Message from our Program Manager - June 2022
Dear LCLUCers, In March of 2020 Secretary-General António Guterres of the United Nations said: “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war”, calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. If he only knew what he would face two years later, when five Russian missiles hit Kyiv "immediately" after he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finished their meeting in Kyiv. There is a popular joke: If you ask someone there about COVID, they’ll shrug their shoulders “what is it?” What is happening now could not be believed in the beginning of this year. Not a single analyst suggested a scenario of a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, which Russia keeps calling a “special operation” – a limited regional conflict in eastern Ukraine was expected by many, though. During this “special operation”, millions of people became refugees, hundreds of thousands became homeless, dead or wounded. And the war goes on, at least at the time of this writin