In Western Ukraine, Konstantin Vasyuk joins a Zoom call—a meeting rescheduled from the day before, when the region had temporarily lost internet connection, an occurrence not exactly rare, even during “normal times.”

More than most, though, Vasyuk knows he’s not living in normal times. At the time we speak, it has been 65 days since Russia initiated military attacks on greater Ukraine, outside of the eastern Donbas region, which has seen regular conflict since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in