Outside Odesa’s trade union house, scene of a fire in 2014 that left 42 pro-Russian protesters dead, a makeshift shrine of crosses, candles and flowers commemorates the victims, along with a stark message fixed to a fence: “We’ll never forget, and never forgive”.
Graffiti etched on a nearby flagpole is more ominous: “Ukraine — you’re gonna get so fucked up soon” and “your days are numbered”.
