About the author: Chris Hennemeyer is a longtime humanitarian worker who spent nearly 40 years in crisis zones across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Haiti, and briefly Ukraine. Since retiring in 2022, he has spent half of each year volunteering in Ukraine. I wake in the early morning here in Odesa, dark and still, the kind of quiet that means the power is out and the noisy belching generators haven’t yet started up. A look at my phone reveals that the Russians fired 705 air-borne