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"I would rather not have had to write this book, to have had no topic for it, to have had my brother alive, than to have had my book published..."

With these words, Olesya Khromeychuk begins her story, a book that should not have been written, the story of a soldier's death told by his sister. It is a very personal story, but it is also the story of tens of thousands of Ukrainian families, a story of loss and survival."

Volodymyr Pavliv, Olesia's brother, was a soldier who died at the front in March 2017, a few years before the full-scale invasion began. "This is a European war that has just started in eastern Ukraine," Volodymyr used to explain his choice to return to the frontline to Olesya. He was killed shortly afterwards . I'm from the military unit where your brother serves."... Death. Denial. Anger. Depression. Acceptance. No story can bring back your loved ones, but sometimes someone else's story can help you understand and survive the loss. There is a war going on in our country, people are dying every day - defenders, loved ones, parents, children, brothers and sisters. And all we can do is learn to live with this loss. The historian Olesia Khromeychuk shares her story in this book.

Olesia Khromeychuk is a historian and director of the Ukrainian Institute in London: Slava Krasovska
Duration: 05 hours 30 minutes