As the world struggles to pay its undivided attention to Ukraine and its people, Putin’s attacks on European democracy continue.
On March 16, I took a break from schoolwork to watch the speech given by President Zelensky in his address to the US Congress.
When he finished his speech, a video was shown depicting the damage to the countryside – namely the extreme destruction of residential buildings, deliberate targeting of schools and hospitals with missile attacks, thousands dead and millions on the run – and the audience’s response was heavy with tears.
Good tears, actions better
While Putin’s Napoleon complex is soaring, Ukraine’s cultural heritage and, in fact, Ukraine’s identity as a whole are threatened.
Ukraine’s children no longer require alarm clocks to wake up to school – that is, if their schools stand still at all. Or if they are at all able to get safely to their schools.
While my cousins โโreport on life in the middle of a war zone, the uncertainty about their future has never been greater, and it raises a question: what’s next?
As a child, you grow up dreaming about the future, what it offers, and the opportunities ahead of you. Yet it has been taken from the children of Ukraine, some of whom are now wearing bulletproof vests of military quality, while others make Molotov cocktails. Growing up has never been such a necessity, but they have no choice.
Mothers die, Kremlin lies
The case of Mariupol, a city in eastern Ukraine, and the current barrage of fire it maintains during Russian missile attacks has revealed the character of Russian invaders as not only conquering but bloodthirsty.
On March 9, after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that everyone had been evacuated from the city’s third-largest hospital, the same (and highly populated) hospital came under siege, resulting in mothers breathing for the last time and their newborns. never to see the light of day.
In Denmark, everyone has access to healthcare, so no one should ever consider the cost of their health. Pregnant women go to hospitals to give new life, but Ukraine’s mothers never get that chance now.
Without access to clean water and no access to electricity, it is a new form of dystopia.
Acceptance of refugees
In relation to the standard asylum system, Denmark has opened up the possibilities for Ukrainian refugees with a special ‘Ukrainian law’ to help Ukrainians become integrated into their temporary new homes.
With just over 3 million refugees already scattered across Europe, and countries welcoming them so eagerly, this raises the question of the other refugees for whom such laws have never been adopted and opportunities have been denied.
As a person from Ukraine who is not used to being part of a group that so desperately needs a home, the difference is clear and the need for equality among refugees is crucial.
War cannot be cleansed
Europe must understand that it can help Ukraine prevent the number of already existing Ukrainian refugees from growing by providing assistance in the fight to stop the Russian expansion project, not delay it.
Ukraine stands and morale is stronger than ever. The question now is how long can it last?
Source: The Nordic Page