“So, the argument has been the more we arm the Ukrainians, the more the war will go on,” said [Dominique Arel, chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa]. "Well, now there is a powerful counter argument that was already there. But now, there’s certainly far more empirical evidence that it’s the other way around.
Another death on the home front.
Russians left a ghost town behind in Bohorodychne. The AFP has this heartbreaking dispatch from the village, where just two people remained:
Nina Gonchar and her son Mykola, standing in front of their shattered house, appear to be the last two residents still left in the village.
Some of their family members were murdered, they told AFP.
“The Russians came, they killed my brother and my sister-in-law,” says 58-year-old Mykola.
Russian soldiers wanted to use his brother’s home as a base, but after he refused, they gunned the house down, killing the couple at the same time.
Mykola says he wrapped the bodies in blankets and buried them himself.
He and his frail 92-year-old mother “barely survived” the occupation thanks to food jars, a few poultry and some vegetables in the garden.
“How can I describe it with words? It was difficult, I was afraid,” Mykola says.
His mother, traumatised by the fighting, still goes back into hiding in the shelter her son dug in their garden, even though the area is back in the hands of Ukraine again.
“I cry every day. They killed my son,” Nina says, wiping tears from her eyes with a veil.
Ukraine’s advances are not without losses.
“Remember when I waited for the end of the Olympics…”
As the battlefront developments these last week have been quite fast, I think these video summaries will help some (at least they helped me) understand what’s happening right now.
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Aside: the Reuters photographer deserves an award.
What a dick move.
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Now with subtitles.
A sudden Twitter storm of pics of Ukrainians wearing “Nazi symbols”. I guess if you can’t win on the battlefield, start an offensive on social media.
Thankfully he didnt fall out a window.
