Mikhail Baryshnikov: “Ukrainians are fighting for all of us”

I have not lived in Russia for nearly fifty years and my life has been spent all these years in a free society.

But I grew up in Latvia, the son of a Russian officer in what was then the USSR.

My family was participating in an occupation.

Yet even occupied Latvia was more open, and more European, than Russia at the time.

I am thus the product of Europe, Russia and, of course, the United States.

For what they are worth, my reflections are affected by this prism.

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From the start of the invasion of Ukraine, I felt a deep dread and certainty that it will be a bloody and horrific conflict.

I immediately understood that this offensive by the Russian army would be more destabilizing than the "annexation" of Crimea and the separatist insurrection in the Donbass region.

Ukrainians have always been - and still are - friends, neighbors, family members.

The relationship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples is one of fluidity…

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