“No, not explosions – just fireworks,” psychologist, psychotherapist, and mother of three children Yaroslava Herashchenko reassured her husband early in the morning of February 24, 2022. That day, Kyiv woke up before dawn precisely from the first explosions of the full-scale war. Recalling the first shock of those events, Yaroslava says that the scariest thing was to see her husband’s tears. And also – the “pilgrimage” of Kyiv residents towards the Zhytomyr highway – people tried to escape the war on foot…