'I don't believe Russia or anybody else
can prevail:' Lorain County residents
continue to watch Ukrainian invasion unfold
Chronicle-Telegram [Elyria, OH],
by
Carissa Woytach
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
2/26/2022 1:17:31 PM
As fighting intensified in Ukraine on Friday, Lorain County residents with ties to the Eastern European country sat anxiously by, watching never-ending news coverage of the attacks.(Snip)Half a world away, Vasyl Robosyuk, of Amherst, has had little sleep as he continually refreshes his Twitter feed, streams news channels on his phone and awaits text messages from his cousins and other family still in the country. Robosyuk, 33, was born in Ternopil, Ukraine, and came to the United States as a refugee with his parents in the early 1990s, just after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Harlowe 2/26/2022 1:30:57 PM (No. 1083617)
FTA: “The Rev. Dmitri Belenki, pastor of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in South Lorain, like Robosyuk and countless other Americans with ties to Ukraine and surrounding nations, has had little sleep since the attacks started.
It’s hitting closer to home, Belenki said, but could come even closer if Putin continues his march to re-create the Soviet empire.
“If Russians are not going to stop now. … I strongly believe that eventually it’s going to touch everybody. It’s not going to be (as) far away as it is now,” he said.
Georgia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, while all part of NATO, are in Moscow’s sights, he said.
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For Putin, the invasion is personal, Belenki said, making the soldiers disposable.
That mindset is what makes it difficult for those in the West to understand some of what is happening, church board member Tatiana Panas, of Sandusky, said.
“We tend to use our own frameworks to try to understand what’s happening, and it just doesn’t apply — principles of equality and fairness and things like that are just not part of the equation,” she said.
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Part of St. Mary’s close-knit congregation, they’ve shared Belenki’s sleepless nights and plans to prepare for refugees — expecting to help family members of parishioners relocating to Northeast Ohio if the conflict drags on, or those coming to the U.S. as part of a more formalized asylum program.
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Belenki and Panas urged their Lorain and Northeast Ohio neighbors to contact their U.S. senators and representatives to voice their support for Ukraine.
Those willing to donate funds can do so through the Come Back Alive Foundation, Robosyuk said. The group was formed in 2014 to support the Maidan revolution, and now provides the country’s military with auxiliary equipment, software, drones, training and other supplies, according to the Kyiv Independent.”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German Lutheran Pastor, Theologian – Hanged by Nazi regime for resistance to Nazi dictatorship.) So is with the mindset of the Ukrainian people. Prayers are with the long-suffering Ukrainian people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 2/26/2022 1:31:52 PM (No. 1083618)
What about the invasion happening on OUR border... Or is this a distraction for the disaster in the WH.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 2/26/2022 1:56:18 PM (No. 1083650)
Putin already succeeded. He knocked out the child trafficking tunnels and underground bunkers. He destroyed at least 7 Bio Labs making Bill Gates new Pandemic impossible. He's going after the Deep State infrastructure. Just so these Ukrainian immigrants with family members can have their Ukraine back.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 2/26/2022 2:02:16 PM (No. 1083655)
It's a wonderful thought, but sadly not the least bit realistic.
Russian soldiers are historically pretty bad. Not very well trained, poorly motivated, and drunk most of the time.
But there are pretty much countless numbers of them, and they have really good weapons -- and lots of them!!! Going up against a small country like Ukraine, they are going to win just based on sheer numbers and the brutality of how they are ordered to fight. Sure, lots of Russian soldiers will die in this conflict (and Putin really doesn't care about that). But lots more Ukrainians will die (Putin will be certain of that).
Whether this takes days or a few weeks, Russia will prevail. And the cost to Ukraine in lost and ruined lives and destroyed infrastructure is going to be horrific. Putin is Hitler-level evil, but he is also smart. He weighed the cost vs benefits of invading, and knew there wasn't anyone to stop him. It's too darn bad that there wasn't a world leader strong enough to stand up to him and make him reconsider (like there was in 2017-2020)!!! Just saying...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/26/2022 2:11:36 PM (No. 1083669)
Folks in Lorrain County, IMHO, it appears that the Great Reset crowd now has competition - Putie has his own view of how the new world order should be. On his terms. One thing Putie, Chicom Xi, and the GR crowd have in common? The takedown of the United States. Unfortunately, and aside from massive corruption which is endemic in Ukraine's political system, the Ukrainian people will need to endure yet another period of violence and instability in their country.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2022 2:12:28 PM (No. 1083671)
My hope is for enough Russians to die that they pull out and give it up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2022 2:13:50 PM (No. 1083673)
Re #3, please explain what appears to be nonsense. None of that makes the slightest sense.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2022 2:16:11 PM (No. 1083677)
Re "Russian soldiers"....in WW2 a hell of a lot of those "Russian soldiers" were Soviet soldiers from Ukraine.
Never assume that the WW2 Soviet soldiers were all from Russia, even that's what we called them, incorrectly. Yes, lots from Russia, proper, but a lot from other soviet "republics", too, and just as tough as any others.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/26/2022 2:43:38 PM (No. 1083715)
I take it back, I do care what happens to the Ukrainians.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 2/27/2022 8:23:31 AM (No. 1084230)
#7, it is nearly impossible to discern the truth of world events today. Sometimes even logic fails, but at least it can point us in the right direction. I don't know if #3 was intended as sarcasm. I DO know that there are polar opposite portrayals of the Ukraine right now. As well as documented exposure of old news pictures being passed off as current.
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Posting this article as a human interest story expressed by Ukrainian immigrants with family members in Ukraine.