After Friday’s fiasco in Anchorage — the so-called “summit” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that was supposed to have been a major step toward cessation of the war in Ukraine — it is more obvious than ever that Putin has no intention of ending the slaughter until he has achieved everything on his wish list.

That means that Ukraine — the entire country of some 37 million souls — continues to be held hostage to the whims of a bloodthirsty war criminal. So it is to them that today’s remembrance is dedicated, with hopes and prayers that the continuing efforts of their European and American allies will succeed in bringing the madness to an early end.

And never to be forgotten, here are again are the others for whom the effort continues:

Prisoners of War:

The People of Ukraine
The Azov 12

Endangered Exiles:

Mikita Losik
Yulia Navalnaya
Countless Journalists and Other Dissidents

Political Prisoners:

In Azerbaijan:

The “Azerbaijan 7”:
— Farid Mehralizada
— Ulvi Hasanli
— Sevinj Abbasova (Vagifqiai)
— Mahammad Kekalov
— Hafiz Babali
— Nargiz Absalamova
— Elnara Gasimova

In Belarus:

Ales Bialiatski
Andrei Chapiuk
Uladzimir Labkovich
Ihar Losik
Marfa Rabkova
Valiantsin Stafanovic
Yuras Zyankovich

In Russia:

David Barnes
Gordon Black
Antonina Favorskaya
Konstantin Gabov
Robert Gilman
Stephen James Hubbard
Sergey Karelin
Vadim Kobzev
Darya Kozyreva
Artyom Kriger
Michael Travis Leake
Aleksei Liptser
Grigory Melkonyants
Nika Novak
Nadezhda Rossinskaya (a.k.a. Nadin Geisler)
Igor Sergunin
Dmitry Shatresov
Robert Shonov
Grigory Skvortsov
Eugene Spector
Laurent Vinatier
Robert Romanov Woodland

. . . and the countless others of whom I may not be aware.

The fight goes on.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
8/17/25