The Ukrainian port city of Odesa is baring the brunt of Russian aggression. In this harrowing and heartwarming personal essay, Michael Bociurkiw describes the nightly attacks – and the gathering dark clouds signaling “it’s time to leave.”
It’s just past 3:00 a.m. About two hours ago, air raid sirens started to sound across the Odesa region, prompting me to leap out of bed and into my safe space — the windowless washroom in the rented flat of a 200-year-old building, which has survived all sorts of calamities over the centuries. War forces you to seek out places that can outsmart Russian drones and missiles.
“It constitutes cultural genocide,” she recently told our “Global Impact” podcast. Odesa’s art museum sits near grain storage areas of the main port, so it is especially vulnerable. Kovalchuk tells me her team is rushing to protect the art works. Zombie state In the past, friends in Kyiv often talked of the zombie state they’d experience after relentless nightly waves of Russian bombings.
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