When I see the destruction and the consequences of the occupation, I still naively think every time: ‘It shouldn’t b...

When I see the destruction and the consequences of the occupation, I still naively think every time: ‘It shouldn’t be like this.’ Every time it feels that Russian shells hit the building of reality itself and cracks run along its fragile walls, and the world now lives according to the cruel logic of a terrible dream, from which it is impossible to wake up. – Oleksandr Mykhed, The Language of War (Allen Lane, 2024), “Explosion of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella.”