Sunday, March 6, 2022

Sunday Best: “I’m writing from a bunker with President Zelensky beside me”

"We know this war is not just about Ukraine. The Kremlin wants to create a new Russian empire."

"I fear that Russia's invasion, regardless of its outcome, portends a new era of immense hostility with Moscow — and that this new cold war will be far worse than the first," Mary Elise Sarotte wrote in a guest essay last week.

On one hand, this moment feels familiar, like we've been here before — but at the same time like we're entering new territory. That sentiment was only magnified a week ago when President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear forces on high alert. While, as Spencer Bokat-Lindell notes, there's a record of nuclear powers threatening to use their arsenals throughout history, one destabilizing effect of this invasion "could be a renewed global thirst for nuclear weapons as a means of protecting national sovereignty."

As tension rises, Ukrainians continue to fight — and they believe they can win, our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes: "The odds remain against the Ukrainians. But their conviction has given them a chance." Andriy Yermak, the top aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, writing beside him from a bunker in the capital, said they remain solid in their resolve to defeat the invaders: "We will fight to the last breath to protect our country."

If you're wondering how you can help the people of Ukraine, here are four highly rated aid groups working in the region that Times Opinion spoke with and are worth supporting.

— Alexandra March

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