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🧵“That’s the only thing that keeps every Ukrainian going right now, it’s hope for a better future for your family."
Elya, from Kharkiv, is thinking about her parents who have stayed in Ukraine as the conflict reaches a year.
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Elya, from Kharkiv, is thinking about her parents who have stayed in Ukraine as the conflict reaches a year.
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"The hardest part of it all was to accept and to realise all of our pre-war life was in the past and we might never have it back.”
Marianna doesn’t know when she will be able to reunite with her family in Odessa.
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Marianna doesn’t know when she will be able to reunite with her family in Odessa.
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“I realised this is not just destroyed buildings, this is my childhood memories, this is a part of my life…part of my identity.”
Yaroslava reflects on her journey back to her home town in Ukraine, Makariv.
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Yaroslava reflects on her journey back to her home town in Ukraine, Makariv.
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131 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I've been following the war closely for personal and professional reasons. What is happening in Ukraine matters even more than many believe, and we're hosting a fundraiser on Thursday to clarify that case:
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As an international chess player, I faced opponents from the Soviet Union in 1990 just before it collapsed. I remember the red hammer and sickle flag near the board next to my Scottish saltire. In subsequent years I competed with Ukrainian and Russian players and befriended many.
One in-joke in the chess world concerns your participation in 'the B tournament'. In those years I played the B tournament sometimes, and I've had Ukrainian and Russian girlfriends. I also learned to speak some chess Russian to listen in on the analysis of prospective opponents.
