Russia rained down missiles on Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv Monday morning. Among the targets bombed was a children’s playground. “They are killing our culture and our children!” one Ukrainian official posted online. At least nine people were killed in the attacks,...
Let me take you back to February 24, 2022. After years of talk, of speculation on if they will or if they won’t, Russia launched a full-scale invasion on the entire country of Ukraine. No one knew what to do — the world was in shock. With our eyes glued to the...
News outlets and social media platforms may be shifting their attention away from the invasion of Ukraine, but I can’t. Ever since my recent trips to Eastern Europe, the conversations I had with refugees pouring out of Ukraine have been playing on repeat in my mind. I...
Feb. 23 was just an ordinary Wednesday in Ukraine. For 11-year-old Masha, that meant going to school with her best friends, attending her favorite drawing class, and reading Judy Moody books. She looked forward to the end of the week because if all her school...
When Russia launched its first attack on Ukraine back in February, it quickly became clear that it wasn’t afraid to target innocent people or break humanitarian law. Russian forces’ blatant disregard for hospitals and civilian train stations proved that, but continued...