... Next I went to Kyiv where, a few days earlier, a Russian missile had destroyed the Trypilska power plant, the largest supplying the capital. Insufficient Ukrainian air defense is yet another shortage that costs human lives every day. We were lucky to have electricity in our area, and Mikhail Reva, a sculptor from Odessa, gave a master class on art and politics for young community leaders. Afterward, he was asked by a journalist what, in his opinion, was the source of so much determination in the Ukrainian ranks. I listened as he quoted Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: “Our secret weapon,” he said, “is that we have no alternative.”
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