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Alexander Menden
Karolina Ashion says she’s given up the habit of planning for the long term: “We all had plans at one point – holiday plans, shopping plans. But nobody in Ukraine is planning far into the future anymore.” It has been like this ever since Ashion was awakened in the early morning of February 24 by Russian rockets hitting her apartment in Kyiv. The Ukrainian television journalist had no idea then that less than a month later she would be standing in a Cologne studio hosting a daily program for RTL and ntv about the war of aggression that Vladimir Putin had just launched.