Author Rodion Serov Illustrator Rita Cherepanova October 21, 2025 diaries read: 7 min. I live in the border city of Belgorod, where, as in Ukraine, almost every week someone dies from shelling and drone attacks. Since February 24, 2022, many tragedies have occurred in this city, which I and other journalists tried to record to show what war looks like and what it leads to.