Intro

Tim Mak: Living in Ukraine right now is less about the fear that you’ll be killed at any given time, and more about the ever-present stress of never being safe. The difference between the two is that the former is an acute, specific situation, and the latter is a chronic condition that never leaves you. Every time you hear a motor accelerate, you think it might be the air sirens whirring to life. When someone at a construction site drops something heavy and metallic, you wonder if it’s a blast nearby. No sunny summer moment exists without a certain edge to it, the prospect that in the next moment people might be headed for the closest bomb shelter.

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