On February 24th 2022, 16-year-old Ania woke up and got dressed to go to her school in Oleksandria, in central Ukraine. But she would not go to school. Instead, she received a call from her grandmother who would tell her that her country had been invaded, and war had begun.
That same morning, Sofia – just 15 years old – was hurriedly packing what documents and belongings she could into suitcases. “I couldn’t understand why it had happened and how,” she says, “I couldn’t even realise that the war had started”.
