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“To be a Ukrainian and to live in a country like Ukraine is a great honor,” said Nikolay Yaremchuk, 69, on May 22, 2014 – a former Soviet fighter pilot who lives in Kiev but was stationed across territory that now lies deep inside Russia. “At that time, we didn’t consider Russia a different country,” Yaremchuk said. “The Soviet Union was our motherland, so Russia was our motherland as well.” Yaremchuk holds a model of a Yakovlev Yak-28 combat airplane, the type he used to fly. (Photo by Alexey Furman/The Washington Post)
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