This was a real, all-too-real, full-scale, total disaster
Illustrations: Esti Saposh
The war in Ukraine was about as far removed from eleven-year-old Yitz Scheiner’s mind as polar bears at the North Pole or giraffes roaming the African plains. Every now and then he heard some fragments of news, but the war had been going on for a while by now, and, well, it was far away. So when the adults started talking worriedly one day, Yitz didn’t pay much attention. But it seemed like his good friend Ruvy did.
“Yitz, are you scared?” Ruvy asked as the boys headed home from school one Thursday night.
“Of what?”
“You know… Putin. The war.”
“The war? Putin?” Yitz gave Ruvy a funny look. “What are you talking about?”
Ruvy huffed, annoyed. “Hello, earth to Yitz. You know, Vladimir Putin? The president of Russia? The guy who took over Ukraine and wants to conquer the world?”
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