UKRAINE DIARY
We are the nation. We are Ukrainians.
EVGEN KULIKOV
Everyone knows that on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a massive war on us.
[ EVGEN KULIKOV, citizen of Ukraine narrates the situation of the unimaginable and unprecedented bloody situation of Ukraine from a unique angle from the 3rd day of the war started by Russia. Evgen Kulikov beautifully crafts the days of pain, horror, uncertainty, death, bombings, exodus, resistance, fighting, and many more in the UKRAINE DIARY. Evgen requests readers of www.mahabahu.com to read his pages – so that readers can feel the situation from this part of the world too. Editor, Mahabahu]
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Today is the 32nd day of WAR in Ukraine.
My post regarding 31st day of WAR was blocked by LinkedIn.
Ok, let’s try to talk about business, not about war.
But you know, it is hard to talk about positive management, gender equality, sustainability, energy transmission, carbon footprint, green deals, climate change, diversity and inclusion when the bombs and missiles are falling on Ukrainian cities.
The bomb doesn’t care about your age, gender, religion, preferences and special needs.
The bomb doesn’t care if you were consuming with care, recycling, sorting garbage, helping orphans, taking care of homeless dogs.
The bomb doesn’t care if you were concerned with deforestation or biodiversity.
It just kills.
Ukraine was developing renewable energy projects, solar and wind; Ukraine intended to reduce coal consumption; Ukraine was participating in green hydrogen projects.
Does it still matter when invaders have captured two Nuclear Power Plants and destroyed several combined heat and power plants, leaving several large cities without hot water, heat and electricity?
We may talk about ESG and CSR. Then we need to question ourselves, how it comes that some very reputable companies keep on working in the country, which can’t be named in this post, knowing that the taxes they pay are used to finance the army, which kills people in Ukraine and creates the humanitarian catastrophe the Europe has not seen since WWII?
How paying taxes to invader complies with 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?
You know, we financed some nice green project in Ukraine just before the war. We obtained positive ESG assessment, confirming green nature of the project. We signed loan documentation and disbursed first tranches. Then the war came to our country. I do not know if the company will finish that project at all, it have just lost any sense.
But I hope such projects will become for us relevant again.
Yesterday, exactly when Joe Biden was making his speech in Warsaw, two missiles strikes hit Lviv, large Ukrainian city located some 60km from the border with Poland.
Lviv these days is the place where many foreign embassies moved from Kyiv.
Lviv these days is huge shelter and huge humanitarian hub on the way to the west for those Ukrainians who lost their homes.
Coincidence in time is not accidental.
EU, US and NATO are free to make their own conclusion about the “message” delivered by those missiles.
We keep on fighting on our land for our freedom.
We keep on protesting in occupied cities, like people in Slavutych on the photo.
We are the nation. We are Ukrainians!
Read Ukraine Diary: Today is the 31st Day of War in Ukraine
20-05-2022
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