Andriy Melnyk is the Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin. In early May he demanded the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, respond to the crisis in Ukraine with more ‘courage and fantasy’. Whilst courage seems apt, fantasy seems out of place in the real world of conflict.
Islands in the Western imagination are idyllic and sometimes, if Shakespeare is to serve as a guide, fantastical places.
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