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The Agony of Ukraine

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 THE AGONY OF UKRAINE It has taken the war in Ukraine to prompt me into adding to my blog. I see I last wrote in February 2021. This war has affected me very deeply . Not physically of course in the way that the poor desperate Ukrainians are suffering but mentally in the anguish and hopelessness I feel as I listen to the reports and watch the videos coming out of Ukraine. This is the largest exodus of people from a war torn country since the Second world war. The neighbouring countries especially Poland are doing amazing work in welcoming and organising the refugees but it's a long term problem if two and a half million people are in transit. Britain is supplying weapons to Ukraine and our contribution must have helped the Ukrainian army , volunteers and  those conscripted to help them to keep the Russians at bay in some places particularly in  the city of Kiyv. But the Russians have attacked from the south laying waste cities and now trying to starve Mariopol into submission throu