Shortly before giving birth, Daria Hirna left kyiv to move back in with her mother in Lviv. Living in the capital for ten years, this renowned researcher experienced a pregnancy complicated by descents into underground shelters at the slightest alert or even by pneumonia made worse by the heating cuts during a harsh winter. In western Ukraine, Lviv is better preserved from the effects of the Russian invasion. “But a month after my arrival, at the end of March, a drone hit the neighboring building,” she says with false lightness. I haven’t been this scared since 2022. Being a mother has changed everything. »
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