I was in a fight, one of the big ones was a little bit of a fight.

This is Misha Demchenko.

He's seven years old and fled Ukraine with his mom.

When post reporters met him at a Polish train station, they asked him to draw a picture

of his experience of the war.

He drew two tanks, one with a Russian flag and one with a Ukrainian flag.

Misha told reporters, he thought Ukraine would win the war soon and Russians wouldn't be

there anymore.

He drew that picture last March.

Over the last year, the Russian invasion transformed the lives of Ukrainians in ways no one

could have imagined.

According to the United Nations, the war has forced one-third of Ukrainians out of their

homes.

And nearly 8 million Ukrainian refugees have sought shelter elsewhere in Europe.

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed.

But despite unimaginable losses, Ukraine remains united in fighting Russian invaders.

There are people who have gone out in the street to protest under occupation.

There are ordinary people who never picked up a gun in their life, who went and decided

to serve in the military on those first days.

Everybody here is involved in some sort of volunteering.

I mean, even in Kiev now, if you go to a rave or something like this, all of the proceeds

at the door will typically be donated to some military unit or another.

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