Ukraine’s heroes are losing hope

Ukraine can still win its war against Russia – and it can win it in 2024. All it needs is a speedy supply of artillery rounds, more air defences, long-range missiles, and fourth-generation fighter jets. This list goes on, but the longer the West waits, the higher the cost of this war. The tragedy is that, for Ukraine’s partners, the cost grows in money; for Ukraine, it does so in human lives.

It’s now been two years since Russia’s tanks invaded; for Ukrainians like me, who live abroad, we live in constant fear of terrible news from back home. You worry that, as soon as you turn your focus away, remembering that you have a life to live here in peaceful London, something dreadful will inevitably happen. You do as much as you can to help those back home: committing to every cause, making it to every interview, fundraising for each army unit where you know someone – even carrying heavy bags of decommissioned military supplies that suddenly await you somewhere on the outskirts of London as they might be helpful in Ukraine.