Invincibility in everyday life: Life and work in wartime

It’s Friday, a typical workday in a frontline city. Like most of my compatriots from such cities, I work from home, that is, from my own apartment. Imagine that this is accompanied by constant sirens and messages on social media: “Air raid! Go to shelter immediately!!!” War tests our endurance. The threat of airstrikes, missiles, or kamikaze drones has become painfully commonplace... Despite these circumstances, that morning my colleagues and I finished examining the situation with the two articles retracted by our journals and prepared a response to the СОРЕ request.
That evening, a drone hit our apartment building. My family was “lucky.” It wasn’t a direct hit, but…

The siren caught me in the store. It all started with anti-aircraft machine gun fire. Only my mother was home, and I urgently called her – "Mom, air attack, hide in the hallway, it's safer there..." And I ran to her. Already near the house, I realized that the drone had sharply started to descend. Almost simultaneously with the explosion, someone unknown knocked me down and covered my head with his hands. A soldier... Covered in shards of glass and blood, he lifted me from the asphalt – "Don't worry, this is normal to me..."
Thank God my mother wasn't hurt.
An ambulance arrived within minutes, they dripped some Corvalol and removed the glass fragments from the hands...
Now the apartment has no windows, doors, and the furniture has become unusable... There has been no water, gas, electricity, and heating in the house for several days.
Life goes on... And this in itself is simply wonderful... Work goes on too.
The war changes the life of every Ukrainian. It makes us live in constant tension, overcoming fear and pain again and again. This is about the invincibility of the spirit, about strength, and about hope. This is about every Ukrainian who fights for a new day, fights for the future. We have no choice but to stand on, work, support each other, and believe that there is light and peace ahead.

Yana Shcherbak
Managing Editor of LLC “Business Perspectives”