We are holding the line together

This is our common fight. This is our freedom line

I’M WRITING THIS NOT KNOWING IF a missile will fall before I finish the sentence.

Not knowing if I’ll be interrupted by a drone, a siren, or something worse.

But I need to say something clearly today:

I am so worried about the USA.

So worried about you my friends in the U.S.

So worried about the state of your democracy.

I am devastated to see Trump’s police invading schools, and in practice, kidnapping people.

To see universities being invaded, and even American citizens arrested simply for defending human rights.

To see people peacefully protesting in the streets being confronted by Marines and the National Guard.

Just imagine how absurd that is, happening in the land of freedom.

In the land that inspired all of us.

The land that has inspired the world for almost 250 years as a symbol of democracy, and of how things can be organized according to the people’s interests, or at least less leaned toward the elites.

Your land was an inspiration for so many of us.

An inspiration for the communist countries during the Cold War, like those countries such as Ukraine, which were forced to be part of an open prison called Soviet Union.

My friends, this is not just politics.

It is a warning sign.

I am from a country which, just a couple of generations ago, was invaded by Nazi Germany.

A little before that, we suffered a mass famine provoked by Stalin.

And shortly after that, more than 40 years of communist nightmare.

So I know what I’m telling you, my friends in the U.S.

You are witnessing the escalation of a nightmare in broad daylight.

Many of you are already seeing that clearly, and I just want to confirm it for you.

Because I am watching it from a country that has lived in fascist desperation for all its history.

And is, at this very moment, being invaded by a fascist dictator who claims to be fighting against fascism.

Can you believe that?

We know what this looks like. We recognize every step.

And I see it unfolding in America.

That’s why I can’t just keep raising awareness for Ukraine as if we were isolated.

Because we’re not.

Because you, America, are not only our inspiration. You are the home of such wonderful people.

People who cry with us. Who feel with us.

Who suffer with us here.

And that is why I am today starting something new.

Alongside this journal, War, Love and Survival in Ukraine, I am launching a second journal. Not instead of this one, but alongside it.

It’s called The Freedom Line.

It’s a space for you and me to hold the line together.

From Ukraine to the United States.

From one fire to another.

I will keep writing here, on War, Love and Survival in Ukraine.

I love so much this journal. This is my window to the world. My therapy. My motivation boost. Where I remember my mission and that I have a heart and a soul. I cannot imagine my life without this journal.

But now I’ll also be writing there, speaking to everyone who sees this moment as more than just a news cycle.

Because what’s happening in Ukraine and what’s happening in America are not separate stories anymore.

They are two fronts of the same fight.

The Freedom Line will be a journal about that fight.

About what connects us. About what it means to hold the line for democracy, for dignity, for the right to speak and to protest.

What it means to hold the freedom line that connects us.

It’s where I will speak directly to Americans who still care. Who are scared. Who are angry.

Who are waking up to the terrifying reality that no country is immune to tyranny.

You can find The Freedom Line here:
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It’s completely free. Just like this journal here.

Please I truly ask you to subscribe to this and to share this new project.

It’s so hard to start something new, especially when there’s a fight to face, especially in a moment like this.

I’ll continue writing here: about war, love, and the survival of my country.

But in The Freedom Line, I’ll be writing for something bigger.

A shared resistance.

A movement of hearts across oceans.

I will do everything within my possibilities to help you.

To fight these monsters.

To fight fascism.

Unfortunately, I cannot travel outside Ukraine. I have a constitutional duty to remain here.

But I don’t need to be physically there with you.

Because I am here, online.

And please, I want you to feel my presence in every protest, in every street, in every city where you raise the flag of unity and justice.

I’ll be there.

We’ll hold the line.

Together.

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📖 “The Divine Comedian: Ukraine’s Journey Through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise” is my first book: about Ukraine, seen from inside the fire, and the hope that refuses to die. Download it for free (PDF & Kindle).