“They can’t [afford to] lose. And they can’t win.”
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Oksen is the first of four soldiers I’ll meet in this unit of two dozen or so that holds or is in the process of getting a PHD, his in philosophy. Asked by a French reporter if the philosophy education helps at all during the war, he answers concisely: No. During peacetime, he runs science programs for gifted children and once received an award from the Ministry of Education and Science in Ukraine as an “Excellent Worker of Education.
Maidan is also where Oksana and her husband Stanislav grew close, especially after both were injured by police. They had met previously in 2013 at a book reading. Stansilav was a former police officer in Crimea, but after exposing a sex trafficking ring connected to Russian politicians, he fled under threat of imprisonment from the Russian aligned political and law enforcement structure there. He ended up in Kyiv, where he found hope for his county in Maidan, and Oksana.
At one point, Oksana calls us outside. There are a number of small fires in the field, burning bright. She tells us its white phosphorus, but it’s likely thermite rounds. Later that night, an older man comes in and introduces himself as Akademik, a call sign he picked up because he’s a university lecturer in economics. He tells us to take his picture at one point, and I wonder if it’s a problem for his job, or if he fears potential consequences from Russians.
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