Refugees
in large numbers are not new --hello Syria, hello, Afghanistan, hello,
South Sudan, hello, DRC-- but the speed at which the number of Ukrainian
refugees has risen is devastating. Two million people as of last
night's NPR news, half of them children. And this morning in the
newspapers and their websites, the news that half the population of Kyiv
is now displaced. That's half of the capital city, a city of close to
three million inhabitants. Think of the most populous city of your state
(or country if you are not a continent-wide country like the US or
Canada or Australia) and half the population fleeing on short notice, in
less than two weeks. The other half in a makeshift fortress city
watching for enemy armies. The mind boggles. The heart races, or nearly
stops.
From The Guardian today:
Russia-Ukraine war latest news: half of Kyiv population has fled, mayor says; Turkey talks end without progress on ceasefire
I will shortly post in the comments to this post the names and website info of reliable aid organizations.
