Ukrainian MP Lesia Vesalenko talks to the FT's Gideon Rockman about life in Kiev. She says normal has become the new normal as businesses adapt to attacks on infrastructure. But there is no political will to apply international law against Russia, she adds. "We owe it not just to ourselves, but to the future generations"
It’s been a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko describes waking up in a war zone that day and she argues that Russian war crimes must not be allowed to go unpunished.
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