Long struggle

The next time a breathless news anchor talks about the prospect of a war-ending ‘deal’ with Ukraine 'ceding land for peace’, I want to sit him/her down with Adeline.

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In Lviv, Adeline showed me on her phone map her lost home in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, just across the river Dnipro, from the Ukrainian-liberated territory around Kherson. “Look,” she said with tears welling up in her eyes, “here on this satellite snapshot you can see the ecological disaster that followed Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam in 2023.” And here's the place where she dreamed of setting up a small art gallery. “Why should I give up on my home?” she cried. Why indeed.