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A temple at the Holy Mountains Lavra (Sviatohirsk Lavra) in Donetsk Oblast, a monastery in the east of Ukraine, burned after a Russian strike at the beginning of June.Photograph courtesy of Ryzhkov Sergey/Creative Commons

Opinion

BY ZBIGNIEW RAU

August 22, 2022

Since Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia started its unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we have witnessed appalling scenes of harm, pain, and suffering inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians for days on end. The tragic loss of millions of civilian refugees, mostly women and chi...

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