February 24, 2026…

Gray winter sky. Liquid snow is flying. Ice underfoot.

Everything is like four years ago…

This will forever remain in the life of everyone who met the morning of February 24, 2022.

Then we did not know how to live in a new dimension. How to hold on. How to support our loved ones and relatives.

We did not know that in four years we would meet this day again under the siren.

To today's notification at 9:20 "KAB on Lyptsy"…

We did not know that we would stand with flowers at the main entrance.

Black memorial in front of Khai.

Once there was a bright advertisement for the university, a KhAI map, an invitation to enroll…

Now there are 70 names.

The oldest was 68 — Oleksandr died under bombs in Izyum.

The youngest, Dani Zapishny, is forever 7. A ballistic missile took him away at dawn a year ago along with his 12-year-old sister.

They are now also from KhAI. Like their dad and mom, they are graduates of the first faculty…

The mother of student Sasha Bizhanov is crying nearby. On February 24, 2022, he was at KhAI. Fifteen messages from him: “Mom, the war has started. Students have been gathered in the main building…”

Sasha will die in a year and a half at Nova Poshta under the impact of an enemy missile.

A bright memory to all who did not live to see this day — and those who died at the front, and those who were taken by enemy shelling, and those whose hearts could not stand it…

A bright memory to you.

And our prayer.