l Whatever Ukrainian Catholics are celebrating in Slavyansk (The Church in the World, 31 May), in a matter of days Ukrainian armed forces have apparently managed to shell a kindergarten, a school, an orphanage and a children’s hospital as well as civilian blocks of flats, killing a number of civilians. This follows the shooting by government forces of civilians and international journalists going about their business in other cities in eastern Ukraine. Kindertransport convoys of buses have now been organised by families desperate to get their children out across the border into Russia or Crimea. Yet reports in our Western media remain painfully one-sided. Would it simply be too embarrassing to have to admit that the US-backed interim Government with its extreme Right element and now