No apologies, a straight lift from an excellent site called ‘Atlantic’ with a a few lyrics from the underated and very talented Bee Gee’s
A view shows a line of destroyed military vehicles on a street in the town of Bucha, in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, on March 1, 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues. #Serhii Nuzhnenko / Reuters- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The dead bodies of soldiers are seen in a military vehicle on a road in the town of Bucha, close to the capital of Kyiv, on March 1, 2022. #Serhii Nuzhnenko / AP
Locals residents set up sandbags inside and outside of a hospital so that it is less affected by Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. #Anadolu Agency / Getty
Someone believes in only light of day
Someone strong enough to show the way
Someone everyone believes in
Someone who will stand by you
A blast is seen during an apparent air strike on the Kyiv TV Tower, the city’s main television tower, on March 1, 2022. #Carlos Barria / Reuters
Emergency crews respond after a missile caused damage near Kyiv’s TV Tower on March 1, 2022. #State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Anadolu Agency / Getty
And I will be your heart and mind
My love is on the line
I know it’s how I’m gonna stay
For a stranger in a strange land far away
Police officers prepare to remove the bodies of several passers-by who were killed in the previous day’s air strike on the Kyiv TV Tower, on March 2, 2022. #Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Members of a Ukrainian civil-defense unit pass new assault rifles to the opposite side of a blown-up bridge on Kyiv’s northern front on March 1, 2022. #Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty
A local resident shows tire puncture spikes produced by volunteers to defend their city and others, in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. #Pavlo Palamarchuk / Reuters
In Lviv, a resident welds anti-tank obstacles on March 2, 2022. #Pavlo Palamarchuk / Reuters
An armored vehicle burns in a residential area following recent shelling in the settlement of Borodyanka, in the Kyiv region, on March 2, 2022. #Maksim Levin / Reuters
A view shows a destroyed Russian army vehicle on a road in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on February 28, 2022. #Vitaliy Gnidyi / Reuters- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Oleg Rubak, 32, whose wife was killed in the shelling, stands on the rubble of his house in Zhytomyr on March 2, 2022, after it was destroyed by a Russian bombing the day before. The shelling killed at least three people and injured nearly 20, according to locals and local authorities; it destroyed a nearby market and at least 10 houses on March 1, 2022. #Emmanuel Duparcq / AFP / Getty
And love will make your spirit shine
I feel your hand in mine
I write a letter every single day
To a stranger in a strange land far away
A view shows the scene near National University after shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022. #State Emergency Service via Reuters
Firefighters work to contain a blaze in the complex of buildings housing the Kharkiv regional security service and the regional police, after shelling took place in Kharkiv, on March 2, 2022. #Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty
The body of a victim lies next to damaged cars in the central square, following shelling of the city-hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2022. #Pavel Dorogoy / AP
Emergency personnel carry a body out of the damaged Kharkiv city hall on March 1, 2022. #Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Andrey Goncharuk, 68, a member of the territorial defense, wipes his face in the backyard of a house that was damaged by a Russian air strike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside Kyiv, on March 2, 2022. #Vadim Ghirda / AP
A woman cries in the small basement of a house crowded with people seeking shelter from Russian air strikes, outside Kyiv, on March 2, 2022. #Vadim Ghirda / AP
May we share the most tomorrows
I will hear you when you cry
Should we let it come between us
Never knowing how we live or die
Uzhhorod residents prepare Molotov cocktails to defend the city, on February 27, 2022. #Serhii Hudak / Reuters
I will walk you through the pouring rain
I will help you learn to live and love again
Give ’em hell before you go to heaven
But send you home again
Volunteers make supplies for Molotov cocktails in a Kyiv civil-mobilization center, on February 28, 2022. #Laurent Van Der Stockt / Getty
Civilians train to throw Molotov cocktails in Zhytomyr, on March 1, 2022. #Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
A civilian practices throwing Molotov cocktails in Zhytomyr on March 1, 2022. #Viacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters
And somewhere in the lonely night
Your flame is burning bright
I know it’s how I’m gonna stay
For a stranger in a strange land far away
Members of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine load ammunition, after receiving weapons to defend Kyiv, on February 25, 2022. #Mikhail Palinchak / Reuters
A 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier lies in bed in a military hospital in Lviv on March 1, 2022, after being injured by a mine in the Luhansk region. #Daniel Leal / AFP / Getty
And just to see your spirit shine
To feel your hand in mine
I write a letter every single day
To a stranger in a strange land far away
Far away, far away
A view of a damaged building, seen after shelling by Russian forces, in Kharkiv’s Constitution Square, on March 2, 2022 #Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty
Members of the civil defense take positions as a vehicle approaches a checkpoint in Gorenka, outside Kyiv, on March 2, 2022. #Vadim Ghirda / AP- https://9621d03b89df89b95291278a78dbbb54.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
An aerial view of destroyed Russian military vehicles left in a street in the settlement of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on March 3, 2022 #Maksim Levin / Reuters
Love and peace to Ukraine – John
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