Introduction

Julius Strauss is a former journalist and the proprietor of Wild Bear Lodge in British Columbia. He has just returned from Ukraine where he visited all parts of the country including Kupiansk right up against the front lines there. We started off by asking him how he felt the character of Ukraine had changed as a result of the war from what he gleaned on his journey. " Lviv is also a very complicated city. I mean it was pretty much Polish until 1920"