Four views on the war
On the day I was invited to participate in this interview, a popular Russian online publication used footage from Ukraine in its advertising campaign. This was in particular a photo of Yaroslav Basilevich showing the funeral of his family – his wife and three daughters – destroyed by a Russian missile strike. The slogan used by the campaign was “Our news begins, where other people’s headlines end.” It’s hard to believe that this slogan was supposedly developed by a German agency, since it surprisingly rhymes with the well-known Russian phrase “Russia’s borders never end”.
Ukrainians need to remember the name of Yaroslav Basilevich, because the “man who buried his entire family after a missile strike” is no longer a recognisable sign. In Poltava on the same day, Mr. V. lost his son, his daughter-in-law and his little granddaughter as a result of a rocket attack on an apartment building. In Odessa, a street was recently named after the Glodan family. Previously, this street was named after the writers, Ilf and Petrov. The renaming caused predictable resonance, including in popular international publications. In my subjective assessment, this renaming was publicized much more broadly than the actual fate of the Glodan family: on Easter 2022, a Russian rocket killed a three-month-old girl, along with her mother and grandmother, in an apartment building in Odessa, and their father later died in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
