On the 300th day of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to Bakhmut, in Donetsk, on the front of the war. He introduced himself unannounced, he brought the medals for the soldiers who had been fighting there for a long time, he shook his hand, he looked into the eyes of these men who were holding their positions, pushing back the Russians, he said he wanted that To bring light, but electricity is what it is, but “what matters is the light inside”. Zelenskyy lit that light on the first day of the Russian invasion in February, when he told Americans who offered him a way out of Ukraine, “I need ammo, not a ride,” and he never turned it off.. Zelenskyy keeps repeating that he doesn’t want the war to become normal, that the stubbornness and resistance of the Ukrainians shouldn’t make us believe that coexistence with the war is possible: the war has to be won and that’s it, we do not adapt to conflict, to the dark, to the cold, to the destruction, to death as a daily companion. At the same time, we must not think that visiting a warfront that is constantly under attack is a normal routine: it is an extraordinary gesture.
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