On the front of our edition this week, we changed our logo from the traditional green Globe to a yellow and blue Globe, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. This isn’t the first time we’ve temporarily changed our logo. For example, for Halloween, we made the green Globe orange, but this is the first time we’ve done it for something of this magnitude.

The Globe has a longstanding policy of not endorsing politicians, political parties and/or specific policies. Likewise, we are not endorsing any politicians here. Our logo change is not an endorsement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or an endorsement of any possible United States military or N.A.T.O. response to the invasion.

Our logo change is a statement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people. We, as an editorial board, believe universally that Russia is wrong to invade Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has no right to do what he is doing, and the bloodshed and lives lost here are a tragedy.

It is not just us as an editorial board that believe this. It speaks volumes that in a time where it seems as though we are more divided than ever, almost the entire world is standing behind Ukraine. It is clear that Russia is the villain of this story, their invasion was wrong from the beginning and it is wrong now.

Ukrainian refugees, as well as all refugees, deserve to be taken in, by whatever country they may end up in. People who have lost their homes do not deserve to be thrown away, cast out to the streets with nowhere to go. As individuals and as a society we have a moral obligation to support our fellow human beings when they are suffering.

We, as an editorial board, are not experts on geopolitical conflicts. We aren’t going to try to propose a solution to this problem because we don’t know where to begin. It simply isn’t our place. We are simply saying that we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.