Just a year after becoming a mother, Maria Grits had to quickly return to her profession as a journalist in August 2020 because of the political and civil crisis in Belarus: “I can’t build barricades but I can put letters together”. After enduring «justice» system of Lukashenka’s regime, fake trials, and inhumane treatment in detention, she fled to Ukraine with her child. On February 24, 2022, she woke up to the sounds of Russia’s bombs – and soon had to flee with her daughter again, this tune to Poland. In her interview, Maria Grits shares what she misses the most from her homeland and what’s the first she will do once she can return to Belarus.

The interview ws made as part of the project Femmoz – Empowerment for women in and from Belarus.