Voice of Ukraine

From: Maia Mikhaluk (737th day): In Ukraine today is the first day of spring! I know our friends in the West have a different date for the start of the spring based on the equinox. But in my country, we do not go with astronomical definitions – we go with definitions of spring months, winter months, summer months and fall months. March is spring month – from the first day to the last!

So we made it through another war winter! We were not counting the days to spring this past winter like we did in 2022 and 2023. In 2022 we were naïve enough to hope that spring somehow will bring peace.

In 2023 during cold and dark winter blackouts we were counting days to spring warmth and light. Amazingly, this winter we didn’t have blackouts even though ruzzians tried to target our energy infrastructure again.

As I shared before – our greatest concern in the winter of 2024 was and still is about much-needed help from the States that might never come if Mike Johnson continues to not allow House of Representatives to vote on it. The shortage of ammunition is costing Ukraine lives and land. As ruzzians slowly advance now they literally destroy everything in their path by aviation bombings. When Avdiivka, Bahmut, Maryinka and other towns are eventually liberated from invaders, there won’t be anything to rebuild. Those towns will have to be built from scratch. There are resources that could help us stop ruzzians and to end the war. We were already gradually liberating occupied land – 50% of what ruzzians had occupied in 2022 was already liberated, but now one person, at the orders of another person is withholding the help, condemning thousands of people to death. Today’s article in The Atlantic by Anne Appelbaum is not inspiring optimism on this first spring day.