Ukraine Tells Refugees Don’t Come Home Until After Winter | ZeroHedge
Vereshchuk explained that the national energy grid “won’t survive” the return of refugees from abroad, but instead the crisis would “only get worse”.
“To return now is to risk yourself and your children, your vulnerable relatives,” she emphasized in the surprisingly blunt remarks. She said this is because Russia continues “terrorizing the civilian population” – especially in targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
“I will ask you not to return, we need to survive the winter. Unfortunately, the power grids will not survive, you see what Russia is doing. You don t need to do this. If you have the opportunity to stay, it s better to spend the winter abroad,” Vereshchuk said, according to another translation.
We were going to go to Poland about now and meet Anya’s parents for the first time, but have put the trip off for concerns like those above. Spare a prayer for the people of Ukraine. Of course our war effort is led by rabid neo-cons who relish war, and is being exploited by numerous arms profiteers, just as all wars are. We should have avoided this war and should have, but now is not the time to leave Ukraine to its fate. It breaks my heart to think of the beautiful city of Kyiv and its people exposed to the Russians’ heartless attacks.
Anya texted us that the friendly couple who ran the liquor store in their neighborhood, where Luke used to buy beer from San Diego, were killed by a Russian drone strike. I posted a report about Russian war crimes below; read as much of it as you can stand. It’s like a list of descriptions of home invasion atrocities, one after another, until you can read no more.