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‘Help us, before it’s too late’

7 March 2022

12:29 AM

7 March 2022

12:29 AM

Western Ukraine

Outside a military recruiting centre in Lviv, Egor Grushin, one of Ukraine’s most famous classical pianists, was waiting in line to join up. He was tall and slim with a wispy beard, long delicate fingers and large brown eyes that gazed into the middle distance. In other words, he was – as he would admit – no one’s idea of a soldier.

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