I had been following Nikolay Lukin on Instagram for some time, and this morning he followed me back. Дякую, Микола. His latest post is a week old, it shows us a wildflower meadow and trees in bloom in Odessa, which Nikolay captioned: Spring walks hand in hand with death. The work I have chosen is not recent, it's from 2016. The Ukrainian people have been living with Russian invaders since 2014, when Putin dispatched his army to the country's borders for 'military operations',

Today is Liberation Day in Italy. Seventy-seven years later, I am mindful of its importance and continued relevance. To mark this anniversary, I have decided to take aim at those people who, with an inexplicable air of badly concealed annoyance, pontificate that Ukraine 'should just give up already' and surrender a part of its own country to the Russian invaders so they don't get massacred and, far more importantly, so we don't get dragged into a 3rd world war. What a nuisanc