Today was a rough day, emotionally. It is the 4 year anniversary of the day that the Russian Federation murdered my brother. Joseph Stone was a paramedic with the OSCE-SMM-UKRAINE. It's an unarmed, civilian humanitarian monitoring mission.
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I am sorry to hear that. Freedom for places like the Ukraine often comes at a high cost, and sadly not all that cost is paid by those who nations celebrate as national hero's.
The men and women of the OSCE-SMM-UKRAINE are amazing and brave. And unfortunately thousands of innocent ukrainians have been killed in that humanitarian crisis.