Calendars measure everyone’s years in the same way. Human experience does not. A year of military service can feel different from a year spent making plans for home.
A personal perspective from Ukraine
I am 46. During service I have often thought about the plans postponed until ‘after the war’. It is a phrase that can help a person endure difficult days, but it also carries the weight of uncertainty.
Read beyond the headlines
When readers follow Ukraine’s war through dates and timelines, I invite them to think about personal time as well: birthdays, weekends and quiet conversations that cannot simply be recovered.
My name is Petro Voloshynovskyi, and this is my own perspective, not an official military statement. Read my full story, see photographs and find the unchanged original three-page account here. If these words speak to you, please share them with someone who follows events in Ukraine.
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