This video is moving and it should bring every mother, father, and grandparent to their knees. Putin will have to be brought to justice but in the mean time the children will age. This war is horrid. The broken House of Representatives just passed the aid bill for Ukraine and it will go to the Senate. It took so long because one sick and diminished, former president, and guilty rapist, enamored with Putin, didn't want it to pass. He is sad but he is a snake. He is still still venomous and needs to be stopped before he destroys America.
Thank you for posting this very moving video. Personal stories like this are even more influential on voters than the horrific numbers that document war crimes.
Everyone who voted against Ukraine aid today needs to tied to a chair, gagged and forced to watch this and other stories for hours. They need to be confronted with the monsters they are. But alas, shame, decency, humanity is long behind them.
Thank you for posting this. Americans need to see more videos like this, more photographs on the ongoing war and what war really does. They need to know that putin will not stop with Ukraine.
I began saving photos on day one so that I could bear witness to putin’s attempt to wipe out a people and a country. I am haunted by many of them but one always comes to mind - it is of a woman in her 50’s lying in a street. She was shot by Russians in an armored vehicle just two blocks away as she walked home after looking for food. She fell in a heap and her body had to stay there for some time as it was unsafe to try and remover her remains. One arm was lying outstretched with her hand visible. Her daughter identified her by her manicure - a new, lovely, colorful manicure - no doubt chosen to be a bright spot in her life as she adapted to living in a country at war. Her spirit and humanity shone in that manicure, her need for food to survive in her attempt to find some, her death evidence of the evil and disregard that humans so readily have for each other.
As an American veteran I often wonder what would have happened had all of NATO stood together and sent troops, equipment and supplies from every country to bolster Ukraine when putin began amassing troops along the border.
Many wars and armed conflicts are completely unnecessary, due to ego, our own military industrial complex and greed - financial and for power. Every now and then, however, war ends up being necessary to stop fascists, authoritarians, and dictators intent on subjugation, destruction and genocide. What if NATO had said “No” to putin and meant it?
Thank you for keeping the stories alive. A Ukrainian student that is friends of a friend of my daughter's in Berlin is in a psych ward right now because she is suicidal. It can't help but think that the situation in Ukraine is hard to take for those who are elsewhere as well as those who are there. She is a college student in Germany. I told my daughter to go visit her and if it seems appropriate let her know that the USA passed aid to Ukraine finally, and that should be a big help to the military in standing up to Russia. My daughter asked if that meant that she could tell her Ukraine will win. I said do not bring that up, because we can never know the future, but it is looking a lot better now. My daughter has many Ukrainian classmates as well as Russian. They do not discuss these politics as if creating a safe space from the war. That is important to the future of Ukraine too, that some of their youth has some shielding from the ongoing brain chemistry changing stress, so the idea to support students to study in the USA is great. Germany is a good country for that too because the universities are tuition free and the fees are low and it is close. The majority of her classmates are Ukrainian or Russian. In the USA I have taught several children whose families were mixed one parent Ukrainian and one Russian and the war created an overnight shift in their identities. Unfortunately a lovely student had shame for his Russian side. It messed up his school year his teacher told me. I had had him the year before. Putin who likes to look back to history should look at how the Romans had the leaders of Germanic tribes give their sons to them to be raised as Romans. They felt this would create loyalty of the future soldiers. One of these Germanic men, who was trained in the Roman military was named Arminius. In 9AD he was sent to Germania leading a group of soldiers because he was trusted by the Roman leader Varius to help defeat the Germanic tribes. What did he do? He rode around warning the Germanic people that Rome planned to take over their lands, and he organized a strategy to defeat them in the Forest of Teutoburg, using his knowledge of Roman warfare to defeat them. He was able to do so with many fewer men in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Not to go further into this, but will Putin really create loyal Russians out of Ukraine's stolen children? I think not. So, let us hope that they do not have to stay in Russia long enough to repeat what Armininus had to do. What a horrible childhood experience.
I dearly wish that I could win the lottery - if I did, I would give as much as possible to Ukraine to help fund efforts to find and repatriate the children. The war itself is a travesty; the deaths, the kidnappings, the destruction is equally horrific. Most incredibly disgusting of all, however, are the 112 Republican House members who voted against the aid package today. I wish they could be forced to watch this & other evidence of the cruelty, the horror, and the utter inhumanity taking place over, and over, and over again in Russian controlled areas of Ukraine.
This video is moving and it should bring every mother, father, and grandparent to their knees. Putin will have to be brought to justice but in the mean time the children will age. This war is horrid. The broken House of Representatives just passed the aid bill for Ukraine and it will go to the Senate. It took so long because one sick and diminished, former president, and guilty rapist, enamored with Putin, didn't want it to pass. He is sad but he is a snake. He is still still venomous and needs to be stopped before he destroys America.
Thank you for posting this very moving video. Personal stories like this are even more influential on voters than the horrific numbers that document war crimes.
Everyone who voted against Ukraine aid today needs to tied to a chair, gagged and forced to watch this and other stories for hours. They need to be confronted with the monsters they are. But alas, shame, decency, humanity is long behind them.
Thank you for posting this. Americans need to see more videos like this, more photographs on the ongoing war and what war really does. They need to know that putin will not stop with Ukraine.
I began saving photos on day one so that I could bear witness to putin’s attempt to wipe out a people and a country. I am haunted by many of them but one always comes to mind - it is of a woman in her 50’s lying in a street. She was shot by Russians in an armored vehicle just two blocks away as she walked home after looking for food. She fell in a heap and her body had to stay there for some time as it was unsafe to try and remover her remains. One arm was lying outstretched with her hand visible. Her daughter identified her by her manicure - a new, lovely, colorful manicure - no doubt chosen to be a bright spot in her life as she adapted to living in a country at war. Her spirit and humanity shone in that manicure, her need for food to survive in her attempt to find some, her death evidence of the evil and disregard that humans so readily have for each other.
As an American veteran I often wonder what would have happened had all of NATO stood together and sent troops, equipment and supplies from every country to bolster Ukraine when putin began amassing troops along the border.
Many wars and armed conflicts are completely unnecessary, due to ego, our own military industrial complex and greed - financial and for power. Every now and then, however, war ends up being necessary to stop fascists, authoritarians, and dictators intent on subjugation, destruction and genocide. What if NATO had said “No” to putin and meant it?
Thank you for keeping the stories alive. A Ukrainian student that is friends of a friend of my daughter's in Berlin is in a psych ward right now because she is suicidal. It can't help but think that the situation in Ukraine is hard to take for those who are elsewhere as well as those who are there. She is a college student in Germany. I told my daughter to go visit her and if it seems appropriate let her know that the USA passed aid to Ukraine finally, and that should be a big help to the military in standing up to Russia. My daughter asked if that meant that she could tell her Ukraine will win. I said do not bring that up, because we can never know the future, but it is looking a lot better now. My daughter has many Ukrainian classmates as well as Russian. They do not discuss these politics as if creating a safe space from the war. That is important to the future of Ukraine too, that some of their youth has some shielding from the ongoing brain chemistry changing stress, so the idea to support students to study in the USA is great. Germany is a good country for that too because the universities are tuition free and the fees are low and it is close. The majority of her classmates are Ukrainian or Russian. In the USA I have taught several children whose families were mixed one parent Ukrainian and one Russian and the war created an overnight shift in their identities. Unfortunately a lovely student had shame for his Russian side. It messed up his school year his teacher told me. I had had him the year before. Putin who likes to look back to history should look at how the Romans had the leaders of Germanic tribes give their sons to them to be raised as Romans. They felt this would create loyalty of the future soldiers. One of these Germanic men, who was trained in the Roman military was named Arminius. In 9AD he was sent to Germania leading a group of soldiers because he was trusted by the Roman leader Varius to help defeat the Germanic tribes. What did he do? He rode around warning the Germanic people that Rome planned to take over their lands, and he organized a strategy to defeat them in the Forest of Teutoburg, using his knowledge of Roman warfare to defeat them. He was able to do so with many fewer men in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Not to go further into this, but will Putin really create loyal Russians out of Ukraine's stolen children? I think not. So, let us hope that they do not have to stay in Russia long enough to repeat what Armininus had to do. What a horrible childhood experience.
I dearly wish that I could win the lottery - if I did, I would give as much as possible to Ukraine to help fund efforts to find and repatriate the children. The war itself is a travesty; the deaths, the kidnappings, the destruction is equally horrific. Most incredibly disgusting of all, however, are the 112 Republican House members who voted against the aid package today. I wish they could be forced to watch this & other evidence of the cruelty, the horror, and the utter inhumanity taking place over, and over, and over again in Russian controlled areas of Ukraine.