Meatball soup and Molotov cocktails: a dispatch from Ukraine

e crossed the border from Poland to Ukraine at dusk, the orange sun falling behind blue woods. Dorohusk was not as jammed as the three other border crossings between the two countries, where there are reports of tailbacks on the Ukrainian side up to 50km long. The refugees, who include African and Indian students and workers, arrive in Poland exhausted and mute, having walked for hours.

We were met on the other side by Vladimir – Vova in the diminutive – a Ukrainian who served in the French Foreign Legion for ten years. He’s one of those people who pop up in wartime, a fixer for international journalists, humanitarian aid, volunteers coming to join the fight. He had a shiny, a driver and a Kalashnikov in the front seat. I’ve no idea what his regular job is. And as Karen, a friend and colleague travelling with me, said, “I’m not gonna ask”.

Oksana, Vova’s mother-in-law, who works as a passport inspector at the border, welcomed us warmly. She set our boots on the radiator to warm, made tea and fed us meatball soup with potato and dill.TV “Who could imagine this? In 2022?” She shook her head. Her brother, she said, had brought his wife and children from Kyiv and then gone back to fight. Territorial Defence forces were making Molotov cocktails – except Ukrainians in these parts are avoiding the reference to Stalin’s foreign minister and have changed the name to Bandera smoothies, after Stepan Bandera, a controversial Ukrainian nationalist leader who became an ally of the Nazis.

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Wikipedia: 'When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, he [Bandera] prepared the 30 June 1941 Proclamation of Ukrainian statehood in Lviv, pledging to work with Nazi Germany'

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Just a few months ago the Guardian was investigating Zelenskyy's alleged money laundering activities as revealed in the Pandora Papers

Controversial? Badera was NAZI and MURDERER !

Apparently working with the Nazis is “controversial”.

What?

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