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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Oleksandr Mykhed

The world is listening to Russia again. From the ruins of Ukraine, it makes me want to scream

A woman cries outside a destroyed apartment block.
Kyiv, Ukraine, 18 March 2022. Photograph: Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Orders and statements from the new US president come at us daily now, with unremitting speed, and international politics is reduced to an endless series of justifications and denials of unfounded accusations.

It’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience, reminding them who the true dictator is, that it was not Ukraine that started the war with Russia and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours. And, you know, to survive a little bit.

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