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When I visited this city of 120,000 people in western Ukraine three weeks ago, no Russian missiles or bombs had fallen on Uzhfrod. But there were many fresh graves. This cemetery holds the bodies of his 39 men in the city, aged 21 to his 54, all killed since the Russian invasion in February.
Older parts of the cemetery contain the remains of the city’s men and women, some of the more than 14,000 Ukrainians killed since Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea in 2014 is included. “This war has been going on for a long time” in the cemetery.
A new tomb in Uzhfrod, a city of 120,000 inhabitants in western Ukraine. There were many fresh graves. The cemetery houses the remains of his 39 men, ranging from his 21 to his 54, in the city who have been murdered since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
The cost of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s brutal war is almost unimaginable to most Americans. In addition to half of Ukraine’s power grid being destroyed and much of the Uzhfrod and Transcarpattia regions immersed in freezing conditions at night and day without electricity, Archbishop Boris Guzyak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said more than 2,000 Ukrainian schools, 500 hospitals and 150,000 homes destroyed. , and he had 20,000 miles of roads destroyed. “This is genocide,” he said.
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Last week, the US and Germany finally agreed to give Ukraine the tanks that President Volodymyr Zelensky has been petitioning for. His U.S. gas-hungry M-1 Abrams tanks and Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks are more flexible and easier to operate, and Kyiv is expected to be ready for military operations ahead of a renewed Russian offensive expected this spring. can help you take control.
Recently, Washington announced yet another $2.5 billion arms package. The Stryker armored fighting vehicle, the armored personnel carrier, and the most advanced ground air defense system, the Patriot. But Ukraine has been calling for such advanced weapons for months. We have been slow to give Ukraine what it needs.
The same cannot be said for the humanitarian aid that fueled America’s outrage over Putin’s barbarism. The U.S. government alone has contributed more than $2 billion to humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, but the outflow of aid from individuals and non-governmental groups has been alarming.
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A freshly dug grave in Uzhfrod, western Ukraine.
Andrij Dobriansky, Ukrainian representative to the United Nations for the Global Diaspora, who translated during my recent visit, said that 1.5 million Ukrainian Americans, in addition to about 200,000 refugees in the United States, have lost $100 million. We estimate that we have collected more emergency aid.
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Archbishop Guziak said his church parishioners alone have donated more than $8,300,000. “This solidarity is not top-down like the Russian military,” he said. “It’s bottom-up, solidarity based on a belief in human dignity.”
The Renew Democracy Initiative, a non-profit organization founded six years ago by Russian chess grandmaster and former world champion Garry Kasparov, has united more than 50 dissidents from 30 oppressive countries to We celebrate and promote America’s founding values. We will work with local groups and non-profits to deliver food, sleeping bags and basic supplies.
Individuals are also incredibly creative. Hours after the Russian invasion, José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, sent food workers to feed refugees crossing the border. Since then, around 4,500 staff and Ukrainian volunteer “food fighters” (chefs, drivers, warehouse managers, logistics specialists) have helped him serve more than one million meals a day across the country. I’ve been
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Mark Antal, a former Delta Force operator who provided security on my most recent trip, has spent several weeks in Ukraine training women in towns and villages in a project called “Stop the Bleed.” Civilian.
“It takes only two to five minutes for the wounded to bleed,” he said. In Ukraine, medical assistance can take up to 45 minutes to arrive. “So trained civilians are lifesavers,” he said.
Three weeks ago, I accompanied philanthropist and former US Ambassador to Finland Earl Mack on his third visit. Furious at Russian barbarism, he and former New York governor George Pataki traveled to Ukraine to ask officials what they needed most.
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In January, Mak delivered the first of 385 commercial heaters purchased to the governor of the Transcarpattia region. Running on a single load of diesel fuel, the heater can run for 31 hours and heat an area of his 20,000 cubic feet, the size of a hotel ballroom.
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Philanthropist and former US Ambassador to Finland Earl Mack pictured with the first heater delivered to the governor of the Transcarpathia region
“I wanted to do more than write checks,” Mack said. Direct delivery of the heaters, he said, ensured they reached their intended recipients, what he called the philanthropic “boots on the ground.” Last week, Mack and Pataki launched a website, HeatUkraine.org, to raise money for more heaters and other vital supplies to prevent Russia from crushing Ukraine’s morale.
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I had been to Ukraine eight times before the Russian invasion, but I was unprepared for the determination of the Ukrainians to keep fighting until the Russian army was completely withdrawn. The resilience, optimism, tenacity and persistence of ordinary Ukrainians in spite of the bombing, the cold, the hunger and the collapse of the economy was amazing.
Likewise, there was a sense of gratitude to the American people for their support in this existential struggle. “Your support and the resistance of the Ukrainian people will force Putin to withdraw,” said Viktor Mikita, governor of the Transkarpattia region. “But even if Putin leaves, it may not save him. His crimes here will never be forgotten.”
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