January 9, 2025

Illustration: Palesa Monareng

In December 2021, Katerina, a single mom to a 20-month-old daughter, was working in marketing in Kyiv when she decided the time had come to pack up her apartment and move back to her hometown of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, where her mother still lived. She was recently separated from her husband and pregnant with twin boys. She knew she would need extra help once her babies were born. Also, life in Kyiv had begun to feel somewhat unnerving; Ukrainian tanks had arrived as rumors of a possible Russian invasion swirled. 

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