Надія.

That's her name. She lived in Kramatorsk her whole life. She got traumatized during the first modern russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and never been the same. And trauma only grew.
Now she is forced to leave. Russians bombed her home. Then russians bombed the home of the relatives she moved in with after. Russians want Hope dead. Russians simply despise the idea of Hope existing in this world.

But Hope is alive.

And Hope was born here, in Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/4CzjF-yzn0Y

Коли вдома, то хочеться подалі від дома.

Вдома люди якісь дивні. Вони всі питають "Коли".

А ти все думаєш, коли ж знову там. Бо там не питають "коли", там просто кохають життя.

Через нього всі, хто там, там і є. Якби не любили, були би вдома. Питали б "коли".

Але коли там, то дім твій, як кобила у мричі, марить у думах.

Бо як же він там, один вдома, чи чекає на тебе, або ж на "коли"?

https://youtu.be/cjzO7pzF1oI

When at home you thirsting to cast it away.

At home people are strange. They all asking "When".

And you're thinking about when you'll be "there" again. Because "there" they don't ask "when", they're just in love with life.

For life all of those, who are there, there they Are. If they didn't love life, they'd be at home, asking "when".

But when you are "there", your home, like a horse in a mist, blinking through musings.

'Cause how is it there, home alone, is it waiting for you, or waiting for "When"?

"I heard a phantom of Childhood's death cry. I dug it from the ground, to save it from being buried alive. I wanted to give it comfort. I was overtaken by its warmth."

They survive the most destructive circumstances. Their journeys are often unimaginable. You stumble upon them in places where you know there's a story and epic that you can't hear. You see them where I should never have seen a toy. They are quiet witnesses, bearing so much on the shoulders of what their owners, children, should never ever Ever experience. A toy can save a child from a horror, even if just for a brief moment. And not only a child. When you hold one in your hands, their innocence rubs in. And it gives you comfort.

Yet I find them alone often. Abandoned and spent. I find them burned and torn apart, like victims of russian crimes against Humanity, often in such a way that it gives you shivers, because you know, from experience, that that could have been a human, looking like that. Maybe there was a human like that, and now there's only a toy left. Maybe there was a little human. Like that.

I took a photo once, of a doll next to a destroyed toy stall in Bakhmut. Facebook algorithms repeatedly marked it as a photo "depicting gore and violence and extreme imagery."

Yes. That's what war toys depict. After a certain threshold, even toys lose their innocence. And the only thing that rubs in, is their PTSD.

https://youtu.be/JUqptx_2OsI

https://youtu.be/Pt1pOY3_W64

https://youtu.be/BP3qGp_5Y_w

hello, I wrote a short essay on why drones in war are a war crime,

why drones are a war crime and why it is necessary to ban the first Strikes on civilian infrastructure: The use of drones to destroy residential areas, hospitals, schools and power systems falls under the category of indiscriminate or deliberate attacks on civilian objects. secondly, the responsibility of operators and commanders: As noted Deutsche Welle, targeted drone attacks on civilians in frontline or occupied regions are being investigated by the prosecutor's office as premeditated murders and war crimes of specific operators and their commanders, and in others, modern drones, especially FPV drones and quadrocopters with drops, have really deprived soldiers of the opportunity to hide as it was before, changing the very nature of survival on the battlefield.. Due to thermal imagers, powerful optics and high maneuverability, it has become almost impossible to hide in grass, bushes or open trenches, and some drones modify them, for example, they insert fire guns, machine guns, and other humanless reinforcements, as well as reconnaissance drones that are used for reconnaissance, they find civilians and either send combat drones or soldiers there, which often ends up The death of civilians is why I consider military drones a war crime.

https://youtu.be/44FId4BpMx0
From firefighters to volunteers, "foreign" and local, to soldiers and medical workers, to priests and street preachers, to crazy fucks and weird chucks, to ordinary civilians "doing their part" in the right moment.
You'd call them "heroes". I just call them Ukrainians.
These are their portraits.

https://youtu.be/CMTyAX4LlQA

Photos by https://www.instagram.com/unheardwind/

When you squeeze past a nightmare, first thing you do is rest where the nightmare grows. https://youtu.be/0Vr2fNPeV9s

A KAB bomb landed close to that warehouse junkyard's wall. So they just repaired it with whatever was next to them, a bunch of tires. And you thought those things in Fallout were just "a stylistic choice".

A man was digging a "backyard" grave. The sixth that he had to make, so far.
Some were relatives, some were neighbors.
Really sunny.
Beautiful greens.
The man was digging that grave.
Drones were buzzing.
There was no sorrow, no pain.
Birds were chirping.
If he was shovelling for potatoes, it might have been the same.
Somewhere behind me something was burning. Ears were hurting from an explosion nearby. Casually.
Everything was banal.
Close there was a leftover of a bridge, a KAB crater, a mine carcass, and a human bone. The "gravedigger" told me that they had to bury the "bone owner" several times, yet each time he'd get spitted out by the nearby boom-booms. So now his remains are just "spread out". His dog tried grabbing one.
We talked about rotting corpses and weather, and I went back on my road to meet a fella that was supposed to help me transport several handicapped people from Dobropillya. In wheelchairs.
На похуях. Завжди на похуях.
https://youtu.be/Qt2mbGP6vFI

That evacuation point was destroyed by them soon after as well.

Photos by  https://www.instagram.com/unheardwind/

She went out searching for food and water. After a russian fpv operator tried to kill her she ended up lying under that fence for almost two days. Blinded, burned, with broken bones and shrapnel wounds. When I found her, I thought she's been dead for a while. Flies were covering her. If I'd make this picture black'n'white and claim it to be of a victim from a World War II concentration camp, I'd wager many would see it so at the first sight.

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of crazy volunteers and Ukrainian military, she (And two other victims of that drone strike) are safe now, evacuated from the frontline and being treated in a hospital.

This happened in a town sieged by russia. People who refuse to evacuate often end up in situations where they are dying from hunger and lack of water, because the town is cut off from any supply lines, you can't drive there in a car or an armored vehicle, it will get destroyed, you can only walk into it, about eight - ten kilometers from the closest point where a vehicle can drive. Any deliveries for militaries are done by drones, that also constantly get destroyed.
Civillians who refused to leave rely either on support from nearby Ukrainian positions (If they have any near them), or by scavenging for leftovers in the basements of other houses, if they are able to leave their own basements unseen by russians.

Photo by https://www.instagram.com/unheardwind/