While I would not discount racism or “unconscious bias” as a reason for a focus on the suffering in Ukraine at the expense of other countries (Letters and Comments, April 14), I would suggest an alternative reason. A large number of Mennonites in the Western Hemisphere have ancestors who came from Ukraine. This is particularly true of Mennonites who settled in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian prairie provinces. Those who remained in Ukraine suffered one catastrophe after another: World War I, the Russian Revolution and civil war, the “terror famine” (Holodomor) of the 1930s, World War II and now the Russian invasion of 2022. We are witnessing the possible destruction of 230 years of Mennonite presence in Ukraine.

D. Frederick Dyck, Cameron, Mo.