I cannot help thinking about these people and praying they are still alive.
that the Pentagon believes Russia is recruiting Syrians adept at urban combat to fight and numerous reports of soldiers traveling to fight for Ukraine from the U.K., Canada , the U.S., and even as far as Japan and Jamaica.there is a real possibility Russia might deploy chemical or biological weapons. Putin also has an arsenal of so-called tactical nuclear weapons that work in such a way that the ultimate fallout from their use literally relies on the way the wind blows.
I try to mediate, but everyone has a reason to be aggrieved: My Ukrainian friends ask for help and call for a boycott of everything Russian. My Russian friends say they in no way support the war and are being punished unfairly for something Putin — an evil anomaly of history — has done in their name, without their consent.
In watching the war progress on TV, I feel helpless to do more. Surely I could, but what? Send money, quit my job and travel across the world to fight? I am no soldier, just a journalist, and hopefully my work will help me get closer to the truth of what is happening. After all, the lies persist: a church-going friend of mine told me her pastor praised the war, telling her congregation that Russia attacked Ukraine to free Hunter Biden’s sex slaves.