Stand With Ukraine

Russia invaded Ukraine. I’m Ukrainian. I can’t stand aside.

My name is Kateryna, I’m 34 years and I’m from Ukraine.

In this blog post, I’m not going to talk about copywriting and content marketing. Not because I don’t want to. I wish I could speak about copywriting. But the only thing I can think of and talk about today is what’s going on in my country.

I was born in Ukraine, in a small town called Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. It’s situated in the southwest of Ukraine in the Odesa region, near the Black sea. I lived in Dnipro, in central Ukraine, and in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Two years ago I married an Italian man and moved to Italy.

But my whole family lives in Ukraine: my twin sister Nadya, her husband, my mom, my cousin and my little niece, my aunt, and her family are all in Ukraine. I have a lot of friends there, and my team at Kaiiax also lives in Ukraine. I work with Ukrainian and international IT companies that have offices in Ukraine with hundreds of programmers, designers, copywriters, and other creative people.

Ukraine is an independent, free, and democratic country. The core values and DNA of our Ukrainian society are a love of freedom, democracy, free-thinking, and European values. And this is the reason why my country was invaded by Russia.

The first time Russia invaded Ukraine was in 2014 when it annexed Crimea in Ukraine’s south and invaded the so-called Donbas region in the east. There has been an ongoing war in the east of Ukraine…