Some the footage and testimony that I’ve seen of Ukrainian citizens has been incredibly moving and awe inspiring. Young men having to bare arms having never held a gun before in their lives as their families shelter, the old woman confronting Russian soldiers with sunflower seeds, a man walking into and trying to stop military trucks’ progress with nothing but his body, an old ethnic Russian berating Russian troops, a woman giving birth on the Kyiv metro. And the defiance of those left on Snake Island telling the Russian naval force to do one knowing the next moments would be their last.

There are deep structural forces and a myriad of decisions that have led to this, fascinating and frightening as they are, but these instances of humanity by ordinary people against oppression are the ones I will try to hold in my thoughts the most.