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vyvilha · 3 days
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so many of my friends study there. some of them were at classes during the hit
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creal-kill3r · 2 days
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rating some of the ways the war has affected me, from best to worst
(coming from an ukrainian living in Ukraine)
— always carrying around a first aid kit, a seating pad, a flashlight and an extra charger in case air raid starts when I’m out and I’ll have to spend a long time in the shelter
10/10, a bit heavy to carry around, but I’m always prepared, + a seating pad is useful in a lot of scenarios
— always making sure my phone is charged (I don’t let the battery go lower than 80%)
9/10, this might be bad for the battery health, but in case they turn off the light for three days straight again, or in case of a sudden air raid, I’m always prepared
— immediately checking any place I’m at for emergency exits, basements, wardrobes/tables I can hide under in case there’s bombing/shooting
8/10, creeps some people out, but I think this should be done no matter what situation you’re in, safety is important (minus a bunch of points because the experience of being stuck in a mall while bombs fall right on it was not giving)
— always keeping all my belongings in one place, in case I’ll have to leave the city immediately
7/10, a little depressing, but I can always find what I’m looking for
— always keeping my phone on in case something happens to my family/relatives that went missing contact me; and to know the air alert situation right now
6/10, I’m easy to reach, but sometimes I get too distracted by the news
— always planning my walks in such a way there’s always a shelter nearby
5/10, kinda limits my freedom of movement, but at least I’m relatively safe
— not being able to go anywhere crowded, including the mall/theater/restaurant/cinema/big shops
4/10, could have been worse, but while legally I am allowed to go wherever I want, rockets hit any crowded spaces so fast, it’s literally scary. couldn’t see a very important theatre performance of my friend’s because of this
— not being able to travel inside the country normally, since constant air raids and bombings
3/10, I haven’t traveled since the coronavirus hit, and I’m a huge travel person. also can’t go anywhere outside the country because all the flights are cancelled, and it’s too expensive to go by train
— having constant problems with sleeping, as because of air raids I have to wake up at three in the morning, go to the shelter and go home at around eight
2/10, the last week has been crazy and I haven’t slept normally in days, also I’ve become a really light sleeper, and I can’t fall asleep easily anymore
— fear of loud sounds
1/10, my neighbour enjoys slamming the doors really loudly, and every time she does that I’m having a mini heart attack
— panic attacks
0/0, self explanatory
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panimoonchild · 23 hours
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Ukraine is diverse and embraces it
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Let the light overshadow darkness. Only with the good of our world united. 
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myrddin-wylt · 10 months
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I’m very tired. you probably heard that Russia destroyed the Kakhovka Dam to slow Ukraine’s counter offensive. here’s something I didn’t quite realize: since this February, the Russians operated the dam in juuuuust the right way so that as much water would build up as possible when the snow melted and spring showers started. and then they blew the whole thing up.
40,000 people may need to be evacuated. I don’t really have the energy to say anything else right now.
Hospitallers Medical Battalion: actual angels can confirm. they’re combat-zone medical services - you know how humanitarian groups like MFS and Red Cross have to pause operations due to the Russians fucking shooting at humanitarian zones? yeah, these guys don’t pause for bullets, they fucking walk into them and they bring out anyone they can.
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation: you can choose from a number of various fundraiser projects here, if you’re feeling particularly picky. for those of you who balk at the idea of supporting anything military just please remember that things like vehicles and drones aren’t just for military use, they’re also for evacuation and finding the wounded and they’re fucking vital.
KSE Foundation: similar to the above, KSE has multiple projects you can choose from to donate to. looking at it right now, one of the projects with the lowest amounts of money raised thus far - despite being started in April - is Seeds for Ukraine, which will help Ukraine recover from the ecological devastation Russia has been wreaking (and with Ukraine, the countries that rely on Ukraine’s grain exports that Russia keeps trying to steal).
Come Back Alive: do these guys even need the introduction? they’re Come Back Alive. I’m kissing all of them.
United24: Zelenskyy’s brain child, and the official fundraising platform of Ukraine. Mark Hamill recommends the fundraisers for drones in particular.
UAnimals: Nova Kakhovka’s zoo got... pretty much completely swept away. all zoo residents except the birds have drowned. UAnimals has tried throughout the occupation to keep the animals safe, and they’ve been reporting on the status of the zoo. I don’t really know what to say except that I hope they’re able to save the pets and strays in the towns along the river.
You can find NGOs specific to evacuation efforts in this post; please signal boost it as well. I’ve listed them but am leaving the links for the op post.
Ukrainian FireFighters Foundation
Helping To Leave
VOSTOK SOS
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thyinum · 29 days
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Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.
It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.
Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.
Hope this will be helpful.
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justacynicalromantic · 7 months
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Musk too stupid to realise he's admitting to being a war criminal.
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The "emergency request" was part of "close the sky" over Ukraine.
At that time, civilians all over Ukraine were dying IN HUNDREDS from ballistic missiles launched from those ships. As the allies were slow to provide anti-missile systems at that time and Ukraine lacked planes, our military were trying to find other ways to disable ACTUAL WAR SHIPS IN OUR OWN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED WATERS FROM MASS SLAUGHTERING US.
This is Musk plainly stating he is complicit in mass murder.
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hummingbird-hunter · 1 year
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The thing is, I have nothing against socialism or communism as a political ideology; trust me, I'm as anti-capitalist as they come. The leftism is really not the problem here.
The problem is when in their leftism, people – Americans, really, and western Europeans – use the ussr as this sort of goal, this complete antithesis to the modern capitalist society, this almost-utopian place to live. They use hammer and sickle symbol, the ussr anthem; sometimes, as a joke, sometimes, not so much.
Not only that clearly shows that they know absolutely nothing about the ussr – it's also spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not, which is especially insidious now, when russia is literally committing a genocide.
The ussr wasn't a socialist utopia where everyone is equal. It was a totalitarian dictatorship, responsible for colonisation and genocide of multiple people and cultures. Just like the russian Empire before it. Just like modern russia continues to do now.
For many Eastern European and Central Asian people, hammer and sickle is not just a symbol of a political ideology. It's the symbol, under which people were starved to death, imprisoned or executed for daring to write in their own language; in which cultures were erased, people – forcefully assimilated, stripped of their own national identity.
It's the propaganda of being "the same people, the same nation" that russians love to use; that westerners love to believe, for the sole reason of the oppressed daring to look similar to the oppressor; for the sole reason of Americans being unable to look past their own history and realize oppression comes in many shapes and forms.
By using the ussr symbols in your political movement, you're denying the atrocities commited under that symbol and spreading russian propaganda, whether it's on purpose or not.
It's not "progressive" to wave around a hate symbol.
Do your research.
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chrysocomae · 1 year
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valcaira · 1 month
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People who used to be vocal about Ukraine now being exclusively vocal about Palestine while calling the Ukrainian genocide "low priority" or "attention seeking" are a special kind of evil.
Treating global conflicts like fandom has rotted your brains.
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pauvrecamille · 3 months
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vita-min-ze · 9 months
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I feel like the root problem of american tankies' shallow ideals is redirected american exceptionalism. Internet and globalization has caused them to realize that that they're not in fact the best country in the world as school etc has told them. But instead of understanding that they have problems just like the rest of us (though tbf, their ability to cause other nations harm is unmatched) they now flipped to saying that the us must be the worst country in the entire world and the source of all evil. They cannot comprehend that non-americans are perfectly capable of doing the most heinous shit and thus assume that behind every war or conflict lies a us conspiracy and influence - because surely non-americans are just so innocent, naive and primitive and unlike americans lack the cunning to advance their political goals without help by the US. The fact that not only the US government but also its enemies can be vile at the same time and that sometimes they can even be on the good side is completely beyond them which is why they are never truly against imperialism, genocide or opression unless it is done by americans or their allies.
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vyvilha · 2 months
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today is the birthday of ukrainian visual artist lyubov panchenko. she would be 86 today but she died in april 2022 after suffering prolonged starvation during russian occupation of bucha
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trooper420 · 2 months
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Kharkiv, my scarred but unbreakable home city.
by Sasha Anisimova
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panimoonchild · 3 days
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Russian culture is great just because they constantly erase and kill artists from the country that Russians want to conquer
I want to share some art of talented Ukrainians that I highly recommend.
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"If there are wounds that can be healed by time
 There is also a terrible wound, the pain of which will never fade
 Never again
 They [Russians] moulded poppies for their new clothes
And when people are killed, they [Russians] don't feel sick" - Tember Blanche - Ненародженим 
The red poppy is a symbol of both Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future. Never again? Russia can and will repeat. 
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And friend of Boychuk - Oleksandr Murashko also was killed by Russians in 1919. Almost all Ukrainian artistic elite. Just because we don't hide our love and appreciate Ukraine's sovereignty back then. His art pieces:
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The last one is annunciation. Which I insanely love. I wish we once again feel the peace and happiness of being alive. But while Russia keeps terrorising us what even life means. 
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ohsalome · 4 months
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hirkyy · 2 months
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mariupol in 2015
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and 2022
this is the city that is now being advertised to russians as a resort town with cheap real estate, with new residential buildings built on top of mass graves. people buried beneath rubble and entire families dead either from their injuries or starvation after huddling in basements for months and months of a siege during which more than 90% of the residential buildings have either been heavily damaged or completely razed to the ground. neither half a million civilians were let out, nor humanitarian aid let in. now there are shiny new buildings and cheerful real estate agents waving the russian flag around and russians are encouraged to move in with the ukrainian population either murdered or displaced.
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