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Behind the scenes in Zelenskyi’s office just before the invasion

An extract from a new book by the FT’s Ukraine correspondent reveals the signs of Russia’s imminent invasion

By Christopher Miller
Behind the scenes in Zelenskyi’s office just before the invasion
Volodymyr Zelenskyi was elected president in 2019 | (c) John Moore/Getty Images. All rights reserved
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In his new book ‘The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine’, American journalist Christopher Miller chronicles life in Ukraine in the run-up to Russia’s invasion – and after.

Miller first came to Ukraine in 2010 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bakhmut, a city that has been turned into a wasteland by Russia’s invasion. He then became a journalist, and has broken a number of vital stories – covering the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine.

In this excerpt, Miller writes about how Ukraine’s top officials interpreted the ‘warning signs’ that immediately preceded Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

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