Before the War

As of February 2022 parts of Ukraine had been occupied by Russia for almost exactly 8 years. In 2014 many of us witnessed the struggle of geopolitics and ideology through our television screens, as common people and politicians fought for the direction of the country and against outside political interference. We witnessed this through the Euromaidan protests. The Maidan Protests ended on 22nd February 2014, 8 years to the day before a new Russian offensive ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

In my travels to Ukraine I witnessed a country undoubtably with its own struggles but not at all vastly different from our own.

Here is a little of the ordinary I saw before the war.