Right until it actually happened, the Europeans did not believe it would. Then, the military aggression began on several fronts, from above and from below. But very soon, it became clear that this was no clash between soldiers. The bombs that fell on Kyiv, Mariupol and Kharkiv landed indiscriminately on civilians: airports, blocks of flats, hospitals. On 24 February 2022 alone, the UN reported 25 civilians killed and more than 100 injured.
Many Ukrainians – women, children and the elderly...