For the people of Kherson, a cat named Pusia became the living embodiment of their desire to return home whatever it takes, even if you have to travel huge distances on foot, starving and lost away from main roads.
“Odesa is wounded. But it must stand firm and reclaim its identity. Remember itself as the city of Engineer Tymchenko and forget about Mishka Yaponchik,” Oksana Dovgopolova, a native of Odesa, openly reacts to the Russian attacks on her hometown.
“My family was deported from the city of Feodosia. That’s why I consider this place my true home. And I’ll definitely return there. My grandmother once did. And I will too,” confidently says Sevgil Musayeva, a Crimean Tatar.
For many people, watching videos or photos from peaceful times has become a sort of remedy for the stress of war. Familiar faces, interesting places, pleasant memories of happy moments both calm the mind and inspire confidence that we’ll eventually get all of this back. Because if we were happy before, we can be happy again, someday in the future.