This is one of 2 blog posts I will write about Volya this month. The second one, on her birthday celebrations, was planned, this one just happened after I saw a tweet. Volya is enjoying her cardboard cake scratching – bed thingy. I will write about this in another post. I will just say that […]
I have American friends online and offline and I was debating if I should write this post or not. I feel loss when it comes to the US, so this is why I have decided to write this. In 2023 I nearly went to the US. If the visa procedure would have taken less, I […]
On 11 November we had a delivery and, just by chance, it arrived at exactly 11. The silence is for 2 minutes and the driver was listening to the radio, so he told us and we marked the moment on our driveway. Cars were passing by, we were all still. I was thinking of British […]
Please read this post entirely. Think of one or two defenders that you relate to, maybe you liked what they liked. If you have the opportunity, talk about them with another person. This post is to remember them. Each day I read the obituaries of the fallen heroes who are being buried in Lviv. I […]
How is to do your shopping during war? I think this is quite an interesting topic. It is also very specific to buying from a city which is 1000 km from the fighting. Ukraine is a big country and the experience in Lviv is different than what people experience in cities that are much closer […]
In 5 weeks I did over 180 hours of volunteering in Ukraine. I will cover 2 themes: my roles and the experience of volunteering. Because of its sensitivity I can’t talk about one of the roles. While all are on a need-to-know basis, some require extra privacy. For example the volunteers don’t know where the […]
In a deadly attack on Lviv, on 4 September, 7 people died. I went with a friend at the funeral of 4 of those victims, to pay our respects. The victims’ names were Evheniia, Yaryna, Daryna, and Emilia Bazylevych. A mother and her 3 daughters died, being survived by the husband & father. He was […]
Today it was one of the biggest russian attacks. In my post Why I’m back in Ukraine I wrote that a country-wide attack will happen. My prediction was for the night between 23 and 24. In Ukraine 23 August is Flag Day and 24 August is Independence Day. I was wrong, but also Modi was […]
I started to write this post while travelling to Ukraine for the second time this year. I published it while in my flat in Lviv, where I will spend the next 5 weeks. During this period I will share snippets of everyday life in Lviv, from shopping to volunteering, going to a cafe or a […]
The differences between russia vs Ukraine in a few videos & pictures. I’ve decided to use a meme as the picture for this post because it’s both funny and accurate. Ukrainian troops crossed the border into russian territory and are having great success there. While we can’t know the aims of this operation, we can […]
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