Dmytro, near Vinnytsia:
I’m in Vinnytsia region now, in a small town. Now I’m witnessing a very unusual thing: there’s a traffic jam here. And the thing is that all the cars are with Kharkiv, Kyiv and Chernihiv registration.. no cars from Vinnytsia
Very strange and kinda horrible, actually.
Valeria, Kyiv:
My godmother has four daughters. The third daughter is my best friend, ’cause we’re almost the same age. And today is the youngest daughter’s birthday. She turns 11. And these bastards ruined the child’s party and almost her life! She doesn’t celebrate it the way she wants … Her family has nothing for her… I can’t imagine what she feels… And we can’t even come to them to greet and hug our little birthday girl. Only through messages …
Marina, Kyiv:
russians have been bombing us a lot last days. It’s quite stressing, actually. I even started panicking a bit. And writing depressing tweets, huh. It’s ok now. Totally.
They keep shooting, but I’ve got used to it. It doesn’t scare me anymore.
But my parents seem to start worrying. We’re leaving our home tomorrow. Without actually having a plan. We’ll stay somewhere at our relative’s house.
Also it’s probably the first time in forever, that I see my mom panicking. Bad thing. She never panics. And it’s happening now, when I finally calmed myself down.
Two days ago everything seemed to be excellent. We’ve even got a cake for my birthday. (Just to make one exactly wish, which now takes too long to come true).
I didn’t expect to leave. Reassured everyone that I’m staying. Believed it myself. But there am I, looking at my things, not knowing what to take.
It’s funny how we surround ourselves with stuff, which seems so important. Stuff that is so easy to leave, when it’s needed.
Cause it’s not important. Not useful. We work, get and spend so much money, and then leave it all for better times.
Now I can only hope, that nothing would happen to my house. That I’d be able to come back to +- normal life.
But still it’s OK. For as long as we stay alive.
Daria, Ukraine:
I think it’s all based on putin’s propaganda, which has been zombieing the russian population for more than twenty years. putin has managed to brainwash russian people so much that more than 80 percent of them trust their president. They will probably later deny believing in him, just as the Germans, after the end of WWII, said they were against Hitler. But it was too late. So why should their fear and stupidity be measured by the deaths of Ukrainians?
Natalia, Kyiv:
For years, I’ve been working in NAUKMA, the fifth topic we discuss is Moral Values and Religions, and one of the subtopic is The Problem of Evil, challenging but interesting. Students always tell about corruption, war, murder, crime and so on. After all these events, I will say the absence of critical thinking is a crucial point in this discussion.
