The Russian invasion against Ukraine has now passed three full months. Thousands of peaceful Ukrainians have been killed, many of them tortured by the Russian military. Millions (more than a quarter of the country of 40 million people) have been displaced internationally and internally as refugees. Ukrainian lands, nature, creatures, and historical sites have been obliterated or horrifically damaged in many places. Despite “good news” of Ukrainians’ continued fighting and victories against the “Number Two Army in the World,” Ukraine is facing continued shelling, bombing, cyber attacks, and sadistic brutality.
Much of the world media has focused on the remarkable courage of Ukrainians and their passion for democratic self-determination. Many global politicians, human rights activists, and cultural leaders have remained committed to ending aggression against Ukraine as well as now seeking justice for crimes against humanity committed by the Russians.
Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer and activist, in her recent speech to the informal meeting of the UN Security Council, decried that “Ukraine has been a slaughterhouse,” describing forced deportations, extensive sexual violence, and purposeful murder of children - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3JTLn01_ps . A growing number of countries have begun to term Russian aggression against Ukraine as a genocide.