#Invasion from Russia

[lonestarbattleship]

Just learned one of my favorite Ocean liner/Titanic artists, Anton Logvynenko, is dead.

From the Titanic community, I've learned he is Ukrainian and joined their military last year, to protect his homeland from Russia. He was killed fighting in the front lines on November 27.

His post from his Facebook page talking about joining the fight: link

"Hello there ocean liners lovers!

I'm sorry for not being posting here my new artworks or any updates for a while... The process of creation one digital drawing takes about 3 months itself but now situation is more complicated.

As you may know, russia has attacked my country and they are trying to occupy the whole Ukraine and even move forward to Europe. So I joined our Military Forces of Ukraine to protect my homeland.

I hope to get back to you soon with my new drawings after our Victory. But till this happens I ask you to support Ukraine and our army in any suitable for you way.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours, Anton Logvynenko"

Some of his artwork

[error4343]

Today was one of the biggest russian air attacks on Kyiv.

Drones, ballistic and winged missiles were, as always, prioritizing "critical military infrastructure": student dorms, dozen on residential buildings and kindergarden.

As I'm writing this post, 18 people were injured, 1 dead, but it's likely will get higher soon. Russian missile destroyed entire section of building, likely burying people under it.

UPD: 15 dead, 115 - injured (68 - hospitilized)

[justacynicalromantic]

People be like "Russia is not imperialistic"🤡 - and then the most famous Ukrainian chef cannot open a restaurant of the most famous Ukrainian cultural food in Japan, because Japanese widely consider borscht a Russian dish and so would avoid the restaurant thinking it to be Russian🫤🫤🫤🤯🤯🤯

[5soswfttwtaf]

[icepixie]

Okay, yet another SafeSport suspension/sexual abuse allegation in figure skating is disappointing and sad and infuriating (particularly as I really enjoyed Flores/Desyatov's skating), but, unfortunately, it's not shocking anymore.

However, I did not have "three marriages between US girl/Russian boy dance couples that sure look like green card scams, while they were all teenagers, two of which were kept secret for years" on my bingo card for this season. What on earth is going on at that training center???

[tomorrowusa]

It seems that North Koreans fighting in Putin's war were falsely told that they were just going on a training mission. I think some of the original invading Russian soldiers were told the same thing in early 2022.

Ukrainian investigators are questioning two soldiers from North Korea whom the country’s forces captured in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. [ ... ] The Ukrainian president said it was “not easy” to capture the North Korean soldiers, claiming that Moscow attempted to hide their presence by letting Russian and North Korean troops kill their wounded comrades on the battlefield to avoid being taken prisoner by Kyiv. Ukrainian officials said the prisoners were talking through interpreters working with South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS). The SBU said one prisoner, who said he was born in 2005, claimed he believed he was "going for training, not to fight a war against Ukraine." The other man was forced to write his answers because of an injured jaw, the SBU said. That soldier said he was born in 1999 and was a sniper in the North Korean army. The developments followed new Ukrainian attacks in Kursk to prevent Russia from snatching back territory. A lightning Ukrainian offensive first captured large swaths of the Kursk region in August 2024. It was the largest incursion onto Russian soil since World War II.

Actually, the Kursk incursion by Ukraine is the first time since WWII that foreign troops have have taken territory in Russia.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said that the "first North Korean prisoners of war are now in Kyiv" and that they were "regular [North Korean] troops, not mercenaries." “The security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific is directly linked. We need maximum pressure against regimes in Moscow and Pyongyang.,” he wrote.

The two North Korean soldiers are lucky to be alive. Russians on the battlefield have been killing wounded North Koreans to prevent them from falling into Ukrainian hands. This probably qualifies as a war crime.

Question: Given that Russia and probably North Korea would have preferred those soldiers to be dead, wouldn't it be safer for them to remain in Ukraine or move to South Korea?

[afrocloud9]

As I keep saying this, because of school and stuff, I often won't answer certain things. As the year comes to an end, continue to donate, share, and talk about Palestine, Congo, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries that are constantly being harmed. Spread awareness, education, information, all of it. Don't silence anyone either. It just won't help. I'll try to share the links and other messages as much as I can, but school is keeping me a lil' busy.

I can't donate. I keep telling people this. I even put it on my bio that I can't donate. HOWEVER! I can share the links, spread them around, and help others donate. If I actually had enough money for myself and other things, I would've easily donated to every charity, GoFundMe, all these sites by now.

Like I said, I will spread the links around, because I know I can. If I can't, that'd be a different story.

Spread info, hug your families, check on your loved ones, and simply support all of the countries that are being destroyed. I'm sorry for ignoring ANY message or text you send me. I don't want to silence anyone's voice when I'm out. I'm often somewhere else on platforms like Twitter (Deleting soon) or discord, or I'm simply just offline. So if you're questioning why I'm ignoring your messages, I'm often on different platforms or just offline-offline. I won't always be on my phone when I get home or get into school. Whenever I get the chance, I WILL spread more links, even if I get on trouble. Continue to send your links and stories, and I'll continue to spread the links around.

Hope you can understand. Thank you for reading, and good night.

Posted at 4 A.M., PST/PDT. Black Californian.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Old Man's Child – My Evil Revelations

[chaiaurchaandni]

Israeli forces have killed approximately TWICE as many women and children in 2 MONTHS in Gaza as Russian forces have killed in Ukraine in nearly 2 YEARS

Israel's Gaza bombing campaign is the most destructive of this century, analysts say (archive.org)

[justacynicalromantic]

Russia's borders end where they got punched in the face.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

And one more thing.

If Russians have started to be proud and praise Nevsky, Suvorov, Zhukov - it means they will soon attack someone.

If Russians have started to be proud and praise Pushkin and Chaikovsky - it means someone punched them in the face.

And that's it. The mystery of the "mysterious Russian soul" solved.

[radioactive-cloud]

my roman empire will forever be how my country could've been if it wasn't terrorised by russia for centuries

[agentfascinateur]

Freedom for Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russia can offer no lessons until it lets people speak.

[tchaikovskaya]

although it is often inaccurately used as a kind of shorthand description, the term "proxy war" does not actually apply to the war in ukraine. but i do think you have to have your head entirely inside your ass to reject the idea that the conflict at its heart is about spheres of influence.

[soryualeksi]

That's it. I crossed my mental limit.

[tomorrowusa]

A Ukrainian teen who was moved by Russian authorities from Russian-occupied Ukraine to Russia last year was told he could get drafted into Putin's pathetic army after he turns 18.

After an international outcry, Bogdan may finally be returned to Ukraine.

A 17-year-old Ukrainian who was moved from Ukraine to Russia found out recently he was facing the prospect of being conscripted into the army fighting against the country of his birth. Bogdan Yermokhin, originally from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, tried to return to Ukraine in March but was stopped by Russian border guards. He is soon due to turn 18 and was ordered to report to a Moscow region draft centre next month. But then his plight became public knowledge and after his lawyer appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky for help, Russia appears to have had a change of heart. Russian's children's commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova announced on Friday that he would soon be taken abroad to meet his cousin, and Ukraine confirmed the plan. Bogdan Yermokhin was orphaned in 2014 and before Russia's invasion of Ukraine he lived with a foster family in the port city of Mariupol. The director of a technical college where he was studying became his legal guardian in 2021. In 2022, Mariupol was seized by Russian forces after one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and Bogdan ended up in Russia. It remains unclear how or why he was moved.

Russia has been illegally transporting Ukrainian kids from occupied territories since not long after Putin's invasion began. This is banned by international law.

[I]n March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Ms Lvova-Belova and President Vladimir Putin. The ICC said Russia's aim was "permanently removing these children from their own country." Bogdan Yermokhin was transferred first to the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine and later to a youth summer camp in the Moscow region with a group of 30 Ukrainian children, including one boy fostered by the children's rights commissioner herself. The teenager was eventually put in the care of a local foster family and given Russian documents. He entered a college in Russia to continue his studies and Ms Lvova-Belova also claimed that he worked in summer camp aiming to "integrate" teenagers from Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Russia is losing population and the standard of living outside a few of the larger cities is plummeting. Kidnapping kids from Ukraine is one of the few options the Putin dictatorship has to slow down population implosion.

Ms Rudnitskaya argued that he was not at risk of being sent to fight in Ukraine. "He is a student," she said, adding that "new recruits do not take part in the Special Military Operation" - using Russia's official term for its full-scale war. Maria Lvova-Belova agreed, accusing the media of "hype". Russian authorities have frequently insisted that new recruits are not sent to the front line, but the BBC has established on multiple occasions that this has in fact happened.

Yep, it's been documented that not all of the members of Putin's dismal army in Ukraine are exactly "volunteers".

In April 2023, Maria Lvova-Belova announced at a news conference that Bogdan Yermokhin had tried to return to Ukraine on his own. She said that Russian border guards had managed to stop him. "We caught him on the border with Belarus," she announced. "We managed to stop him at the last minute."

Of course. Why on earth would anybody want to remain in Russia?

After a lot of bad publicity, indicted war criminal Maria Lvova-Belova is attempting to revise the narrative on Bogdan.

In her latest remarks on social media on Friday, the children's commissioner was adamant that up until October he had wanted to stay in Russia, and that Russian authorities had done nothing against his will. "Now Bogdan's opinion on where he would like to live has changed and he plans to return to Ukraine." Before his earlier failed attempt to leave Russia in March, at least one other Ukrainian teenager from Mariupol placed in a Russian foster family succeeded in returning to Ukraine. Ukraine's human rights ombudsman, Dmitry Lubinets, said the boy, who he named Serhiy, had sought help online from Ukrainian chat bots in December 2022. Bogdan Yermokhin was also active on social media, but he stopped posting under his name in March, at around the time of his attempt to leave Russia. [ ... ]

Bogdan's Russian foster family and his former Ukrainian guardians have confirmed to the BBC that Russian authorities now consider him a Russian citizen, so he would have been obliged to serve in the army under Russian law. But under international law issuing documents in occupied territories is illegal and Ukraine condemns the practice. This became one of the grounds for the ICC's arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova. As far as Ukraine and the rest of the international community is concerned, Bogdan Yermokhin remains a Ukrainian citizen, and the Russian military summons is illegal. The Russian children's commissioner denies authorities have engaged in any illegal activity and Moscow rejected claims it impedes the return of minors to Ukraine. However, its authorities insist only mothers or other close relatives can make their way to Russia in person to take their children back to Ukraine.

Hopefully Bogdan will be back home in Ukraine before long where he can recover from his ordeal in Russia.

[stillthinkingaboutthatplant]

Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day.

The moment I started writing this sentence an air raid siren started wailing outside my window (second one today, already, of course). So i guess our terrorist neighbours really haven’t forgotten about their genocide against us, despite always denying it, eh?

And while Ukrainians at home and everywhere in the world mourn millions of our people, who were starved brutally by totalitarian soviet regime, here’s a 10 minute video with English subtitles (!!!) on the history of Holodomor-Genocide. Please educate yourself. Learn history. Don’t let it repeat itself.

There are enough motherfuckers out there, doing exactly that by trying to deny facts and erase truth: