The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine is personal for Jacksonville-based political consultants Tom Nolan and Bruce Barcelo.
It's more than places on a map and names in news stories. After years of working in the country as election observers and advisers, they have friends and colleagues there, people they consider family — and they've each wept as they watch TV accounts of the destruction and death toll.
"These people don't deserve this," Nolan said. "They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it. This is one man feeding his ego."
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