A Ukrainian soldier looks to the skies for Russian drones in positions near the front line amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 11, 2023. Photo: STRINGER/REUTERS
Today on Telegraph Ukraine: The Last Podcast we assess movements on the front line, discuss the consequences of the NATO summit, shaken by events in the Middle East, and consider how limited military and financial support for Kiev in a rapidly changing geopolitical environment.
We also speak with Melinda Haring of the human rights organization Razom and Ukrainian public intellectual Evgeniy Glibovtsky about American support and the impact of collective trauma on society.
Evgeniy Glibovtsky talks about the lingering consequences of natural disasters in Ukraine:
In Ukraine, the experience of this war goes on top of an existing trauma. We have trauma from a century ago, caused by events like the famine of the 1930s, that has never been healed, has never been treated.
So parents have essentially imprinted their traumatic experiences on their upbringing. children. And this will be passed on from generation to generation, from mother to child. And thus the injury was inherited.
When asked how this trauma is present in Ukrainian society, Glibovtsky continues:
I don’t even know where to start. People overeat because they have a feeling of insecurity that is very great.
There is no trust in the system that it can protect you. And as a result, people make decisions in an environment of much higher levels of anxiety…
If we look at Ukraine as a society, Ukrainians tend to strive for instant gratification of their needs. And this affects the quality of political life, this affects the quality of consumer behavior and this affects the quality of life in general.
One thing we see for sure: it is very difficult to provide assistance to war veterans and help them reintegrate back into society, because that they have to reintegrate back into the trauma, but it is just a different type of trauma than the one they received. bring from the battlefield.
As for the debate over whether Ukraine is grateful enough for the aid it continues to receive, Yevgeniy Glibovtsky says he thinks the debate is «a little tabloid»:
I think [this question ] misses the point that it would be much cheaper for the British, American or German taxpayer to have a government that could foresee the problem and clearly understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and everything Russia offers comes at a hefty premium. hidden price.
But at the same time, this is a chance for all of us to come to terms with our values. Do we really stand for what we claim to stand for? Do we really believe that these lives matter? Do we really believe that democracy is important? Do we really believe that fundamental freedoms are important?
And this is exactly what Ukraine stands for. It stands in its own way, sometimes awkwardly, because it is a young, very infantile nation [trying] to reform and defend itself.
Ukrainians do not complain about this, nor about the severity of the fate that has befallen them over the past hundred years: famine, World War II, Chernobyl. Ukraine has experienced many tragedies that other countries have never faced in such concentration.
Ukrainians say we can do more and do better.
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