This is our country, and we have no other

Most people would not be eager to go to war. Such a desire is probably often related to some youthful romanticism or, in some cases, a kind of mental disorder.

- ARTEM CHEKH

In Ukraine, the defense of our country was the fatal necessity that prompted most of us to take up arms. And we've held the line for three years (or, to be more precise, almost 11 years).

We have held the line, despite what it has done to our bodies and our lives. Tens of thousands have been killed and many more have been injured. Why do we fight? Because this is our country and we have no other.

I do not speak the language of diplomacy well, but it seems that almost everything the new American president says about Ukraine - for example, that Ukraine started the war - can be attributed either to his incompetence or to a deliberate distortion of facts.