I wish I could say “stop the war”

I wish I could say “stop the war”.

Respondent/Alen Zinoruk

An Ukrainan who is a PHD student still stays in Ukraine during the war between Ukraine and Russia.

Russian military fighter jets crossed the Ukrainian border, and began to bomb all military facilities throughout the country, then the ground forces with tanks and military equipment began to move. All of Ukraine was shelled at 5 am on February 24, martial law was introduced throughout the country at 7 am. In the first three weeks of the invasion, all educational institutions did not work at all. Everything stopped. After three weeks, universities and schools switched to online study, it is very difficult to study and perceive at least some scientific information when a full-scale war began in your country (Taiwan). As the Russian military bombarded Ukraine with fighter jets and long-range missiles, sirens sounded 10 times a day. The siren sounds when you have an online class and you have to drop everything off and run with your family to a basement or a shelter, it is difficult to make your mental health stable later. During the war, many schools, kindergartens, and universities were destroyed. Teachers and professors, students cannot be drafted into the ranks of the Ukrainian army (by law), if they do not want it voluntarily.

They (Russians) put moral pressure on you, depression appears (it happened to me for the first time two months after the start of the war). People, soldiers are dying who are fighting for our freedom in Ukraine, many people are suffering. When you have lived a day, and woke up in the morning, this is already a small victory.

There was even a shortage of basic products, as people started to panic, in the first days of the war people panickedly bought everything in stores in large quantities, leaving nothing to others, food was imported quite rarely due to logistic problems. The situation improved and everything stabilized weeks later.

If we are talking about material things, then it can be humanitarian things, donations to people who are in need.If we are talking about moral things, if you know someone who is Ukrainian, try to support this person morally every word has its value.