View from Ukraine: Bearing witness under assault

Abstract

ABSTRACT The author describes how she and her colleagues recovered from their state of shock after the invasion of their country by the Russian Federation army by coming together to create hotlines and chat sites to help their traumatized and threatened population. Flooded by day and night calls from traumatized Ukrainians under assault, they learned that by simply being there with others and listening to them was what was most needed and helped the caller as well as the listener. The humanity of this interaction provided both a much-needed counterweight to the inhumanity surrounding them.