Charkiw, Tbilisi: how far does Europe really stretch?
The images from Kharkiv and Tbilisi challenge us as Europeans. How we respond could determine not only the fate of these countries, but also the raison d'être of the European project.
Three weeks between Kharkiv and Tbilisi.
On the afternoon of Saturday 25 May, two guided bombs hit a building materials hypermarket in the suburbs of Kharkiv, killing 16 people and wounding over 40, while more than 200 were inside the store.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city with a population of nearly 1.4 million - about the size of Milan - is a ma…