As Putin continues to wreak destruction on the cities and towns in Ukraine, those of us of Ukrainian descent now worry that ancestral records are being destroyed.

Putin has focused on the destruction of museums, libraries, municipal buildings, hospitals and schools, locations where records are kept.

This most certainly is planned, since Putin’s end game is to not only destroy the name “UKRAINE,” but also the culture and heritage of the Ukrainian people, leaving Ukrainians throughout the world without a means to learn of their ancestry.

The lives lost in this war against innocent Ukrainian men, women and children who have lost their homes, their means of living, and their loved ones and those whose only desire is to be a sovereign nation is truly heart-wrenching to Ukrainians worldwide.

Karen Sheptak, Butler