Cammie Tipton-Amini’s opinion piece “When Ukraine Was Newly Independent and Everything Was Possible” employs simplistic whataboutism that dangerously echoes Putin’s lies.

Lukia Costello
Lukia Costello is a second-generation Ukrainian-American documentary filmmaker and artist with family/ancestral ties and a deep love for her cultural heritage. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of
Spark Filmmakers Collaborative, a US-based nonprofit organization created to expand cultural awareness by inspiring and empowering marginalized voices of all abilities, ages, ethnicities, genders, sexual identities, and income levels to self-represent through film and video.