The Takeaway

Yeva Skalietska Writes about The Early Days of Putin's War in Ukraine


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This month the U.N. announced that there were 7.7 million Ukrainian refugees scattered across Europe. Among them is a 12-year-old girl, Yeva Skalietska.

 During the early days of the war on Ukraine, Yeva picked up an empty notebook and began to write everything she was experiencing. She begins her journey on the day of her 12th birthday and through her diary we see the normal life of a 12-year-old girl change to a war zone. Now safe with her grandmother in Ireland, Yeva has published her diary into a book, "You Don’t Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine.

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