#Ukrainian boxer

[panimoonchild]

Sport is not beyond politics

🥊 Oleksandr Usyk is the absolute world boxing champion in the heavyweight division!

Oleksandr Usyk is the third boxer in the modern history of men's boxing (four championship belts) to become an absolute world champion in different weight categories.

UNITED 24 ambassadors supported Oleksandr Usyk yesterday. In the photo with the boxer are footballer Andriy Shevchenko and actor Liev Schreiber.

He came to the final "battle of looks" in an outfit with Crimean Tatar ornaments, and then in an embroidered shirt with a portrait of Oleksandr Matsievsky, who was executed by the Russians.

❗Also one more impressive win in boxing:

Denys Berinchyk defeats Emanuel Navarrete to win the WBO lightweight title.

[khulkulkhan]

The greatest Ukrainian Boxers ever

I try to make a list of the best (or most successful) boxer from the Ukraine pound for pound:

Vitaly Klitschko

Wassili Lomaschenko

Alexander Usyk

Wladimir Klitschko

Sergey Dzinziruk

Wladimir Sidorenko

Artem Dalakian

Viktor Postol

Oleksandr Gwozdyk

Andreas Kotelnik

Notable mentionings: Vyacheslav Senchenko, Serge Derevschenko, Yuri Nuzchenko, Alexander Gurov

[marinabandelyuk]

waiting for usyk vs fury fight

who is also watching it tonight?

hope usyk will win and glory to ukraine

[molfarua]

🥊🥇 The famous Ukrainian boxer VLADIMIR KLICHKO will be the driver of one of the Ukrainian LEOPARDS. Truly, life is sometimes stranger than fiction.

[ghcstao3]

drabbles masterlist pt 2

because apparently i write a lot. so. this is everything from late november 2023 to present

PART ONE of the list

misc

hunger games au (preview)

the lake

retirement first meetings (part 1) (part 2)

informant ghost

reunion

ghost and christmas

broken radio

diver!ghost x selkie!soap

going grey

art restorer!soap x immortal!ghost (part 1) (part 2)

tommy knows

ghost’s family

mutual pining

smoker’s pact

brainwashed ghost

ukrainian ghost

on religion

urban fantasy

proposal

resentment

ghost’s tattooed wings

scrapped waiter!soap x secret agent!ghost

waking up

prince!soap x assassin!ghost (part 1) (part 2)

haircut

civilian first-ish meetings

asks / requests

mourning

friendship bracelet

vampire!soap “meeting” the family

university au

echo and narcissus

invisible soap

simon’s revival

only one bed

werewolves

“siren” soap

soap secretly makarov’s son (part 1) (part 2)

siren!ghost x sailor!soap (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

boxer!soap x trainer!ghost

accidental werewolf soap

cat!soap and dog!ghost

civilian!soap x military!ghost

teen!ghostsoap

vampire!ghostsoap

will o’ the wisps

persuasion au

pirates au

demi-gods

immortals

sas!soap x mi6!ghost

comms talk

ukrainian ghost

» last updated: june 8, 2024

[evergreen-dryad]

Put in the language and form of a fable, it makes this tale immensely readable and accessible. What seems like a comfy tale of the English countryside and a farm and its animals with cute names like 'Bluebell' and 'Clover' quickly devolves from slight inequality (when the pigs keep the milk and apples for themselves, reasoning 'oh, they are the brain workers of the farm') to betrayal and the horror of a totalitarian government, once again replicating what came before the animals rebelled against men.

It's good this tale was told simply and clearly so no fancy word could be used to twist round it, like Squealer did as the propaganda. It's also a small thin book of 100+ pages. Plot felt very quick, true economy of word usage here. Characters are super memorable, each one distinct, and when there isn't a distinct one it's a mass of them. It's essentially post-war non-fiction dressed as fairytale, with no jargon, and it's described almost objectively? So there's no question of bias.

heart broke for boxer. no other words

when the sheep bleated 'four legs good, two legs bad' (the simplification of the motto) I kept dreading that this would one day be used against the poultry as discrimination. Oh nooo. It twisted to 'two legs better', reversing back horrifically to when they were still under men

I thought, Good for Mollie for escaping early when she did, she knew what she wanted and it was to live in the luxury she was used to. Even if that's depicted as a coward.

Squealer is good at what he does, and in turn describes how the media works, chillingly. 'Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it.' I myself had to reread again just to make sure what exactly had happened. The animals didn't have the luxury of a reread.

it hurt to see the pigs keep twisting things around from a loss to a victory, a death to a celebration, a sale to constant enemies' persecution, etc. And of course, the changing of the commandments, the ideals which they had all worked for, to suit only themselves as the exception. The Constant Distraction of Events

i also thought it was good orwell had both insisted on no royalties for translations for countries too poor, and himself paid for Russian editions [APPENDIX II - preface to Ukrainian edition]

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Fact Check: Is this overview true and did these people really became richer during the war?

Currently, this image is spreading through social media. According to the accounts who share it, this graph shows 5 Ukrainian officials (President Zelenskyy, Defense Minister Reznikov, Foreign Minister Kuleba, Vladimir Klitschko and Mykhailo Podolyak). The graph shows they all got richter during the war (light red: February 2022; dark red: December 2022) - claiming, all these people allegedly enriched themselves and benefited from the war. It's mostly used trying to accuse Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

So...is this true?

No. The image is fake and highly misleading. It also contains false facts and is not backed by Forbes or BBC.

What's the proof?

The image pretends it uses Forbes and the BBC as trusted sources. But a search shows that neither on Forbes nor on BBC this image can be found. A BBC person also said: "That infographic is fake and definitely was not produced by the BBC".

What else?

While the author remains unknown, it looks like the image first appeared on a Pro-Russian website - "DNR Pravda". They cover news mostly about the self-proclaimed "People's Republic of Donetsk" (Ukrainian territory, annexed by Russia). The site is known for fake news and misleading / false facts. Now, they seem to be the first ones who shared the image on December 30. It was then very quickly taken over by very influential pro-Kremlin accounts: f.e. (Pro-)Russian Telegram channels and social media accounts or Vladimir Soloviev, chief propagandist of the Kremlin.

Furthermore, the creator of this graph seems to have used an indeed existing BBC article for inspiration - about a completely different topic. But the image shown in this article and the false one seem very similiar when it comes to the style of the image.

And the informations in the picture are not true?

They are not true.

First of all, it claims to show the "wealth of Ukrainian politicians". While Zelenskyy, Reznikov and Kuleba are politicians - Mykhailo Podolyak and Vladimir Klitschko are not.

Podolyak is only an advisor to the President's Office.

And Klitschko is another proof that this image is a fake: While the name says "Vladimir Klitschko", who is a former boxer and has nothing to do with politics, the picture shows his brother "Vitali Klitschko", who is the major of Kyiv and hencewise indeed a politician.

The other wealth informations are also false. Take Zelenskyy as an example. According to the picture Zelenskyy's wealth was 650$ million before the war - an amount of money that is often shared and claimed by Russian Propagandists and Kremlins (as well as the 1.5$ billion or a a similiar amount of money), but it's not true. According to Forbes and and based on his tax declarations, his wealth is something between 20$-30$ million. There is also no proof he had any chance of getting that rich (1.5$ billion) during the war.

Furthermore, according to the image, all these people are now billionaires, but they don't show up on any official statistics. This also applies to pre-war statistics which proofs that the "pre-war wealth" numbers are fake.

[taiwantalk]

russia’s behavior in blaming united states and the rest of nato for helping ukraine to beat russia in an invasion started by russia gives the whole world a clear example of revisionist history deserving historians to critically re-examine.

and in my personal interest, i am convinced that historian should re-examine china’s revisionist behavior in blaming 8 nations alliance in 1900 for the military conflict triggered by boxer rebellion.

likewise china is blaming united states for trade war for infringement of ip patents for coverup of covid19 for taiwan tension by threatening to invade and for South China Sea by building islands and behaving hostile.

these are classic behaviors of belligerent country with revisionist tendencies.

[byneddiedingo]

Lana Turner and John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946)

Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed, Jeff York. Screenplay: Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch, based on a novel by James M. Cain. Cinematography: Sidney Wagner. Art direction: Randall Duell, Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: George White. Music: George Bassman.

It's one of the most memorable entrances in movies. Actually, her lipstick enters first, rolling across the floor toward him. She is Cora Smith and he is Frank Chambers, the man her husband has just hired to work in their roadside café/filling station. But more important, she is Lana Turner, one of the last of the products of the resources of the studio star factories: lighting, hair, makeup, wardrobe, and especially public relations. And he is John Garfield, one of the first of a new generation of Hollywood leading men, trained on the stage, and with an urban ethnicity about him: His vaguely presidential nom de théâtre thinly disguises his birth name, Jacob Julius Garfinkle. The pairing shouldn't work: She's a goddess, not an actress, whom the publicists had turned into "the Sweater Girl" while claiming that she had been discovered at a drugstore soda fountain. He was the child of Ukrainian-born Jews and grew up on the Lower East Side, trained as a boxer and studied acting with various disciples of Stanislavsky. But the chemistry is there from the moment Frank picks up Cora's lipstick and the camera surveys her from toe to head: white shoes, tan legs, white shorts, tan midriff, white halter top, blond hair, white turban. She reaches out her hand for the lipstick, but he doesn't move, so she comes over and gets it. It's one of the many power plays that will take place between them. The rest is one of the great film noirs, from a studio that didn't usually make them, MGM. In fact, the studio head, Louis B. Mayer, hated it, which is always a good recommendation: He hated Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950), too. (Mayer's tastes ran to Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy operettas and the Andy Hardy series.) It's the only really memorable movie directed by Tay Garnett, so I suspect a lot of credit goes to the screenwriters, Niven Busch and Harry Ruskin, and to their source, James M. Cain's overheated novel. Cain also wrote the novels that were the basis of two other famous noirs: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) and Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945), so the screenwriters and the director had some powerful examples to follow.

[mariacallous]

For around $340, actor Elijah Wood can record you a personalized video wishing you happy birthday. John McGinley, best known for his role in medical TV show Scrubs, will give you a lengthy pep talk for around $475. Priscilla Presley will record a clip talking about everything from Christmas shopping to Graceland for around $200.

These celebrities all use the video-sharing platform Cameo to quickly snap homemade videos for fans who pay them for the honor. They can be seen celebrating anniversaries, lightly roasting people, or offering advice. This summer, however, some videos have been weaponized by an unknown Russian group, which has crudely edited the clips and used them as part of its wide-ranging information warfare tactics against Ukraine.

At least seven seemingly unaware celebrities, including those listed above, have had their Cameo videos manipulated by pro-Russian actors to appear as if they are criticizing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, according to new Microsoft research published today. The altered Cameo videos were shared on social media then heavily reported on by Russian government-owned or controlled newspapers and TV channels, the research says.

The videos started appearing in July and follow similar patterns. “It's at a regular interval,” says Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft Threat Analysis Center, which published the research in an update on Russian information and cyber activities. “It's a different actor or actress popping up saying a very similar script,” Watts says.

The videos often see the celebrity talking to “Vladimir” and saying they should get help with possible substance abuse. The videos are later edited to appear as if the celebrity were addressing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky—the Kremlin has consistently pushed disinformation calling Zelensky an addict. The videos can have emoji, links, and social handles added to them before they are shared on social media.

The seven celebrities Microsoft highlights are actors Elijah Wood, John McGinley, Dean Norris, Kate Flannery, and Priscilla Presley; musician Shavo Odadjian; and boxer Mike Tyson. There is no suggestion that the celebrities knew their videos would be edited or manipulated in this way.

“I just want to make sure you are getting help,” Wood, the former Lord of the Rings actor, appears to say in the video. The manipulated video has a Ukrainian flag, a social media handle for Zelensky, and a link to a drug and alcohol research center, and has been made to look like it appeared on Instagram. The video has several jarring cuts throughout and is evidently altered. “I hope you get the help that you need. Lots of love, Vladimir, take care,” Wood seemingly says at the end of the footage. In another video, Kate Flannery, who starred in The Office, appears to say, “You need to go to the rehab,” and that Vladimir deserves a good life.

Over the past decade, Russian disinformation efforts have evolved to keep up with the current web trends, Watts says. Around the 2016 US elections, pro-Russian accounts were sharing their messages using blog post links. Watts says that the Cameo videos did not appear to have reached a wide audience, but the effort was “novel” and part of Russia’s ever-changing tactics. “It’s very hard to influence if you’re not in video, in the current era,” Watts says, adding that the Cameo videos were not edited to a high quality.

“The request was submitted through Cameo and was in no way intended to be addressed to Zelensky or have anything at all to do with Russia or Ukraine or the war,” says a representative for Elijah Wood. A spokesperson for boxer Mike Tyson says the video of him is “false” and he does not produce such content. “Anything outside of his usual lighthearted Cameo videos [is] being altered,” the representative says. Representatives for other celebrities in the Cameo videos did not immediately respond to requests for comment or could not be reached ahead of publication.

Brandon Kazimer, a spokesperson for Cameo, says it is the company’s policy not to comment on any trust and safety investigations. However, Kazimer says the kind of videos described in the research would violate the company’s community guidelines, and “Cameo will typically take steps to remove the problematic content and suspend the purchaser's account to help prevent further issues.”

Additional analysis of the Cameo videos shows how they spread through Russian government-owned or backed media outlets. Antibot4Navalny, an anonymous Russia-based disinformation research group, looked at mentions of the seven celebrities and the videos and found they appeared dozens of times in Russian media, which is largely state-backed or owned.

An Antibot4Navalny member, who was not involved in the Microsoft research, says it appears that one celebrity was targeted each week for nearly two months. The researcher says that Priscilla Presley’s video was mentioned on one of the biggest “prime-time political talk shows” in Russia. The “widest coverage, as measured by number of major media agencies mentioning [them], was received by John McGinley,” the researcher says. This included news service RT, which is sanctioned in Europe. They add that Russian fact-checking website Provereno has debunked several of the videos.

The Cameo videos are not the first time that pro-Russian actors have used celebrities to try and push their messages. This week, WIRED revealed how a notorious Russian disinformation effort called Doppelganger, which has links to Russian military intelligence, has been using images of celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Oprah, Justin Bieber, and Cristiano Ronaldo, to promote anti-Ukraine messages on social media. The efforts reached more than 7.6 million people on Facebook in November, according to an analysis of ads on the platform.

The Antibot4Navalny researcher says people trust well-known, public figures, even if they are not an expert on a subject area. “This is exactly what is exploited by Russian media domestically, and in a quite similar way by Doppelganger operators targeting other countries,” the researcher says. “If you are out of experts saying what you need, just use a video footage (or a photo) with whoever looks familiar, and add subtitles, voiceover, or a written ‘quote,’ with whatever talking points you are seeking to amplify.”

“When the Russians are particularly successful is when they're quick and tied to current events and news stories,” says Microsoft’s Watts. In recent weeks, researchers, including those at Microsoft, have linked some disinformation about the Israel–Hamas war to Russian actors trying to capitalize on the moment. Videos faking news reports from the BBC and Bellingcat have been posted on Russian Telegram channels in the past two months. The videos, according to researchers, include false quotes attributed to Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and use a similar style to the BBC. The videos push messages incorrectly claiming that Ukraine is selling weapons to Hamas.

Most of the Russian narratives highlighted by recent research focus on discrediting Ukraine and its leadership as Russia’s full-scale war enters its second winter. However, next year, dozens of countries—including the US, EU, and UK—are set to hold elections. As this happens, Russian influence operations may also change course. Microsoft’s Watts says he expects that by March, one of the biggest concerns will be whether Russian malicious actors, including hacker groups, are targeting more European and North American targets to potentially conduct “hack and leak operations to drive narratives around any sort of political warfare that they want to pursue.”

[truckman816]

Vasily Lomachenko 🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊Ukrainian Boxer —

[theanticool]

Artem Dalakian vs Brian Valoria - 2/24/2018

Ukrainian boxer Artem Dalakian (22-0, 15 KOs) has been racking up title defenses. Since beating Valoria for the WBA flyweight title in 2018, Dalakian has defended his belt 6 times. While it seems like he isn't interested in unification, a win over a Japanese boxer on a big Japanese card could set up a potential fight with Kenshiro Teraji should Teraji move up to 112lbs.

Dalakian will face off with Seigo Yuri Akui (18-2-1, 11 KOs) on the undercard of Teraji-Carlos Canizales this Tuesday (Jan. 23). Card will be on ESPN+ for US fans and starts at 4am ET.

[beardedmrbean]

(Reuters) -A Russian military officer who had commanded a submarine in the Black Sea and appeared on a Ukrainian blacklist of alleged war criminals has been shot dead by an unknown assassin while on his morning run.

Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was gunned down early on Monday in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. His address, picture and personal details had appeared on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peacemaker), a vast unofficial database of people considered to be enemies of Ukraine.

On Tuesday the word "Liquidated", in red letters, had been superimposed on his photograph on the site.

Russia's state Investigative Committee said on Tuesday it had arrested a suspect in his early 60s who was found in possession of a pistol and silencer. It published a short video showing heavily armed security officers storming a house and detaining the man, who was wearing only boxer shorts.

Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency published details of the killing on its website, without claiming responsibility or saying how it obtained the information.

It said Rzhitsky died on the spot when seven shots were fired at him from a Makarov pistol as he was running in a deserted city park at around six in the morning.

Baza, a Russian Telegram channel with links to the security services, said the killer could have tracked Rzhitsky's movements on an app where he posted details of his regular jogging route in Krasnodar and how long he took to complete it.

Russian state media and war bloggers said Rzhitsky was deputy head of military mobilisation in the city and had previously commanded the "Krasnodar" submarine in the Black Sea.

A Telegram channel used by self-styled pro-Ukraine partisans who have claimed hundreds of sabotage attacks inside Russia said - without stating evidence - that Rzhitsky was suspected of involvement in a submarine-launched cruise missile strike in July 2022 that killed at least 23 people including a 4-year-old girl in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.

Baza quoted Rzhitsky's father as saying he had resigned from the military at the end of 2021 and been discharged, after a delay, the following August.

At least two other pro-war Russian figures in the Myrotvorets database have been assassinated inside Russia since Russian forces invaded Ukraine nearly 17 months ago. Bomb attacks killed journalist Darya Dugina last August and war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in April.

Russia has blamed Ukraine for the attacks. Kyiv has denied involvement, suggesting the attacks are the result of Russian infighting.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Honestly come this spring Ukraine is going to be rolling up with these. US Bradley/German Marders IFVs, French AMX-10 RC light tanks and German Panzerhaubitze 2000s.   Without the Bradleys and the Marders, the Ukrainian infantry just couldnt keep up with tanks. Their vehicles were either too lightly armored to be used on a hot battlefield (the M113, for example) or they were unable to keep up with the tanks in heavy terrain (the Boxers, and all other wheeled vehicles).Now every vehicle the Ukrainian Army needs to conduct a classical armored operation is heavily armored and on tracks. This means they can work together like an iron fist.  

[w-armansky-blog]

‘You see, hopes do not always become reality.’ Oleksandr Usyk, the Ukrainian professional boxer, the heavyweight and cruiserweight champion, the beholder of WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO titles. 

[mariacallous]

A working group under the Ukrainian parliament has commissioned the sports news outlet Tribuna.com’s editorial office to compile a list of Russian athletes who have publicly supported Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the website’s founder Dmitry Navosha reported on Friday.

“Athletes (as well as singers, artists, etc.) who allow themselves to be used by totalitarian regimes are also propagandists. They should be held accountable for playing into war and terrorism in this way,” said Navosha.

The news that the Verkhovna Rada would create a working group to oversee the “modernization” of Ukraine’s sports sanctions was first reported on November 24. According to the Polish news outlet Belsat, the group includes Ukrainian officials and deputies as well as representatives from the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation. The foundation’s head, Alexander Opeikin, reported that the group’s goal will be to prevent Russian athletes who support the war from participating in international competitions.

Tribuna.com has already published a list of more than 50 Russian athletes who support the war. It includes former figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, and former boxer Nikolai Valuev.