Well, hi there, everybody. It's 4 o'clock in New York. If war is hell, as those who

know say, then it has been a year of hell on Earth for millions in Ukraine, a year of

anguish and grief, of bravery and heroics, of death and destruction, and of pride, and hope

still.

That Ukraine still stands today, one year after the war began, is nothing short of a miracle,

one of the Ukrainian's own making.

By most conservative estimates, 8,000 civilians in Ukraine are dead. 13,000 have been injured.

5 million have been at least temporarily displaced within Ukraine, plus another 8 million

Ukrainians have been forced to flee abroad. That is 13 million people in all. The equivalent

of every single person living in Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and

San Antonio, all of them, suddenly and violently driven from their homes and their lives.

And all that is to say nothing of military casualties that have been suffered and estimated

more than 10,000 plus Ukrainian troops are dead, many of whom this time last year were

schoolteachers, or shop owners, or utility workers, or filmmakers, or doctors, nurses,

plumbers. Any other type of normal job in life you can imagine is what most of them were

doing a year ago. But the cataclysm of war aside, the word of the day on the San

anniversary from people who see it up close has to be resilience, because the Ukrainian

people have proudly and defiantly shown the world that they will not stand idly by,

while one Vladimir Putin seeks to take by attrition and by force what he wrongfully believes

to be his. President Zelensky, who spent his day in commemorative events like thanking

service members at a key hospital, also held a press conference and delivered a national

address. He again urged Russia to halt its aggression and praise the courage of his country,

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