{"id":39,"date":"2026-08-25T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-08-25T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T22:02:03","slug":"ukraine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/content\/ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the parent page for our Ukraine content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Considerations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are important truths to keep in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Russia invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russian has killed Ukrainians and taken Ukrainian territory through military force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia desires to eliminate Ukraine as a nation, its people, and its culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It seeks to control the territory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia has a scorched earth approach which totally destroys a city reducing it to nothing but rubble through artillery, guided bombs, drones and missiles in order to &#8220;occupy&#8221; or take control of it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia has committed a huge number of war crimes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ukraine is simply trying to defend its life and liberty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Facts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is often called the <strong>Russo-Ukrainian War<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia invaded Ukraine&#8217;s Crimean Peninsula on February 27, 2014\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia seized Ukrainian territory in the eastern Donbas in April 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the eastern Donbas region, specifically the Donetsk and Luhansk area, the conflict killed over 14,000 people between 2014 and 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russia escalated the war into a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since 2022 the conflict is considered the largest military conflict in Europe since World War 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As of March 2026 it is estimated that Russia has committed over 213,000 war crimes against Ukraine and its people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0Center for Strategic and International Studies\u00a0(CSIS) estimates as of June 2026\u00a0that 400,000\u2013450,000 Russian soldiers\u00a0have been killed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The CSIS June 2026 estimate for Ukrainian military deaths is between\u00a0125,000 and 150,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As of July 2026 the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0has verified at least\u00a016,874 civilian deaths\u00a0in Ukraine (the true number is likely much higher)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These numbers would make this the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div id=\"ccchildpages-1\" class=\"ccchildpages ccflex threecol simple ccclearfix\"><div class=\"ccchildpage  ccfirst ccodd ccpage-count-1 ccpage-id-41 ccpage-ukraine-devastation ccpage-has-parent ccpage-pid-39 ccpage-parent-ukraine\"><h3 class=\"ccpage_title\" title=\"Ukraine- Devastation\">Ukraine- Devastation<\/h3><div class=\"ccpages_excerpt\">We will be posting here examples of the devastation that Russia has done to Ukraine.<\/div><p class=\"ccpages_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/content\/ukraine\/ukraine-devastation\/\"  title=\"Read more ...\">Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the parent page for our Ukraine content. Considerations These are important truths to keep in mind. Key Facts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/52"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacerequiresjustice.org\/w1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}