We are fighting to defend democracy but we can’t do it on our own. We urgently need support from western governments
On Monday I left my hometown of Kyiv in a car driven by volunteers from the territorial defence force. The roads were empty except where there were queues at makeshift checkpoints, and blockades built up to defend the city. Buildings around the city are damaged and destroyed, and you can see military planes in the sky.
We believed this could happen, but never thought it would. We knew Putin was mad after his occupation of the Crimea and Donbas. We understood that this – an invasion – would be a disaster for Europe and for the entire globe, so we hoped some sense of logic still remained in his head. But still it happened.
