From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (598th day):
No doubt that hearing about war day after day for so long makes war news less horrifying. Probably time and numbers (of bombings, of losses, of war crimes, of destruction, etc) have numbing effect especially if you are not directly affected. Maybe the easiest way to avoid pain of empathy is to spend more time reading what experts say about this war, how they explain why it started, why other countries should (or shouldn’t) help, how much longer they predict the war to last, etc. Putin hopes that with time war and war crimes will not shock anyone, that those who are not affected will choose to look the other way while ruzzians continue their genocidal crimes in Ukraine, destroying lives, devastating our economy, taking away homes, families, childhoods, future… Putin counts on that numbing effect, but also on politicians, “experts” and “journalists” that for various reasons (most likely for personal benefit) would like to help putin with his ambition of destroying Ukraine.
But, friends, please, keep looking at the human face of this war!
A photographer, Serhiy Stakhnyk, who has been living in Portugal for the past 20 years started a project Voices Beyond War where he photographs families whose homes were destroyed by war and who ended up abroad. The pictures are truly worth a thousand words. You can read a sentence about the background of the photo, but the immense pain comes across without any words.
These photos were shared today in an article of the Ukrainian media New Voice. Photos were made by Serhiy Stakhnyk
Voice of Ukraine 