The War in Ukraine, Voluntary Volunteers in Crimea

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I wanted to capture that sense of absurdity, of disbelief, of shock. I also wanted to talk to people who experienced ow lossn horror, n violence. People who were made internal refugees, people who rose to the occasion in different ways. And so that the themes, like i said, one was sort of capturing what happens when that switch gets flipped really fast and a society suddenly finds itself at war. But but the second part of that is the way that eucranians responded,. found really captivatingand really importantt the degree to which people displayed a real sense of solidarity and purpose.

Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."

“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashing. This is the asteroid-impact event for this part of the world with effects that will last similarly long going forward.”

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