Tag: Ukrainian diary
Ukrainian diary: are you well equipped? Weapon-wise yes – culture
A visitor is coming: B., our language assistant at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), is coming. She was born in Romania and currently lives in Bucharest, continues her online…
Ukrainian diary: Aid deliveries arrive in four days – culture
On Friday morning, April 8th, I finally get to write. I look back on a full and exhausting week – aid deliveries came on four days. Two of them later…
Ukrainian Diary: The Tale of the Good People – Culture
Just before midnight on April 2nd, I received a message from an unknown number on the Viber chat service. “I’m K., on March 8 I spoke to German journalists at…
Ukrainian diary: packets from Zhytomyr – culture
There are now ten of us in our semi-detached house – before the war, after the death of my father, there were four of us; What applies is what a…
Ukrainian Diary: The Symbols of the Enemy – Culture
“I have the feeling that I’m using the language of the enemy,” says the Russian-speaking writer from Kyiv Andriy Kurkov in an interview. One of the most translated contemporary writers…
Ukrainian Diary: Cultural Projects at War – Culture
Sunday morning, March 27, 2022, starts fairly early for my four colleagues, the university driver and myself. We have to be at the border by nine o’clock, a professor from…
Oxana Matiychuk tells about an escape from Mariupol – culture
At home I say, we’ll have more guests, from Mariupol. R. and her mother take an evacuation train from Dnipro to Lviv and then immediately on to Chernivtsi, they are…
Ukrainian diary: How good that people go to the restaurant – culture
Today is March 24th, a little anniversary the “special operation” which, according to the Russian government, is going according to plan. It’s good to hear that everything is going according…
Ukrainian Diary: We Are Not Ready to Surrender – Culture
The Greek Consul General, one of the last diplomats to leave Mariupol, says in front of the cameras: “What I saw I hope no one will ever see … Mariupol…
Ukrainian diary (XIII): After the war in the zoo
Anyone who is not willing to be “redeemed” by Russia sorts aid supplies and hopes for text messages from the afterlife: the Ukrainian diary. source site