"While visiting Kyiv last week, my first
trip to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in February 2022, I
tried to get my exercise every morning by walking the grounds of St.
Michael’s Golden Domed Monastery. Its serenity, though, has been
disrupted by a jarring exhibit of destroyed Russian tanks and armored
personnel carriers. During my walks, I’d poke my head into these jagged,
rocket-pierced hulks, wondering what terrible death must have come to
the Russian soldiers operating them. But
the shock of this tangled mass of rusting steel, sitting in the middle
of this grand, whitish-stone piazza, evoked a different image in my
mind’s eye: a meteor. ..."
NY Times: Opinion | Thomas L. Friedman
Destroyed Russian military equipment is exhibited in Kyiv at St. Michael’s Golden Domed Monastery.
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