Half-Ukrainian, half-Russian locals fear rapidly escalating war.

In downtown Chicago, Vasily Bublikov, a man of Ukrainian and Russian descent, marched in a demonstration marking 1,000 days since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, expressing the unique pain felt by those with mixed heritage as the conflict escalates. Amid rising tensions, Putin lowered the nuclear weapons threshold, prompting Ukraine to fire missiles at Russia, leading to fears of further escalation and prompting Bublikov to seek asylum in the US to avoid persecution for his anti-war views.

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