A charitable group in Lviv, Ukraine, is raising money to buy bulletproof vests for children.
Children. Bulletproof vests. Which they must wear with every outing.
This is what Ukrainian kids are growing up with — dodging Russian shrapnel from missiles and drones and hoping their outer garment stops exploding, flesh-piercing fragments they can't avoid.
Meanwhile, in Valdimir Putin's speech yesterday celebrating the Soviet Union's 1943 Stalingrad victory, he charged Ukrainian "Nazis" with carrying out "crimes against civilians."
"It is essential to record everything they"— the Ukrainians — "are doing now, especially to civilians."
Orwell's imagination in his 1948 1984 was nothing compared to what Putin would invent three-quarters of a century later.
The Russian dictator is a true pioneer, a real visionary, in the fetid annals of propagandistic bullshit.