Ordinary people from the front lines and beyond helped rally much of the world to Ukraine’s side TIMEPOY
Person of the Year story about Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyEven a week before the invasion, with U.S. officials warning that Kyiv might fall in as little as 72 hours, the defense of Ukraine was not actually a lost cause. It was a defining one.
was already sorting itself out, the response to the war coming as quickly as the invaders—quicker, when Russian tanks ran out of gas on the road to Kyiv. The European Union, created to keep the peace within a continent riven for centuries by war, voted to punish the Kremlin in the ways that a bloc of 27 governments can: closing its airspace, sanctioning Vladimir Putin’s cronies, banning imports of at least some Russian petroleum.
But the most stirring answers to Zelensky’s imperative came from individuals. Governments and blocs, like companies, have their own interests, to which Putin’s aggression was not only morally offensive but also threatening. And true selflessness, after all, requires a self. So at his home in the U.K., Dr. David Nott started making plans. “This is an invasion of a democratic country on European soil,” he says. “If it’s allowed to happen in Ukraine, it’s allowed to happen throughout the world. And there are so many places that have the potential for this to happen.”to train local doctors in how to treat war wounds; while working in Syria he saw the effects of Russian munitions.
Opera singer Sergiy Ivanchuk performs for his doctors before leaving the German hospital where he recovered from gunshot woundsOn March 9, he set off from his home in Poltava for Kharkiv—Ukraine’s second largest city, just 22 miles from the border with Russia—to deliver 50 boxes of aid from France, and a haul of gasoline so people could evacuate Kharkiv in their own cars. Russians ambushed him, and his own car was pierced by 30 bullets, his body by five, including a round through a lung.
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