Commentary
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2024

What were you doing in your early 20s? Probably partying, studying, and travelling around the world. I, along with 10 million other young Ukrainians, had been doing the same until 24 February 2022. We had been living with the threat of escalating Russian attacks on Ukraine since Crimea was illegally annexed in 2014 and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions occupied. Yet, on the morning of Thursday, 24 February, all our worst fears came true, and all our plans ended. That morning, everyone was paralyse