, to our hometown, Donetsk. Chaos, tanks, people with weapons."
"Time is merciless. It never stops to let you catch your breath. It does its job impeccably - ticking away our thoughts, fears, dreams, sorrows, passions, ticking away our very lives."
"If I could write myself a letter from the future and warn of war, I’d never name a month or a year. Nobody would believe me, and I’d be deprived of the air of freedom in Kyiv."
