“I wrote my first report from the main square of Ukraine - Maidan Nezalezhnosti - at the beginning of the year. Then I could not even imagine that a war would break out in the southeast and I would make regular trips to shelled Donetsk, meet people, listen to and write down dozens of stories about great heroism and great betrayal. And that in the end I will hold in my hands a book in the texts of which some people are still alive, but in reality they are already dead. Killed. And for those who have not heard or seen all this, let this collection become documentary and material evidence that all this is happening here and now. And all this, unfortunately, is our reality.” Marina Akhmedova