Ben Lowry: Ukrainian suffering made worse by the bitter cold

However high fuel prices in Northern Ireland, it is as nothing compared to suffering in Ukraine.
By Ben Lowry
Published 12th Mar 2022, 15:09 BST
Updated 12th Mar 2022, 15:44 BST
An elderly woman is coated in snow as she sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, this week. Spring should bring some relief from the bitter conditions, and we can only hope that the war is over long before temperatures cool again in autumn (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)An elderly woman is coated in snow as she sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, this week. Spring should bring some relief from the bitter conditions, and we can only hope that the war is over long before temperatures cool again in autumn (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
An elderly woman is coated in snow as she sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, this week. Spring should bring some relief from the bitter conditions, and we can only hope that the war is over long before temperatures cool again in autumn (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Quentin Sommerville’s BBC report in which he walked past frozen dead Russian soldiers showed what is happening in Europe.

So I do not seek to be trivial when I say that with spring the horror of war and shortages will soon no longer be accompanied by bitter weather conditions.

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We know from the world wars how such coldness exacerbated the agony caused by conflict, and of itself killed people.

Let us hope that with the global pressure on Vladimir Putin it is all over well before the temperatures begin to drop again in the autumn.

Ben Lowry (@BenLowry2) is News Letter editor

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