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Buddhists are celebrating Buddha Day, one of their most important festivals of the year, for the first time in-person together since the pandemic. The festival, also known as Vesak or Wesak day, is a celebration of Buddha's birthday and a time to reflect on his teachings and what it means to be Buddhist. It usually takes place on the first full moon in May, but previously events have been disrupted by the Covid pandemic. Each Buddhist culture has its own traditions for the day, but it is celebrated in lots of different Asian countries, including Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

All is calm in the southern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk. Yet, the signs of Russian occupation are palpable. Russian troops patrol the streets and tanks are parked around the city. But unlike most of the country, there are no sounds of active warfare. That’s because Ukrainian troops left the city quickly after Russian forces took control of it, just four days after the invasion began on February 24, 2022. In the weeks since, Berdyansk, west of the besieged port of Mariupol, has been cut off…

Makeup artist pays tribute and plead for the war to end soon.

In which John explores historical and political context to understand what caused the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine, and how we arrived at this awful now. There is a LOT of misinformation in comments, so why not read directly from SOURCES? But first, CORRECTIONS: The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian. "National languages" as a phrase was confusing. I should've just said that 30% of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language. Also, the etymology of "Ukraine" is not settled as "borderlands." Many Ukrainian linguists argue that the etymology of Ukraine comes from words meaning "In My Land," not "borderlands." Thirdly, I misspelled Kyiv as Kiev. If I made further mistakes, let me know and I'll amend here.

In total, according to the ORYX researchers Russia already lost about 2000 units of equipment in Ukraine. It is destroyed, abandoned, captured by Ukrainians. And this is only what was discovered in the photos and videos.