We fight back to back
I was trying to find ways out of Kyiv because I realized things could get worse.
Unfortunately it was the right feeling.
The city will be completely reduced to rubble and ashes.
I'm so mad at those crazy Russian terrorists for ruining my beautiful city!
Two attempts to get to the station were unsuccessful.
But on Friday I was lucky and one of my friends picked me up in his car.
We drove to western Ukraine.
It was a long journey.
But when we arrived it was quiet and seemed safe.
Now I'm here, in Lviv (Lemberg).
I want to stay in Ukraine.
It breaks my heart, but I may have to go soon.
My mother says she would feel better and calmer if I left.
Jennifer Wiebking
Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
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All the work I'm doing now to help Ukrainians is entirely online.
I'm an artist and I work in the music industry.
So maybe it would be wiser to work from a safe place rather than a relatively safe one.
When Kyiv is liberated from bombing and occupation, I will return to rebuild the city.
I will do everything in my power to make her shine again.
I want to develop culture again and make music, shoulder to shoulder, with my friends.
But right now we're fighting back to back.
Even if we are separated by hundreds and thousands of kilometers.
I am very busy these days as is everyone else who is helping out.
We work with our friends to provide our soldiers with the necessary ammunition.
Many people help the refugees.
They make food.
They deliver medicines and humanitarian aid.
Fighting in the information space.
I will always be grateful for the help of everyone involved!
The people from all over the world and the Ukrainians in particular.
Every small action saves lives.
Margaret, 22 years old
I only feel hate
My mother lives in Melitopol.
The city was occupied.
The people resist the occupation.
The Russian soldiers even started shooting at two civilians.
I'm worried about my mother.
I'm still in Kyiv.
I only feel hate.
Just hate.
I saw the rocket.
I got up during the day and then walked to the scene of the attack: a house without a facade.
Completely destroyed.
I haven't seen any Russian soldiers yet.
I didn't see any on the left.
Sometimes I see our armed forces.
At first I wanted to run away.
In the first days.
In principle I will stay here.
I'm an engineer and I'm afraid of going to war.
But morally I'm ready to fight.
Right now I'm looking for self-organized troops that mix Molotov cocktails and build defense systems.
I am truly determined to put my contribution to this war, to this victory.
I will stay here and fight to the end.
Nikita, 25 years old
I still plan my future
Even the worst news doesn't bother me anymore.
That shames me.
I'm feeling tired.
I want to sleep, but I follow the news every minute on Telegram, Twitter and Instagram.
Friends in Kyiv write to me about the attacks on our hometown.
After fleeing Kyiv, I am now with my grandmother near Vinnytsia.
In terms of size, the city is a bit like Chemnitz.
I pay attention to every sound, my body reacts with palpitations, especially on the first day, when I fetched water from the well, I was afraid of being watched.