How the VogueUkraine team survived the first days of Russia's invasion
When the war began, I was asleep. I woke up when my boyfriend’s phone rang. “It’s started,” said his nurse colleague. It was 5:37 in the morning. A few minutes later, we felt the bombing—we found out later that our air defense system had done its job. I remember not believing until then that it was war, and wondering whether I would go to work. And then another explosion and another one . I never went to work. We immediately realized we would stay in Kyiv.
Every morning at 8 a.m., I wake up in hiding to my father calling me on the phone. He is staying in Odessa, and I know for us these are the most important phone calls in the world. Was I really scared those first days? I think not. I am constantly thinking about those who are on the front lines and who are really important.
This rage drives and motivates me and does not allow for any hesitation. These days I am afraid only of words. Together with colleagues and others, we have become soldiers of the information war. We live in an unsteady flow of news that has to be filtered, reviewed, and broadcast to the world. All basic human needs seem to have taken a back seat, and more immodest desires have evaporated. The only thing on your mind in the early hours of the night is how to end this war as quickly as possible.
During these few anxious days, the Sumy people have fought against the enemy and showed real strength of character. Hatred of the Russian invaders grows like a spiral. Hatred at the killing and destruction. For the fact that through the enemy’s shelling, they, together with small children, have to stay in shelters.
A child. A father. The plunderer. The car. We went to the hospital on the other side of the city. But it was almost impossible to move. Kyiv was tied up in traffic jams: children and adults, with their dogs and cats, all trying to evacuate. We stopped at my father-in-law’s house near Kyiv. There was a shelter—a cellar with wooden doors that did not even have a lock. And shelves with cucumbers, strawberry jam, boxes of carrots. In the cold, I could see my breath. When they bombed, we went there, sat on chairs, froze to the bone. When it was quiet, we collapsed in exhaustion and went to the house for a short sleep, with all our clothes still on. During the day I wrote materials for vogue.ua.
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