Is There Free Speech in Ukraine?
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Is There Free Speech in Ukraine?
“Freedom is embroidered in our songs, in our lives."
from Tuesday 28 February: My daily Ukraine report on Chicago's WGN Radio with Bob Sirott
"Freedom is embroidered in our songs, in our lives," a Ukrainian volunteer told me. Here are the sounds of a choir singing at a special event for Kharkiv's leading citizen-volunteers: people who day by day work to keep their country free. It is such people, not a government in Kyiv, that Putin is trying to erase.
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DAILY SITUATION SUMMARY: 28 February: Heavy fighting in Bakhmut, landing of the landing force in Brest
BY PAVLO VITENKO
Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Tuesday, February 28, 2023
HEADLIINES:
—Victory, defeat or stalemate: The Guardian named 5 scenarios for the end of the war in Ukraine
—"The city is on fire, the enemy is pressing": Bakhmut
… but first, the Summary by regions:
LUHANSK REGION
Yesterday, in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Kreminna, Dibrova, and Bilohorivka.
He carried out artillery shelling in the areas of Novoselivske, Nevske, Chervonopopivka and Dibrova. The situation in the region remains tense.
DONETSK REGION
At night - shelling of the village Shevchenkove of the Pokrovsk community. One and a half dozen houses were damaged. Also at night, the city of Sviatohorsk was shelled by rockets, previously by S-300. A direct hit to the premises of the fire department. One firefighter died, four were injured.
The situation along the entire front line remains difficult. The enemy is intensively shelling positions of the Ukrainian military and settlements of front-line communities in the area of Vuhledar, Mariinka, Avdiiivka, Toretsk, Bakhmut, Soledar, Siversk, Lyman.
During the day, there was shelling of settlements in the Kurakhove community (the village of Vovchanka, the outskirts of the city of Kurakhove, the village of Kurakhivka). As a result of the shelling, one man was injured, and one man was also killed in the village of Kurakhivka. A private house in the village of Vovchenka, one two-story apartment building and two private residential buildings in the village of Kurakhivka were damaged. The administrative building of the Starostat in the village of Kurakhivka was damaged. The electrical networks of the community were damaged.
Also in the past day, the village of Vasyukivka (damaged 5 private houses), the village of Fedorovka (damaged 6 private houses), the village of Rozdolovka of the Soledar community, Kostyantynivka, and Kostyantynivka community were shelled. Private residential buildings were damaged. Over the past day in the Donetsk region: one dead, 9 injured.
Read the full report here.
“I always loved Jordan Peterson,” my friend Sasha, a Ukrainian knifemaker in Lviv, told me recently. “But we don’t need him now. He’s left us. He doesn’t understand us.”
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Six unpopular truths about Ukraine
1. Russia’s war on Ukraine is happening for one reason: Ukrainians insist on freedom.
2. The talk of war crimes misses the point. The entire war is a war crime.
3. Ukraine’s democratic corruption is not as awful as in numerous other countries.
4. Most Ukrainians are unvaccinated against coronavirus.
5. Hunter Biden made money from Russia, and not from Ukraine.
6. The US has actually given less support to Ukraine than it seems.
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