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KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ruslan Misiunia is giving me a tour of this war-torn city as a favor to a friend on his afternoon off. He took me to the site of what had once been a big-box home improvement store, before a Russian glide bomb destroyed it—and killed 19 people—in 2024.
Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border and Ukraine’s second-largest city, remains a distance from the front lines of the wider war, but it has seen its share of attacks the last three years.
Cliff Smith is a lawyer and a former congressional staffer. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he works on national security related issues.
