{"id":137251,"date":"2022-03-08T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=137251"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:10","slug":"if-you-dont-speak-out-against-the-war-youre-agreeing-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/03\/08\/if-you-dont-speak-out-against-the-war-youre-agreeing-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you don\u2019t speak out against the war, you\u2019re agreeing to it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it like for Ukrainian students to have to live through a war? What does it mean to them and to their friends and family? Vitalii Zharinov studies Communications and Media at EUR and is from Kyiv. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt as connected to Ukraine as I do now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What is it like for Ukrainian students to have to live through a war? What does it mean to them and to their friends and family? Vitalii Zharinov studies Communications and Media at EUR and is from Kyiv. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt as connected to Ukraine as I do now.\u201d<\/p>\n

For 19-year-old Communications and Media student Vitalii Zharinov, it feels unreal that a war is being waged in the country he loves so much \u2013 his country. \u201cIt feels as though many things can still be undone, but in reality, the lives of all Ukrainians have changed for ever.\u201d In the long term, he wishes to return, but he is not yet sure how this is supposed to happen. Everything is uncertain at present.<\/p>\n

At the moment, all his days are alike. He gets up, watches the news and reads the messages about the war sent by his friends and family. He is not really getting around to studying much.<\/p>\n\n\t

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