A story of life and loss in wartime Ukraine

A Ukrainian journalist tells The Take about the double trauma of covering her second war.

A local resident rides a bicycle past a destroyed building.
A local resident rides a bicycle past a building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Kateryna Malofieieva is no stranger to war. She was raised in Ukraine’s Donbas region, from one of the territories claimed by Russian-backed separatists in 2014. Now, she is covering her second war in her home country, and coping with a loss of her own.

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Kateryna Malofieieva @KatyaMalofeyeva, Al Jazeera producer

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Source: Al Jazeera

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