One year ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine, we asked 30 young people in Ukraine to share their experiences of two weeks under siege. We spoke with 15 of our original subjects to hear how their lives have changed since February 24, 2022:
A mental breakdown — that’s what happened. Rumination is a longtime condition of mine: Even before the war, I could pick up a thought and ruminate all day, my thoughts moving in a circle. Before the invasion, I was ruminating about COVID, and before COVID, it was climate change and AI. Now I ruminate about two things: rockets and a second assault from the Belarusian border to the north. But mostly rockets. They changed me for the worse.
We get a rocket every one or two weeks. Last night, there was one, but I was sleeping. Every time I sleep through rockets, I feel lucky.Kyiv. In October, there was a total blackout in the whole city for three days, no power anywhere. Later, there was a shutdown schedule. If there was only a little bit of Russian bombardment, we’d have planned shutdowns, maybe just four hours of electricity at night and four during the day. If the Russians were bombing us severely, we’d have emergency schedules.
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