I traveled to Ukraine to meet with young reformers who had joined the new government that succeeded Yanukovych’s. I also visited with families who had been forced to flee eastern Ukraine because of the Russian-sponsored violence. One mother told me how her husband and two-year-old child were killed when their home near the town of Debaltseve was shelled during a Russian separatist offensive. She and her five surviving children escaped in a van whose roof and doors had been blasted out by shelling, eventually arriving in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where locals took them in. And yet Vitaly
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