day one

At five AM our door started trembling. I didn't want to wake up. My boyfriend tried to fix it. The door was creating annoying and horrifying sounds. Every sound was horrifying for weeks now.

Later his phone rang. He said to me - continue sleep. I was holding my eyes closed, half-dreaming, half-awake. I didn't check my phone or computer, which were just here, in the bed. I was holding on to this moment. I didn't want reality to destroy it…

my boyfriend came back and sit next to me.

it started, he said.

in less than five minutes, we’ve heard the first bomb of this war.

we are in Dnipro city. Eastern Ukraine. A bomb hit UzhMash - a machine factory.

Today was the scariest day of my life.