“I can’t even tell whether we’re at war or not—it feels so unreal,” said Olga Myrovych, an administrator at the Ukrainian Catholic University, when she picked me up from the airport in Lviv, Ukraine. I was in town to discuss propaganda and reforms with students at the University. There were fifty thousand Russian troops massing on the border as I arrived, but everything seemed almost too normal. “What are we meant to do, spend our time inside Putin’s head? Then he’s won,” Myrovych said.
The New Yorker: The radical skepticism of Ukraine’s students
Students rally in central Kyiv in January 2014.
