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You take probably seen this: "Putin honors Russian brigade defendant of Bucha atrocities." Aye, why wouldn't he? (Commodity here.)
• When I visited Republic of latvia in 2016, I learned of a media outlet called "Meduza," based in Riga. It is a Russian outlet, founded by Russian journalists, who were unable to do journalism — existent journalism — in their land. Meduza is valuable and important.
This is a report from Meduza, filed yesterday. If you accept the tum, read it. "'I can exercise whatever I want to you': Russian soldiers raped and murdered Ukrainian civilians in the village of Bogdanivka."
• Hanna Liubakova, the Belarusian journalist, circulated a video and said,
Three-twelvemonth-old Artsiom was injured during the morn shelling of Lviv, Ukraine. He and his female parent came from Kharkiv to escape the war. Simply a Russian missile found them in a city that was supposed to exist safe. Russians randomly bomb cities to remind most their presence and scare.
What is this but terrorization? Is at that place whatever greyness in this war? Is Putin defensible, except by those who are indefensible themselves?
• Hanna circulated another video, saying, "Children and women from the AzovStal bunker ask for a humanitarian corridor." This is Mariupol. "They accept non seen the dominicus for more than than a month, and food supplies are running out."
• Anna Myroniuk is a Ukrainian journalist, the head of investigations at the Kyiv Independent. She wrote something personal: "I Didn't Think My Mother Would Escape Putin Twice." In a matter-of-fact, about cool way, she gives powerful testimony. Her mother's feel reflects that of Ukraine in full general.
This lady, the journalist's mother, is from eastern Ukraine. When Putin invaded in 2014, she was forced to flee, west. Where did she go? To Bucha, "a small, pleasant town outside Kyiv," as her daughter writes.
• You may have seen that Putin's forces have installed a statue of Lenin. They are likewise flying Soviet flags, oft. For years, critics of mine take told me, sternly, "Putin'due south Russia is not the Soviet Union, you know." Fair enough. Then you think Vlad volition tell his guys to cut it out?
Can you deny a certain . . . continuity? A certain kinship? A certain sympathy? A pride?
• A report past Yaroslav Trofimov in the Wall Street Journal is headed, "In Ukraine's South, Russian Occupiers Tighten the Screws." The subheading is, "The Russians are installing pro-Moscow politicians and hunting for dissenters." Trofimov's written report begins,
In the city of Melitopol, similar many others in the area, cherry, blueish and white Russian flags now fly atop public buildings. Russian security forces patrol the streets and soldiers human checkpoints, inspecting people'southward identification documents and looking through the contents of their mobile phones, residents say.
And then on and and so forth.
Democracies must never recognize as legitimate the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Never. Remember the experience of the Baltic states. We never recognized the legitimacy of Soviet control. "Realists" in Washington said, "Come up on, we accept to recognize the facts on the ground. These are just the facts of life." But the U.Southward. government, in the end, never bent. And this was very, very important to the Balts. It meant the world to them. And it made their eventual breaking abroad easier.
• When I visited Ukraine in 2019, a prominent announcer, Vitaly Portnikov, made an interesting point to me. In the early on office of the 20th century, diverse empires came to an end. Merely the Russian empire kept going — because Soviet Communism sustained it, for 70-plus years. I thought of this when reading an essay by Walter Russell Mead: "The End of Russia's Empire? Moscow has a pale in the Ukraine war that is greater than Putin's career."
• John Chipman is the director-general and CEO of the International Found for Strategic Studies, in London. He wrote something stark:
In this century, no deed has been so brazenly & repeatedly evil in inter-state affairs than Russian federation's attack on Ukraine. Every principle of international law, diplomacy, civilisation & humanity has been broken. Affairs is an inadequate answer, military victory is the only respond.
Is this over-the-top? Or merely realistic?
• In my view, Ukraine ought to exist more of a cause, amongst Americans. This is a freedom struggle, and a geopolitical crisis: Once again, an expansionist dictator is redrawing borders past force and subjugating nations and peoples. You recall Putin and his guys will be sated by Ukraine? Simply listen to them.
Anyhow, more afterward, of course . . .
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