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As every SPNFamily member knows: when you’re fighting evil, don’t forget the salt.

Go donate and play Minesalt to help United24… the winners get an Xbox and pack of Solidarity rock salt signed by President Zelenskyy!

https://u24.gov.ua/minesalt

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Massive missile attack on Zaporizhzhia. russians launched 12 missile strikes.

«Previously, 7 buildings were destroyed, 35 were damaged.

There are wounded, we are clarifying the number of injured,» - head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.

The dam (Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) was partially damaged ,there is no threat of a breakthrough. Rocket also hit a trolleybus with people traveling along the dam.

View from Khortytsia island:

High-rise buildings and the private sector were hit:

The private sector houses are in ruins:

Upd: At least 3 people are missing, 6 injured. 4 houses were completely destroyed, more than 40 were damaged.

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At February 24 I attended peaceful rally "Marcia di Nord Italia" in Milan, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the russian war on Ukraine and the 2nd anniversary of the full-scale invasion.

Just a reminder to all the foreigners,that war is not over, and Ukraine still needs your help,and also reminder to Ukrainians, to go to this rally's, even if you don't have them in your city, you can travel to another one (like I did), it doesn't cost much, and its not hard to dedicate one day of your peacefull life, you can even explore the new town in the free time. So please,don't ignore this things in the future.

Also wanted to add, that organization was great , they had great speeches, including that we cannot win with only thoughts of peace, and we need weapons. I heard that several thousands of people came, although I hoped it was even more, and I think we made an impact on people.

Some of the photos are not mine.

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Kharkiv

«Buildings in the city center were damaged as a result of the night enemy attack.

These are not military facilities, but cafes, residential buildings and offices,» - the mayor of the city.

The enemy hit the city with at least 6 S-300 missiles.

« 22 people were injured» -the National Police.

As a result of the impact, 12 apartment buildings, 13 private houses, hospitals, a hotel building, a kindergarten, commercial premises, a gas pipeline and cars were damaged.

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Good fucking morning from Ukraine after the massive shelling by russia with almost everything they've got. I personally heard pretty loud explosions over my head. Thanks to our air defence I am alive.

But still there are lots of injured people across all the country as well as some dead.

"Gentle" reminder that russia is a terrorist state

Upd: the numbers of injured and killed are growing

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Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

It's an annual commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor, the 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine.

Traditionally, on this day Ukrainians attend memorial services and put up symbolic vessels of grain and light candles in memory of the victims of the Holodomor and other deadly famines in Ukraine.

Today in Ukraine, at the legal and legislative level, only the genocide of 1932-1933 has the status of "Holodomor". The events of 1921-1923 and 1946-1947 qualify as a mass famine, the genocidal nature of which has not been proven at the moment.

What Ukrainians ate to survive Holodomor

(translated excerpts from an Історична Правда article): + images source

The villagers would dig up the holes of the polecats to find at least a handful of grain hidden by these animals. They pounded it in a mortar, added a handful of oilcake (from hemp seed), beetroot, potato peelings, and baked something from this mixture.

Those who managed to hide at least a little grain would grind it in iron mills made from wheel axles and cook "zatyrukha" (a concoction made from a small amount of flour ground from ears of grain).

Acacia flowers were boiled and eaten raw, and green quinoa was mixed with crushed corn cobs. Those who could - and this was considered lucky - added a handful of bran. This food made their feet swell and their skin crack.

The peasants dried the husked ears of corn and millet husks, pounded them, ground them with weeds, and cooked soups and baked pancakes. Such dishes were impossible to chew, the body could not digest them, so people had stomach aches. Pancakes, the so-called "matorzhenyky", were made from oilcake and nettle or plantain.

It went so far that peasants would crumble straw into small chips and pound it in a mortar together with millet and buckwheat chaff, and tree bark. All this was mixed with potato peelings, which were very poisonous, and this mixture was used to bake "bread", the consumption of which caused severe stomach diseases.

There were cases when village activists took away and broke millstones, mortars, poured water on the heat in their ovens. After all, anything found or saved from the food had to be cooked on fire, and matches could only be purchased by bartering for their own belongings or by buying them in the city, which was impossible from villagers that were on "black lists".

Chestnuts, aspen and birch bark, buds, reed roots, hawthorn and rose hips, which were the most delicious, were used as food substitutes; various berries, even poisonous ones, were picked; grass seeds were ground into flour; "honey" from sugar beets was cooked, and water brewed with cherry branches was drunk. They also ate the kernels of sunflower seeds.

Newborns had the worst of it, because their mothers had no breast milk. According to testimonies, a mother would let her child suck the drink from the top of the poppy head, and the child would fall asleep for three days.

In early spring, the villagers began to dig up old potato fields. They would bake dumplings from frozen potatoes, grind rotten potatoes in a mash and make pancakes, greasing the frying pan with wheel grease. They also baked "blyuvaly" (transl. "vomities") from such potatoes and oatmeal mixed with water, which was so called because they were very smelly.

They ate mice, rats, frogs, hedgehogs, snakes, beetles, ants, worms, i.e. things that weren't a part of food bans and had never been eaten by people before. The horror of the famine is also evidenced by the consumption of spiders, which are forbidden to kill in Ukrainian society for ritual reasons.

In some areas, slugs were boiled into a soup, and the cartilaginous meat was chopped and mixed with leaves. This prevented swelling of the body and contributed to survival. People caught tadpoles, frogs, lizards, turtles, and mollusks. They boiled them, adding a little salt if there was salt. The starving people caught cranes, storks, and herons, which have been protected in Ukraine for centuries, and their nests were never destroyed. According to folk beliefs, eating stork meat was equated with cannibalism.

The consumption of horse meat began in 1931, before the mass famine. People used to take dead horsemeat from the cemeteries at night, make jelly out of it and salt it for future use.

Dead horses were poured with carbolic acid to prevent people from taking their meat, but it hardly stopped anybody. Dead collective farm pigs were also doused with kerosene to prevent people from dismantling them for food, but this did not help either.

After long periods of starvatiom, the process of digestion is very costing for the human body, and many people who would eat anything would drop dead immediately out of exhaustion.

If a family had a cow hidden somewhere in the forest, they had a chance to survive. People living near forests could hunt/seek out berries and mushrooms, but during winter this wouldn't save them. People living near rivers could fish in secret, but it was banned and punishable by imprisonment/death.

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10 years ago Revolution of Dignity also known as Maidan/Euromaidan began. We took to the streets to defend our right to a European future, the right to be free, the right to decide our own destiny, to defend our dignity. Back then, after long months of cold, insomnia, tears, and blood, we were able to win. I am proud of everyone who came out to the main squares of their cities, I mourn everyone who paid with their lives for our freedom. I am proud to have been a tiny part of an event that changed us forever. We won 10 years ago, we will win now.

This documentary for those who are interested in learning more about Ukraine, about the Revolution of Dignity, about our struggle, about us. I watch it every year on this day.

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Officially about the explosions in Zaporizhzhia:

«The occupiers launched 6 missile strikes on the territory of Zaporizhzhia.

One of the blows hit a 5-storey building in the central part of the city.

Unfortunately, as a result of the terrorist attack, 2 people died, at least one was injured. 8 flats were damaged.

P.S:According to detailed information, two men were killed . Three people were injured: 25- and 29-year-old men, as well as a 48-year-old woman, reported the press service of Zaporizhzhia RMA .

Rescuers, together with law enforcement officers and volunteers, rescued the man and handed him over to medics. Another 50 residents of the building were evacuated. Everyone will be provided with temporary housing. Work continues » – Head of Zaporizhzhia regional military administration.

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Gaza is under siege

Human Rights Watch confirms Israel is using white phosphorus gas on Gaza, violating int’l law

Israel cut off Gaza’s electricity and water, so no food preservation, health care, or basic means to live. Internal media coverage can go only so far without power. Hard to see the true extent of turmoil, likely by design.

Complete blockade from humanitarian aid means people starve and die from Israel’s siege on Gaza.

None of the 2M Palestinians can leave due to the open air prison Israel created around the city. Almost half of them are children.

Western media continues to cover only one side of this conflict, tainting the world’s understanding of what’s truly occurring. Public officials blindly follow suit. What a tragedy it is.

My heart and thoughts are with all those suffering in the region as a result.

Free Palestine

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48 dead, including a 6-year-old boy: russians fired at a grocery store/café in the village of Hroza, Kupyansky District, Kharkiv Oblast, – Office of the president of Ukraine.

russia killed 15% of the population of Hroza with just one strike...

«At the time of the rocket attack, a memorial service was held in the cafe for a dead fellow villager,» – the Ministry of Internal Affairs:

P.S: 50 dead. According to preliminary information, the cafe was hit by an "Iskander" missile.

The law enforcement officers suspect that someone from the local area "directed" the russian strike at the object, because the hit was very accurate.

The missile attack became the most massive in terms of the number of casualties in the Kharkiv region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation.

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It is Independence Day in Ukraine, and this recitation of a beloved poem about Ukraine was broadcast on National TV in Ukraine today. 

Happy birthday, Ukraine. 

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Бо хто за що, а ми за незалежність. Отож нам так і важко через те.

August 24 - Independence Day in Ukraine 🇺🇦

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I can't believe that another year has passed since my last post about our Independence Day.

I want to thank our military again, who have been fighting for our independence and protecting our homes and lives for the ninth year.

I also, want to thank the volunteers who collect funds, find and deliver the necessary goods,save the lives of people and animals.

And thank you to everyone who joins the path to victory, with their work or donations.

I congratulate all Ukrainians on the 32nd anniversary of our Independence, and I wish us the fastest victory.

GLORY TO UKRAINE 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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❗️Preliminarily, 25 architectural monuments were damaged by a russian attack overnight in Odesa.

Among them are the buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries:

- Chyzhevych's house

- House of Papudova

- Zabludovsky's house

- Gagarin's house

- Janush's house

- Zhdanova's house

- House Russell del Turco

- House of Mass

- Manuk Bey's mansion

- Kovalevsky's house

- Porro's house

- House of Mashevsky and others

«Information as of 14:00. The documentation of crimes continues, experts are working on the ground»– Oleh Kiper, the head of Odesa regional military administration said.

This is the Transfiguration Cathedral in the center of Odesa:

The destruction suffered by the House of Scientists (Palace of Count Tolstoy). The building is an architectural monument of Odesa. Currently, the halls are damaged, many exhibits have been lost:

Historical center:

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Results of the rashist's night attack on Odesa:

22 people, including three children, who were injured ,received treatment in the city's medical facilities. One person died.

«Five Odesa preschools were partially destroyed as a result of russia's attack,» –said the director of the Department of Education, Olena Buynevych.

There is distractions in the historic center, which is protected by UNESCO.

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What happy news I woke up to)

"Traffic has been stopped on the Krymskyi Bridge, an extraordinary event has occurred in the area of the 145th pier," — Aksyonov.

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@medicinemane Wow... Thank you so much for everything you said under my post. I'm posting it in the hope that more people could see it and share it as well.

This is what I wish I could tell to anyone who says that situation in Ukraine is ambiguous or that the war here is not others' responsibility (referring to the fact that other countries shouldn't give weapons to Ukraine). Like no, we didn't choose this war, we didn't choose of being destroyed just because we are Ukrainians, but we do choose to fight against the evil whatever it takes. Ukraine knows the cost of freedom, as much as many other countries that were under russian oppression, and that's why we fight and why we should help each other. And we are grateful for everyone who supports us.

Because the cost of this freedom is thousands of people's lives, the lives of our relatives and beloveds, and Ukraine now is responsible not only for freedom in its own territory but also defending the peace in other Europe countries, while fighting against russia.

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