Thoughts on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – Rick Steves’ Vacation Website
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Right now is a profoundly unhappy day. Russia’s aggressive motion is heartbreaking for the death, struggling, and financial turmoil it will bring about in Ukraine and, indirectly at minimum, past. Listed here at Rick Steves’ Europe, we hope that a diplomatic resolution can be found and peace will return to that fragile and long-suffering aspect of our world.
Our mission at RSE is to enable Us residents improved know and fully grasp our neighbors as a result of travel. But when we bring tourists to one more nation, we also carry their pounds — bucks that would aid Putin’s aggression. Therefore, as of now, we have canceled all 2022 excursions that incorporate a quit in Russia.
Of system, we will keep a close eye on unfolding events and observe any journey impacts through the rest of Europe. But it is vital to keep geographic realities in head and remember that a war in Ukraine is as significantly from our European trip goals as a war in Guatemala would be from Texas or Florida. For 40 decades now, we have lived, worked, and traveled as a result of many intervals of tragic warfare in lands significantly from wherever we guide our tours (and some closer). And at this time, we see no cause to adjust the rest of our travel and touring ideas.
The tragic truth unfolding in Ukraine only reminds me how crucial it is for People in america to hold on traveling and to do so in a way that would make us better and extra engaged citizens of our environment. I’m flying to Europe subsequent month for a 40-day vacation as a result of a dozen wonderful towns from London to Athens — and I’m very pleased that hundreds of my fellow tourists will working experience the European excursion of their dreams though getting rich mastering encounters considerably from property on a 2022 Rick Steves tour.
In the meantime, let’s be grateful for our blessings, help our nation’s leaders as they do their greatest to navigate this disaster, and retain the troubled corners of our entire world (Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, and additional) in our thoughts and prayers.
—Rick
