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1941 — Burning Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during the Nazi occupation, World War II. 2022 — Local residents look on as smoke rises after shelling Ukrainian village on Eastern Front during full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1940 — Nazi used symbol "V" during the occupation of France and Poland in the early years of World War II. Translate: “Germany is victorious on all fronts.” 2022 — Today the symbol "V" use by the Russian government as a war propaganda motif and symbol of support for Russia's invasion. Translate: "For Victory", "Our strength is in truth." 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1940 — A man plays a piano amid the destruction wrought by Germany's bombs on the Blitz, London. 2022 — A man plays a piano outside a house damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, May 19. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1944 — A girl and her pet cat. A war orphan walks through the ruins of a house after the Germans had gone. 2022 — The 12-year-old boy holds a cat standing on the debris of his house destroyed by Russian forces shelling in the outskirts of Chernihiv, April 13. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1944 — A woman fleeing the burning buildings of her French town, which German troops had set afire during their retreat on June 10. 2022 — A cyclist rides past flames and smoke rising from a fire following Russian artillery fire in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

Evacuation trains from war zone 1940 — Millions of people were evacuated when Britain was bombed by nazi during World War II. The mass evacuations were intended to keep British children safe – or safer, theoretically – from German air raids, while their parents stayed behind to work and help out with war efforts. 2022 — Thousands of Ukrainians pour into train station fleeing war-ruined Kharkiv. Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven more than 6 million people out of the country. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1940 — Young boys swing from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz. 2022 — Children play in front of a building damaged in fighting in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol, on March 23. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

History Matters 1944 — The worst attack on Britain came on November 25, when a German V2 rocket bomb made a direct hit on a crowded Woolworths store in South London, killing 168 and razing the building to the ground. The V2 rocket was 14 metres high and carried a 910 kg of explosives. 2022 — The Russian military forces hit with a Kh-22 cruise missile Kremenchuk shopping mall in Poltava region on June 27, killed at least 20 civilians; dozens more are still unaccounted for. The Kh-22 missile has a length of 12 meters and a high-explosive cumulative mass of 960 kg. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1943 — A woman weeps in front of her burning house during the nazi occupation of the Soviet Union in World War II. 2022 — A woman cries as she stands in front of a house that caught fire after being hit by russian shells in Irpin, near Ukraine's capital Kyiv. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1943 — A huge explosion shakes the beach at Kwajalein 🇯🇵 during the combined US Marine-Army invasion of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Kwajalein was especially well fortified by Japanese. 2022 — Russia attacks chemical plant during an air strike near Ukrainian town of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, on April 9. Plumes of toxic gas blow through sky. The wind blew the nitric acid back over Russian positions. 🔴 2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

History Matters 1940 — On the night of October 14, a bomb penetrated the road and exploded in Balham London Underground station. During 1940's Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe bombers tried to destroy British air power ahead of a planned invasion of the UK. When that failed, Hitler resorted to terror attacks on civilians, including the full-scale bombing of London and other UK towns. The attacks killed tens of thousands of Britons, but "The Blitz" fizzled: the invasion never materialized. 2022 — Tram depot in Kharkiv after shelling by the Russian troops. Russia states that in Ukraine, they fire only at military facilities and do not launch any missile, air, or artillery strikes on cities and villages. Russian troops are shelling residential areas, schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals, kindergartens, cultural monuments, etc. And these aren’t one-off incidents; such attacks are common. 🔴 2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation

1944 — Family stand over wreckage in London 🇬🇧 after random bombs of the nazi night raids during World War II. 2016 — Family look at a destroyed building in Aleppo's northeastern Haydariya 🇸🇾 neighbourhood as they head to check their house for the first time in four years on December 4. 2022 — Family look at the damage following a rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv 🇺🇦 on February 25. 🔴2022 - Russia’s War in Ukraine, in Context @facethenation