While Ukrainians have normalised this, the rest of us should not.

While I will soon have the luxury of returning to a sense of normalcy, Ukrainians are now tolerating conditions that should be intolerable.

This was the destruction of civil infrastructure on a mass scale. Power stations and associated infrastructure were targeted all over Ukraine, including in the Kyiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Volyn, and Kharkiv regions.

It is too early say what the long-term ramifications will be of the war in Ukraine spilling over the border into a NATO country.

But with Russia targeting infrastructure in western Ukraine throughout its nine-month invasion, this was always a risk.

And with 100 deadly weapons raining down on the country, it had to defend itself.

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