The people who keep the refugee trains running out of Ukraine

  Read this impressive article in The Guardian about how people are taken by train to less dangerous places in Ukraine. 

Click here: The people who keep the refugee trains running out of Ukraine

Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted

Vladimir's Putin's invasion of Ukraine has changed the world. We are living in new and more dangerous times - the post-Cold War era that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall is over.

Quentin Sommerville, one of the BBC's most experienced war reporters walked through the wreckage in Kharkiv recently and said of the Russian bombardment: "If these tactics are unfamiliar to you, then you haven't been paying attention."

If you want to have a very good overview of the history of the last few decades, read this very interesting article by Allan Little published in BBC news. It'll help you undertstand what has led us to this conflict.

Ukraine war: history overview_BBC news

Sting: "Stop the war!"

 All of us love our children. Stop the war.

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Colouring book salutes Nigeria's inspiring women

A Nigerian woman and her daughter have published a colouring book featuring prominent Nigerian women.

Notable and Notorious Nigerian Women is the brainchild of Nkei Oruche, a multi-disciplinary creative and head of the Afro Urban Society based in San Francisco, her nine-year-old daughter Ziora, and a Nigeria-based illustrator Amina Gimba.

The book profiles a series of women from various walks of life, including the first Nigerian woman to fly an airplane and the female doctor who treated the first Ebola patient.

"A colouring book was a way to make it more accessible to so many different people," Ms Oruche told the BBC's Focus on Africa.

Listen to the full interview from BBC Focus on Africa. When you get to the webpage, click in this section to hear the interview:

Airbnb is Setting Up 100,000 Refugees From Ukraine With Free Housing

 Some good things are taking place in the middle of this terrible drama and people all over the world are trying to help in any way to the Ukranians who have lost everything, including their country.

This is just one example of this solidarity: Airbnb_Ukranian refugees

War in Ukraine: Live-streaming music from a Kharkiv basement

Life continuous even if it has to be in a bunker.

Watch this BBC video in which a musician explains what they are doing in the recently attacked city of Kharkiv to stay alive. There's music, there's hope.

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Moscow police detain children for laying flowers at Ukrainian embassy

 Freedom, oh freedom ...

Five children aged seven to 11 with peace signs held for hours while two women face trial on unspecified charges

Police in Moscow detained two women and five children who wanted to lay flowers at the Ukrainian embassy.

Photographs of their detention showed the children holding a poster saying “No to War.”

Read the whole article here: Children arrested_The Guardian