"The mother’s hands were shaking when she started writing on her 2-year-old’s body. They trembled so much that she couldn’t write correctly on her first try, even though the information was second nature: Her daughter’s name, Vira, along with her birth date and their family phone numbers.“I thought that if my husband and I died, Vira could find who she is,” the mother, Oleksandra Makoviy, recalled.For Vira, standing in a diaper in their house in Kyiv, the writing on her back was a game. She didn’t know that the bombing had begun.Ms. Makoviy’s desperate attempt to prepare her daughter for the possibility of being orphaned as the family attempted to escape the Ukrainian capital during the Russian invasion has become a wrenching symbol of the anguish of a nation of parents..."
The report continues at The New York Times. Photo from the mother's Instagram.
To paraphrase Hawkeye Pierce: War is war, and hell is hell, and of the two war is a lot worse... there are no innocent bystanders in hell, but war is full of them.
ReplyDeleteCrimes against humanity and other living things.
ReplyDeleteThe west and east united against Saddam Hussein because we were told he had weapons of mass destruction. Putin has weapons of mass destruction.
Putin's Russia is dangerous and the West (Europe and the USA) have been slow to react to his horrific invasion of the Ukraine. Communist China has also been aggressive in expanding their territory and the West once again has been slow or non-responsive to their actions.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we have had tyrants such as Stalin and Hitler in the past century. It is shameful.