烏克蘭

這一頁我一直等到截稿前最後一天才動筆。因為我不知道2023年5月23日的這一天,你見到的烏克蘭會是什麼樣貌。如果說全世界所有國家在2022年分別遭遇到什麼問題,那烏克蘭人面對的,就是所有困境的總和。截至2022年7月,已有超過1,400萬人被迫逃離家園,其中超過580萬人逃往其他國家。但更令人驚訝的是,超過一半的人希望再回到烏克蘭,回到那個他們的爸爸、丈夫、兒子誓死守護的家園。
衷心期盼現在看到這頁日曆的我們,已經迎來戰爭結束的好消息。願烏克蘭人不再流離失所,願世界和平。
Year Founded: 1991
Situated in Eastern Europe, the Ukraine is the second-largest country by area in Europe if we count Russia as a part of Europe. It established independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but still maintains an entangled relationship with Russia to this day. In the past, they have elected presidents that were pro-Russia and pro-Europe with the current President, Volodymyr Zelensky, being a little partial to Europe. Since the Russian dispatching of armed forces to Crimea in 2014, pro-Russian militants in the two oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine have also sought independence. It is currently a very tense situation in Eastern Ukraine, the first line of defense for Western countries against Russia.