The two Ukraines
Andrey Ivanov understands well what's going on in Ukraine right now.
A native of Ukraine, he's also a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville who studies Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
And Ivanov has become a point person for some of the Ukrainian refugees who fled the war with Russia and settled in Wisconsin. He fields questions and helps them wade through dense government bureaucracy. His own parents are among the state's newest residents. After the war began two years ago, he helped coordinate their harrowing evacuation from Kyiv to Platteville.
"There are two Ukraines right now," he says. The country in the east that's close to Russian assault lines juxtaposes life in the west, where Ukrainians still feel the brunt of death and war but aren't seeing the fight at their front doors.