Forced to Leave

Don’t fund war, give russia tunnel vision, provide no light at the end, boycott and demand companies to end business involvement in and with russia. 

dontfundwar.com provides an automatically synchronized database (collected by Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute), including a rubric that separates companies based on level of engagement with the russian federation. Ranging from “Digging In:” companies defying demands for exit/reduction of activities—to “Withdrawal:” companies completely halting engagement, and four other categories in between, (Buying Time, Scaling Back, and Suspension). 

At this moment, this morning, today, yesterday, over the weekend, 4 days ago, and every day for almost a year and a half, and continuing- regions of Ukraine are shelled by russian forces, who continue to terrorize peaceful cities and people. Unfortunately there are almost always dead, wounded, and survivors rescued from under the rubble. 

This morning, russians have already shelled Kherson, hitting a hospital, one doctor has died and a nurse injured. 

Today in Kharkiv, rescue workers are onsite cleaning debris from the overnight attacks.

Yesterday the search under the rubble in Kryvyi Rih was completed. It is reported that 6 people were killed, among them, 10 year old Darja and her mother Natalia. 73 injured, 8 children among the injured. Missles hit a residential building, a university and administrative facilities. 

Over the weekend, in Kherson 4 people were killed, 17 wounded, among them a child and four volunteers.

4 days ago, Dnipro. In 13 months out of the total 1 year, 4 months and 3 weeks, 60 people have died, and over 120 have been injured in Dnipro. 

A week ago, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chornomorsk, Reni, Izmail: russia attempts to blackmail the world by attacking key port cities, deliberately targeting infrastructure that facilitate the export of food to the rest of the world.

The Transfiguration Cathedral of Odesa itself embodies the struggle within Ukrainian history against russian aggression and imperialism. In 1808 it was designated the main church of New Russia but anyway, the Soviets already once demolished it themselves in 1936.

Although many news sources do extensive research and give their best to report every attack, and how many were killed or injured; the devastation is so absolutely relentless and the crimes against humanity so numerous, it is not really ever possible to wholly provide any full review that would do justice to the daily trauma, human, and ecological loss. The short summaries I describe are not mean to be any full report for the month. They are but a few among the many tragedies that are occurring everyday, have been occurring, everyday, for almost a year and a half in Ukraine.

In the (so-far) 523 days of full-scale invasion, data produced by OCHA (United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports:

6 million refugees registered across Europe (6.3 worldwide). 5.1 million internally displaced people (estimated). 9,287 civilian casualties (killed), 535 of which children. 15,993 people reported injured, 1,090 of which children. 8,000-10,000 (estimated) individuals have lost limbs since the invasion.

UNESCO has verified: 12 journalists killed 274 cultural sites, 3,467 educational institutions damaged or destroyed

Links:  Comprehensive list of companies that still operate in Russia, financing its war against Ukraine: https://dontfundwar.com/ OCHA: https://data.humdata.org/visualization/ukraine-humanitarian-operations/ UNESCO: https://www.unesco.org/en/ukraine-war