Alexandra Matzota

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‘There isn’t panic on the streets and you won’t see empty supermarket shelves.’ A market in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

As a child growing up in Ukraine, every time I blew out the candles on my birthday cake I made a wish that there would be no war in the world. Now the war is at my door.

For almost eight years we have been hearing about the dead at the war front in Donbas, seeing the tears of people who lost their families and homes, and who had to start again from scratch. In January, I was visiting friends in the UK, and reading the latest news stories about Russian troops building up on the border.

I always try to be sceptical about these stories, because I believe this is Vladimir Putin’s way of destabilising the situation in our country, rather than any real attempt to start a war.…  Seguir leyendo »