Seeing the best of human nature at a refugee center on the Hungary–Ukraine border
Beregsurany, Hungary — Last Sunday, I felt as if I were being bounced from one reality to the next on my trip to the Ukrainian border.
I began my day in Budapest, Hungary, slack-jawed as I watched Rossiya 24, the Kremlin-owned news channel that provides Russians with Vladimir Putin’s worldview.
With the help of a Russian-speaking friend, I learned things that I just couldn’t find on other channels. Reports that Russian forces were taking heavy losses were false, designed to “mislead inexperienced viewers.” The threat to civilians in Ukraine comes not from Russian forces, but from “Ukrainian nationalists” and their accompanying “wolf …
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