Ukrainians’ Resistance to Russia’s Invasion Is Their Greatest Power

Bucha, Irpin, Vorzel—a trio of small satellites around Kyiv. I saw the pictures at night: a palm and smashed faces peeking out from brown soil, the hand of a dead woman with a professional red manicure. A mass grave. Some 300 bodies. Others lying along the street with tied hands, in fashionable shoes, tortured, shot. The street was newly repaved. Bucha had been getting richer. Lootings. Reports of mass rape, the killing of whole families. My brain refuses to understand, my body goes through withdrawal. I went to Bucha in the summer as a child. In recent years, visiting Kyiv,… Read Full Article