1 Introduction
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

After February 24, 2022, everything changed.I am writing this book as I watch all the places of eastern Ukraine I ever traveled to being shelled and destroyed by the Russian Army and its proxies so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics.On February 27, 2022, Russia launched a total attack on Mariupol to achieve its occupation.Within two months, thousands of civilians lost their lives, and over 80 percent of civilian infrastructure was destroyed.Defenders of Mariupol were forced to retreat