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Demonstrators rally in support of Ukraine in Chicago, Illinois, on March 2, 2025.

In war between Russia and Ukraine, United States is first to surrender, but Americans still stand with Ukraine

by The Kyiv Independent Opinion DeskOctober 22, 2026

Got an opinion on anything you've read in the Kyiv Independent? Send it to letters@kyivindependent.com — your letter may appear in our Letters section. Mark Cary, United States member I vividly remember when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was in my second year in college studying the history, ideology, and global influence of this dictatorship in an academic concentration called "Soviet and Eastern European Studies." In 1989, the world felt joy and hope when the Berlin Wall fell. Once that

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Empty graves after the exhumation of bodies from mass burial sites in Izium, Ukraine, on Nov. 4, 2022.

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by Vakhtang KebuladzeOctober 20, 2026

Firefighters recover the body of an elderly woman from the rubble in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2026.

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