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Ukraine's future, Europe's choice

Only Europe can enable Ukraine to win. + Viktor Orbán, EU blackmailer-in-chief

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Timothy Garton Ash
Feb 04, 2024
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History of the Present (week ending 3 February 2024)

Europe's Ukrainian Choice

The grave of Yevhen Hulevych in Lviv’s military cemetry. An editor and writer who volunteered to serve in the Ukrainian army after Putin’s full-scale invasion, I met him just weeks before he was killed in the terrible fighting around Bakhmut.

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