Three Years Later

I woke up in the center of Kharkiv on the morning of February 24th, 2022. It was still dark, 4am, and we already heard the explosions and the fighting. We made a few quick calls, and had collected a few things before my in-laws came to collect us. We got in a car and headed out in the early dawn. People stopped us in the street and asked us if it was really happening, if the Russians were already…