How Ukraine’s courage inspires us all – Yorkshire Post Letters

By YP Letters
Published 10th Mar 2022, 16:19 BST
From: Michael O’Sullivan, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.

IT is a spring morning in Yorkshire, parents are taking laughing and skipping children to school, men and women getting ready for work, 
normality.

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Look now at Ukraine and their spring morning, it is after a night of terror missiles and bombs, now including cluster bombs raining down on them.

People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).
People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).

In Ukraine a baby has been killed by Russians. So have other children. Why have they died, why will others die? Their 
crime? To be born and to live in Ukraine, a free, democratic country.

We have seen on our televisions husbands, fathers, sons, brothers and partners 
send loved ones west to safety, then turn round to take up 
arms to fight for them and homeland.

It is the courage of those who know they may never see their loved ones again. This was what Britain saw 1940.

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I saw on my TV a child in a bunker singing. I wept. Think of the little ones in your families. Think too of the Ukrainians who have fled. Where can they go, where can their children have some stability?

People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).
People cook outdoors for Ukrainian servicemen and civil defense members serving in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. The United Nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the direction they choose" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.N. humanitarian chief. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda).

Ukrainians are people with strong religious convictions, they will need such.

Glory to Ukraine, God help you all there.

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