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From Donetsk to Kyiv: My War Journey is Iryna Malyshko’s searing personal account of Ukraine in the first years of Russia’s war, beginning in 2014 with Russia’s hybrid invasion of eastern Ukraine. The book brings readers to Donetsk, Mariupol, Volnovakha, and other places whose names have become synonymous with devastation.
Malyshko writes from the perspective of someone born and raised in Donetsk—watching as familiar streets, relationships, and certainties are transformed by propaganda, fear, occupation, and violence.
Her testimony captures not only the military and political dimensions of the conflict but also its intimate human consequences: families divided, friendships broken, loyalties tested, and ordinary lives pulled into history. Malyshko does not claim detachment, completeness, or easy answers. Her voice is candid, searching, and unsparing.
Beneath the oppressive shadow of war, she remains alive to human complexity—joy, anger, faith, disappointment, humor, and survival. From Donetsk to Kyiv is both an individual journey and an essential document of a tragedy whose consequences continue to shape Ukraine, Europe, and the world.
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