and, yet, i also sense in you a complex relationship with the adopted country that you have, the united kingdom. before we even get into the way that the west responded to the war, here s something you wrote about your feelings about being in the uk. there s something in the way that ukraine has long been perceived in the west that i recognize in my own personal experience, being an immigrant and a woman, it has always been a struggle to have my voice heard. i guess you ve always had that conflicted feeling about being away from ukraine in the west. yes, it s inevitable for people who leave their homeland. i suppose, i struggled for a while. i wanted to fit in like like all of us do, especially as a young person. and then i understood that living in between is fine. to have two homes is a privilege. so when i say, i go to ukraine, i say, i go home. when i come back to london, i say, i m coming back home. but did you, in a sense, think that there was a lack of, not only knowle
experience, being an immigrant and a woman, it has always been a struggle to have my voice heard. i guess you ve always had that conflicted feeling about being away from ukraine in the west. yes, it s inevitable for people who leave their homeland. i suppose, i struggled for a while. i wanted to fit in like like all of us do, especially as a young person. and then i understood that living in between is fine. to have two homes is a privilege. so when i say, i go to ukraine, i say, i go home. when i come back to london, i say, i m coming back home. but did you, in a sense, think that there was a lack of, not only knowledge of, but, care about ukraine in the west? because this is, in a sense, getting to the point of your brothers fighting and your brother s death. were you sitting in london thinking, you know what, putin ordered the annexation of crimea, sent his forces into crimea in 2014. he sent forces into the donbas to work with the sort of puppet insurgents in the east of
there s something in the way that ukraine has long been perceived in the west that i recognize in my own personal experience, being an immigrant and a woman, it has always been a struggle to have my voice heard. i guess you ve always had that conflicted feeling about being away from ukraine in the west. yes, it s inevitable for people who leave their homeland. i suppose, i struggled for a while. i wanted to fit in like like all of us do, especially as a young person. and then i understood that living in between is fine. to have two homes is a privilege. so when i say, i go to ukraine, i say, i go home. when i come back to london, i say, i m coming back home. but did you, in a sense, think that there was a lack of, not only knowledge of, but, care about ukraine in the west? because this is, in a sense, getting to the point of your brothers fighting and your brother s death. were you sitting in london thinking, you know what, putin ordered the annexation of crimea, sent his fo