Tired of the sanitized version of war shown on the news, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Verbivska returned to the country she’d just fled to chronicle the horrors of the Russian invasion.
— they don’t know if they were Russian or Ukrainian — and the explosions decimating Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city.The drive to Germany, as Verbivska said, felt like the longest drive of her life.When she fled for Moldova with her mother, grandmother, dog and two cats in March 2022, they had little more than each other and a few small bags.“We feared the Russians knew about the tank line,” she said.
“It was the longest drive of my life. My mother and grandmother were crying, and I tried to not show my fear. “But inside, I had so much fear. I was smiling and telling jokes on the outside, but I was even more scared than them. I was shaking while driving.”Though she felt safe in Germany, Verbivska decided to head back to her home nation.They’ve been there ever since.Frustrated by what she thought was the sanitized international coverage of the war, she decided to head back to her mutilated nation.
“We saw the body of a man on a fallen bicycle, shot dead. These weren’t soldiers. They were civilians trying to escape.” In the shattered port city of Mariupol, the pair played possum by hiding in a field of corpses as Russian fighters flew overhead.Many dead bodies were found, including corpses of naked women, surrounded by condoms.“I was thinking I would die right now, and my mother wouldn’t know where I was. She thought I was in Berlin.”Both times, she worried that her family wouldn’t know where to find her body.
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