Tania Reut: 'We grew up in the war narrative. We didn't believe it could return'

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Ireland Larysa Gerasko (centre), with doctors (from left) Kateryna Kachurets, Iryna Surzhenko, Nataliya Kononenk and Alex Boychak at the Ukrainian embassy in Dublin, where they are loading supplies for the Medical Help Ukraine campaign. The initiative was set up by a group of Ukrainian doctors in Ireland to urgently deliver medical aid to Ukraine. Picture: Mark Stedman

We grew up in the war narrative. We didn’t believe it could return.

We grew up thinking that the most terrifying thing in the world had happened in the 1940s and would never return. It is now being brought back by the very same people who built their political capital on the sufferings of the Second World War.