Evidence of the very real trauma of war in Ukraine

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation

Overnight on Wednesday, which marked 1,680 days since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia unleashed a heavy barrage of strikes against energy infrastructure in Kyiv and other major cities. As weather forecasters predict freezing overnight temperatures in coming days, many suspect this is the beginning of a campaign to knock out Ukraine’s grid and leave people in the cold and darkness as winter approaches.

The Ukrainian people have been living in a state of full-scale war for more that four and a half years now, and the news that the Russian president,…

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