In her own family, no one talked about the Great Hunger or Stalinist purges. The only time she felt that there was trust and unity among Ukrainians had been in 2014 when so many protesters had come to the Maidan. She found that with silence and with no openness about the past, there was also no trust between those who wanted independence and those who were happy to accept the Soviet regime. And it was there on the 27th of June that two Russian missiles slammed into the pizza restaurant where she was eating with a group of Colombian journalists. It was Russia's great last lie to her when the defence ministry said that this was a legitimate military target.