Roman and Masha are living together in a small flat in central Sloviansk. They are both working for the Czech humanitarian NGO „People in Need“, which is supporting the suffering civilian population in the Donbas war. Roman left his hometown Donetsk in July 2014, when the city started to get…
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Fyodor was a sailor in Soviet times, based in Kherson in the Dnipro delta. He is originally from Russia and his parents are both Russian, but he feels fully Ukrainian now. “Putin tries to convince people that Russian speakers in Ukraine are discriminated against. This is bullshit. Look at me,…
Andrey is a Ukrainian military police officer guarding the police headquarters in Sloviansk in Donbass, Ukraine. The occupation of this building by Russian-instigated separatist militias in April 2014 initiated the establishment of pro-Russian authorities in Sloviansk, followed by other cities of Eastern Ukraine, ushering into the war in Donbas, which…
Galina is a theatre director active in the theatre collective „Post Play Teatr“, located in an old factory building in Kyiv. The collective was founded by refugees from Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. She was involved in pro-Ukrainian activism in the spring of 2014 when her native Crimea was annexed by…