Andrey Kurkov: 'You’ll be able to't write fiction when your homes, cities are shelled with missiles, drones'

As we method the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, FRANCE 24’s Erin Ogunkeye welcomes celebrated Ukrainian novelist and creator Andrey Kurkov to share his very highly effective and private accounts of a veritable proxy battle, an unprovoked battle of attrition as seen from his battle diaries ‘Our Day by day Struggle’. “Each small element of life is now very completely different from pre-war Ukraine, he explains. “We’re all now completely different folks: I’ve misplaced my feeling of worth for materials, my feeling that my home and my condominium do not belong to me anymore, they belong to the battle.”