Twenty-year-old Maksym Martseniuk opens up about navigating life in Kyiv after the outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, blending resilience with raw honesty. 💬
Once focused on studies and weekend hangouts, Maksym's days now include frequent air raid alerts and adapting to unpredictable power outages. 🚨⚡ \"We’ve learned to find normalcy,\" he says, describing how his family cooks together by candlelight during blackouts—a small act of defiance against the chaos.
But beneath the adaptability lies emotional exhaustion. 😔 Maksym shares how friends who joined the military now text updates instead of memes, while his younger sister sketches their apartment’s bomb shelter \"to make it less scary.\" 🎨🛋️
Still, hope persists. 🌱 He dreams of finishing his IT degree and rebuilding Ukraine’s tech sector, saying: \"Every code I write feels like planting a seed for tomorrow.\" 💻✨
