From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (513th day): Ruzzian atrocities in Ukraine seem to be an example of the limitless creativity of the evil mind. Over 513 days, we have seen so much of it that if putin is tried for every war crime he has committed, his sentence would add up to centuries of prison time. Thankfully, regardless of whether he will face human justice, he won’t avoid God’s judgment and the sentence there will be for eternity.
Of all the war crimes putin has committed, the one he is already officially accused of (with a warrant out for his arrest) is the mass deportation/kidnapping of Ukrainian children. The numbers are hard to pin – they could be hundreds of thousands. But there are at least 19,500 who are definitely known to be deported.
I saw today an interview with Mykola Kuleba, founder of the Save Ukraine Foundation and former representative of the President of Ukraine on children’s rights, where he is trying to explain the gravity of this crime and why some foreigners don’t understand it.
Mykola Kuleba insists that the deportation of Ukrainian children to ruzzia is a part of genocide:
“Foreign journalists often ask me why we call the removal of our children abduction. They say: “In your opinion, this is genocide, but Putin says that he saved them, took them out of the war zone to a safe place. He feeds them, teaches them, gives them certificates for housing. What kind of kidnapping is this? We don’t understand that.”
I personally give the following example: I have a wife, I have children, but a neighbor enters my house with a gun, rapes my wife, kills her, kills me, sets the house on fire, but decides to leave the children alive and take them with him. The police arrive and charge him with a crime. And he says: “What crime? I saved the children. Even the surveillance camera shows me carrying them out of the burning house. I brought the kids to my wife, we will raise them.”
This is how Russians communicate with all international organizations — with the UN, with Red Cross, etc.
Why would Putin spend money on Ukrainian children? This is an investment. First, Russia receives workers, this is important for Russians, because there is a demographic crisis. Secondly, Russia is getting military in the future. Children are specifically sent to military schools. But our Western partners do not see this.
In the Russian Federation, there is a purposeful policy of assimilation of Ukrainian children — a clear program that bears all the signs of genocide.”
Save Ukraine Foundation is working hard to return Ukrainian kids from ruzzia back home. Every case is a complicated operation.
Voice of Ukraine 
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J.R.R.Tolkien writes to his son April 30, 1944:
I do miss you so, and I find all this mighty hard to bear on my own account and on yours. The utter stupid waste of war, not only material but moral and spiritual, is so staggering to those who have to endure it. And always was (despite the poets), and always will be (despite the propagandists) – not of course that it has not, is, and will be necessary to face it in an evil world..
I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the millions parted, fretting, wasting in unprofitable days – quite apart from torture, pain, death, bereavement, injustice. If anguish were visible, almost the whole of this benighted planet would be enveloped in a dense dark vapour, shrouded from the amazed vision of the heavens! And the products of it all will be mainly evil – historically considered. But the historical version is, of course, not the only one. All things and deeds have a value in themselves, apart from their ‘causes’ and ‘effects’. No man can estimate what is really happening at the present “sub specie aeternitatis”. All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives.
… But there is still some hope that things may be better for us, even on the temporal plane, in the mercy of God. And though we need all our natural human courage and guts (the vast sum of human courage and endurance is stupendous, isn’t it?) and all our religious faith to face the evil that may befall us (as it befalls others, if God wills) still we may pray and hope. I do.
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Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Psalm 44:22
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I [Paul] sm persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
..we know all things work together for good to those who love God, who are called according to His purpose. (vs 28) [witness Joseph, kidnapped by his own half-brothers at age 17; Daniel, deported young and “educated 3 years in the learning and language of the Chaldeans and then brought to serve the king of Babylon”]
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