There are many people suffering on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. Nonetheless, it is the Creator who evokes these situations for the sake of correction, as it is written, “There is none else besides Him.” Moreover, we must not attribute this war to anyone but the Creator, because “the heart of kings and ministers is in the hands of the Creator.” True victory is not where one side subdues the other, but that they connect above all problems and battlefields. Connection is the true victory, i.e. where both sides understand that there is no victory in war but each of us has to defeat our own ego, and this is how we will win the war. There is no other way. We cannot come out of this war until we think correctly about what is going on, that it is not just a war, but it is in order for us to become more connected and so that we will turn to the Creator and demand of Him that “He who makes peace in His high places, may He make peace upon us” (Heb. “Oseh shalom be Merumav, Hu yaase shalom aleynu”). We will then reach true peace. “Shalom,” which means “peace” in Hebrew, also means completion, wholeness, and perfection. We can reach such completion and perfection only in the connection of all opposite ends together, which is only possible through the revelation of the Creator—because we connect in Him.