Conscription for men, a Soviet legacy, was scrapped in 2013 but then reinstated just a year later, owing to the war. infection are higher than in the rest of Europe. In some parts of the country, rates of H.I.V. One in five of those who age out of the internat system end up in prison one in ten attempt or commit suicide. In Kyiv, Ukraine’s biggest and richest city, teens have been found living in tunnels underneath the infrastructure that was built for the 2012 European Football Championship. Parts of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine are still under Moscow’s control, and the rest of the region is struggling to rebuild from the war. These pictures should make us think about the possible futures of these young people, and of their country. With the country’s economy unable to recover, many Ukrainians have been forced to work or move abroad, to Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and even Russia. and have fought Vladimir Putin’s invasion, despite lacking a functioning military at the start of the conflict. In their long conflict with Russia, Ukrainians have not been submissive: they burned their own fields and livestock to resist Soviet rule raised two revolutions, in the pursuit of democracy, after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and fomented war in eastern Ukraine, leading to nearly fifty per cent inflation the following year and to more than ten thousand civilian casualties and the internal displacement of some one and a half million people. Since Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, it has faced several severe economic depressions and ongoing violent meddling by Russia. One of the strongest states in Europe a millennium ago, Ukraine has had a devastating century, including two forced famines, first under Lenin, in 19, and then under Stalin, a decade later. Although we have learned something about Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s neophyte President, there has been very little said about the lived experiences of the country’s nearly forty-four million people. Amid the maelstrom of the Trump-impeachment proceedings, Ukraine has been less a reality than a projection of America’s post-Cold War neuroses.

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