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This November has been a particularly grim one here in Ukraine.
Over the past month, two media sensations in big Western magazines served as a sober wake-up call about the state of the war.
First, Simon Shuster’s profile in TIME magazine on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “lonely fight”