Ukraine

As we all know, Ukraine is having their own Civil War. Fighting against the protestors. Many are stuck in cities with horrible conditions. No things are being shipped in and no one is getting out. Why is this important to me, a girl from Iowa, you ask? Well, this is important because it marks the world and hurts inoccent people. My teacher was showing us pictures of her daughter, who is studying abroad in Turkey, on winter break just two months ago in Ukraine. Just then, people were coming and going in dangerous situations. The Christmas tree was covered in protest banners and there were piles of stuff, out on the streets. Now, in February, no one is coming in, no one is coming out. The cities are on lock down. There's a girl name Luda who was a foreign exchange student at our school. She was from Ukraine and lives in the capitol city where it is very dangerous. Now in college, she stays in the dorms. She tells about people from across the street being kidnapped and no one knows where they are. Grocery stores, banks, any thing and everything is shut down. Hungry people lay on the streets, so do the dead people, who were shot by the police. This may not seem important to you, but it should be. These people are just like you, but they're living in a war and dying. And although we can't do much, we can pray for them, especially Luda. So Ukraine can go back to the way it was, not living in war.