"I've talked to people from the front lines. People who've seen the war with their own eyes are "already broken ones," Scherbina said, underscoring that it will impact kids and generations to come.įor Scherbina, the most challenging part of the war has been hearing so many stories of personal loss on top of the news of massacres like Bucha. "It's hard to accept this reality and feels like we are living in a dystopia," he said, adding that he began going to therapy in March, which has helped his emotional stability.
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"We will not be the same as we were before war." "Safe day for you, means casualties in another city," he said. Scherbina said that being a Ukrainian these days is like buying a "lottery ticket" due to the Russian missile attacks that seem to randomly rain down across the country. "I think I started to value life more," he said, and instead of making long-term plans like he used to, Scherbina said he's focused on "living here and now, as tomorrow may not happen." "You can't forecast what you would do and where you would be in one month," Scherbina said. At the most, he can only look ahead to what might happen in the next week. "I can say that my biggest change that happened was the reboot of my life." 'Feels like we are living in a dystopia'ĭmitriy Scherbina Dmitriy Scherbina/Insiderĭmitriy Scherbina, a 32-year-old living in Lviv, said that the most noticeable change about life since the invasion has been how it's robbed him of the ability to make plans. "Right now I kind of like rediscovering myself in all the aspects like who I am, what I am, what I like, and where I want to be, etc.," Rozanov said. "I used to travel a lot, used to do a lot of self development and exploring the world," he said.īut with the war leaving him stuck in Ukraine, he is instead taking time for introspection. "I waited for this summer so much and for all the plans I had," Rozanov said. It was hard for him to accept that the war wouldn't be over by summer, his favorite season after autumn. Maybe next year but I don't know," he said. The war "will end sooner or later, but I don't think it will end like next week or month. Rozanov said one of the most difficult aspects of the war has been coming to terms with the fact that "nothing will be the same as it used to be anymore." "Maybe in the beginning I had hopes that this will be over soon, but right now I feel mostly depressed and feel that life is just passing by," Rozanov said, adding that the life he knew before the war "just vanished." Oleksii Rozanov, 28, in Dnipro, was less optimistic, saying he feels "exhausted, tired and hopeless." These are their stories, thoughts, and experiences. Insider recently spoke with four Ukrainian men about how their lives have been changed and how they're holding up six months into the war.
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That said, hope can be hard to come by in the face of war. Yet even in the midst of the suffering and uncertainty, the Ukrainian people are still fighting to remain optimistic and stand united behind Ukraine's armed forces. Indeed, this war has taken a toll on different people in a variety of ways. And the loved ones they've lost can't be replaced. The time they would've spent with their families will never be given back to them. Ukrainians have experienced loss on a myriad of levels in this war. Millions of Ukrainian people have fled their country since Russia launched its unprovoked war, but Ukraine's fighting-age men, those between 18 and 60, are prohibited from leaving should they be needed to defend the nation.
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Wednesday marks exactly six months since the war began. Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24, igniting the largest armed conflict Europe has seen since the Second World War.