Letter from Ukraine: Without light, without heat — but without Russia

But when the war started in Ukraine, I realized lockdown was just a long vacation — what could be worse than war? Now Ukrainians understand: war without electricity is worse. My friend recently joked that when the light appears on at home, she doesn’t know where to run first. Without water, without light and heat — we are ready to suffer, if it means being without Russia. Julia Marich lives in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine and is a graduate of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.