Svitlana and Oleksiy Savkevych. Image courtesy of Democratic Governance East, USAID Ukraine, used with permission. This article by Tetiana Bezruk appeared on OpenDemocracy on February 18, 2022. It is republished as part of a content-sharing partnership and has been edited to fit the GV style. My apartment building in Kyiv is on the outskirts of the city, near a pine forest. There is no metro line in the area. That means there is no “principal bomb shelter” as the city mayor, Vitaliy Klichko, calls them. Life hasn’t changed much in the last two weeks, whether in my neighbourhood or in the city …