ANALYSIS: Amid the devastation and misery in Ukraine, one young woman's story stayed with me above all
I'd lived in the Middle East for six years and became used to people telling me that they didn't hate the people of another country but rather the government.
The hatreds and hostilities being brought to the surface because of this war are likely to last a long time. What a waste of young lives, what a human tragedy. As many as 1,000 mainly young men and women dying every day for the sake of 50 or 100 metres of mud and dirt around villages that have little strategic value but have become a prize Russia's mercenary group Wagner has set for itself.Reports from Europe suggest Russia is running out of graves to bury its Wagner mercenaries.
Yet 24 hours later, life in Kyiv was back to normal. At one church near the city centre I came across, hundreds of people were attending a Sunday religious observance. At the Kyiv Food Market nearby, hundreds of people were out shopping, and spending time with their families.
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