The Voices of Ukrainians

 One thing that didn't make it into this video:  I asked Pasha if he was scared when the air raid sirens went off.  He said that at first, it was scary, but you get used to it.  Every time he heard the sirens, there was this thought of, "This could be the time I am hit by a missile."  But you know that the statistics are really small and the country is really big.  So you move on with your day.   I completely relate to this from my time in Ukraine.  

    We moved to Ukraine in 2011 before Ukraine grabbed the world's attention.   Before the Maidan Revolution.   Before former president, Viktor Yanukovich fled the country to Russia.   Before Russian forces moved in annexed Crimea.   Before Russians started paying people to come into the Donbas and carryout what they falsely labeled as a civil war in Ukraine.   And long before the full scale invasion of 2022, when Ukraine surprised the world by holding off the world’s second most powerful army.   I recently met a lady in the Czech Republic who was amazed at the resilience that Ukraine has shown as they are standing up to a much larger army.  She noted that the Czech people have had professional armies to defend them … but those armies have never done a thing.  She was referring mostly WWII and the Czech Revolution in 1958 that was put down with little resistance by the Soviets.  Her perspective piqued my curiosity and we ended up speaking for quite a while.  Even after the con