UKRAINE DIARY: Today is the 21st Day of WAR

UKRAINE DIARY

We are the nation. We are Ukrainians.

EVGEN KULIKOV

Everyone knows that on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a massive war on us.

[ EVGEN KULIKOV, citizen of Ukraine narrates the situation of the unimaginable and unprecedented bloody situation of Ukraine from a unique angle from the 3^rd day of the war started by Russia. Evgen Kulikov beautifully crafts the days of pain, horror, uncertainty, death, bombings, exodus, resistance, fighting, and many more in the UKRAINE DIARY. Evgen requests readers of www.mahabahu.com to read his pages – so that readers can feel the situation from this part of the world too. Editor, Mahabahu]

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Today is the 21st day of WAR in Ukraine.

Our children have been living in this nightmare all that time.

More than 1.5 million of our children migrated to European countries and found there a safe place.
However, many millions more do not have such opportunity and are forced to stay in Ukraine.
Many of them lack food, water, warm clothes and shelter.
Many of them lack hope.

Our children can’t visit schools and kinder gardens because in many cities those buildings, which have not been ruined yet by Russian air strikes, are used as shelters.
Our children see the playgrounds that have turned into apocalyptic landscapes.
They go to sleep knowing that any moment their sleep can be interrupted by siren and air strikes.
They wince every time they here jets and explosions.

Our children threaten with their small fists to the enemies somewhere in the sky, asking the parents why all this happening to us.
They sing in the basements to help people disperse the darkness.

Our children are afraid of the blue sky.
They draw tanks and bombs, not the flowers and ponies.
They are dying from Russian bullets in the cars with their parents trying to evacuate from cities on fire.
Thousands of our children will never hug their dads again.

They are children of war.

103 Ukrainian children have already died.
Almost 200 were wounded or lost their arms or legs.
We will never forget and will never forgive this.

We are the sleepless nights of mothers.
We are the hate that filled the hearts of fathers.
We are the tears of our children.

We are the nation. We are Ukrainians!