Recently, I spoke with a German man who said: “Why not just give the occupied territories to russia?”
I asked which parts of Germany he would be willing to give to Putin.
He said: any. As if power, repression, and freedom were interchangeable.

I keep thinking about that answer.
This war is already in Europe — and how easily some are ready to trade land for quiet shows how deeply war is still misunderstood here. You don’t stop it by feeding it. You only teach it how far it can go.

The boy killed in a russian missile strike on Kharkiv was only three years old. His name was Maksym. His mother is still considered missing. The photo shows all that remains of their home.

Christmas Eve in Ukraine