“During the first days of the invasion, we slept on bare ground with a little strewn on the floor.
It was difficult to drink water — it froze in the bottle, and lighting fires was prohibited.
We were waiting for the enemy tanks and understood that this was a one-way trip.”
 
This book is written by a soldier of the Ukrainian Army who volunteered at the dawn of the Russian invasion in late February 2022.
The manuscript pulls the reader through a year-long journey of army routine, trench fighting, FPV-drone strikes, and much more.
 
“Artillery is scary, but then you get used to it and can’t sleep well without it.
The speed of sound is 343 m/s — you see a flash, count until the sound arrives, multiply the time, get the distance, take the azimuth with a compass, radio the coordinates, launch the UAV into the grid square, and—there it is: a BM-21 Grad burning, a beautiful black pillar visible from 20 kilometers away.”