Yeva Skalietska TEDxOxford

Yeva was only 12 when the war in Ukraine begun. She details her journey as she and her granny sought safety and traveled from Kharkiv to Dublin. Her talk is a gripping, urgent and moving look into the realities of war. Yeva Skalietska is a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl who grew up living with her granny in Kharkiv, near the Russian border. She loves learning languages, bowling, playing the piano and painting. Yeva wrote a diary of her experiences of fleeing war in Ukraine. She now lives in Dublin, Ireland where she has made new friends and had a go at Irish dancing, but is always missing home. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.