From: Maia Mikhaluk (776th day): This post came in my FB as a two year old Memory. I reread what I was writing 45 days into ruzzian invasion. 45 days already seemed like a very long time then! Today it’s 776th day. It’s good that we didn’t know back on April 9, 2022 that even 2 years later the horror of war would still be shadowing our country and we still wouldn’t have an end of it in sight. Putting each day a number at the top of my FB post I still keep thinking that I can’t believe that it has been that long. Now we seem to have less fear but also less optimism.
It seems currently, our efforts to push invaders out of our land are weakened by ruzzia’s successful informational war in the States. What is really scary is that ruzzia’s success in manipulation and disinformation in the States will impact not only Ukraine’s future but the future of the USA and therefore – it will have a significant impact on the whole world.
April 9, 2022.
Day 45 of Russian invasion.
Every time I write this number in my morning post I keep thinking, I can’t believe it has been that long! When the war started Sasha was 38 weeks pregnant and we kept thinking that Briana still had a chance to be born in free and peaceful Ukraine. Briana waited for 3 weeks and came into this world – in the midst of war, in the midst of Kyiv being attacked from the sky and on the ground, in the midst of russians trying to take our city under siege, in the midst of sounds of explosions and air raids. Thousands of people prayed for Sasha and Briana and God took care of all the details even better than we were hoping for.
But the war is still continuing, for 45 days now. Every day we ask God for His protection for our soldiers and our civilians, for His justice, for His consolation for thousands who have lost loved ones and millions who lost their homes, who had to flee from their cities, and those who are stuck in basements of their houses suffering under russian occupation living in terror.
The air raids are still a part of our daily and nightly routine, but after 45 days we are just ignoring them. Yesterday we decided to remove the set-up for sleeping in our makeshift bomb shelter. During the first weeks of the war, we obediently went there during the day whenever we heard the sirens, and we slept most of the nights there. But it’s impossible to function if you spend all air raid time in the bomb shelter. And sleeping on the floor gets old after a few weeks. From a safety point of view, it might be somewhat careless, as air raids are giving us warning for a reason. But we are tired of being afraid.
I like how our corridor looks when it’s not a bomb shelter. I hope we will be able to remove war and its remains from all of our land, from every city and village soon too. May God give us victory over russian invaders soon!
In photos you can see the “evolution” of our corridor – first a makeshift bomb shelter only during the day, then it became a place for night sleep and now it’s back to being just a corridor between apartments – a place where we spend now just a few minutes in passing from outdoors to indoors.
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