Our Dominican Family has chosen to focus our Dominican Month for Peace. on Ukraine, a country struggling with the effects of violence and war.

UNICEF, a worldwide nonprofit organization providing relief to Ukraine, describes the situation as an ongoing challenge, especially for children: “After seven years of conflict, women and children in Eastern Ukraine remain extremely vulnerable. The conflict is taking a heavy toll on civilians: regular ceasefire violations, damage to homes, and social infrastructures lead to mine contaminations and limited access to services.”

Here are some resources that you can use to continue to learn about and offer support to the people of Ukraine.

Documentaries:
Hunger for Truth:

In English:        Hunger for Truth

Generation Maidan:
In English:        https://vimeo.com/ondemand/generationmaidan

Resources on Ukraine:
https://ui.org.ua/onlinecourse_en

ucmc.org         https://ui.org.ua/media-research-xx_en

Organizations to support:
Building Ukraine Together: https://bur.lef.org.ua/en/

This is a project that has had great moral as well as material impact.
BUR Friends – monthly BUR support campaign provided by people who believe in the idea of ​​the program and want to be part of it.
Support of Political Prisoners held in Russia: case of Oleksandr Marchenko

Ukrainian Political Prisoner Oleksandr Marchenko
A Russian court has sentenced Oleksandr Marchenko to 10 years’ imprisonment, despite the evidently flawed nature of the charges against him and his consistent account of torture inflicted by Russian-controlled militants in eastern Ukraine before being abducted to Russia.

Write a letter of support:

Here is a sample letter (letters must be written in Russian)

Привет,

Желаю Вам здоровья и терпения, и очень надеюсь на скорое освобождение. Простите, что мало пишу – мне трудно писать по-русски, но мы все о Вас помним.

[Hi.  I wish you good health, courage and patience and hope that you will soon be released.  I’m sorry that this letter is short – it’s hard for me to write in Russian., but you are not forgotten. ]

Address

350915 РФ, Краснодар, ул. Красноармейская, д. 22, ФКУ СИЗО-5

Марченко Александру Владимировичу,  1971 г. р.

[In English:  350095, Russian Federation, Krasnodar, 22 Krasnoarmeiska St, SIZO No. 5

Marchenko, Alexander Vladimirovich, b. 1971 ]

Books on Ukraine:
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
Bloodlands by Tim Snyder
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
Road to Unfreedom by Tim Snyder
Putin’s People by Catherine Belton