Paweł Pieniążek form Kyiv – 03/02/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. DISPATCH FROM UKRAINE | The trains are still running, there has been no information about casualties. Kateryna, Nina and Nora are safe on the train to Lviv. From there they will go to Warsaw. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion the railway station in Kyiv has been exceptionally crowded. There are families with children, couples, …

  Paweł Pieniążek form Kyiv – 03/05/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻEK FROM UKRAINE | Irpin, a city in the suburbs of Kyiv, is cut off from the rest of the world. An evacuation is underway. The choices are: one road, one train or crossing a broken bridge. People have been crowding the entrances to the train station platforms for the past two hours. They are …

  Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/06/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻEK FROM KYIV | The Ukrainian capital prepares for a Russian attack. Everyone helps to the best of their abilities. Some go fight, others take care of supplies, build barricades and fill bottles with gasoline. Thirty-six-year-old sculptor Volodymyr Zurawel sits outside welding pieces of metal. In Kyiv, his monuments decorate the Kyiv-Zhuliany airport, Poshtova square, …

  Paweł Pieniążek form Kyiv – 03/07/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻEK FROM KYIV | Thanks to his tenacity and his will to stay and defend his country, Volodymyr Zelenskyyy has become the most popular leader in the history of independent Ukraine. On the tenth day of the Russian invasion, 38-year-old Kristina Berdynskykh finally visited her home. She decided to take some supplies that she had …

  Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/10/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. The authorities, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are constantly appealing to NATO countries to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The Kyiv-Classic Symphony Orchestra started its concert at Independence Square in Kyiv with the national anthem of Ukraine. There were up to seventy performers in the orchestra until the outbreak of war but about a third …

Paweł Pieniążek – 2/28/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Ukrainians are fighting in the face of the Russian invasion, blocking tanks, supporting soldiers, organizing and keeping order to thwart the Kremlin’s plans. Driving down Prospect Peremohy, Victory Avenue, black smoke could be seen rising on the horizon. It was the third day of the full-scale Russian invasion. The night was difficult. Fierce clashes took place in and around …

  Paweł Pieniążek – 2/28/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. After a day and a half of lockdown, the city’s inhabitants replenish their supplies. No one knows if stores will open tomorrow | CORRESPONDENCE FROM KYIV Due to an extended curfew, the people of Kyiv had to spend one and a half days at home. The three-million-strong city of Kyiv seemed completely deserted. During the curfew the territorial …

  Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/01/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Overhead we heard the reverberation of a guided rocket engine and whistling. A minute later it hit a TV tower a few kilometers away from my location. | CORRESPONDENCE BY PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻK FROM KYIV The driver parks the car. I get out with two journalists to talk to volunteers in the ranks of the territorial defense. …

  Paweł Pieniążek form Kyiv – 02/26/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Mikola queued up with others in front of the store. Behind them was a twenty-story apartment building. Something made an awful boom. The shockwave threw all five into the supermarket. A rocket had hit the apartment building. Mykola, 69, was finishing the night shift. He is a security guard in one of the buildings. He was …