To the Editor:
I am praying for the people of Ukraine. I believe we always should try to negotiate but, just as with Hitler, Putin will not change his brutal tactics. 

Aside from politics and blaming — we needed to act sooner as soon as the reports of Russia’s oncoming army were detected by our intelligence.

It is deeply upsetting to see the pain and suffering of civilians and children in Ukraine. What kind of a monster bombs apartment houses and hospitals and nuclear power plants?

Putin is holding us all hostage and he must be stopped immediately. We need to stop buying oil and gas from Russia immediately.

Samaritan’s Purse, God bless them, are sending a mobile hospital there now. I hope and pray Putin’s troops will not kill them but I have no doubt that they will ….

Putin was biding his time. Sadly sometimes one must meet a bully like Putin with force. 

The blood of all these innocent people is our collective free-world guilt if we do not stop Putin now.

Arlene Shako

Schoharie