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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Ukrainians

JL;DR SUMMARY The article examines the complexities and sentiments surrounding the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, particularly focusing on the controversial U.S. peace plan led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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UkraineTrump AdministrationU.S. Foreign PolicyJared KushnerRussiaCorruptionPeace PlanUkrainian ResistanceSteve Witkoff

Places mentioned

Chernihivshchyna, Ukraine
"Our insurance had deemed it too dangerous for us to stay overnight in Dnipro, which is only about an hours drive from the front, and so that night we stayed at a chintzy Soviet-era roadside motel in Poltava Oblast."
Kyiv, Ukraine
"I was not surprised at this outcome. When news of the peace plan dropped, I was in Kyiv as part of a small junket for journalists organized by the nonprofit Razom for Ukraine."
Ternopil, Ternopilshchyna, Ukraine
"We awoke after a quiet night to discover that there had been a major barragenot in Kyiv but in Ternopil, a safe city in western Ukraine."
Pokrovsk, Donechchyna, Ukraine
"After months of grueling fighting, the Russians were on the verge of capturing Pokrovsk, a town in Donetsk that Ukraine had invested heavily in defending."
Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
"The Russians were on the move in the south, too, in Zaporizhzhia."
Kupyansk, Donechchyna, Ukraine
"In mid-December, after Id returned home, I opened X one morning and read accounts of a devastating Ukrainian counterattack on trapped Russian forces in Kupyansk."
Odeshchyna, Ukraine
"I spoke to Odesa, a sergeant in the Third Assault, who had volunteered in 2014 when the Russians seized his hometown and had been fighting ever since."
Melitopol, Dnipropetrovshchyna, Ukraine
"If they take over Ukraine, theres not going to be a Ukraine, and most of the people who love Ukraine will be dead or gone. He described the Russian policy of demographic engineering, or what Western analysts have described as ethnic cleansing, in the occupied areas of Ukraine."
Dnipro, Dnipropetrovshchyna, Ukraine
"After meeting with Sergeev, our group loaded in a van to begin our two-day journey to Dnipro, a city on the Dnieper River some 300 miles south of Kyiv."
Zhytomyrshchyna, Ukraine
"As we were getting ready to leave, he said he would pray for us and asked us to deliver a message."

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