I can feel the tears brewing in my eyes......

I feel the same

I feel the same as you travelsafar, and feeling so helpless, and angry.

It is an entirely understandable feeling. We try to imagine what the Ukrainians are going through with having to flee their homes and country with many leaving behind their men to fight the Russian Army and wondering if they will ever see them again. We feel helpless too. We can donate items and money to try to alleviate their plight but it doesn't seem nearly enough when you see the devastation this lunatic has caused. He has this blinkered vision of reclaiming the Ukraine for Russia. He is a dangerous man. I don't wish death on anyone usually but I make an exception in his case because he has no thought for the thousands killed on his orders.

It's dreadful. I just saw footage of an 18 month old boy being carried into a hospital by his parents. The medical staff couldn't save him. Heartbreaking

I cannot believe that in this day and age a psychopath is allowed to do what he wants. The whole world is watching the terrors unfold and nothing is being done to stop it. The man has no heart sanctions will mean nothing to him he wants people to suffer even his own.

We have been through nearly two years of Covid the deaths the misery and mental instability it has caused. It's been overwhelming and now this it is totally beyond any comprehension. The Russian people should revolt against his orders and put an end to this tragic situation.

Me too.

The words that best describe describe my own emotions have already been used - despair, anger, fear, distress, helplessness ...

I am not given to emotional outbursts, but I suddenly burst into uncontrollable tears yesterday evening as my mind strayed back to one particular news item that I'd read earlier.

I don't know what to do. I can't bury my head in the sand, but can't keep listening to all the latest updates when I am powerless to actually do anything about it.

I was castigated by my DD for saying that I felt felt so much more emotionally involved with the situation in Ukraine than I had ever felt with regard to Palestine, Iran/Iraq or Vietnam, and this was because the people involved were 'just like us'. Apparently this is not a PC way of thinking but I can't help my feelings. This was especially true when a reporter interviewed an older Ukrainian Gentleman with a full white beard, who was the absolute double of and dressed the same as one of my lovely Scottish neighbours. It somehow made the situation personal and brought it so close to home.

Kate1949

It's dreadful. I just saw footage of an 18 month old boy being carried into a hospital by his parents. The medical staff couldn't save him. Heartbreaking

I presume that is from yesterday. It's the report that broke me

Yes Oldnproud. Horrific.

Granny23

Reading your comment was deeply upsetting

I hope you have apologised to your daughter for saying that

Have just seen a photo on my FB feed where Polish mothers have left pushchairs and prams at Railway Stations for Ukrainian mothers to use as they arrive with their children. The tears are just sliding down my cheeks......

Feel the same. Forever in my thoughts, but have had to cut down on watching news. I'm teary too, and it's affecting my sleep. When I wake up Ukraine is my first thought. Has Russia taken over the capital, or are the people fighting back and messing with Putin's heinous plan, or hopefully has someone assassinated this second Hitler! Putin dead, seems the only safe way to bring this invasion to an end. Cut the head off the snake, and the tail will die. I don't blame the Russian people as they are being fed such evil lies, but as the bodies of young soldiers are taken back to Russia maybe enough people can revolt in the streets that no guns can stop. It happened in Romania. Putin should remember how that ended!

VioletSky

Granny23

Reading your comment was deeply upsetting

I hope you have apologised to your daughter for saying that

But clearly lots feel like this, that journalist actually said it live to camera.

The tragedy Ukrainians have gone through for ten days, Palestinians have been enduring for years.

The world football authority FIFA fined Celtic for fans waving Palestinian flags, but were ok with footballers wearing Ukrainian flags. Personally I feel the 2 invading governments are at fault, both claiming this is their land and the peoples of the invaded countries are suffering horrendously. The ethnicity of any of the 4 countries doesn't interest me.

I feel the same. Trying to balance keeping informed without being totally overwhelmed. The thought that just two short weeks ago all those people were going about their normal routine and now they're suffering in a war zone is intolerable. All because of one man's greed and need for power. Containing my hatred of Putin is impossible.

I hope this isn’t going to turn into a titfor tat pass the blame thread.
I cry for all those poor people in Ukraine. And maybe it is easier to relate to them but it’s a tragedy that this is happening.
Let’s stay on topic.

I think you are being too hard on Granny23. She is just being honest about her reaction, which is perfectly valid.

My beautiful grandchildren visited yesterday. I don’t see them very often. I reflected how they have every advantage, and then thought of Ukrainian children at the present time. As my mother always said, we are lucky never to have been refugees. It’s just the luck of the draw. My grandchildren’s other granny is Polish, and her parents were refugees from Stalin. (The family lived in what is now Belarus. Stalin didn’t like Poles living in Russia.) She was born in a refugee camp in Buckinghamshire, so it is all very real to us. Count your blessings.

I feel the same as all the posters , I watch the 10 pm news sobbing, so distressing seeing the bewildered faces of children running alongside their parents, not knowing what’s going to happen. It’s cold , it’s dangerous. I just want them all tucked up safely in their own beds , and it’s not going to happen.
I think I shouldn’t watch the news but to not watch , in my eyes is me being dismissive of the awful situation.
How can Evil Putin just stand and watch this happen. Let’s hope he is disposed of very quickly. Evil Evil B——D.

This war is affecting us all because of the wall-to-wall news coverage, which is also fuelling anti-Russian sentiment. It's the government, not the Russian people waging war.

Travelsofar, I feel the same, it’s too much to bear.
Violet, why do you think you have the right to talk to Granny23 as you did. I’m heartily sick of people censoring anything and everything and taking the moral high ground, Are we to get told how to think by just anyone. We all share the same continent, they’re our neighbours. It’s deeply upsetting seeing a mad man razing towns, making people homeless and seeing tge anguish on countries adjoining theirs, knowing he won’t stop at Ukraine. he is taking their homes, infrastructure and the breadbasket of Europe away.

I’m the same, I’ve stopped watching online News and TV, just come on Social Media for GN and Facebook.
We have donated money to International Aid and direct to the Ukrainian Army and feel that really this is all we can do, unless and until someone tells us how we can help directly, I’m afraid I can’t watch it any more.
As someone else said, how can this evil man get away with such awful actions, will nobody in Russian Government stand up against him?

Chardy

This war is affecting us all because of the wall-to-wall news coverage, which is also fuelling anti-Russian sentiment. It's the government, not the Russian people waging war.

You are right. It reminds me of the general hatred of Germans in WW2, which was quite unjustified.

I've completely given up on the news for six days now. It helps because it's not specifically in your face with the most dramatic and horrific scenes it can find. Still have my imagination to contend with but that is slightly easier. I do tune in to the late night newspapers reviews and that gives me a more rational appraisal. Not at all good but gentler. Don't see the point in getting in-depth upset when I can do so little to help.

Granny23

I was castigated by my DD for saying that I felt felt so much more emotionally involved with the situation in Ukraine than I had ever felt with regard to Palestine, Iran/Iraq or Vietnam, and this was because the people involved were 'just like us'. Apparently this is not a PC way of thinking but I can't help my feelings. This was especially true when a reporter interviewed an older Ukrainian Gentleman with a full white beard, who was the absolute double of and dressed the same as one of my lovely Scottish neighbours. It somehow made the situation personal and brought it so close to home.

I understand totally what you mean. It’s down to being in a situation where you can actually imagine that being you or your children or grandchildren. Which doesn’t mean that you don’t care about it happening to others. I feel terrible guilt that this has got to me more that Syria or Iraq etc etc. and I am questioning myself for this but I’m also having to be honest with myself. At the same time an American Facebook friend of mine posted pictures of herself having a great time somewhere and I felt myself feeling angry that she was having fun when such awful things were happening: maybe there’s both a cultural difference and a distance thing going on. And, if I’m honest my empathy is combined with a fear for myself and more importantly, my family. It’s complicated. But imo it doesn’t make us uncaring people. I hope.

I feel the same. Like always carrying a heavy load of worry and upset. I wake up worrying and fall asleep with those sad images on my mind. Those pushchairs! The people rushing to help at the borders! Wonderful awful stuff if you know what I mean.
Re Granny23 she knows how she feels. They're her emotions. It's not up to anyone to tell anyone else how they ought to be feeling.