A Medieval Campaign Resurrected?
If you saw the article last week about the Holomodor, it is sadly being reenacted in the Ukraine today. Repeated stories from multiple sources confirm that Russian forces are not allowing people to leave and are shutting down access to food supplies and medicine.
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As the number of refugees fleeing the invasion surpassed 2 million, Russian forces continue to lay siege to Ukraine’s major cities, cutting supplies of food, water, heat and medicine in a campaign citizens called “medieval.” Previous attempts to establish safe escape corridors from besieged cities have been met with renewed Russian attacks, but Tuesday Ukrainian officials confirmed that some civilians were evacuated from the eastern city of Sumy and the southern port city of Mariupol. There, residents face an increasingly desperate situation. Nearly half of the city’s 430,000 civilians hope to flee, but are being contained by Russian soldiers. (Sources: AP, BBC)
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