In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah is required reading if you want to understand the recent war in Ukraine. Judah’s dispatches take place just before and after the rapid series of changes in Ukraine in 2014. He delves into their democracy movement, attempts to squash corruption and graft, and Russia’s first moves which led to this current war (2022) in the annexation of Crimea and the (at that time) secret support of the breakaway provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Judah’s pieces are concise, informative, and complex. The news out of Ukraine right now (with justification) tends to sanitize their internal problems, challenges, and the fractured nature of their culture and society. Judah lays this out for us.
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