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Drifting Further and Further from the Familiar Shore
The time when survival meant keeping dangers in mind above all else, to warn and to teach others how to avoid them, has long passed. Now, to adapt, to…
Aug 18
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Kateryna Babkina
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July 2025
“You are just being emotional,” they said.
Let alone professional, objective, or unbiased, a person who doesn’t get emotional while dealing with this war cannot be considered a human being.
Jul 10
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Kateryna Babkina
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June 2025
Father’s Day is Father’s Day
She thought her concert was a great success, while it was rather a painful reminder of what he, and she, and even I are losing to this war.
Jun 16
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Kateryna Babkina
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May 2025
I didn’t even know that was an option.
Spoken so directly, it’s way more frightening – even though I didn’t come on a tiny boat, but by plane, with all the relevant documents. But uh oh …
May 25
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Kateryna Babkina
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Victory Day and the Darkness
It doesn’t justify anything, but it explains a lot. He never really had a chance to learn anything real. His understanding of the world was close to…
May 9
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Kateryna Babkina
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April 2025
Balloons strictly forbidden
We say: there’s no place for childhood at war. Instead, we should be saying: there’s no place for war in childhood.
Apr 27
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Kateryna Babkina
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Totally new nightmares
Instead of solfeggio class, I’m rushing to find a bomb shelter while the air raid alarm sounds louder, but there’s no shelter, there’s no door, no knob…
Apr 13
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Kateryna Babkina
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March 2025
In Want of a Wife
Being the only adult in the household is now a common experience for over four million Ukrainian women who had to flee home while men are at war or…
Mar 24
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Kateryna Babkina
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Searching for the good russians
When asked, they would say: Crimea is Ukrainian, war criminals should be prosecuted, reparations paid, russia is solely responsible for this aggression…
Mar 16
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Kateryna Babkina
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When the free world stays silent, it quickly stops being free
In 2013, our president started doing dangerous despotic things. We took to the streets. Things did not go smoothly. There's still a chance we'll be…
Mar 9
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Kateryna Babkina
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February 2025
The Last Morning of My Normal Life
The famous phrase, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” took on a whole new meaning for me that day – a very exact meaning.
Feb 24
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Kateryna Babkina
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Pure Luck
Convenient people make easy victims
Feb 10
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Kateryna Babkina
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