The Cost of the Brain Drain (duplicated)

The Donbas trenches, where the seeds were sown of a deeper hatred,

tragically known. But 22 brought the full crashing tide when brother turned

on brother, nowhere left to hide on either side. The soldier's name

is whispered in villages of snow. The civilian's memory, a flame that

burns down low. It started with the veto, it started with the fight

for Ukraine's independence and its own sovereign light. The war's toll is deep,

the bombs fall like rain. It started out like a slow-moving train,

now it has a lasting stain. The brain drain, the brain drain. Ukraine and Russia,