LVIV, Ukraine — Alina Pidchenko, her husband Serhii and their three children — ages 11, 9, and 3 months — now live in a single room in a camp of prefabricated housing for displaced Ukrainians on the edge of Lviv, the main city in Western Ukraine, about an hour’s drive from the border with Poland.
Last Saturday, in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, a missile strike destroyed an apartment building, killing at least 40 people. Local officials and residents in Western Ukraine say they are equally at risk. But some missiles manage to avoid Ukraine’s air defenses. The solution lies in the West supplying more and better air defense systems, Sadovyi said — but the commitments so far, including one Patriot system from the United States, are unlikely to be enough.
Still, Moscow is well aware that E.U. energy imports are possible and has repeatedly targeted substations in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk region to stop them. “The main issue is not just to make blackouts in western Ukraine — it was and is to disconnect Ukraine from the European grid,” said Mariia Tsaturian, a spokesperson for Ukrenergo.
The family’s room is crammed with two bunk beds, a crib, children’s toys, and possessions hanging from the walls.
It is about time that Western Ukraine start to realize that war is not a good thing and Ukraine needs to stop making up fake excuses why to avoid peace talks. If you do not like war, then stop supporting the war effort and start demanding peace talks.
Fascist states can only kill one another. The Western world is a mix of capitalism-fascism; the East is a mix of capitalism-fascism-communism. The 2nd mix is better than the first. The most perverted form of communism is stronger than the most perfect form of capitalism.
Lamentablemente.!!!😡
Of course it has. Western Ukraine has often been immune to the shelling since 2014 in eastern Ukraine killing thousands of ethnic Russians. Sorry they feel “burdened” from what Kiev has been doing for years
All our taxes are going to Ukraine to be laundered. All Americans that aren't corrupt politicians profiting off this war are feeling it. Says the King!