Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Diane M. Francis: We are all Ukrainians
Workers work to upgrade T-80 tanks at the Malyshev Tank Factory in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on July 13, to be handed to Ukrainian forces in the east of the country.
My first visit to Ukraine was in February 1992 and the City of Kyiv was gray, bleak and joyless as was the rest of the Soviet Union. Last month I re-visited - 23 years and several other assignments later - to find a new nation of extremes. There is prosperity and there is poverty; there is peace and war; cynicism and hope; there are reformers in high places and looters in low places as Russian operatives still lurk in the corridors of power.
