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Maria Marchenko

Maria Marchenko is an independent researcher based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Opinion: The children’s hospital attack highlights the failure of American empathy

Russia launched a mass missile attack across several Ukrainian cities on July 8, killing 31 people and injuring at least 117 in Kyiv alone. One of the attack sites was the Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine’s largest children’s medical center. While no children were killed at the center itself, four children were killed in Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian capital. After Ukraine’s stalled 2023 counteroffensive, a “Ukraine fatigue” set in – a burnout of empathy and compassion for the victims of this war