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How it feels to barely survive a missile attack in Kyiv; NATO’s Ukraine betrayal
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How it feels to barely survive a missile attack in Kyiv; NATO’s Ukraine betrayal

Olena processes a near-death experience at home; she can’t get the images of dead neighbors out of her mind. Meanwhile, Ukrainians express outrage over a lukewarm NATO communique in Vilnius.

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Oleksandr Miasyshchev
Ukrainian journalist. Covered war issues for The Guardian, Forbes Ukraine, OpenDemocracy, was a reporter for LIGA.net.
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