“Even after so many years, I could walk down my street with my eyes closed,” says Yuliia Murashkina. She has twice left her life behind because of the war. First, in 2014, she and her family left Fashchivka, in the Luhansk region. They moved to Kreminna, but after the full-scale Russian invasion began in 2022, they had to flee again.

When asked what home means to her, Yuliia recalls Fashchivka, where she grew up. She remembers the park, overgrown and wild, like a forest. She remembers the ponds with cold springs at the bottom and the mine hills where they used to sled in winter. “I understand that the territory has been occupied for more than thirteen years now, and I doubt I will ever get to go there again, even to visit my parents’ graves. I’m not even sure if the cemetery still exists, or if our house is still standing. But I still feel my home is there.”