Either you are with Ukraine, or you are with Russia WashTimesOpEd
In the days leading up to the invasion, as Mr. Putin lined up an estimated 190,000 troops in armored vehicles and tanks, the world watched with bated breath to see if the former KGB colonel turned dictator would actually cross the line into Ukraine. At that time, many in Washington dismissed the possibility that Mr. Putin would actually start a war, insisting he was merely trying to leverage negotiations with the West.
In 1999, Mr. Putin’s FSB orchestrated the Moscow apartment bombings, a series of attacks that killed hundreds of Russian civilians and were blamed on Chechen rebels as a means of rallying support for the Second Chechen War. Once engaged, Mr. Putin used the war to relegate then-President Boris Yeltsin to obscurity so that he could take control of the Kremlin.
To date, the U.N. has documented at least 8,000 civilian deaths and 13,000 injuries, including 487 children killed and 954 hurt. According to UNICEF, the percentage of Ukrainian children living in poverty has almost doubled, from 43% to 82%. The international agency says that many children are also deprived of medical care since Russia has destroyed more than 800 health care facilities.
These facts, among many others are why both Presidents Biden and Donald Trump have accurately called Russia’s illegal invasion a genocide. “We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives — on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua — to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth,” then-President Reagan said in 1985.
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