'They took me from me': Ukrainian women speak of the atrocities of war

Being a woman in war can be many things: For some, life has stopped. Others live in hope and dream of the future, writes Polina Bashkina

Two women with their children rest in a subway hall after fleeing from the Ukraine at the main train station in Berlin in March. Picture: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

The female half of Ukrainian society is divided into two parts. 

One of them dropped hands: "My life seems to have stopped. There is no life, there is no me. Who I am is no longer me. And then — the obscurity. This is how I feel," shares Ukrainian girl Olena.