When Russia poured troops and tanks into Ukraine on February 24th last year, intent on occupying the pro-western country and seizing Kyiv, sisters Yaroslava and Iryna Lytvynenko decided to leave the city and seek safety at their parents’ home in a nearby village. Motyzhyn, 50km west of Kyiv, seemed an unlikely target for forces that Moscow claimed were coming to “liberate” Ukrainians and protect Russian speakers from a US-backed “neo-Nazi” regime, as Kremlin propaganda terms the democratically elected government of Ukraine and its Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “The girls asked me to bring them here because they thought it would...