His childhood was divided into “before” and “after” the invasion. When the full-scale war broke out, Hlib Averin was in Kuibyshev, which is midway between Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol. The village came under occupation very quickly. Hlib remembers the trip to Zaporizhzhia through the checkpoints as one of the most terrible days of the war. The family came under rocket fire. They managed to leave. But that was not the most enduring challenge. The war took away the father from Hlib and his brother...