As you will see, the pictures accompanying our story were taken by Paolo Pellegrin, one of the greatest living photographers, and the cover was designed and drawn by Bono, who, in addition to … being Bono, is a gifted illustrator. So Anne, and others, will continue to cover this war and its consequences vigorously and ambitiously. The war in Ukraine is about much more than Ukraine it is about the very subjects that animate this magazine: democracy, freedom, justice, humanism. This is the subject of the story Anne and I wrote for this issue.įrom the June 2023 issue: The case for the total liberation of Ukraine In this interview (which we conducted with Laurene Powell Jobs, the chair of The Atlantic’s board of directors), Zelensky spoke with urgency about the need for the West to remain unfaltering in the face of Russian aggression. When we saw Zelensky again, this past March, the conversation was more expansive, about democracy, education, technology. This sort of scene is repeated up and down the Dnipro River: the Russians on one bank, firing artillery and short-range missiles at civilians the Ukrainians firing back with whatever they have, which is often not enough.Īnne and I first met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year, a short time after Russia’s full-scale invasion began, and in that meeting one of the main subjects was, indeed, ordnance-how many rockets and artillery shells Ukraine needed simply to survive the Russian onslaught. A few hours after the strike, all that was left was a modest crater, bits of shrapnel, and smudges of blood on the asphalt. Three people died in this attack, and three more were injured, including an elderly woman. The missile was meant to murder and terrorize mission accomplished. Anne and I were nearby, interviewing Ukrainian soldiers. One day, in Kherson, the still mostly abandoned southern city only recently liberated by the Ukrainian army, a Russian missile struck a supermarket parking lot. On our most recent visit to Ukraine, the darker side of human nature was plainly visible. Readers of The Atlantic have benefited from Anne’s erudition, vision, and trenchant writing. Anne’s work on that catastrophe prepared her to write about Ukraine’s latest calamity, a calamity whose author is Stalin’s worthy successor. Her book Red Famine is the definitive study of Stalin’s calculated starvation of Ukraine. View MoreĪnne, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Gulag, has made one of her professional preoccupations (to borrow from Robert Burns) man’s inhumanity to man-specifically, though not exclusively, the inhumanity manifest in Soviet and post-Soviet history. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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