In March last year, Dimitri and his mother travelled around hockey delivering food and medicine parcels to those who were vulnerable. He told us about five hour keys to pick up essentials like bread. I wanted to know how the situation had changed in the past year and whether people were still helping each other out. Most people are kind of numb to the most of the terror that are going on which is not good but what can you expect after a year of this?
These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how things are changing, from gamers’ demographics to the games’ content. And a year after our last conversation with Dmytro, a heartsick resident of the besieged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, we check back in to see how he has been.
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