Tag: Ukrainian

I donated both money and new socks to help the Ukrainian refugees, although I know I shouldn’t have

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is heartbreaking. No words can console people who have had to flee their homes. No medicine can mend their hearts and souls or erase their trauma. Many humanitarian aid organizations are trying to help and support the refugees. I wanted to do my part and donate mon...

Fight To The Last Ukrainian

While expressing support for Ukrainian civilians living in a war zone, US leaders are openly saying they don’t want the war to end. They want to trap Russia in a “quagmire” to “bleed” Vladimir Putin until his regime collapses. Historian Niall Ferguson wrote on Bloomb...

My Perspectives on the Ukraine Invasion Two Years Later as a Ukrainian Descendant

I remember going to sleep every night after the Beijing Olympics ended on February 20, 2022, with apprehension about what I might find the next morning in the news. I knew it was any day now that Russia would invade Ukraine. The Winter Olympics were over, and it was Russia’s modus operandi ...

Why so many Ukrainians are speaking Ukrainian again

Patrick Cox: I don’t know about you, but for me, the very first words of Ukrainian I heard were these. A cappella version of “Oi u luzi chervona kalyna” (“Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow”) Patrick Cox: It was a video posted on YouTube in lat...