"Tell the Entire World": Kateryna Savenko's Diary Presented in Kyiv
On 21 July, the History Museum of Kyiv presented a book titled Kateryna Savenko's Diary, a personal account on the first weeks of the Russian siege of Mariupol. The publication was released with the support of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and Metinvest Group. Forty-two-year-old Kateryna Savenko worked at Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. She made her first diary entry on 24 February 2022. The two notebooks contain 34 entries about the lives of her family and neighbours, shelling, the search for food and water, nights spent in the basement, the destruction of the city, and memories of peaceful Mariupol. On 29 March, Kateryna's husband, Vitalii, was killed during shelling, and Kateryna herself was severely injured. She died on 4 April. Before she passed away, Kateryna asked her sister to find her diary and tell the entire world what happened to Mariupol, while asking her daughter to preserve the diary.The family found the two notebooks and took them out of the occupied city. Later, the diar