Where do you call home? I’ve travelled and lived in so many places, the question sometimes confused me. Being eastern Ukrainian doesn’t make it easy to look for your roots, either.
Two world wars, the Holodomor famine, Stalin’s red terror, the collapse of the USSR, decades of isolation from the outside world. But I know from tracing my family tree – as best I could – back to the 18th century that the place I was born into