Three years ago, on February 24th, 2022, at 3:40 (Kyiv time) all of our lives were divided into BEFORE and AFTER, when russian tanks started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine blatantly violating all international laws, rights, and agreements. 

Starting from that time, there was not a single day without explosions. Our families, our work and our hope in the Ukrainian Armed Forces were the only things that kept our morale state "in place", considering the constant flow of terrible news and russian PSYOP (psychological operations). 

In many countries, there is no more news feature on the Ukrainian battlefields. Or about the daily destruction that the russians inflict on civilian infrastructure. It leads a lot of people to believe that the russian war in Ukraine is "slowing down". 

But that's not like it at all. It's even more horrific than in spring 2022.

It's not just russian guided bomb units that are used against us any more. It's hundreds of Iranian suicide drones and North Korean ballistic missiles with low precision that are launched to spread terror in our country. 

You might need a moment to process this, but North Korea alone supplied russia with more artillery shells than all of the West's supplies to Ukraine combined together. And all of a sudden, we're questioning the necessity of continued support for Ukraine?

There's nothing to question, but apparently, the world has a lot of questions for us. So here are the answers we could give you as people who have been living in this "how-could-something-like-that-happen-in-the-twenty-first-century" terror for three years.

Will the War End in 2025?

We don't know. But we're sorry if the war in Ukraine RUSSIANS HAD STARTED makes someone uncomfortable.

How Do We Feel?

Exactly like the person whose rights have been brutally violated and who is now blamed for "provoking" or even starting "the conflict" in the first place. There's a ton of victim blaming in the social media, and even in the support live chats on our website.

It's awfully disappointing to see how easily it is to manipulate people to believe that victims could ever be blamed for the crime committed against them.

Obviously, human psychology works in a way to block the bad "stuff". So after three years, it seems like there are no more killed and tortured, no thousands of launched missiles, and hundreds of villages, towns and cities wiped off the face of the earth.

And all of a sudden putin seems an honourable man who wants to end all those cruel killings more than anything. He seems to want peace so badly that he keeps killing hundreds of Ukrainians every day for 1066 days straight. He seems a legitimate and democratic president of a country where none of the oppositional politicians are ever killed or imprisoned because it threatens the legitimacy of the only true president.

But it's just that — the impression. The impression someone wants to believe to feel better about not helping Ukraine enough. Who cares about laws, freedom, democracy, and justice?

Do We Want Peace?

Yes, more than anyone in the world. What could a family who lost their home want? Or mothers who keep burying their sons? Or a father whose daughter was raped? Or parents whose newborn was killed? Peace is what everybody wants.

But there's no peace without justice. Or all those horrible things will keep happening. There is no peace without the certainty that the war will not return in a few years.

What Did February 24th Teach Us?

When you have the world's third most powerful nuclear arsenal with around 1700 nuclear warheads, hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and strategic aviation and you give it all away to make the world safer in return for the "protection promises", which Ukraine did in 1994 (yes, we did have around 1700 nuclear warheads) be ready that all those promises will be quickly forgotten and won't be a good enough reason for anyone to help you when you actually need help.

Be ready that signing any kind of agreement with even the "strongest" allies doesn't guarantee those agreements will be adhered to.

Will russia Do It All Again If the War Ends?

This question was already answered. Serial killers rarely stop committing the atrocities they do if they aren't brought to justice and just keep walking freely. They just find another victim and then the other till they're not punished and brought behind bars.

Why should someone stop something they enjoy doing if they know there are no consequences?

But the truth is next victim might not be Ukraine. It could be anyone else.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who supports us and stays with us at these hard times.Thank you to every soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including our team member, Andrii S., who protects us, our families and friends day and night against the worst of evils.

In the end it will all be good. If it's not, then it's not the end yet.

With gratitude,
The Magefan Team
(Ihor V. Bogdan K., Yurii H., Andrii S., Serhii K., Bohdan B., Mary S., Denys T., Viktoriia T., Viktor O., Olena B., Ihor M., Ivan H.)