Lyuba Yakimchuk: “War and Putin Have Inadvertently Driven the Decolonization of Ukraine”

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We sit across from each other, on a patch of overly sunny grass, and he asks me where he wants us to start. I tell him to tell me about his origins. He is the first person I know from Donbas, and I want him to tell me about it on his own initiative, to explain the region most coveted by the Russian army without the bias of questions. I want him to help me weed out the stories of the experience. Lyuba Yakimchuk thinks about it, sighs and begins t…