I remember my first visit to Kyiv, which was over 15 years ago. I remember the friendly, innocent young guys working at the hotel. At that stage of the world DVDs were still a thing. I found some of our movies, by chance, in a DVD shop at the bottom level of the Globus mall by Independence Square. That shop is no longer there. DVDs are not something one can easily find these days in shops. I remember asking this one guy at the hotel about trying to find a particular movie. He said that I should just give him a memory stick and he would put it onto the stick for me. And I discovered that the word “copyright” in Eastern Europe was interpreted as the “right to copy”.

There are rules, like the 10 Commandments, which if everyone followed, would mean the world would be a more peaceful place. And then there are international laws, formed by governments, which we all think are important, but if some countries don’t follow these laws then we let it go. So what if Eastern Europe copies software, music, movies, etc. Corporations can’t really do anything about it so they live with it. But when one country starts sending missiles to its neighbour and killing innocent people, week after week, somehow this too is something everyone just lives with. What if those missiles suddenly were sent to your city?

Last night Ukraine was hit by so many missiles. The trauma, the death, the destruction, just doesn’t seem to ever stop. And it is amazing that the world cannot stop it. What is the point of the United Nations, for example. Some countries don’t follow the rules and because it is just Ukraine, so what. But what happens if it is suddenly meant that France or Canada, say, were attacked by deadly missiles. Would the world watch or would there be serious action?!

Here is an excerpt from one of the online news channels from Ukraine – this is from last night. And this is taking place every week, often many times a week.

What is currently known about the consequences of the missile attack and shelling:

▪️ In Kyiv, several high-rise buildings, a service station, a gas pipe, and an institution were damaged by rocket fragments. Seven people were injured, including two children.

▪️ In Kharkiv, six hits in Slobodsky district. Two people are wounded.

▪️ A missiles hits a civilian infrastructure facility in Cherkasy. Five people are wounded. At least one person is under the rubble.

▪️ In Kherson, Russians shelled residential neighborhoods. Two people were killed, five wounded, and seven others injured.

▪️ Missiles hit Rivne. Details are still unknown.

▪️ In Lviv region, three Russian missiles hit Drohobych. Two hit an industrial facility and one hit a private two-story warehouse.

Here in Poland people are worried. If Ukraine falls, God forbid, then the Russian border will be pushed to Poland and if you think that the evil will suddenly stop there then you are mad. Evil is exactly that, evil. It doesn’t have boundaries. It will continue to spread, like a cancer. Putin will keep testing the weakness of the West and I would not be surprised if he suddenly attacked the Baltics next.

Russia has never played by the rules, so if you think they have limits to their evil then you are wrong.