The events are overturning, thoughts rush after what is happening, but the many terrible facets have only little time to fully grasp them. It's Sunday, three days before Russia invaded Ukraine. "We're surrounded now," says Kiev Mayor Wladimir Klitschko. Hundreds of civilians are dead, hundreds of thousands are fleeing. Vladimir Putin, the warmonger from the Kremlin, puts the Russian nuclear forces on alert. Nothing is like it used to be.

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