OPINION - I saw firsthand why Ukraine must decide its own fate, not Vladimir Putin or the West
by Robbie Griffiths
Dec 26, 2023
4 minutes
As my friend Olga showed me around Kyiv last month, she talked about her boyfriend Volodymyr on the front lines. Olga was feeling ill, but thinking about him in the trenches as the winter drew in, she visibly strained to tell me as much as possible about her country, so I might pass it on when I got home – we visited exhibitions about the war effort until it grew dark. When we came out of the deep Arsenalna metro station, an air raid siren groaned overhead.
The war has changed Olga’s life forever. She spoke Russian her whole
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