3 minutes agoKosovo and Ukraine: When History Repeates Its Images
Periskopi(5 months ago)
(5 months ago)Photographs of mothers crying over the coffins of their children killed, people leaving the war with trains and buses, bodies killed on the street... These photographs of the war in Kosovo and Ukraine have been marked by over 20 years of difference, but have a frightening resemblance, and serve as a reminder that war [...]
Photographs of mothers crying over the coffins of their children killed, people leaving the war with trains and buses, bodies killed on the street...
These photographs of the war in Kosovo and Ukraine have been fired by over 20 years apart, but have a frightening similarity, and serve as a reminder that war has the same face everywhere, it brings endless human suffering and great destruction.
As the war in Kosovo ended in 1999 following NATO intervention, what Russia launched against Ukraine in 2022 is continuing and Ukraine's suffering is continuing.
Ukraine: Major Ivan Scrypnyk's mother, crying over her son's coffin, who died as a result of the Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian military base in Yavoriv. Early in 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 55 thousand Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in defense of Ukraine since the beginning of the war in 2022. However, the exact number of those killed is unknown.
Ukraine: A woman transported in a chariot among people fleeing Russian attacks on Irpin, near Kiev on March 9, 2022.
Ukraine: A woman can be seen through a crack in a car window that was hit by Russian missiles near an apartment block in Kiev.
![Kosovo: A crowded train in Pristina transporting numerous Albanian refugees who fled Kosovo towards Macedonia [North Macedonia] on April 1st 1999. According to U NHCR, 800 to 900 thousand Albanians have been forced to leave the country during the 1998 1999 war. Ukraine: People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine gather at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Some 6.9 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave Ukraine since the beginning of the war on February 24, 2022, according to U. NHCR. This is the largest number of refugees in Europe since World War II.](https://gdb.rferl.org/b524e2e5-878d-4b67-3bbc-08de3c92853e_w1023_n_s.jpg)
Ukraine: People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine gather at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Some 6.9 million Ukrainians have been forced to leave Ukraine since the beginning of the war on February 24, 2022, according to U. NHCR. This is the largest number of refugees in Europe since World War II.
