Dana Okomaniuk

On May 23rd, Russia destroyed a Ukrainian book printing facility in Kharkiv with missiles—killing 7 people and injuring 20+ more. Images of Ukrainian books burning horrified many across the world. Although there is truly no target off limits for Russia, what is the logic behind an attack on a warehouse with Ukrainian books?

Amid the war in Ukraine, women’s bodies are keeping score to a trauma that medicine often overlooks—the physical manifestation of profound emotional distress.

When a decision is made, it always comes with a known certainty—uncertainty. Safety is never truly guaranteed, risks are never fully outlined, and no answers or fix-all solutions are ever offered, but Ukrainian women refuse to simply give up.