BBCNEWS Ukraine July 6, 2024
i have ever known. this is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in our time. there was a sense that the security architecture that we knew, the safety, the security, that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. i was here injanuary and february of last year counting down to the invasion. i was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. we were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. it's only 30 miles from the russian border. but inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to f...