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Thank you for this up-coming publication as an opportunity to better approach understanding of what any person means when using the word 'freedom', when any person chooses to defend 'human freedom', living in a condition of 'freedom'.

In this context of the active living and active support for living in a condition of 'freedom', we can witness the Ukrainians in their many choices and actions to secure 'freedom' by the active pursuit of self-defense against the Russian military aggression and Russian occupations which Putin and his regime direct against the Ukraine and its people.

President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainians are choosing to take conscientiously formulated actions, including with international partners:

Argentina Plans to Join the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, 25 May 2024,

https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/argentina-planuye-doluchitisya-do-mizhnarodnoyi-koaliciyi-91129 ;

We Are Waiting for the African Leaders at the Peace Summit, and We Wish You All Peace – the President of Ukraine Addressed African Nations on the Africa Day, 25 May 2024 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/ochikuyemo-lideriv-afriki-na-samiti-miru-i-vsim-vam-bazhayem-91125 .

Putin Not Only Wants to Disrupt the Peace Summit, but He Is Also Afraid of What the Summit Can Bring – Address by the President, 24 May 2024 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/putin-ne-prosto-hoche-zirvati-samit-miru-vin-she-j-boyitsya-91113 .

Thanks, Prof Snyder, for providing this forum for sharing and discussing issues and choices and for assisting any of us to join in supporting the Ukrainian people in their self-defense and their partnership in a democratic and international preparation of a set of understandings and cooperative projects for a post-war condition based on mutual cooperation.

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