Serhii Parfuliuk is a resident of the village of Moshchun (Kyiv Region). His house was completely destroyed by shelling, and his mother died after being evacuated, unable to bear the horrors of war.

Why international humanitarian law is powerless to free civilian hostages? Do state and international organizations help relatives of captives? How do we not lose hope? Here is a conversation with the Initiative Group “Our Dearest” representatives.

John Hall spent nine weeks in Ukraine and came to some astonishing conclusions.

Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

During the occupation of Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region), the Russian military did not spare civilians. Olha Ivanenko's grandfather was found with three bullet wounds in his head. Olha still cannot understand why the Russians killed the 74-year-old disabled man.

How Russians complicate the search for Ukrainian children, bullying of Ukrainians in European schools, family reunification - Maryna Lypovetska talks about the difficulties and joys in the work of the “Magnolia Child Tracing Service”.

Interview with the leader of the Crimean Tatars.

How we are freeing Ukrainians from Russian captivity. Interview with Artur Dobroserdov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine's authorized representative concerning persons missing under special circumstances.

Serhii Bobko, a resident of the occupied village of Bohdanivka, hid his daughters in the basement when a Russian soldier came to the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt that day. Serhii and his family soon left the village, and when he returned he found his house damaged and looted.

Oleksandr Hanziichuk is a resident of Borodianka in the Kyiv Region. The man lived there with his elderly mother and tried to save her from the bombing. At first, people hid in basements and later miraculously escaped from this hell.

Paul Hughes’ organization carried out more than 300 missions in Ukraine. During one of them, a Canadian was interrogated for eight hours by the Russians.

Serhii Vitkovskyi did not evacuate from Borodianka (Kyiv Region) because he could not leave his dog — a huge Alabai. Serhii tells how the Russian troops did not allow anyone to rescue people from the destroyed houses, and how his friend was shot dead in the middle of the street.

Serhii Smyrnov lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The family finished fixing the house just before the start of the war. They kept goats and poultry. The Russians forced the family to leave their native village, and when the family returned, neither the house nor the birds were there.

Olena Shevchenko lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. Together with her grandchildren, the woman endured several weeks under endless shelling. People were hiding in the basement, and everything outside was on fire.

Oksana Halchenko is a resident of Borodianka. She says that the Russians fired at houses from tanks if they saw someone in the window. The woman evacuated after her home was destroyed. Her sister spent a month under occupation, refusing the “attractive” offers of the occupiers to evacuate to Russia.

Oleksandr Voinalovych lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. He is a former employee of the State Emergency Service. When a full-scale war began, and there were already many occupiers around the village, Oleksandr evacuated women and children by school bus.

The superstar volunteer from Mariupol says he fought his way into the besieged city several times while the Russian army continually bombed it.

At the beginning of the war, Mykola Serdiuk was with his family in the occupied vil-lage of Havrylivka near Hostomel (Kyiv Region). To leave, they had to sneak through Russian checkpoints at their own risk. They saw columns of Russian tanks, smashed cars in ditches, but with God's help and prayer they made it to safety.

Svitlana Zamitailo lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The woman's family lost everything they had: their house and possessions. But the worst thing is that the war took the life of her brother, who was transporting people and humanitarian aid.

Red Cross volunteer Mykhailo Tulskyi was under occupation in Borodianka and saw with his own eyes the terrible crimes committed by the Russian military against civilians and military personnel. The man is now being treated for PTSD.