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Swede

(33,250 posts) Mon Jan 23, 2023, 09:44 AM Jan 2023

Ukraine's tragic week shows there's no safe place in war

“I thought this was a safe place,” she said. “Now I understand there is no such thing.”

This is the hard lesson Ukrainians have had to learn in a week of mourning at least 59 dead in places that many considered safe from the violence of the war against Russia, now in its 11th month.

https://apnews.com/article/kyiv-ukraine-government-8dec67a1a9c85c383a3e33c040ad851d

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Ukraine's tragic week shows there's no safe place in war (Original Post) Swede Jan 2023 OP

Don't appreciate the wording here: "the violence of the war against Russia". I think it's sinkingfeeling Jan 2023 #1

I very often don't appreciate the work coming from AP, this is par for them (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #2

sinkingfeeling

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1. Don't appreciate the wording here: "the violence of the war against Russia". I think it's

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 10:47 AM

Jan 2023

the Russian war against Ukraine.

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. I very often don't appreciate the work coming from AP, this is par for them (nt)

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 23, 2023, 10:59 AM

Jan 2023

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