Illarion Pavliuk is a renowned Ukrainian writer, documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is also, now, in the fight for a free Ukraine. This is the first of several audio dispatches he sent USA TODAY Opinion. 

You can read the series as it's updated and follow long as his story evolves. 

Illarion Pavliuk is a renowned Ukrainian writer, documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is also, now, in the fight for a free Ukraine. This is the first of several audio dispatches he sent USA TODAY Opinion.&nbsp;
You can read the series as it's <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/02/26/russias-invasion-ukraine-one-fathers-story-fighting-back/6957836001/">updated and follow long as his story evolves.</a>&nbsp;

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USA TODAY Opinion offers a variety of voices and perspectives from the topics that matter to your lives and that help inform your views of the world.