In a new book, a selection of Ukraine’s leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. Here is Herstory by Sophia Andrukhovych
The silence intensifies.
He addresses her softly, almost in a whisper. It’s as if he is trying to straighten things out, smooth over his own transgression.Russian war crimes: How The Hague can prosecute Putin and his backers for wholesale attacks on Ukrainian civilians“Try to understand,” he says. “Recently, some lady coming from the same place as you tried to cross the border here. We took her aside for inspection. We found out that she was identifying places for rockets to bomb Lviv.
What we did know was that we would never know the story of the woman dressed in black and her children. Also known, without words, plucked from the air itself and felt most certainly among us all, was that the children in the photograph were not waving flags, not smiling, not packing humanitarian aid in crates, not posing joyfully with their friends. That knowledge hung in a heavy, dark silence.
Perhaps the women’s stories would be filled with longing for loved ones and would be saturated with fear for their children. They would talk about the silence of empty homes and the anguished, sleepless nights spent anticipating the sound of announcements, about rape and violence, about the difficulty and shame of talking about those things at all, and the frustration of rebuilding life within chaos and uncertainty.
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