From Irpin with L?o?v?e? Pain

By Olena Zheldak

February 24, 2022. Irpin, Ukraine. Surviving the first 192 hours of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in a cut-off city. Shortage of supplies, looting, and street fighting amidst burning houses, bullet-riddled trees, and bloody sky. A frank, bitterly moving, and occasionally ironic first-person narrative. "The mothers with babies underground are still the most heartbreaking picture I have ever seen. They were breastfeeding, changing diapers, washing, and soothing the little ones in the space that was as piercingly cold as it was noisy. The only moment of relative silence was right before the dawn when exhausted fathers, tightly holding children in their arms, and tired mothers with faces streaked with unshed tears, hiding babies in cocoons of everything warm they could bring to the underground parking, briefly passed out."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CYL7ZFNQ
• ISBN13: 9798320241739
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 55 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"