Around the world, from South Asia and Africa to Europe and Latin America, the cost of filling a car’s tank, getting to work and cooking dinner has spiked.
Many of the fighters for Ukraine’s western territorial defense units were assigned benign tasks away from the fighting when they first joined. Then they were called to the front to fight.
The country has never mandated masks or vaccinations, but it’s evaded the worst of Covid, thanks to a fear of public shaming and the “self restraint police.”
