How low can the Russians go?
How low can they go?
Thousands of Ukrainians have died, including two- and three-year-old babies, schoolchildren, university students, pregnant women, doctors, nurses, seniors, Holocaust survivors, volunteers handing out food supplies, volunteers helping survivors from flooding from the destruction of the Nova Kakhova dam, as well as ordinary Ukrainian civilians within Ukrainian cities, by Russian bullets, missiles, shells and drones.
What a tragedy for an innocent population. There is no need for a giant country like the Russian republic to invade unnecessarily a sovereign country that is only three and half percent of its own size.
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Besides the tragic loss of life, there is the theft and destruction of farm production and equipment as well as manufacturing facilities, power plants, hospitals, churches, children’s parks, theatres, power dams, world heritage buildings and sites, as well as ordinary civilian residences.
This is the 21st century, not the barbaric times of the Vikings, Mongols, Romans or Ottoman times or the horrific times of Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin. The world is indeed having to deal with another mean megalomaniac and his Russian cult.
Pope Francis calls the invasion evil, irresponsible and tragic. We must all feel sadness and empathy for Ukrainian friends who spend a great deal of time waiting for missiles to land.
How low can the Russians go?
Maurice L. Parrent
Clyde, Alta.
