Author: Dal Stanton
-
9/4/2023 – Kharkiv, the metro. The start of the academic year in Ukraine…

Kharkiv, the metro. The start of the academic year in Ukraine. The first bell of 2023.What do you want to be when you grow up?Will there still be a war when you finish school?How will it end? Isn’t it strange to start first grade in the metro?Yes. It’s safer. But that’s not true. Although it…
-
9/4/2023 – “I know books are being written even now about this war…”

From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (558th day): I know books are being written even now about this war, and many more will be written in the future. People will read to understand. But sometimes, it’s enough to read a sentence or few lines to feel what this war brought into the lives of Ukrainians. The…
-
9/4/2023 – The war is still ongoing and still ugly…

From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 557): Oh give thanks to the Lord,for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands,from the east and from the west,from the north and from the south.Psalm 107:1-3 When the…
-
9/3/2023 – Inside Putin’s push to rewrite Russian history in favor of his war in Ukraine

A new textbook — churned out in just four months — echoes Kremlin propaganda justifying the war in Ukraine. From NBC News By Yuliya Talmazan Russian high school seniors will return to classrooms this week to find history rewritten in the image of President Vladimir Putin. A new textbook — churned out in just four months…
-
9/3/2023 – FSB in occupied Melitopol threaten to send children to Russia if parents don’t agree to their indoctrination

Moscow knows very well that Ukrainians in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts hate them and is escalating measures to try to brainwash young people and terrorize their parents From Human Rights in Ukraine by Halya Coynash: Families in occupied Melitopol who refuse to send their children to ‘Russian schools’ have faced visitations from Russia’s FSB…
-
9/3/2023 – It did not explode

From In Ukraine – A russian missile in a residential area in Kramatorsk. Luckily, it failed to explode.
-
9/3/2023 – Putin is waging a forever war. The west can’t pull the plug on Ukraine now

Moscow won’t stop short of subjugation of Kyiv. That’s why the Nato allies must ignore talk of talks and start fighting to win From The Guardian by Simon Tisdall: They still don’t get it. Even after 18 months of horror in Ukraine, too many prominent politicians in the US and Europe appear unable or unwilling…


