In Ukraine, Olga and Sasha's never-ending war: 'When it's time to go to bed, I start to hear the sound of little drums in my head; it's the percussion of fear'
- Posted on February 21, 2026
- By Le Monde
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In Ukraine, Olga and Sasha's never-ending war: 'When it's time to go to bed, I start to hear the sound of little drums in my head; it's the percussion of fear'

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, Sasha and Olga Kurovska – one in Kyiv, the other in Paris – have been sharing their stories of everyday life caught up in war. After four years of conflict, the two Ukrainian sisters, aged 36 and 38, are exhausted by a struggle for which they cannot see the outcome.