re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The war is also a genuine civil war, which I realize is not a correct thought,

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This is not a civil war. It is a war between two sovereign nations.

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but you can see that in the refugee flow. There are more than 5 million Ukrainians in Russia. They could have gone anywhere, they chose Russia.

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How many lived in Russia before the war? How many are children taken against their will? How many lived in places like Mariupol or the occupied parts of Ukraine where the only choice the people had was flee to Russia or stay and live in rubble? I know a woman from Mariupol whose husband died fighting the Russians. She hates Russia with a passion but she moved herself and her kids to Rostov on Don because her kids were starving. She can’t leave the country because the Russians took their Ukrainian passports and the Russian passports they were given identity then as Ukrainians. When they tried to flee to Kazakstan last year they were pulled off the bus taken by police to the nearest bus station and sent back to Rostov on Don.