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Чернігів : Searching the magic

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After a slight adjustment, anticipating my return to Ukraine at the end of April, it got reset to the first week of June. I arrived to cool ,  rainy weather. Of course I want to continue my sketchy, near future narrative of Peace in Ukraine, add my 2 cents to the fantasy that seems fairly impossible for now. Intensely dangerous and harrowing situations continue going on in the ATO, under reported in the Western Press. Men continue to come home either badly wounded or dead. Many prisoners not getting exchanged.  In the big city, and in the smaller towns, nobody truly lives under any  illusions about what is going on . Official state channels soft pedal the grim reality in place at the edges of the ATO (Anti- Terror Operation ) .  It's still a pretty serious and unresolved war revolving around an economic agreement , the right of self determination (Joining NATO or not )  : Ukraine's not a colony, the last time I checked,  yet their aspirations are held in check by major g