Have you heard? Recently, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, something worrying has happened. The announcement by the Russians that they had taken another small village called Ocheredine caused quite a stir in the international community.
Imagine the village of Ochredine, just northwest of Avdeyevka, about 15 kilometers away. Avdeyevka, an industrial center, was occupied by Russian troops before.
Now, the Russian army, taking advantage of their superiority in manpower and weapons on the battlefield, has advanced several kilometers further, and this is no small matter.
Things are not so good on the Ukrainian side either, with their commander-in-chief, Alexander Syrsky, saying last week that they had to withdraw from three villages in the Donetsk region and are now busy building new defensive lines.
This retreat is not just as simple as changing places, behind this is the shattering of soldiers' lives and homes.
When it comes to weapons, the Ukrainian side is a real headache. They have been waiting for Western arms assistance, but what they have been waiting for is wave after wave of delays. It feels like you desperately need a heavy rain to put out the fire in your yard, but the clouds in the sky just don't rain.
Ukraine, for its part, has high hopes for U.S. arms assistance, hoping that it will help them stabilize their front lines, but to be honest, that hope can sometimes seem a little fragile.
War, that word sounds quite heavy. In Ukraine, this is not just a headline in the news, but a real reality.
Imagine how you would feel if your hometown suddenly became a battlefield? The suffering of the Ukrainian people, who have lost everything in the war, should not be just an after-dinner conversation.
Speaking of numbers, according to the International Crisis Group, more than 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict since the Ukraine crisis began in 2014, and millions more have been forced to leave their homes. Behind these figures, there are countless family tragedies and broken lives.
In the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, there is an elderly man named Petro, whose home was destroyed in the war, his son is missing, and his wife died in an artillery shelling. Petro's story is just a microcosm of the countless tragedies of the Ukrainian people.
Can war really bring peace? Or is it just another form of destruction and suffering? The situation in Ukraine makes us have to think deeply about this question. When we are focusing on the victory or defeat of war, we should pay more attention to those ordinary people who have lost everything in the war.