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On February 24, Kateryna Gora heard the Russian president announce the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Like many friends and relatives of hers, she Kateryna did not believe it. Five hours later, she woke up to the sound of bombs.
His first instinct was to leave kyiv, where he lived, and travel almost 500 kilometers to join his family in Dnipro. Now, six months after the start of the conflict, Kateryna still finds it hard to believe that the reality she lived in was destroyed by Russian weapons and that “every day could be the last”. And she says she learned the hard way that values and rights she once took for granted are now “not free.”
Things that we used to take for granted, like independence, freedom and stability to have security, are a great privilege and unfortunately sometimes we have to fight for it. We do not fight for territories or status, we fight for our home.
One of the moments that marks Kateryna is the massacre in Bucha, a city occupied by Russia and in which mass graves were later found. He remembers that hearing the first news “was very traumatic, it was one of the first most violent things” that Ukrainians saw.
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Source: Observadora
