Dear Olga and WLM Ukraine - your work is impressive and your efforts to bring visibility and point to issues with WLM in 2022 are also.
I can empathize with the feeling one gets when others are benevolent to recognize and act on what seems obvious *(as someone who experienced war aggression in all of my homelands, first SFR Yugoslavia, then Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. I do agree that the WLM 2022 international team should not process Russian photos in a competitive way against Ukrainians and I wish this was raised as an issue more publicly. WLM had issues also before with inertia and no capacity and/or good will to recognize problems on national levels. Here I agree with Peter on* no good options *but this is no excuse for not exploring good-enough or better-than options!
I am hopeful that your work will sustain and that soon enough you will inform and inspire systemic change in Wikimedia. Meanwhile I hope WMF can practically support your work at least with material resources to reduce some of the hardships.
In solidarity - Z. Blace