My first day living in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2016, I walked to the city’s central square, the Maidan. Two years earlier, snipers had killed 100 protesters there in an effort to quell unrest. The faces of the dead lined the street, now known as the “Alley of the Heavenly Hundred.” Across the city and the country, hundreds more memorials underscored the sacrifices Ukrainians made as they fought Europe’s only active war.

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