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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA question from Lviv to the world: are you going to leave us to face the Kremlin's madman alone?
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Robert Young Pelton
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Here come the impassioned first person demands for justice and lawfulness in our world. Let's see how long we ignore them. If NATO or the US won't stop Putin, what about the United Nations?
theguardian.com
A question from Lviv to the world: are you going to leave us to face the Kremlins madman alone? |...
I returned from London to help my country now we watch with horror as Russian forces attack a nuclear plant near my hometown, says researcher Sasha Dovzhyk
9:42 AM · Mar 4, 2022
Robert Young Pelton
@RYP__
Here come the impassioned first person demands for justice and lawfulness in our world. Let's see how long we ignore them. If NATO or the US won't stop Putin, what about the United Nations?
theguardian.com
A question from Lviv to the world: are you going to leave us to face the Kremlins madman alone? |...
I returned from London to help my country now we watch with horror as Russian forces attack a nuclear plant near my hometown, says researcher Sasha Dovzhyk
9:42 AM · Mar 4, 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/lviv-ukrainians-world-russian-forces-nuclear-plant
I started writing this piece in an underground garage turned bomb shelter in the western Ukraine city of Lviv. Situated about 80km from the Polish border, it has not yet been shelled by the Russian military. While the air-aid sirens were going off every day during the first week of the full-scale invasion of my country, Tuesday night was the first time I bothered to take cover. I was trying to score responsibility points with my parents: they were about to go over the border to Poland and needed to see that their daughter, bent on remaining in Ukraine, was not putting herself in harms way.
Yet the harm is all over my country. Vladimir Putin, better known in Ukraine as khuilo (dickhead my people have never been known for their deference), planned to conquer this land in two days. His delusion has been exposed by a pre-written article, Offensive of Russia and the New World, which was mistakenly published by one of the main Russian news outlets on 26 February. Having failed to crush the armed forces of Ukraine with his murderous blitzkrieg, Putin is terrorising its civilian population.
Thousands of civilians arrive here in Lviv every day from the east as well as the capital. They sleep on the floors in theatres and research institutions. Local businesses are transforming their operations to support the war effort. Instead of beer, a trendy brewery is filling bottles with molotov cocktails. A metallurgical plant specialising in copper cable is producing anti-tank obstacles. Teenagers are fortifying checkpoints with sandbags instead of going to school. Hundreds and hundreds of volunteers are queueing at military registration offices to sign up and join the army. And while the most vulnerable are fleeing westwards, more than 80,000 Ukrainian economic migrants, mostly men, have come back home to fight. I can relate to their sentiment, having come here from London at the beginning of February in anticipation of the big war to come, looking for a way to be of help.
Whereas Lviv has been spared the artillery fire so far, my home region of Zaporizhzhia, in the east of the country, is the scene of active fighting. The Russians have been shelling the nuclear power plant there the largest in Europe, and the source of a fifth of Ukraines power. Before the shelling began, peaceful residents gathered at the entrance to Enerhodar, the small town where the plant is based, to meet the invaders a few handfuls of civilians trying to shield the world from a nuclear catastrophe with their bodies. An initial fire caused by the shelling has now been extinguished, but the Russians have seized the plant and the danger is far from over.
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A question from Lviv to the world: are you going to leave us to face the Kremlin's madman alone? (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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PortTack
(32,773 posts)1. Breaks my heart!!
True Dough
(17,305 posts)2. Vladimir Putin, better known in Ukraine as khuilo ("dickhead")
Would be good if DUers could adopt that name for Putin -- khuilo -- similar to how we know a previous U.S. president as "the former guy" (TFG).
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)3. Sadly, it looks like it.
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atreides1
(16,079 posts)4. With some exceptions
The answer to her question, is yes, the world will let Ukraine face Putin alone!
Happy Hoosier
(7,314 posts)6. The answer from many on DU: Yup! NT
Javaman
(62,530 posts)7. If I was half my age, I'd go fight. but alas I have trouble getting out of bed now. :( nt
boston bean
(36,221 posts)8. Yes is the answer as of right now. Breaks my fucking heart.