A DJ turned soldier explains how life has changed for Ukraine’s men while Tracey McVeigh and Shaun Walker report on the impact of the conflict and what could happen next In the early hours of 24 February 2022, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine was at war with Russia – and put the country into a state of martial law. Tracey McVeigh, editor of the Guardian’s global development desk, tells Annie Kelly what happened next. “Immediately if you were a male aged between 18 and 60 you were not allowed to leave the country. So there were all these hard choices going on behind closed doors in every family. If you were married and maybe had young children. Did your partner take the kids and leave? And all those incredibly difficult conversations were happening in a very short space of time. And I’m not sure you’re ever prepared for that kind of conversation within a family.” Continue reading...