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* SuspiciousMissedMessages: The Bucha arc portrays unread messages piling up on their mother's phone while the teens are struggling with survival in the midst of the Bucha massacre and can of course not answer because of that.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: The Russian soldiers are consistently shown to be extremely cruel, committing rape and looting without any regret.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:When Vika is the only survivor of the two teenage siblings of the Bucha arc, she ends up terribly damaged, depressive, and maybe pregnant from one of her rapists. Nevertheless she still fled her captors on her own, what suggests at least enough leftover sanity to avoid death.]]
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* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:When Vika is the only survivor of the two teenage siblings of the Bucha arc, she ends up terribly damaged, depressive, and maybe pregnant from one of her rapists. Nevertheless Nevertheless, she still fled her captors on her own, what which suggests at least enough leftover sanity to avoid death.]]
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** In case Milena loses hope, you can have the option to have a little party between you and her (varying on the items available).
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** In case Milena loses hope, you can have the option to have a little party between you and her (varying (depending on the items available).
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Oleksii calls himself onein at the beginning of the Hostomel arc, although being he is a retired aviation engineer.
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* WarIsHell: War breaks loose, your country is invaded by a country you usually got along with quite well. You’re stuck with a group of civilians. They may be friends and family of yours, but AnyoneCanDie, you are bound to hiding in your basement since civilians discovered outside are usually murdered and the occupiers can come in every moment to loot your house…and as soon as you say anything, they shoot you dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath and that is the lightest fate possible in this type of situation]]. Sometimes you don’t even have to say anything.
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* CrisisPointHospital: The Mariupol arc is about one, and Dima lampshades this on the first day of the war. From then on, there is a steady influx of patients with gory wounds from either combat or bombings, people are pulverized to LudicrousGibs in the yard, for any patient successfully operated on, two have to die [[spoiler:and then the hospital gets bombed to rubble]].
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* KillThemAll: Averted. It can be a major challenge for the player that this is generally averted in the options for the characters when it comes to dealing with Russians.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Oleksandr Hurskyi.]]
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* SayYourPrayers: In a possible ending for the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:Yarik realizes that they are going to be massacred since a man behind him is praying]].
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* MoralEventHorizon:
** In Oleksii’s and David’s opinion, the Russians crossed it when raping Ukrainian women.
** For Yarik, the Russians have finally crossed this [[spoiler:when they even shoot their collaborator Hurskyi in cold blood.]]
** In Oleksii’s and David’s opinion, the Russians crossed it when raping Ukrainian women.
** For Yarik, the Russians have finally crossed this [[spoiler:when they even shoot their collaborator Hurskyi in cold blood.]]
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''Ukraine War Stories'' is a Ukrainian visual novel by the Kyiv game developer Starni Games. It was first published on Steam in 2022.
The game holds three stories about three different civilians who are caught in Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation and is set during the early stages of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2022.
* Hostomel, with the main character Oleksii "Lyosha" Borysov, a retired aviation engineer
* Bucha, with the main character Yaroslav "Yarik", a fifteen year old teenager who is caught in Bucha alone with his sister
The game holds three stories about three different civilians who are caught in Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation and is set during the early stages of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2022.
* Hostomel, with the main character Oleksii "Lyosha" Borysov, a retired aviation engineer
* Bucha, with the main character Yaroslav "Yarik", a fifteen year old teenager who is caught in Bucha alone with his sister
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''Ukraine War Stories'' is a Ukrainian UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian visual novel by the Kyiv game developer Starni Games. It was first published on Steam UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2022.
The game is set during the early stages of the mass scale UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. It holds three stories about three different civilians from Ukrainian cities who are caught inUkrainian cities the war under Russian occupation and is set during the early stages of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2022.
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* Hostomel, with the main character Oleksii "Lyosha" Borysov, a retired aviationengineer
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* Bucha, with the main character Yaroslav "Yarik", a fifteen year old teenager who is caught in Bucha alone with hissistersister.
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* WarIsHell: War breaks loose, your country is invaded by a country you usually got along with quite well. You’re stuck with a group of civilians. They may be friends and family of yours, but Anyone Can Die, AnyoneCanDie, you are bound to hiding in your basement since civilians discovered outside are usually murdered and the occupiers can come in every moment to loot your house…and as soon as you say anything, they shoot you dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath and that is the lightest fate possible in this type of situation]]. Sometimes you don’t even have to say anything.
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* WartimeWedding: Implied [[spoiler:in the future of Dima and his girlfriend Anya.]]
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* GoingByTheirNickname: Quite a lot of characters do this.
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anja could also only be a nickname.
* GoneWithASmile: In one possible ending of the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:it is remarked that the dead Vika looks very peaceful in death, maybe having welcomed it.]]
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anja could also only be a nickname.
* GoneWithASmile: In one possible ending of the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:it is remarked that the dead Vika looks very peaceful in death, maybe having welcomed it.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Quite a lot of characters are this.
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anya could also only be a nickname.
* PeacefulInDeath: In one possible ending of the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:it is remarked that the dead Vika looks very peaceful in death, maybe having welcomed it.]]
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anya could also only be a nickname.
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''Ukraine War Stories'' is a Ukrainian visual novel by the Kyiv game developer StarniGames. It was first published on Steam in 2022.
The game holds three stories about three different civilians who are caught in Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation and is set during the early stages of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2022.
* Hostomel, with the main character Oleksii "Lyosha" Borysov, a retired aviation engineer
* Bucha, with the main character Yaroslav "Yarik", a fifteen year old teenager who is caught in Bucha alone with his sister
* Mariupol, about the surgeon Dima who tries to save as many lives as possible.
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!! Contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActionSurvivor: Yarik. Out of all characters, he is the biggest daredevil.
* TheAlcoholic: Seems to be just normal in the Russian army. In the Hostomel arc, you can find leftovers from a little party they had in the local pharmacy and find out that they drank sanitizer to fuel their addictions.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Russians are depicted this way. Usually barely adults, clearly aware of the fact that they are not supposed to be in Ukraine…and in full RapePillageAndBurn mode anyway, never showing any remorse.
* AnyoneCanDie: Well, those are war stories with a painstakingly cruel enemy…
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Oleksandr Hurskyi.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Downplayed with Dima. In his case, it is more like “Seeing Too Much Suffering Brings Old Bad Habits Back” [[spoiler:(he starts smoking again)]].
* BreakTheCutie: All three arcs, to some extent. The Bucha arc is an EXTREME case of that.
* CoolPlane: Discussed. The Antonov “Mriya” was one in Oleksii’s opinion. He calls it a “treasure” and is very sad when he hears that it was destroyed in a shelling.
* DamselInDistress: Vika seems to become this. In fact subverted, [[spoiler:since choosing to be annoying to your Russian captors can give her enough spare time to break free on her own]].
* DoomedHometown: All three towns become this. Hostomel and Bucha get better in the end.
* LesCollaborateurs: Oleksandr Hurskyi in the Bucha arc, who is helping the Russians. [[spoiler:He gets disposed off when getting too big for his britches.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: When threatened with execution, Yarik can choose trying to flee the Russians. [[spoiler:It will be the end anyway.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Hindu is quite calm in hindsight of succumbing to his injuries, saying that he would just wake up in a new body when he died. Inverted with the civilian woman, who is absolutely desperate in the face of death. You have to choose between the two or can try to save both.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Invoked in the Hostomel arc. One of the Russian soldiers tells Oleksii and his party of civilians about coming from an unhappy household in a poor village in Northern Russia that is sparse on women. Then he begins boasting cheerfully and without any indications of remorse about how he knows that he shouldn’t be in Ukraine, but is having the time of his life.
->- '''Russian soldier''': “You can drink all the booze…take whatever you want…fuck local girls.”
* GloriousMotherRussia: Inverted. The Russians show nothing but deepest depravity and are basically only able to fight because of AlwaysChaoticEvil in effect.
* GoingByTheirNickname: Quite a lot of characters do this.
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anja could also only be a nickname.
* GoneWithASmile: In one possible ending of the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:it is remarked that the dead Vika looks very peaceful in death, maybe having welcomed it.]]
* HappilyMarried: Oleksii and Lilyana are a long-married, elderly couple that is still very sweet with each other.
* KillThemAll: Averted. It can be a major challenge for the player that this is generally averted in the options for the characters when it comes to dealing with Russians.
* KarmicDeath: Oleksandr Hurskyi.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Can happen at the end of the Bucha arc. [[spoiler:Either Vika is found shot after the town’s liberation, or Yarik in a mass grave.]]
* TheMedic:
** Yana in the Bucha arc works as one.
** Several characters of the Mariupol arc. Well justified since it centers around doctors working in a hospital.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** In Oleksii’s and David’s opinion, the Russians crossed it when raping Ukrainian women.
** For Yarik, the Russians have finally crossed this [[spoiler:when they even shoot their collaborator Hurskyi in cold blood.]]
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Subverted. The Russian soldiers are depicted as violent, cruel rapists who like to boast about their strength and are absolutely convinced of their mission, but are extremely dumb and easy to lie at and impress at the same time.
* NonActionGuy: Oleksii is one, probably due to his age and a bad leg. He is the slowest of all characters in the game.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Discussed by Oleksii and his neighbor David. In their opinion, that shows that literally nothing is holy to the enemy.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Committed in all three arcs by the Russians.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:When Vika is the only survivor of the two teenage siblings of the Bucha arc, she ends up terribly damaged, depressive, and maybe pregnant from one of her rapists. Nevertheless she still fled her captors on her own, what suggests at least enough leftover sanity to avoid death.]]
* ScavengerWorld: In the chapter “Supply Raid” of the Hostomel arc, Oleksii scavenges through occupied Hostomel for supplies.
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: When you are given a bottle of cognac in the early Hostomel arc, you can choose to share a drink with your party of civilians (will give a mood plus to most characters). The Russians are also implied to have thrown themselves a party in the pharmacy of Hostomel (drinking disinfectant as booze).
** In case Milena loses hope, you can have the option to have a little party between you and her (varying on the items available).
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Oleksii calls himself one in the beginning of the Hostomel arc, although being a retired aviation engineer.
* TemptingFate: With full-scale war lingering over their heads in the early Hostomel arc, Oleksii plans to drive to the local gas station “on Thursday”. Guess which day of the week the 24th February 2022 was…
* WarIsHell: War breaks loose, your country is invaded by a country you usually got along with quite well. You’re stuck with a group of civilians. They may be friends and family of yours, but Anyone Can Die, you are bound to hiding in your basement since civilians discovered outside are usually murdered and the occupiers can come in every moment to loot your house…and as soon as you say anything, they shoot you dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath and that is the lightest fate possible in this type of situation]]. Sometimes you don’t even have to say anything.
* WartimeWedding: Implied [[spoiler:in the future of Dima and his girlfriend Anya.]]
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''Ukraine War Stories'' is a Ukrainian visual novel by the Kyiv game developer StarniGames. It was first published on Steam in 2022.
The game holds three stories about three different civilians who are caught in Ukrainian cities under Russian occupation and is set during the early stages of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2022.
* Hostomel, with the main character Oleksii "Lyosha" Borysov, a retired aviation engineer
* Bucha, with the main character Yaroslav "Yarik", a fifteen year old teenager who is caught in Bucha alone with his sister
* Mariupol, about the surgeon Dima who tries to save as many lives as possible.
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!! Contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActionSurvivor: Yarik. Out of all characters, he is the biggest daredevil.
* TheAlcoholic: Seems to be just normal in the Russian army. In the Hostomel arc, you can find leftovers from a little party they had in the local pharmacy and find out that they drank sanitizer to fuel their addictions.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Russians are depicted this way. Usually barely adults, clearly aware of the fact that they are not supposed to be in Ukraine…and in full RapePillageAndBurn mode anyway, never showing any remorse.
* AnyoneCanDie: Well, those are war stories with a painstakingly cruel enemy…
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Oleksandr Hurskyi.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Downplayed with Dima. In his case, it is more like “Seeing Too Much Suffering Brings Old Bad Habits Back” [[spoiler:(he starts smoking again)]].
* BreakTheCutie: All three arcs, to some extent. The Bucha arc is an EXTREME case of that.
* CoolPlane: Discussed. The Antonov “Mriya” was one in Oleksii’s opinion. He calls it a “treasure” and is very sad when he hears that it was destroyed in a shelling.
* DamselInDistress: Vika seems to become this. In fact subverted, [[spoiler:since choosing to be annoying to your Russian captors can give her enough spare time to break free on her own]].
* DoomedHometown: All three towns become this. Hostomel and Bucha get better in the end.
* LesCollaborateurs: Oleksandr Hurskyi in the Bucha arc, who is helping the Russians. [[spoiler:He gets disposed off when getting too big for his britches.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: When threatened with execution, Yarik can choose trying to flee the Russians. [[spoiler:It will be the end anyway.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Hindu is quite calm in hindsight of succumbing to his injuries, saying that he would just wake up in a new body when he died. Inverted with the civilian woman, who is absolutely desperate in the face of death. You have to choose between the two or can try to save both.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Invoked in the Hostomel arc. One of the Russian soldiers tells Oleksii and his party of civilians about coming from an unhappy household in a poor village in Northern Russia that is sparse on women. Then he begins boasting cheerfully and without any indications of remorse about how he knows that he shouldn’t be in Ukraine, but is having the time of his life.
->- '''Russian soldier''': “You can drink all the booze…take whatever you want…fuck local girls.”
* GloriousMotherRussia: Inverted. The Russians show nothing but deepest depravity and are basically only able to fight because of AlwaysChaoticEvil in effect.
* GoingByTheirNickname: Quite a lot of characters do this.
** Hostomel arc: Oleksii and his wife Lilyana usually call each other by their Affectionate Nicknames Lyosha and Lily.
** Bucha arc: Yarik is only a nickname, his official name is Yaroslav.
** Mariupol arc: Danya, only going by that name, is short for Danylo. Also Dima is only going by that name, his official name is presumably Dimitri. One of the wounded soldiers Dima gets as a patient is known under his nickname Hindu, due to his Hinduist faith. Anja could also only be a nickname.
* GoneWithASmile: In one possible ending of the Bucha arc, [[spoiler:it is remarked that the dead Vika looks very peaceful in death, maybe having welcomed it.]]
* HappilyMarried: Oleksii and Lilyana are a long-married, elderly couple that is still very sweet with each other.
* KillThemAll: Averted. It can be a major challenge for the player that this is generally averted in the options for the characters when it comes to dealing with Russians.
* KarmicDeath: Oleksandr Hurskyi.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Can happen at the end of the Bucha arc. [[spoiler:Either Vika is found shot after the town’s liberation, or Yarik in a mass grave.]]
* TheMedic:
** Yana in the Bucha arc works as one.
** Several characters of the Mariupol arc. Well justified since it centers around doctors working in a hospital.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** In Oleksii’s and David’s opinion, the Russians crossed it when raping Ukrainian women.
** For Yarik, the Russians have finally crossed this [[spoiler:when they even shoot their collaborator Hurskyi in cold blood.]]
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Subverted. The Russian soldiers are depicted as violent, cruel rapists who like to boast about their strength and are absolutely convinced of their mission, but are extremely dumb and easy to lie at and impress at the same time.
* NonActionGuy: Oleksii is one, probably due to his age and a bad leg. He is the slowest of all characters in the game.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Discussed by Oleksii and his neighbor David. In their opinion, that shows that literally nothing is holy to the enemy.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Committed in all three arcs by the Russians.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:When Vika is the only survivor of the two teenage siblings of the Bucha arc, she ends up terribly damaged, depressive, and maybe pregnant from one of her rapists. Nevertheless she still fled her captors on her own, what suggests at least enough leftover sanity to avoid death.]]
* ScavengerWorld: In the chapter “Supply Raid” of the Hostomel arc, Oleksii scavenges through occupied Hostomel for supplies.
* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: When you are given a bottle of cognac in the early Hostomel arc, you can choose to share a drink with your party of civilians (will give a mood plus to most characters). The Russians are also implied to have thrown themselves a party in the pharmacy of Hostomel (drinking disinfectant as booze).
** In case Milena loses hope, you can have the option to have a little party between you and her (varying on the items available).
* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Oleksii calls himself one in the beginning of the Hostomel arc, although being a retired aviation engineer.
* TemptingFate: With full-scale war lingering over their heads in the early Hostomel arc, Oleksii plans to drive to the local gas station “on Thursday”. Guess which day of the week the 24th February 2022 was…
* WarIsHell: War breaks loose, your country is invaded by a country you usually got along with quite well. You’re stuck with a group of civilians. They may be friends and family of yours, but Anyone Can Die, you are bound to hiding in your basement since civilians discovered outside are usually murdered and the occupiers can come in every moment to loot your house…and as soon as you say anything, they shoot you dead, [[FateWorseThanDeath and that is the lightest fate possible in this type of situation]]. Sometimes you don’t even have to say anything.
* WartimeWedding: Implied [[spoiler:in the future of Dima and his girlfriend Anya.]]
