Olga has continued to provide email updates. She lives in eastern Ukraine. In mid-April no fierce battles were around her. She told me the sirens were less often as Russia concentrated on other areas.

“I feel kind of weird because we have regions that suffered way more than we have – mass graves, people tortured and killed house to house, women and children raped, often by groups, animals tortured… .

“… children or parents missing and probably never will be found.

“In Kharkiv region in the city of Izum there’s a mass grave with over 445 civilians.”

Olga is referring to the...