Engineer at Mapbox, creator of Leaflet, open source enthusiast, algorithms geek, speaker, singer-songwriter (Obiymy Doschu), father of twin girls, Ukrainian
That's a difficult question to answer. Me and my family are not affected directly, and if you come to Kyiv, you likely will never notice anything that would remind you of war — people go on with their lives, laugh, play and enjoy sunny weather. However, we all feel sadness, dread and anger over all that is happening, over 8000 lives lost and millions of people misplaced from their homes, families torn apart, and hateful rhetoric and propaganda in the media.
A few years ago, I could do nothing but read news and activist blogs from the morning till night, but there's only so much you can take of this each day, and now we've grown resilient — so a report of just one young man killed on the front today feels ordinary, although deep inside you feel that this should never be normal.
I guess there could be a similarity to how you might feel, for example (although on a lesser scale), about your country being manipulated by a hostile power to yield to lies and hate and destroy your economy in the process. Or how Americans might feel about a hostile power manipulating them into electing a malicious hateful racist bigot that wants to destroy all the progress the country has made in the last few decades to enrich himself and his cronies. This is real war, but in the information space, in the minds of people rather than a physical battlefield, although in Ukraine's case it was both.
I'm hopeful that we can all win this war eventually, but in the moment, all we can do is go on with our lives, mend the hearts of our families, and vote.
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That's a difficult question to answer. Me and my family are not affected directly, and if you come to Kyiv, you likely will never notice anything that would remind you of war — people go on with their lives, laugh, play and enjoy sunny weather. However, we all feel sadness, dread and anger over all that is happening, over 8000 lives lost and millions of people misplaced from their homes, families torn apart, and hateful rhetoric and propaganda in the media.
A few years ago, I could do nothing but read news and activist blogs from the morning till night, but there's only so much you can take of this each day, and now we've grown resilient — so a report of just one young man killed on the front today feels ordinary, although deep inside you feel that this should never be normal.
I guess there could be a similarity to how you might feel, for example (although on a lesser scale), about your country being manipulated by a hostile power to yield to lies and hate and destroy your economy in the process. Or how Americans might feel about a hostile power manipulating them into electing a malicious hateful racist bigot that wants to destroy all the progress the country has made in the last few decades to enrich himself and his cronies. This is real war, but in the information space, in the minds of people rather than a physical battlefield, although in Ukraine's case it was both.
I'm hopeful that we can all win this war eventually, but in the moment, all we can do is go on with our lives, mend the hearts of our families, and vote.