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ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: A Rebuilding Hero Town Reopens the Bridge Which Stopped the Russians [1]

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Date: 2025-01-21

In the course of a nation’s history there comes singular events which capture the essence of the people, their sense of who they are, what they stand for and actuate their collective conviction to rally and fiercely fight to defend it all. Americans speak with reference about the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Although the outgunned and outnumbered Americans lost that particular battle to the aggressor British army, it galvanized the colonies and proved to themselves that they can indeed go toe-to-toe with the most powerful military on earth at the time. Come what may, the Americans decided at Bunker Hill that their forever freedom from colonial bondage and serial impositions was worth the fight. It was not easy. It became a gigantic sanguinary struggle against overwhelming odds. But they persisted. And at the Battle of Yorktown in the crisp autumnal days of 1781 victory came.

Ukraine, too at this moment is engaged in a struggle for their forever freedom. It is proving not to be an easy struggle. So much pain, so much bloodshed. But they, too persist against overwhelming odds with their eyes on the prize of their forever freedom from the unprovoked serial depredations regularly visited upon them by their so-called “cousins” in Moskva Rus.

I do not know what singular battle in the current Russo-Ukrainian war will enter Ukrainian national hagiography as the defining moment of their national struggle but from afar, my mind regularly goes to a sleepy farming community in Southwestern Ukraine on the lower reaches of the Buh river as it makes its way through Mykolaiv oblast to pay its rich riparian tribute to the mighty Dnipro river. The 34,000 or so souls who make their home there call it Voznesensk.

Their heroic balls-to- the-wall defense of their town from a heavy mechanized lead echelon battalion of Russian invaders will most assuredly earn a notation in Ukrainian history … the town that frustrated Vladimir Putin’s grand design to sweep through to Odessa and onto Romania, Moldova and to the very doorstep of Western Europe. Their stand in this unremarked farming country corner of Ukraine will resonate throughout the history yet to be written. It was that epic. Their’s is a modern version of French General Robert Nivelle at the battle of Verdun in 1916…. ils ne passeront pas (they shall not pass). The following video tells the story:

What is truly remarkable still about Voznesensk is that while a goodly part of Ukraine, including their own oblast, lays in ruins from the unceasing daily genocidal bombings of Ukrainian cities and towns, the people of Vosnesensk, have decided against all odds and without the promise of official funds to rebuild their town and reclaim it from the detritus of their epic battle against the Russians. They pledged to themselves that they will rebuild the famous bridge in the cation photo. And they have, beautifully:

Today, August 9,[2024] the restored bridge, which was destroyed in 2022, was officially opened in the city of Voznesensk. The head of Mykolaiv RMA, Vitalii Kim, said this at a briefing, NikVesti writes. «We have finished restoring bridges in the region. Today, the main bridge, the largest in the city of Voznesensk, was completed, which was restored thanks to the Highway Service. Today, traffic on this bridge was opened,» said Vitalii Kim. nikvesti.com/...

And it would appear that all of Ukraine is of a like mind. Even in these seemingly unending gloomy days of Sturm und Drang, they are already making plans and laying the ground work, however slowly, for their coming forever freedom and journey to becoming a modern power house Western European nation:

The $1 trillion race to rebuild Ukraine is slowly getting going The situation on the front line offers no sense of when or how Russia’s war against its neighbor might end. Ukrainian setbacks have darkened the mood in Kyiv of late. But a growing phalanx of companies is gradually increasing its presence on the ground with the prospect of the biggest investment opportunity since at least World War II when it does. Governments, executives and investors are positioning themselves in anticipation of a reconstruction that the European Investment Bank estimates could amount to more than $1 trillion of public and private capital. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than five times as big as the U.S.-funded Marshall Plan that powered the industrial renaissance in Europe following Germany’s defeat. www.japantimes.co.jp/...

"We have a chance to rebuild better than it was in the USSR” Indeed.

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