On February 27, when Olga Koshel, mother of five-year-old Alexandra, whom she and her Goa-based husband, Engelbert, lovingly call ‘Shasha’ went out to buy bread in the city of Brovary, three days after Russia declared its full-scale war on Ukraine, she was not sure if she would ever see her daughter again. The sounds of shells accompanied by looming uncertainties made it impossible for anyone to expect any consistency or surety. Any moment could be the end. Koshel did see her daughter again. But in Ukraine, uncertainty has become the new normal.