As a child, she could not understand why people in films about the blockade of Leningrad were always lying down. And when Mariupol was besieged by the russians, and she and her husband lived for many days without water, food, and heat under constant shelling, she realized that when you lie down, you save strength and energy.
"77 Days of February" included reports written by journalists of the Ukrainian magazine Reporters between February 23 and May 9 — two symbolic dates in russian military ideology. The invasion of russian troops into Ukraine stopped the number of days and pushed Ukrainians back to the intervening time, where February — the month of the beginning of the great war — still lasts. In the meantime, and these candid stories, there is pain, fear, hatred, and sometimes despair. But the main thing is hope. This is a bare nerve and an honest voice of the new Ukrainian reality, which journalists and authors of Reporters recorded firsthand.
What is good about this book:
Fixes the military reality of Ukrainians between two symbolic dates of the russian ideology of war — February 24 and May 9.
Describes the history of the russian-Ukrainian war through the prism of the stories of ordinary people, residents of the front-line territories, people who survived the bombing and occupation, liberation and evacuation, volunteers, and soldiers.
Combining the principle of documentary and, on the other hand, the author's subjectivity depicts the key events that took place in Ukraine during the first three months after the full-scale russian invasion on February 24.
About the team of authors:
Reporters is the only Ukrainian media specializing in long texts in the genre of literary reportage. Since 2019, it has been available online, and since 2021, it has been published twice a year as an illustrated magazine. For three years of work, Reporters has united the best authors and photographers from different regions of Ukraine. From the first days of the russian attack, the Reporters' team has been documenting historical events in which Ukrainians became participants and witnesses.
