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    Grief, pride and a vow to win: Ukraine marks a year of war

    KYIV, Ukraine — Church bells tolled, weeping mourners embraced and blue-and-yellow national flags fluttered Friday as Ukraine marked the first anniversary of a Russian invasion that triggered a cataclysmic war but also galvanized a powerful sense of common purpose among the country’s people. “We clearly understood that for each tomorrow, you need to fight,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ...
    by Laura King and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Feb 24, 2023 5 minutes
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media during a press conference as Ukraine marks one year since Russia's large-scale invasion, on Feb. 24, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    KYIV, Ukraine — Church bells tolled, weeping mourners embraced and blue-and-yellow national flags fluttered Friday as Ukraine marked the first anniversary of a Russian invasion that triggered a cataclysmic war but also galvanized a powerful sense of common purpose among the country’s people.

    “We clearly understood that for each tomorrow, you need to fight,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told his compatriots in a video address commemorating the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion that triggered Europe’s largest land battle since World War II. “And we fought.”

    Across the country, Ukrainians looked back on the year with a mixture of sorrow and pride.

    “No one was expecting Ukraine would still be standing today,” said Oleksandr Azarov, a 39-year-old emergency services worker from the northern city of Chernihiv. “We are grieving, all of us, but we hope and trust that victory will be ours.”

    The war’s repercussions have spread far beyond Ukraine. Although

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