Krakovets, Lyviv Oblast, Ukraine — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now targets military bases and supply lines just miles from one of the busiest Polish border crossings, the letter Z has morphed from a proud symbol of Russian arms into the mark of Russian terror. What did the nearly 2 million women and children passing through overwhelmed humanitarian corridors like this one ever do to have their homes, hospitals, farms, businesses, factories, let alone their very lives, destroyed by brute Russian aggression? Ukraine’s guilt is manifold. She is guilty of not surrendering; guilty of ferociously fighting like lions against impossible odds; guilty of standing up to the tyrant of a mighty and criminally aggressive neighbor to celebrate her national identity and independence. But worst of all, Ukrainians are guilty of not succumbing to the ever growing terror from the east nor the neglect from the dazed and irresolute leadership of the western alliance.Ukraine officially now puts the number of its fighting war dead at more than 1500, but like in all wars, the heaviest price is paid by those who can not fight back. Those who can’t find refuge, not even in the hospitals and apartment blocks targeted by Russian heavy guns. Their numbers are unknown.
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