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I AM a teacher. I am also a veteran. I served in the British Army operationally in Northern Ireland. I have witnessed first-hand the loss, grief and tragedy that comes from violent conflict.
The devastation in Ukraine is on a far greater scale. We should be working towards a resolution of the conflict, towards peace. Negotiations are preferable to more killing.
We need a negotiated peace deal to end the war. A war that has killed, amputated, blinded and traumatised up to a million battle casualties on either side. A war that is locked in a deadly stalemate.
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