As Russia plans an offensive to mark the first anniversary of its invasion, World Focus looks at the past year and what lies ahead. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A year ago, bedtime for Ukrainian teenager Kira Meshcherska meant simply donning her pyjamas and hopping into bed, her biggest concern being whether she would wake in time for classes the next day.
“If a missile hits the house, you need to be warmly dressed to survive in the cold while waiting for rescuers to dig you out of the rubble,” said Kira, adding that her family now often bunks down on the corridor where there are no windows and is hence safer. A year on from that fateful move, both Russia and the West are locked in a long-term attrition war which has already cost the lives of around a quarter of a million people, one from which neither side is likely to emerge with a resounding triumph.
The spirit of the moment is captured in an article by columnist Lyuba Lulko of Pravda, the Russian Federation Communist Party’s newspaper. She places the war in the context of historical animosity between the West and Russia. “The West planned the destruction of the federation of the Russian peoples after the collapse of the Soviet Union,” she wrote on Jan 31.
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