Ukraine Bombarded Donetsk, Including Bombing a Maternity Hospital, Then Claimed Russians Did It.

That kind of stuff is rotten to the core. At least you can fight fair, even if you are fighting a stupid war which you should not be fighting in the first place and which only benefits your real enemies. Oh well, someone said the two most common elements of the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. I haven’t proved them wrong yet.

Patrick Lancaster has made a lengthy and heartbreaking video of his visit to the mothers, babies and staff sheltering in the basement. Fortunately it is far cleaner and more habitable than the cellars in which so much of the population of the Donbass has found itself at any one time, but the trauma of these women (whose husbands are mainly fighting in the militia) must be terrible, even after the eight years of fighting they have already faced. There seems to be almost a resignation (albeit superficial) and a ‘what can you expect of such barbarians?’.