The Weekly’s correspondent experiences full-blown war, irony of displacement and return

KYIV – On the morning of February 24, I woke up in a hotel room in Ivano-Fran­kivsk, a city in one of Ukraine’s westernmost regions, to the sound of explosions. Still half asleep, I presumed that a thunderstorm was approaching the city. It later turned out that military and fuel storage targets were being struck…...