“We thought we would be gone for a week or two.”
Yuliya Garmash was living in the Izium district of the Kharkiv region when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Like many…
IM steps up efforts in Ukraine and Moldova
Over the next three years, we are strengthening our work in Ukraine and Moldova, thanks to additional funding from Sida.…
When the war came
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kateryna Shulakova had already spent much of her life living close to…
Hello there, Olga…
Olga Canaly is responsible for part of IM’s partnerships in Ukraine, where people are living amid an ongoing war. She…
“Women’s bodies become a battlefield in war.”
She has reported from some of the world’s most brutal conflicts – including Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and the Congo.…
“Through children, we can change the world”
When the war reached her hometown of Nikopol, Yulia Bondar was forced to leave everything behind. She fled to Ivano-Frankivsk…
When the dam burst, the struggle for Kherson began
The flooding that followed the destruction of the Kakhovka dam marked the starting point of a local rescue operation in…
“The bus overturned and veered off the road”
When the bus she was trying to escape on came under fire and overturned at the edge of a cliff,…
“Many feel guilty about leaving.”
When the war reached Kyiv in the spring of 2022, Iryna Lysohorko quickly packed the essentials and left the city…
“You have to keep moving forward – even when you don’t have the strength”
Kateryna Sveshnikova has been forced to flee twice. The first time was in 2014, when war broke out in eastern…