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With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I am seeing too many damage reports on places I have traveled there. During the five and a half years I worked in eastern Europe, Ukraine was one of the countries I enjoyed traveling to for a long weekend or sometimes more. The earlier Russian annexation of Crimea brought back memories of the week long family vacation we had taken there. I traveled to Kyiv a number of times and its destruction is painful to watch. Of course, old Kyiv was largely destroyed by the Germans when they took it in 1940, so the amount of historic structures lost there is small. The biggest potential losses have, so far, not had much damage, and none to their historical areas. Those are Lviv / Lvov, a medieval Polish city that was spared by WWII, and was ethnically cleansed of its Polish population by the Soviets after WWII but not its Polish archetectual heritage which is magnificent, and Odesa, whose historical area from the Czarist era also survived WWII. I loved to take day trips to both places.