Stefania Kolesnyk wrote a wonderful diary
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Ihor Krolesnyk was one of the facilitators of the group process of writing diaries and dreams of war, and he also provided psychological assistance through the practice of secular meditation. Ihor usually accompanied his diary with graphic drawings, which are a separate part of this collection.
Olha started writing in late February and finished in early April 2022. This one month of testimony from the beginning of the war is full of personal testimonies and historical details, and shows how the author moved both in the space of the city and between cities.
Anna Kharchenko is from Enerhodar, a city that serves a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. She met the war in Lviv, and as of 2024, her parents were still under occupation. This document is not a diary, but rather a personal testimony from the beginning of a full-scale war.
Anastasia started her diary in early March 2022 with the word "hiding place" [skhovok] and ended it in late July with the word "hysteric” [isterechka]. At some point, the author found herself in Spain, and although we do not know where she is now, the entries from the beginning of the war give the feeling of almost complete presence.
The last entry in this diary is dated April 18, 2022, and Mariana started recording events in late February of 2022. She sincerely admitted that she was exhausted and could no longer record the world around her. These entries tell about everyday life, meetings, conversations, studies, and experiences during the war.