This is not a war. This is a genocide

Finally I can log in to my account again. I am back from Poland. It was a very different trip. Just before we left, a friend of mine was a bit afraid about the entire situation between Ukraine and Russia.

Because the war began three days before my travel back to the USA, I don't have much experience of this tragedy. Just before our departure from Poland, Polish media were showing how much military stuff Russians were using against Ukraine. For some reason we knew that this would be a huge sacrifice made by our neighbors - the Ukrainians.

To understand the relationship between Poland and Ukraine you have to look at the history of both nations. For hundreds of years Poland and Ukraine were together or they were neighbors. One of the biggest and the best Polish Universities for centuries was in Lviv, a big city in Ukraine now. Our relationship wasn't always great; there were many tensions, but there was always a common enemy - Russia.

Today the history proves that it wasn't wrong. Nothing changed. This morning I read another news story from some Polish media about Russian attacks on refugees in the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol and Wolnowach. This is not a war. This is a genocide. Poland received almost 800,000 refugees. Almost 1.2 million altogether left Ukraine. This nation has 45 million people. How many will be left at the end of this war? Priests and nuns of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church are staying with their parishioners. Beautiful Eastern and Western Rite Churches are targets for the military operations.

This can only happen if for decades you create a society where there is no place for God. If you remove moral law from the human heart and replace it with man-made laws, then everything is possible. It is very unfortunate that these poor Russian soldiers do not even know that they are participating in a real war. The media controlled by the Russian government are still saying that Russia is protecting innocent people living in Ukraine.