Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘People are scared that on May 9, Russia may decide to show its force once again’
Oleksandr Proshuta, a Kyiv-based sports journalist, is worried what Russia might do in Ukraine to mark its annual Victory Day
May 9, this coming Monday, is Victory Day. When I was a child it was a sacred day and one of the two biggest holidays. The other, April 12, is International Day for Human Space Flight, to mark when Yuri Gagarin carried out the first human space flight.
Ukraine, of course, was a huge part of World War II. Kyiv was one of the places hit first in 1941 under Operation Barbarossa, and Ukrainian soldiers ...
