Like thousands of others, the Russian invasion has turned her love life into an anxious wait for messages, calls and short-lived reunions.
“I’ve got a new social role,“ the 28-year-old told AFP in a Kyiv park. “I am now a woman who waits”.
She worked two jobs and volunteered as a paramedic -- away from the front since she suffered a severe injury.
She had already lost one boyfriend in the war, killed at the front.
“You live with the constant understanding that he may go to fight and not return. You constantly live with the idea that he may die and you’ll never see his body again,“ she said.
“Your brain never comes up with anything good. It doesn’t imagine that your boyfriend shot Putin, or that the war is over,“ she added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced a short Easter truce to run over the weekend.
Daria Yedamova, whose husband Artur was serving in the northeastern Kharkiv region, said she was also pessimistic.
Cheered on by Artur in video calls, she has been knocking down walls to renovate a flat they bought in Kyiv, all while taking care of their two young children.
But with no permanent end to the fighting in sight, the separation is taking its toll.
He enlisted just a few months after she was born.
Artur's son, three-year-old Taras, constantly longs for him.
Families of serving soldiers regularly travel across the country for short reunions.
She was looking forward to honouring a small tradition when she next saw him -- stir-fried chicken Gong Bao at a food court in Kyiv, followed by take-out strawberry cake covered in pink icing.
Halushka is among the growing numbers of Ukrainians anxious at Trump's overtures towards Moscow.
The share of Ukrainians believing Trump's election was bad for Ukraine surged from 21 percent in December 2024 to 73 percent in March 2025, according to the Kyiv Institute for Sociology.
Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk have probably “never opened a history book in their lives,“ she blasted.
“When Russia attacks us again -- and it’s a matter of when, not if -- then my boyfriend’s chances to survive will be even lower,“ she said.
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