The war in Ukraine affects those here, too: Part one
by Karin L. Nauber
Warning: This story contains some graphic photographs and descriptions of what is happening in Ukraine. This story and accompanying photos may be disturbing for some of our readers. Actually, this story should be disturbing to all of our readers because this hits home much closer than most of us probably even imagine.
This is part one of the story of Oksana Laumeyer from the Long Prairie/Osakis area who is originally from Ukraine.
I’ve never awoke to the walls of my home crumbling down around me. I’ve never had to flee from my home with only the things I could carry.
I’ve never had to carry my bullet-riddled child to a make-shift hospital in a war-torn country.
Most of us never have.
But that is what is happening in Ukraine right now. As I write this—as you read this—there are people being bombed out of their homes. There are people being shot in the streets. There are children and women and men being murdered beyond the “usual” crimes of war.
Whether you are following the war launched by Russia upon Ukraine earlier this year or not, the story of this “civil war” is a heartfelt one, especially for one woman and her family in the Long Prairie area.
Oksana Laumeyer grew up in Ukraine in a city called Chernivtsi. . .