Iris Flower Art is a small painting from #Ukraine. Thank you, Tatyana Phelnikova! Please send my compliments to your parents for maintaining such an inspirational garden. 🥰 And, of course, they're lucky to have you to immortalize their efforts. 🎨🇺🇦

Sometimes, the most honest and authentic way to express gratitude is with a healthy dose of snark. See for yourself, with my #poem “Shock.” Thank you, F. J. Bergmann, for selecting it for publication in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. 🔗 mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/shock.h…

Now that these loopholes in sanctions against #russia have been exposed, can we work quickly to close them up? cnn.com/2024/02/19/eur…

Today may be the first day of spring, but "Pink colors of the evening" from Nana Barkalaia arrived from Ukraine yesterday afternoon and I can't stop marveling at its luminous colors and textures. You have uniquely captured the magic of winter, Нана Баркалая! #art #artquilt

I had to expand my painting collection from #Ukraine a little beyond landscapes with this most recent purchase from 1stDibs. Eternity of Magnolia by Tetiana Pchelnykova is the perfect companion to a poem I wrote. For me, this is what the first stage of healing looks like.

When I wrote "Roots," I didn’t know the #poem would be ekphrastic. Synchronicity works in mysterious ways. In “Eternity of Magnolia,” Tatyana Phelnikova has expressed her sense of her own healing through nature in response to the trauma of war. 🔗 ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic…

On CNN, Jerry Heil: “It’s very important topic that isn’t discussed enough.” Russia kidnapped over 30,000 Ukrainian children, and still not returned them home. Only 388 have returned home. Please don’t ignore this. #AllEyesOnKids

My little brother’s birthday is today. He never lived to see the age of 22. Thank you to Naugatuck River Review for allowing me to share this #poem I wrote a few years after losing him, thank you to Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet for helping me polish it for publication. #poetry #grief

The fight against propaganda from certain sources is an uphill battle, especially on this platform. But people need reminding.

A reminder that genocide was the intent all along. The world can't just stand by and watch.

The first I've heard of this....It deserves more attention.

We did it. We opened the exhibition “The ART of HEALING” — a space where art helps children who’ve survived war feel alive again. At Save Ukraine, we ask ourselves one main question every day: How can we help a child recover faster — and deeper?⬇️

Russian occupiers are threatening Ukrainian prisoners of war with reprisals against their children — children who remain trapped in occupied territories. Families of POWs are offered a cruel deal: the promise of their loved ones’ survival in exchange for spreading propaganda on

Russia has proposed exchanging Russian prisoners of war for Ukrainian children who were abducted from the occupied territories. The conditions put forward by the Russian side defy common sense, morality, and any Christian values. I participated in the Minsk negotiations as the

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Russia isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. It’s openly trafficking Ukrainian children. On official platforms, Ukrainian orphans are displayed like products in an online marketplace. Full-face photos. Age. Eye color. Health status. Even “obedience level.” Filterable. Sortable.

Russian 're-education': how Ukrainian children are being broken under occupation What if a child’s mother tongue, books, memories — even their love for their country — were labeled “extremism”? This is the reality for Ukrainian children living under Russian occupation. While

Russia has just amended its criminal code to allow prosecution of children as young as 14 years old for “sabotage” — with penalties reaching life imprisonment. For Ukrainian teenagers living under Russian occupation, this is not a theoretical threat. It is a direct extension of

Read this text from Volodymyr Kukharenko to understand the everyday life of Ukrainian people: I have not been on vacation for four years. I have had no business trips to establish new connections. Currently, I live and work about 70% of the time without electricity. I had to buy