Piercing the Heart of the European War
The Ukraine-Russia war has not only involved bullets, rockets and missiles. There is also an overwhelming amount of information coming from sources directly and indirectly involved in the war.
People, some carrying bags and suitcases, walk at a metro station in Kyiv early on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday with explosions heard soon after across the country and its foreign minister warning a "full-scale invasion" was underway.
Sunny weather greeted us at Chopin Airport, Warsaw, Poland on Monday (6/6/2022) at around 2:20 p.m. local time or 7:20 p.m. WIB. With a stopover at Doha, Qatar, the flight from Jakarta to Warsaw took about 18 hours. To reach Ukraine, a country that has been ravaged by war for the last four months following Russia’s invasion on 24 February, arriving at Warsaw felt like only half the journey.
Poland serves as the second stopover as well as the pathway to Ukraine as the two countries share a border. Since the war broke out, Poland has been swamped by more than 3.5 million refugees from Ukraine. Some of them were reported to have returned to Ukraine.