John Brown University's Student Newspaper
The deadliest attack Russia has seen in decades struck Moscow on March 22 when 4 armed assailants broke into Krasnogorsk’s Crocus City Hall, a shopping and entertainment complex, chaos broke out as people sought to escape the gunshots and fires that the terrorists had started.
On Wednesday March 2, the International Criminal Court announced it would immediately proceed with investigations into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. With greater transparency due to social media, citizen journalism and technology, the world has been able to watch this war unfold in real time, unlike before, and it is abhorred.
As the new generation watches the Ukrainian invasion play out on Tik Tok and Twitter, they are faced with new challenges about how to confront war. For many, finding a way to cope is a near necessity with the other burdens they face in day-to-day life. For others, they have dedicated their time to advocating for Ukraine, spreading information and even taking up arms.
Russia, who has had over 100,000 troops stationed at the Ukrainian border for over a month, has largely been ambiguous in its messaging on whether the nation would invade, occasionally referring to the notion as ‘hysteria’ while also performing military exercises mere meters from the border for months on end. In response, western nations have imposed numerous warnings, sanctions and penalties.