Ɖ Gardịn vy on Ycren’z suḟrñ: mōrnñ ɖ lîvz unlivd
Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 28 June 2023
Mor ɖn 550 ćildṛn hv daid sins Ruśa invedd last yir, includñ in Tyzde’z atac on Cramatorsc
Wnzde, 28 Jūn 2023
Lît Ppćl, Fransis Spuḟd’z 2021 novl, bginz wɖ a V-2 atac upn a dpartmntstor in Lundn – inspîrd bî ɖ riyl-lîf bomñ v a Wŭlwrʈs in 1944. Fîv yuñ lîvz r dstroid in an instnt, ẃć ɖ oʈr dscrîbz in a fy śort pejz: w hv sìn onli ɖ brīfist glims v spindli-nìd Alic n twinz Jo n Val bfr ɖer deʈs.
“Ẃt hz gn z nt jst ɖ ćildṛn’z preznt xistns,” h obzrvz. “It’s ol ɖ fyćrz ɖe w’nt gt, tù. Ol ɖ wd-bi’z, mt-bi’z, cd-bi’z v ɖ decedz t cm. Hǎ cn ɖt los b meźrd …?” Spuḟd atmts ɖt gretr rec̣nñ bî raitñ ɖ lîvz ɖe mt hv livd: in mni rgardz inconṣqnśl, fl v hops n dis’pôntmnts n fełrz, peti scūlcruwltiz, luv, doji dīlñz, vayḷns n mntl ilnis – yt inheṛntli vałbl. Ẃt mt hv sīmd a litrri cnsit rmîndz s, devstetñli, ẃt z lost ẃn a lîf z cut śort.
Mor ɖn 550 ćildṛn hv daid sins Ruśa lōnćt its fl-scel inveźn v Ycren in Febrri last yir: mor ɖn wn a de. Hundṛdz mor hv bn injrd. Mōrnñ ɖ ded, ɖ cuntri’z prezidnt, Vlodimir Zelensci, hz ritn nt onli v ɖ dstrux́n, bt v ẃt mt hv bn: “Mni v ɖm cd hv bcm feṃs scolrz, artists, sportsćampịnz, cntribytñ t Ycren’z hisṭri.”
On Tyzde, mor nemz wr add t ɖ hoṛfayñ tali, wɖ ɖ atac on a pītṣresṭront in a bizi śopñ eria in ɖ īstn siti v Cramatorsc, in Donetsc. For v ɖ 10 cnfrmd deʈs wr ćildṛn; at līst 56 ppl wr injrd, sm criticli. In Ycren, Ruśn forsz hv nt onli śoun a ruʈlis disrigard fr siviłnz, bt frīqntli apir t hv tarġtd ɖm – az ɖe hv in uɖr worz. Ɖ YN secṛtri jenṛl’z lêtist rport on ćildṛn n armd conflict nemz Ruśa amñ ɖ wrst vayletrz v rîts. Ɖ inṭnaśnl criminlcort hz iśùd arest woṛnts fr Vladīmir Pūtin n hiz ćildṛn’z-rîts cmiśnr ovr ɖ forst dīporteśn v Ycreńn ćildṛn t Ruśa, ẃr mni hv bn adoptd.
Ẃn ćildṛn r cild, ɖ sns v smʈñ biyñ stoḷn z ptiklrli visṛl n cmpelñ. Yt so mć hz bn lost in Ycren, īvn az mni awe fṛm ɖ fruntlîn trî t liv smẃt az ɖe dd bfr ɖ wor, n az Ycreńn culćr hz fluriśt in dfayns v Ruśn agreśn. A wrld v posbiḷtiz hz dis’pird: probḷmz r unrisrćt, maćz unpleid, partiz unhostd, gardnz untndd; fiś wl nt spōn in p’lūtd rivrz, bizṇsz wl nt b istabliśt, bebiz nvr cnsivd az cuplz r seṗretd.
Fluṛśñ lîvz hv bn struc dǎn or stuntd, n ɖoz olrdi struġlñ hv lost ftholdz ẃć mt hv sìn ɖm on t śurr grǎnd – an esṭmetd wn in for Ycreńnz r at risc v svir mntl-hlʈ cndiśnz bcz v ɖ conflict, acordñ t ɖ Wrld Hlʈ Orġnîześn. Sm v ɖz losz wl b flt elsẃr. Farmland strùn wɖ mainz lîz untild: ɖ crops ɖt wd hv bn groun mt hv sstend faṃliz far awe.
Ɖ cost v rīcnstrux́n hz olrdi bn esṭmetd at $411bn. Ẃnvr ɖs wor cmz t an end, Ycren wl nīd s’port fr yirz t cm. Bt it z imposbl t calklet ẃt z lost ẃn tnz v miłnz r undr asōlt, n so mni mst b mōrnd. Hǎ dz wn acǎnt fr ẃt cd hv bn?
