"Everything was cold and lifeless during the occupation": Renata's story of spending half her life in the Temporarily Occupied Territories (TOT)
The story of a Mariupol resident: 'I looked in the mirror and didn't recognise myself — my beard used to be red, but now it's white'.
The story of a student from the temporarily occupied territories: 'The Russians tortured me for 14 hours at the border'.
The story of a former soldier from Tokmak: ‘They beat me with boots and pointed rifles at my head. There were about ten of them. They came in three cars.’
The story of a man whose family was saved twice by the decision to evacuate: "The house where we rented an apartment was destroyed. Then we realised it was the second time we had managed to escape"
The story of a female retiree from the Kharkiv region: "There is nothing left of the house... My husband and I thought we would meet our old age there"
Hanna Berezhna: "You are drowning, but you get out of the abyss — this feeling was the hardest to bear during the occupation"
"The Russian tanker started shooting everywhere. He raised the tank muzzle and said: "I give you 24 hours to leave the village so that no one is here": a story from the Kherson region
"Russians shot two people in a car who went to get medicine for a child," a story of a Hrozove resident
