“Transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread, and changing legal documents to match gender requires a long process with psychiatric examinations. CBS News spoke with one woman in Kyiv who is now battling a ‘war within a war’ amid Russia’s invasion,” CBS wrote in a tweet. “This is not a very rainbow-friendly place,” Zi Faámelu lamented to CBS. “Lives for trans people are very bleak here.”
Twitter users criticized the network for delivering what they considered to be tone-deaf reporting. “The West: My God, the Russians just walked over the Ukrainian border, democracy is in danger! CBS News: ACKSHUALLY, the greatest danger is that Ukrainian men who say they are women are not treated as women often enough,” the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro wrote.
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Second Amendment advocate Dana Loesch called the move “Clownery.” “Ukraine is cancelled,” podcast host and editor Stephen L. Miller tweeted.
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In the war-torn country, seven civilians, including three children, were killed in a rocket strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The exact numbers of dead and wounded are incredibly difficult for anyone to verify, given the chaotic events on the ground.
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Ukraine’s emergency services said that more than 2,000 civilians had been killed since the invasion began on February 24. “Children, women and defence forces are losing their lives every hour,” it said in a statement. Russia has not commented on casualties, either in terms of Ukrainian civilians or losses among its troops.
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This comes amid speculation Russia is specifically targeting heavily populated and residential areas.
The first shipment of medical aid for Ukraine will arrive in Poland on Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. Six tonnes of trauma care and emergency surgery supplies will be delivered to meet the needs of 1,000 patients, and other health supplies to meet the needs of 150,000 people, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing in Geneva.
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He also stressed the need for a humanitarian corridor to ensure the supplies reached the people most in need.
Ukraine has also called for the pope to talk to Putin about allowing humanitarian corridors to assist civilians affected by Moscow’s incursion, the country’s deputy prime minister has said. “I hope the conversation will take place,” Iryna Vereshchuk said on live television in Ukraine.
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