04-27-2022, 05:27 AM
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Why should the left support Ukraine's right to defend itself?
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Mariupol and kyiv, sparing residential neighborhoods India Phone Number List and civilian infrastructure such as schools and hospitals. What is happening looks more and more like a punitive war. The images of the northwestern suburbs of kyiv can attest to this: Irpin, Borodyanka, Bucha, Gostomel, as well as several villages located along the kyiv-Zhytomyr route are already half-destroyed. In those suburbs where the fighting India Phone Number List continues, the population has been without electricity, heating and a telephone network since the first days of the war.
