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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

OSU, Fordham, Nebraska, North Texas to compete in Stillwater Regional

Abby Smith After winning the Big 12 title, OSU earned the No. 7 seed in the NCAA tournament, which locked a regional site in Stillwater.

the honor of hosting a regional.

The A10 conference champions, Fordham, will be OSU’s first opponent of the double-elimination regional on Friday at 7:30.

Gabriel Trevino Former Big 12 Sports Editor opponent, now Big 10 champion Nebraska CornOld foes and new huskers and North Texas ones will visit Stillwater are the other two visiting this weekend. programs in the regional.

Nebraska, North OSU previously faced Texas and Fordham will North Texas this season, compete with OSU in the defeating the Mean Green Stillwater regional from 4-2 in March.

Friday to Sunday.

If the Cowgirls win The Cowgirls their hosted regional, they earned the No. 7 overall will face the victor of the seed in the NCAA tourna- Clemson regional in a ment after a 41-12 regular best of three super regionseason record and Big 12 al held in Stillwater. championship, receiving sports.ed@ocolly.com

Ukraine relinquishes Mariupol as Russia attacks both east and west 200 others were transported through a humanitarian corridor to Olenivka, a town controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

Much remains unclear about the evacuation deal, which appears to have been negotiated in secret under the auspices of the International Red Cross and the United Nations and was first announced Monday by the Russian Defense Ministry.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the severely wounded servicemen would be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war “after their condition stabilizes.”

“We are working on the next stages of the humanitarian operation,” she added.

Also unknown is how many fighters remain inside the Azovstal plant, with commanders now under orders from the army’s high command to save the lives of their personnel instead of pressing on with their defense.

Patrick J. McDonnell and Nabih Bulos Los Angeles Times With full control of the beleaguered port city of Mariupol well-nigh in hand, Russian forces kept up their assault Tuesday on eastern Ukraine, now the focus of a grinding conflict that bears the hallmarks of a grim war of attrition.

Images posted online depicted wounded Ukrainian servicemen taken on stretchers from the vast Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol to buses that evacuated them to a hospital in Russiancontrolled territories. The sprawling plant was the soldiers’ last redoubt in the strategic city, whose capture gives Russia a badly needed victory and a bastion on the Sea of Azov.

Overnight, 264 Ukrainian defenders, including more than 50 who were seriously wounded, were evacuated from Azovstal under Russian military escort. More than

Courtesy Tribune News Service A woman carries bags with food while she walks in the Saltivka district, northern Kharkiv, on May 17, 2022, on the 83rd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Bowman enters transfer portal Daniel Allen Staff Reporter On Tuesday morning, Oklahoma State’s bullpen lost a viable young prospect.

Sophomore lefthanded pitcher Colton Bowman announced his intentions to enter the transfer portal after nearly three seasons in Stillwater. He is the first Cowboy to enter the portal this spring.

Bowman, a native of Bullard, Texas, was thrown into the limelight midway through his COVID-freshman season in 2021 as a result of the plethora of injuries the Cowboys faced. As the

season progressed, Bowman solidified himself as one of the primary arms out of the bullpen for OSU last season, making 18 appearances.

After an up-anddown season in 2021 that showcased flashes of the former highly touted recruit’s true potential, Bowman struggled in 2022. He made just four short appearances on the mound for the Cowboys this season. He pitched an inning and 2/3 and allowed two earned runs.

Command became an issue as he allowed three walks.

“Thank you Oklahoma State for the best three years of my life,” Bowman said in an Instagram post. “I am incredibly grateful for all of my teammates, coaches, and everyone else along the way.”

Abby Cage Colton Bowman, pictured in 2021, entered the transfer portal on Tuesday morning.

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12 films this critic can't wait to see at 2022 Cannes Film Festival

Courtesy Tribune News Service Festival staff roll the red carpet as the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival kicks off in southern France, on May 17, 2022.

vous about taking my first few steps out of the bubble. That’s an exaggeration, of course.

For starters, this trip hardly counts as my first atThe image gracing this tempted return to some state of year’s 75th anniversary Cannes normalcy (and Cannes, a bubble Film Festival poster comes to end all bubbles, is no one’s from “The Truman Show,” spe- definition of normalcy to begin cifically that climactic moment with). There’s also the fact that, when Jim Carrey’s Truman after canceling its 2020 event, climbs a staircase against a Cannes bounced back last domed wall painted to look like year with a resurgent program a cloudy blue sky. This is the that featured the premieres of outer edge of a carefully con“Annette,” “Drive My Car,” structed set that has been his “The French Dispatch,” “Red lifelong home and prison. It’s Rocket” and “The Worst Person also a grand illusion, a remind- in the World,” among others. er of how movies and TV shows That particular edition construct a deeply transportof Cannes, the first of the ing simulacrum of reality. And COVID-19 era, unfolded (I’m because this is Cannes, that told) under a weird cloud of stairway to heaven also evokes excitement, anxiety and cauthe famous red-carpeted steps tious optimism. Attendees wore leading up to the Palais des masks during screenings and Festivals, the longtime headcarved out time in their busy quarters of the grandest cinschedules to get regular PCR ematic showcase in the world. tests. This year’s edition, for I haven’t exhausted my better or worse, is moving full metaphors yet. Returning steam ahead. Most of last year’s to Cannes for the first time safety protocols have been in three years thanks to the relaxed (prematurely, I suspect), pandemic, I confess I find though some of us have come myself feeling a bit like Truas prepared as possible, with man, stretching out my hand as masks and rapid-test kits in our though I don’t quite trust what suitcases and a second vaccine my eyes are telling me, and booster dose running through feeling both excited and nerour veins.

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WHEN IS LITTLE MUCH?

There is a short chorus that has encouraged me many times. “Little is much if God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There’s a crown and you can win it. If you go in Jesus’ name.”

The woman, who poured the precious ointment on Jesus just before he was crucified, was criticized for “wasting” this expensive item. Yet, Jesus said everywhere the gospel is preached this woman’s action would be told. (Mk 14:3-9) Little things mean a lot as we are willing to serve the Lord. Paul mentions many in Romans 16 who helped him. The Good Samaritan stopped to help the man beaten and robbed.

(Lu.10:30-37) Paul writes as you have opportunity, do good to all men, especially to other believers.(Gal.6:10) When the poor widow dropped the two pennies, all that she had, into the temple offering. Jesus said she gave more the large offerings given. Her “large giving” was in relation to what she had. (Mk.12:41-44)

Maybe we should have stayed away, leaving the festivities to the truly festive-minded.

But how could we? One year without a Cannes was bad enough, and two was far worse; three would have been unimaginable. And this is Cannes’ 75th birthday, an occasion for which the festival’s longtime director, Thierry Fremaux, and his selection committee have pulled together a characteristically wide-ranging program.

As ever, their decisions advance an argument for the irrepressible vitality of cinema as a great, enduring public pastime — a reason, even in these eras of global pestilence and streaming-platform domination, for movie lovers from all over the world to come together, screen together and, yes, breathe the same air together.

Their points of convergence at this year’s festival will include a presumptive blockbuster, “Top Gun: Maverick,” the Tom Cruise-starring action sequel that was delayed for two years due to the pandemic; it makes its world premiere Wednesday at Cannes and opens May 27 in theaters worldwide. Some will doubtless be eager for a first look at Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” a musician

biopic whose mere combination of subject and filmmaker conjures precisely the vision of glitz, glamour and go-for-broke auteurism that is this festival’s raison d’etre. (Still others might make time for — what else?

— “The Truman Show,” which will screen Tuesday night on the beach as part of the festival’s annual Cinema de la Plage program.)

Event movies are often seen as the medium’s last great hope, potential box office juggernauts in the making. But the art can’t survive by Hollywood alone, and I’m especially curious about the movies that arrive here on less grandiose swells of advance hype, the ones from great filmmakers whose work I’ve loved in the past and hope to love again.

Here, in alphabetical order by title, is a not-even-closeto-comprehensive list of 12 movies I’m excited to see at the 75th Cannes Film Festival: 1. “Armageddon Time” The apocalyptic title of James Gray’s latest might initially put you in mind of a sequel to his previous feature, “Ad Astra.” But after that cosmic science-fiction drama and the superb, equally weighty “The Lost City of Z,” “Armageddon Time” sounds like something of a return to basics, or at least familiar territory: Starring Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong, it’s a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama inspired by Gray’s ‘70s Queens, New York, upbringing. Gray, by the way, is one of a few Cannes veterans this year chasing their first Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize. (The others include Arnaud Desplechin, Park Chanwook and David Cronenberg.)

2. “Broker” And then there’s Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the Palme in 2018 for his quietly heartbreaking drama “Shoplifters.” His latest, “Broker,” concerns the business of “baby boxes,” spaces where parents can anonymously leave their infants to be cared for by others. The story is set

in South Korea and features that country’s most acclaimed actor, Song Kang-ho (star of the Palme-winning “Parasite”); if that sounds like a departure, its subject matter — abandoned children, unconventional families — feels like thematic home turf for the director of “Like Father, Like Son” and “Nobody Knows.”

3. “Brother and Sister” Nobody does fractious French family dramas quite like Arnaud Desplechin, and the narrative thrust of this one — a brother and sister who’ve been estranged for years, only to find themselves brought together by tragedy — reminds me of a key subplot from his 2008 triumph, “A Christmas Tale.” That would excite me enough even if the movie didn’t boast two leads as redoubtable as Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.

4. “Crimes of the Future” It’s hard to believe that it’s been eight years since David Cronenberg’s last movie, “Maps to the Stars,” screened at Cannes in 2014. His latest, the much-hyped “Crimes of the Future,” stars frequent collaborator Viggo Mortensen, plus Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, in a surgery-centric story that would seem to push even Cronenberg’s peerless reputation as a body-horror specialist to macabre new extremes. After last year’s Palme d’Or victory for the grisly vehicular thriller “Titane” — a movie clearly and knowingly inspired by “Crash,” Cronenberg’s 1996 Cannes controversy-stirring classic — it’ll be fascinating to see what this year’s Vincent Lindon-led competition jury makes of the genuine article.

5. “Decision to Leave” I’ve gone up and down with South Korean director Park Chan-wook over the years and have no particular love for the violent shocks on display in his previous Cannes prize-winners, “Oldboy” and “Thirst.”

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Many people may plan to give when they receive a great amount of money, but that large amount of money may never come. We may plan to give time or talent to a project when we have more time, but that perfect time arrangement may never happen. Again, the apostle Paul encourages us “as you have opportunity, do good to all men.”

We never know when a little gesture of kindness, with money, or helping in an area of service, spending a little time with a person, a word of encouragement, will be just the action that will be a great help to someone. These can be practical ways of living out the Lord’s challenge to love one another. This is the fulfilling of the many commandments in the Bible: loving people by word and action.

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After failing to qualify for the NCAA tournament, Oklahoma State reaches a new opportunity.

The Cowgirls released their 20-match 2022 schedule Tuesday morning.

After losing five starters to the professional ranks and the transfer portal, the roster reshapes its identity. The Cowgirls finished 9-6-3 in 2021.

OSU will open with an exhibition against Central Oklahoma on Aug. 13.

The regular season will begin at Omaha on Aug. 18.

Neal Patterson Stadium will host nine matches, starting with Missouri State on Aug. 21. The Cowgirls’ nonconference schedule is highlighted with a weekend trip to Florida in early September and a home match against

Brown, the defending Ivy League champions. Brown defeated OSU 2-1 last September.

The Cowgirls will end their home slate with a four match homestand against TCU, Iowa State, West Virginia and Texas. sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Courtesy Google Images Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper star in “Silver Linings Playbook,” a story that focuses on the importance of mental health and recovery.

Films showcasing mental health aspects are represented in a real fashion. There are some great directing choices throughout as well, but one of my favorite things was how they chose to do a camera move around Cooper’s Connor Gray head to signify a change in Staff Reporter his mental state is coming.

Good Will Hunting The month of May has (1997) been officially recognized A highly regarded as Mental Health Awareness film, “Good Will Hunting” Month and is used as a time excels in the writing departto notice signs of mental ment with one of my favorite issues and raise awareness. scripts to this day, emotionThere have been several ally driven and powerful permovies over the decades formances throughout, and that tackle mental health a story that on the surface issues and show the varicould seem generic but is ous ways that it can affect quite devastating and uplifteveryday life. In the spirit of ing all in one. Matt Damon the month of May, here are and Robin Williams bring a few of my favorite films to great soul to their characters showcase the importance of and can tell a story about the mental health. internal struggles and inSilver Linings Playsights that come with having book (2012) a genius level intellect. All of “Silver Linings Playthis is masterfully achieved book” provides the viewer using witty comedy, romance with some of Hollywood’s and drama that succeeds in heaviest hitters, and they all being both heartwarming come out swinging. Bradley and heartbreaking.

Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence Manchester by the and Robert De Niro all turn Sea (2016) out phenomenal, and at some “Manchester by the points gut-wrenching, perSea” is in an exclusive group formances in the film. One of movies where as soon of the biggest compliments as I finished watching it, it the film can be given is that became a favorite for me. the characters all feel interI have never seen a more esting and the mental health accurate and real depiction

of grief in a film than in “Manchester by the Sea.” A film that nails the feelings of grief, isolation and family, but equally manages to be uplifting as you get to watch Casey Affleck deliver one of my all-time favorite performances. A truly incredible and compelling drama, “Manchester by the Sea” may be too much for some, but I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat.

Each of these films depicts mental health to some capacity in different forms, but all of them do so in a fashion that I believe succeeds and shows what life can be like. Whether you want more of the drama infused with comedy that comes with “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Good Will Hunting” or the heartbreak that comes with “Manchester by the Sea,” each of these films deserves a watch at some point.

Mental Health Awareness month aims at helping people struggling with mental health related issues and seeks to destigmatize mental health across the world. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, visit samhsa.gov or call 1-800-662-4357. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

But 2016’s twisty, teasing “The Handmaiden” made me a believer again, and this latest competition entry, a murder mystery set in a remote mountainscape, sounds tantalizing indeed.

6. “God’s Creatures” The promise of a meaty lead role for the great Emily Watson bodes well for this moral drama set in an Irish fishing village. Also that it’s the latest work from Anna Rose Holmer (co-directing here with editor Saela Davis), whose 2015 drama, “The Fits,” is one of the most arresting debut features in recent memory. The film is screening in Directors’ Fortnight, an independently curated section that runs parallel to the festival’s main program.

7. “One Fine Morning” Mia Hansen-Løve (“Eden,” “Things to Come”) didn’t wow everyone at Cannes last year with her film-within-a-film metatravelogue “Bergman Island,” though this critic was more than sufficiently charmed. I know next to nothing about her latest, except that it features a few French actors I’ve mentioned already (Seydoux, Poupaud) and is playing in Directors’ Fortnight. Since that’s where Hansen-Løve first made waves with her wonderful debut feature, “All Is Forgiven,” I’m seeing that as an auspicious sign.

8. “R.M.N.” Cristian Mungiu won the Palme in 2007 for his searing drama “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” and also won prizes for his next two features, “Beyond the Hills” and “Graduation.”

Whether or not that streak continues with his new competition entry, “R.M.N.,” he remains one of the foremost practitioners of new Romanian cinema, and his latest sounds like another rigorously unnerving moral tale that illuminates the inner darkness of an entire community. It’s co-produced by the great Belgian brothers JeanPierre and Luc Dardenne, who, as it happens, are competing this year for their third Palme d’Or (!) with “Tori and Lokita.”

9. “Scarlet” Italian director Pietro Marcello made one of my favorite

movies of recent years with his gorgeous and inventive Jack London adaptation, “Martin Eden.”

His latest is another exercise in cross-cultural inspiration, a free adaptation of the novella “Scarlet Sails,” by Russian author Aleksandr Grin, that takes place in northern France between the two world wars. It stars Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thierry, Louis Garrel and Noémie Lvovsky, and it’s the opening film of Directors’ Fortnight.

10. “Smoking Causes Coughing” I confess that I look forward to just about every new cinematic wackadoodle from Quentin Dupieux, the pranksterish mastermind behind “Rubber,” “Deerskin” and “Mandibles.” Not much has been disclosed about the content of his latest, which is playing in the festival’s midnight section, but the title’s enough for me.

11. “Stars at Noon” Claire Denis (“Beau Travail,” “35 Shots of Rum”) has been one of the world’s great filmmakers for decades, which is why it’s bewildering that she hasn’t competed at Cannes since her great 1988 debut, “Chocolat.” But she finally cracked the competition a second time with this romantic thriller adapted from a Denis Johnson novel; it stars Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley and unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1984 Nicaraguan revolution. It’s Denis’ second new movie of 2022 after “Both Sides of the Blade,” which won the directing prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. (Coincidentally, that movie stars Vincent Lindon, who happens to be the president of this year’s Cannes competition jury. Hmm … ) 12. “War Pony” The Pine Ridge Reservation, stretches of which were seen in Chloé Zhao’s independent dramas “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider,” is the setting for this fact-inspired story of friendship, family and loss, directed by Riley Keough (the actor known for her roles in “American Honey” and “Zola”) and Gina Gammell. It’s premiering in Un Certain Regard, a strand of the festival’s official selection devoted to new and emerging voices, some of whom invariably figure among the festival’s most exciting discoveries. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

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OSU tied for Columbus Regional lead, Chacarra atop individual leaderboard Jax Thompson Staff Reporter A strong first day wasn’t enough to hold off the field.

The NCAA men’s golf Columbus Regional became a two-horse race entering the final day between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

The two are tied for first at 7-under, which is 13 strokes better than the next-closest team, Ohio State. The Yellow Jackets combined for a scorching 13-under as a team on Tuesday at Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio.

In the individual competition, OSU’s Eugenio Chacarra took the lead with a 2-under back nine. He sits at 4-under for the tournament. He clings to a one stroke lead over Georgia Tech’s Ross Steelman.

Jonas Baumgartner and Aman Gupta also scored for the Cowboys.

They’re in a tie for sixth in the overall competition at 1-under. Brian Stark and Bo Jin close out the Cowboy contingent at 14th place at 1-over.

The Cowboys will need to stay in the top five in the team competition to move on to the NCAA Championship.

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Continued from 1 Ukraine’s military said in a statement early Tuesday that efforts were ongoing to save the remaining fighters, lauding them as “heroes of our time” who would be mentioned “forever in history.”

As the buses rumbled out of Azovstal, Russian forces continued attacks on eastern Ukraine, with their main efforts focused “in the direction of Donetsk province,” according to an operational update from the Ukrainian army’s General Staff on Tuesday. The update said Ukraine had repelled 11 enemy assaults in the last 24 hours, including around the city of Severodonetsk, the easternmost area still under Ukrainian government control and the site of intense combat in recent weeks.

Russian cruise missiles also struck locations near the northeastern cities of Chernihiv and Sumy, according to reports from regional authorities.

In the west, a missile salvo — the second in three days — damaged what Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on his Telegram channel was railway infrastructure near the town of Yavoriv, about 30 miles west of Lviv and a short distance from the Polish border. The town is home to a base used for NATO and U.S. military training of Ukrainian troops; more recently it hosted foreigners intending to join Ukraine’s defense before a Russian barrage there two months ago killed some 35 people.

“This was indeed one of the largest attacks on the Lviv region in terms of the number of missiles,” Sadovyi wrote. “It is difficult to predict what will happen next.”

There was no word on injuries or deaths. Ukrainian air defense intercepted three missiles, Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi said on his official telegram channel Tuesday.

The overnight aerial assault, which lit up the night sky and shook the city center, had little effect on daily life in Lviv, where people have become

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“This has become normal for us,’ said Vitalii Kos, who was a member of a work team Tuesday installing protective metal scaffolding around a monument in the Old City — part of an ongoing effort to shield monuments in the historic district. “This is part of our life now in Lviv.”

after a harrowing ordeal underground, with no sunlight and with fast-decreasing food and water supplies.

The evacuation of the fighters overnight Monday was described by Russia as a mass surrender; Ukraine said only that its troops there had completed their mission.

“It’s a relief, but it’s not the end,” Oleksandr Danylyuk, a Ukrainian army officer who

its troops near the northeastern city of Kharkiv had pushed back invading forces to the border with Russia.

The claim could not be independently verified, but if true, it opens up a pathway for Ukrainian troops to harass Russian supply lines to Izium, some 70 miles southeast of Kharkiv.

Those and other setbacks appears to have spurred a reevaluation of the Ukraine invasion even from inside Russia. On Monday, in a rare break with Moscow’s official narrative, retired Russian colonel and defense columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a scathing assessment of the state of the war and dismissed claims of an impending collapse of Ukrainian forces’ morale.

“All of that, to put it mildly, is false,” he said on a talk show on Russian state TV, according to the BBC’s translation of the video broadcast.

Khodaryonok added that, with the U.S. and European Union poised to send tens of billions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid, the prospect of “a million armed Courtesy Tribune News Service Ukrainian soldiers needs to be viewed This map details areas in Ukraine where Russia has taken control, and areas where Ukraine regained as a reality in the control, as well as severe fighting areas. very near future.”

By contrast, most of once served as the country’s “The situation in this Mariupol lies in ruins, its stately national security chief and regard for us will frankly get boulevards reduced to rubble finance minister, told the BBC worse,” Khodaryonok said, by a relentless bombardment on Tuesday. adding that Russia had become that has caused most residents Despite the takeover of deeply isolated diplomatically to flee.

Mariupol in Ukraine’s southand that, “however much we For weeks, Russian troops eastern corner, Moscow’s would hate to admit this, virtucontinued to strike the Azovstal campaign in the east appears to ally the entire world is against plant, hoping to flush out the have lost momentum, with its us.”

Ukrainian fighters bunkered forces making costly but increThat isolation increased in its network of subterranean mental advances even as Ukrai- Tuesday when Swedish Foreign tunnels. Women, children and nian units have begun their own Minister Anne Linde signed a elderly people who had also counteroffensives meant to frus- formal application for her counsheltered there were bused out trate Russia’s advance around try to join NATO, a step that to the Ukrainian-held city of the Seversky Donets river. On neighboring Finland, too, is takZaporizhzhia earlier this month Monday, Ukraine claimed that ing. Less than three months of

a war in Ukraine has convinced both nations to scrap decades of official nonalignment.

“It feels very big, very serious, and it feels like we have arrived at a conclusion which is the best for Sweden,” Linde told reporters. “We don’t know how long it will take, but we calculate that it could take up to a year.”

Despite the Kremlin’s earlier warning of serious repercussions if Sweden and Finland join the Western alliance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday played down the move, noting that the two Nordic nations have “been participating in NATO military exercises for many years.”

“NATO takes their territory into account when planning military advances to the east,” Lavrov said. “So in this sense there is probably not much difference. Let’s see how their territory is used in practice in the North Atlantic alliance.”

Here in Lviv, the shifting tides of the war have changed the calculus of some Ukrainians. Lviv’s elegant 19th century railway station, which has been a way station for millions fleeing warfare, now hosts another group of travelers: evacuees returning to their homes after Russian forces have been pushed out of, or abandoned, areas such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv.

“It’s very emotional to be going home,” said Alina Cheechkan, 35, as she, her mother and her 7-year olddaughter, Victoria, awaited a train back to Kharkiv. “One feels happy, but also nervous.”

Like so many others, the three had fled Kharkiv in February as the Russians attacked.

She has heard from her husband, who stayed behind, that the family home is intact.

With the three was Koblan Lesia, 29, a Lviv lawyer who lent her home to the displaced family. Such acts of generosity have been commonplace here, as residents hastened to help the millions uprooted by conflict.

“We did our small part to help,” said Lesia as she bade goodbye to her three unexpected guests. news.ed@ocolly.com