Ukraine Protocols: When Will Peace Come?

I realize how tired I am

This Thursday, my two sons and I, together with other Ukrainians, were taken in two buses from Düsseldorf to Remscheid.

Here, too, we are accommodated in a hotel that is almost in the forest.

The landscape is very beautiful, green and hilly.

In a lake I discovered tadpoles.

Eva sleeper

Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

• Follow I follow

Nevertheless, I am relieved that we will be coming back to Düsseldorf in three weeks.

At least that's what we're told.

I like the city very much;

we feel good.

Since I have already started a German course there, I will now take the train to the course three days a week.

What is of course not so good about the situation: Now it will be delayed by at least another three weeks until we know where we can live in the future.

And until I can register the boys at school.

As good as we are in Germany, I can tell how tired and emotionally drained I am.

I never wanted to leave my homeland.

The hotel in Remscheid is the eighth place we live since the war started, since we left our home in Kharkiv on February 24th.

Friends who are still there report that it has been much quieter for the past few days as the Russian army has been driven out of the city's outskirts.

My husband is already considering returning to Kharkiv, but I say: No, don't do that, it's still too dangerous.

United than ever

The “Victory Day” on May 8 passed without any special events.

Some people laid flowers at the monuments.

The city of Melitopol, where my mother lives, has already been abandoned by more than half of the population.

Among the remaining population, the Russian soldiers herded some people into holding a parade with red flags.

From the first days of the war, I have noticed that Ukrainian society is more united than ever.

But of course not without exceptions.

Unfortunately, Melitopol stood out.

My hometown is probably the only city in Ukraine that became known for mass looting in the first days of the occupation.

In my opinion, it is a very good sign for Ukraine that the aggression, well, let's say that the advance of the troops has stopped.

That the occupiers were forced to withdraw from the north-east, that they are also being expelled from the Kharkiv area.

The Ukrainian government has done a very good job.

She has managed to convince the West that it must supply arms because the mistakes of the past cannot be repeated.

It is a fact that appeasing the aggressor only provokes further aggression.

I really believe that Russia has a hard nut to crack and I hope that in the near future the Ukrainian army will be able to completely reverse everything and launch a counteroffensive.