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Feb 25Liked by Karen Christensen

So interesting although heartbreaking. Thank you for this, Karen.

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Feb 25Liked by Karen Christensen

Thank you for having written about the importance of democratic nations' continued military and financial support of Ukrainian sovereignty and independence from Putin's colonialist and frankly genocidal invasion. I seldom use the term "genocide," but as an indicted ICC war criminal suspect Putin has tried to justify Europe's largest and bloodiest military invasion since 1945 as the reunification of Ukrainian "Little Russians" with Putin's own "big" Russians, whom he wrongly claims are both part of a single integrated nationality of Russians. A noted professor of Russian and Eastern European history in Rochester has succinctly fact-checked Putin's arguably genocidal claims: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812/

Another option for supporting independent Ukrainian journalists--instead of a monthly membership fee--is an annual membership fee to The Kyiv Independent. That way your credit card gets charged just once a year instead of every month--and you can cancel at any time if necessary.

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