What's Happening in Ukraine and Yemen? - Humanitarian Headlines - SMC Ep. 28

So it's been a few months since we've brought Ukraine up on the show.

We had a couple of interviews earlier on this year, one with the team at Ukrainian Patriot, who are actively working in the country itself.

And we also had a really great informative interview with Elena Beketova, an analyst in-- based in the United States, which was tremendously informative.

So feel free to check both of those out.

And obviously the links to help both of those are in the description of those episodes.

That being said, onto the more recent events.

Now, let's not mince words here.

The Russians, they bomb Ukrainian cities every day with the sole intention of murdering innocent people and causing terror.

Now, believe it or not, things have actually gotten worse and they've intensified their bombing of nearly every region of Ukraine, but focusing in particular on the high density population regions and cities such as Kyiv and Odesa.

Take yesterday, for instance.

I'm recording this on October eighth, but yesterday on October seventh, which as a reminder, is Putin's seventy-fourth birthday.

Russian drones and missiles struck multiple Ukrainian cities over the course of one night with escalated vigor really.

At the time of recording, a total of thirty people have died and a hundred and seventeen more have been injured over the course of just one night, though of course that number may still rise.

In Pryluky, for example, a city in the Chernihiv Oblast, a cruise missile struck an apartment building, killing twenty-two people, including five children.

In Kyiv, at least four people have been killed and thirteen more injured.

But the resulting disruptions to the electricity and water supplies in the city have left many residents without power and without water.

And all of this ahead of a winter that promises to be more severe than most in terms of the conditions with regards to weather and cold.

Now it's easy to forget that the Ukrainian conflict does still affect a large majority of the civilians living around the country.

If you are only tangentially following the conflict, I think that you can easily be forgiven in thinking that it is just quote unquote, just a conflict that's happening in the east where majority of the casualties are between combatants.

But as I said, let's not mince our words here.

It is Russia's policy to harm and to kill as many civilians as possible and to demoralize the Ukrainian population into submission.

Now, one of the few good things about social media these days is that you, the individual listener, we the observers of Ukraine from a distance, we can actually do something about it from our own home and help save innocent lives in Ukraine.

There's a Ukrainian NGO called Come Back Alive, which has a number of initiatives, but there's one that is particularly worth highlighting today, which is their crowdfunding campaign to supply first person view drones, FPV drones that are used to intercept Russian and Iranian drones that Russia flies into Ukrainian homes, into Ukrainian schools and Ukrainian hospitals on a daily basis.

And they are not alone.

There are a number of NGOs that all have similar crowdfunding efforts with regards to the acquisition of air defense capabilities.

So it's been a few months since we've brought Ukraine up on the show.

We had a couple of interviews earlier on this year, one with the team at Ukrainian Patriot, who are actively working in the country itself.

And we also had a really great informative interview with Elena Beketova, an analyst in-- based in the United States, which was tremendously informative.

So feel free to check both of those out.

And obviously the links to help both of those are in the description of those episodes.

That being said, onto the more recent events.

Now, let's not mince words here.

The Russians, they bomb Ukrainian cities every day with the sole intention of murdering innocent people and causing terror.

Now, believe it or not, things have actually gotten worse and they've intensified their bombing of nearly every region of Ukraine, but focusing in particular on the high density population regions and cities such as Kyiv and Odesa.

Take yesterday, for instance.

I'm recording this on October eighth, but yesterday on October seventh, which as a reminder, is Putin's seventy-fourth birthday.

Russian drones and missiles struck multiple Ukrainian cities over the course of one night with escalated vigor really.

At the time of recording, a total of thirty people have died and a hundred and seventeen more have been injured over the course of just one night, though of course that number may still rise.

In Pryluky, for example, a city in the Chernihiv Oblast, a cruise missile struck an apartment building, killing twenty-two people, including five children.

In Kyiv, at least four people have been killed and thirteen more injured.

But the resulting disruptions to the electricity and water supplies in the city have left many residents without power and without water.

And all of this ahead of a winter that promises to be more severe than most in terms of the conditions with regards to weather and cold.

Now it's easy to forget that the Ukrainian conflict does still affect a large majority of the civilians living around the country.

If you are only tangentially following the conflict, I think that you can easily be forgiven in thinking that it is just quote unquote, just a conflict that's happening in the east where majority of the casualties are between combatants.

But as I said, let's not mince our words here.

It is Russia's policy to harm and to kill as many civilians as possible and to demoralize the Ukrainian population into submission.

Now, one of the few good things about social media these days is that you, the individual listener, we the observers of Ukraine from a distance, we can actually do something about it from our own home and help save innocent lives in Ukraine.

There's a Ukrainian NGO called Come Back Alive, which has a number of initiatives, but there's one that is particularly worth highlighting today, which is their crowdfunding campaign to supply first person view drones, FPV drones that are used to intercept Russian and Iranian drones that Russia flies into Ukrainian homes, into Ukrainian schools and Ukrainian hospitals on a daily basis.

And they are not alone.

There are a number of NGOs that all have similar crowdfunding efforts with regards to the acquisition of air defense capabilities.