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Smoke billows over the town of Hostomel in northwest Kyiv in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine which left dozens of people dead. PHOTO | AFP
Today is Independence Day in Ukraine, celebrating 31 years of being a sovereign nation. Sadly, of course, Ukraine’s neighbour, Russia, is seeking to conquer the country with armed forces, six months of daily missiles launched at civilian cities, towns and villages, and nigh on 200,000 deaths.
Almost half of the lives sacrificed have been of the non-ethnic Russian soldiers that Russia has selected from its fringes to fight in Ukraine.
