I just got back from Ukraine. Don't underestimate its people's determination to defeat Russia

I recently visited the city of Uzhhrod in western Ukraine. I was struck by the remarkable tenacity and resilience of the Ukrainian people. They are determined to resist this brutal war.

The price of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s brutal war is almost unimaginable for most Americans. In addition to the destruction of half of Ukraine’s power grid which has plunged Uzhhrod and most of the Zakarpattia region into freezing nights and days without electricity, Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said that over 2,000 Ukrainian schools, 500 hospitals, 150,000 dwellings, and 20,000 miles of road have been destroyed. "This is genocide," he said.