I can't believe it's been a year of a full-scale invasion... And I definitely can't believe it's been 365 days 11 months 27 days 21 hours and 39 minutes.
It was hard for me to fall asleep that day. I was playing some games and had a strong feeling of anxiety. Though, I thought - they won't attack us.
That was my biggest mistake.
The first 3 months were a living hell. Surrounded, with no food and medicine in the city, having my first volunteering trips to nearby villages, surviving a day, when two russians break into my granny's house, while I was there alone with my younger sister. After that day, I'm still sleeping with a knife under my pillow. Never thought that something like this can happen in my life. Never thought it can be real.
Thousands are dead. Killed, tortured and raped. Women, Men, Children. Thousands of Lives are destroyed. A year ago, was the last calm day for many of us.
Today, I want to ask you for one thing - remember the price of freedom. I don't know if I survive this war, but still, I have the nerve to ask you to light a candle on this day or just to stop for a second and remember that right now Ukrainians are paying the biggest price for freedom.
Thank you for your help. Thank you for being with us.
2 years since the worst February in my life. 2 years since I know for a fact, that any moment my house might be blown up by russians. 2 years of a full scale war. For me it is still February 2022. Today I mourn everybody was affected. Today I think about Ukrainian soldiers who still fight not only for Ukraine safety, but for a whole Europe. The war is the most awful thing, and unfortunately I had to experience that myself. Today 2 years ago russia attacked, and since then we have never been the same.
It has been one year to the day, when evil reminded of its existence in Europe again. But this is not going to be remembered as day of terror, but day of freedom as it is a day, when another neighbor of the evil gained its independence. Just like evil failed then, it is going to fail again We have to believe in victory. Darkness cannot win. Happy independence day tiny Estonia.
Being so close to the evil and war has changed me, people around me. Here we suddenly have less time for pseudo problems, real world did catch up with us. Universe indeed has a grim sense of humor.
I am not sad today ... Evil is not going to win. Not in this saga.
- Connor sketch and variants.
I had this mental image of where instead killing his father. They go for boozing and sort out their issues outside the "masters" of their factions and find blood is thicker than water and some old geezers opinions.
I got stuck in a tiny tunnel in a cave. To pass the time until my death, I wrote fanfiction in a notebook I had in my bag. I died right before finishing the last sentence, and the content of it became a major source of dispute across all of fandom.