#kharkiv

[folklorespring]

Pride march in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2022. Kharkiv was (and still is) constantly shelled by russia so due to safety reasons it was held underground in the subway.

[suratan-zir]

Look at russia's commitment to peace!

Thank you, orange man, for ending russian aggression through appeasement.

Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 26, 2025 city after russian airstrikes

[backscale-pivot-queen]

My grandmother is now almost completely deaf, the constant shelling in Ukraine has taken what’s left of her hearing. She cannot understand me on the phone like she could one month ago.

Her cats hiding are now her only indication that the shelling happening. Unless an explosion makes the building shake.

1,068 days that I’ve prayed for her safety, because she will not abandon her home in Kharkiv.

[dontforgetukraine]

Kate from Kharkiv: Today marks the 10th anniversary of Kharkiv citizens toppling the enormous Lenin statue, the largest symbol of communism and Soviet occupation in our city, with ropes and disc grinders, because that's how much we hated it.

Kate from Kharkiv: The shoes remained for a while after, but we made them Ukrainian

Anastasiya Paraskevova: Toppling this fuck was probably the best feeling I ever experienced, unironically. It took so many hours but was so very worth it. That was, by the way, the biggest statue to Lenin. And city authorities were saying that dropping it would break the ground and damage the metro beneath. We, of course, didn't buy it. The metro was made to survive bombings we thought (which is now very much a shelter against Russian bombings). But when he finally fell, he was empty inside. As huge and seemingly imposing as it was, collective effort and the stubborness of a bunch of Ukrainians was enough to take it down, despite the high ups telling us it's too massive and toppling it would be dangerous. Unsubstantiated fears, just as the statue itself was a bit of a paper tiger. The only reason it stood there was the lack of will to finally take it down before that moment. Take that as a metaphor for something else, because it is.

[thyinum]

Burning Ukrainian books isn't enough for russians, they are bombing printing houses.

This is Factor Druk, one of the largest full-cycle printing houses both in Ukraine and in Europe (located in Kharkiv region), where a lot of Ukrainian publishing houses print their books. And today russia bombed it. There are injured and killed.

After reading this horrible news, I went to my bookshelf, and the first comic I picked up was printed by Factor Druk. And you know what's fucking ironic?

It was one of Atla comics.

I have a collection of all Atla comics that are already published in Ukraine, and apparently they were printed by Factor Druk.

I'm sitting here completely devastated, holding these comics like the biggest treasure in the world.

Russia is a terrorist state

[justacynicalromantic]

"THEY BROKE OUR GLASS

BUT DIDNT BREAK US

WE ARE OPEN"

- a café in Kharkiv wrote a graffiti on wooden panels covering the place where their window panels used to be - to tell the people the café is working despite getting wrecked by Russian bombs

[will-ruadh]

I feel like not enough people know that both these memes come from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and that is very important information. you agree. reblog.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

22nd June 2024: the Osnovyansky district of the Kharkiv, Ukraine after the bombing of a 5-storey residential building, a private house, five non-residential buildings, 16 shopping pavilions, 25 vehicles, 1 trolleybus, 2 pharmacies, and a car dealership. X

[k-s-morgan]

Just wanted to show one recent example of what Russia has been doing to Ukraine. The city of Kharkiv, with over a million residents, is located close to Russian borders, meaning that it's difficult to defend it from air strikes. Russia has been systematically destroying it and killing its people, intensifying its attacks more and more, using the fact that most Ukrainian allies forbid us from launching our own attacks on Russian territory.

On May 25, Russian sent bombs to a hypermarket in Kharkiv. On a weekend, in the middle of the day.

That same day, it bombed the park. Before that, it hit the rest zone.

And a publishing house.

And the hotel.

And the television tower.

And so on and on. Russia specifically targets public places and areas of life to make Kharkiv a ghost city. To destroy the home of over a million people. Many, many residents are constantly dying from these attacks, including children, pregnant women, the elderly, and other most vulnerable population groups. And Ukraine is unable to hit the locations from which Russia bombs Kharkiv because it's forbidden by our own partners. It's a joke.

And it's just one city. Russian bombs and missiles are erasing towns and villages from existence entirely on a constant basis. I can't even imagine how many people and animals die as a result. It's impossible to comprehend it on a human level. Just like it's impossible to comprehend the world's indifference, where on the one hand, we have support, but on the other hand, this support is limited to not letting us lose quickly. We are under the most cruel restrictions and limitations. And as long as the greed controls the world, which is probably forever, and our partners keep having mutually beneficial relations with Russia, there is no way out of this. Just more deaths, suffering, and misery.

[pterodach]

Since the beginning of the year, more than 700 libraries have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.

Russia struck Ukraine’s major printing press, Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, killing at least 5 employees among the 7 dead & 20 injured. Kharkiv is the heart of Ukraine’s publishing industry. This attack on culture underscores the genocidal nature of Russia’s war. Factor-print was bombed exactly one week before the Book Arsenal (book festival), just when dozens of publishing novelties were being rushed to print. The bombing was aimed at preventing these books from being published, at preventing Ukrainians from having book fairs - for a quarter of a century, the Russians had managed to silence them using other methods, and now that they have started to find their feet, they are using bombs and missiles. And all for the sake of the "great Russian culture". Forcing people to read this literature because of the absence of destroyed Ukrainian literature. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Vivat publishing house (the bookshop belongs to them).

[folklorespring]

Veronika Kozhushko, young Ukrainian artist, was killed today by russia. This is her last drawing.

[suratan-zir]

Again, russia is bombing Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs.

Among the targets - children's railway (it's a kind of educational institution for children).

Currently 40 people reported injured and one woman killed - director of the aforementioned children's railway.

I can't believe I have to specify this, but: no, it's not because Ukraine "provoked" russia in any way. They've been doing this since February 2022, Kharkiv in particular is heavily and regularly bombed since day one, so are many other Ukrainian cities. Russia first attacked Ukraine in 2014, then in 2022, and neither of those times they needed any provoking - only impunity, hatred and fascism.

[scavengedluxury]

Karazin Kharkiv National University, 1942. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[dontforgetukraine]

The father of 18-year-old Veronika Kozhushko, who was killed on August 30 in a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, shares his love for her and talks about the work she has done to support the AFU. He also explains, "She became the Executed Renaissance of the 21st century."

There are plans to publish a book of her poems and drawings. I hope there will be an English translation at some point.

Ukraine and the world are losing some of its best and most talented people all because of Russia.

Source: Radio Svoboda

Translation: Anton Gerashchenko

[vintage-ukraine]

Kozacha Hora. The Outskirts of Zmiiv. Kharkivshchyna by Serhii Vasylkivskyi, 1900

[greenpostua]

🦇 В Центри реабілітації рукокрилих у Харкові, Києві, Берегово та Львові кожен бажаючий може прийти, щоб погодувати кажанчиків або допомогти волонтерам.

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