#слава україні!

[tomorrowusa]

« Putin has done something far worse for his country than initiating an unwon and unwinnable war: He has compelled Europe to organize itself as a military counterweight to Russia. Germany is rapidly rearming; new patterns of military consultation and cooperation are spreading across Europe; Finland and Sweden have joined NATO; and Brexit has been sidelined by a meaningful security agreement between Britain and the European Union. Formidable resources are being gathered to keep Russia out of Europe. Russia’s only path to a future partnership with Europe is to end the war on Ukrainian terms, which Mr. Putin will not do. »

— Historian Michael Kimmage at the New York Times.

There are still people who consider Putin to be a powerful genius – including one celebrity who considers himself to be a "stable genius".

But few people have harmed Russia more than Vladimir Putin in the past 80 years. And the only people who are responsible for more deaths of Russians than Putin since World War I are Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler. Putin is not a Russian success story – except when it comes to lining his own pockets.

Those who claim that Ukraine can't win simply don't understand the extent and sophistication of Ukraine's defense and tech industries.

This is from Foreign Policy (archived)...

The new ace in the hole is Ukraine’s superlative defense sector, which has blossomed into one of Europe’s most ingenuous and advanced arms industries—and produces much of what its military requires (including roughly 40 percent of all weaponry) at a fraction of the cost and twice as fast. For every billion that the United States has paid out to its own industry, the Europeans can get several times as much from the Ukrainians—and without the same transfer headaches and costs. In addition to its hailed drone production, Ukraine reports that it produces more howitzers and artillery systems than all of Europe combined. The Ukrainians know exactly what they need and are constantly tweaking their hardware to conditions on the battlefield.

Putin picked the wrong country to bully. Ukraine has the tenacity and resolve to go along with its defense production. After the war Ukraine could become the European economic equivalent of South Korea while Russia stagnates like North Korea.

[gammascw]

HOLY SHIT

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT THE CONTINENT FOR ROBOT TRAINS (S1) IS FUCKING UKRAINE

YOU HEARD ME RIGHT

UKRAINE!!!!!!!!! OUT OF ALL FUCKING PLACES

DEAD SERIOUS JUST LOOK AT THIS

it took this long for the Robot Trains community to figure it out, and all it took was some new guy in the fandom who just happened to stumble across this bit in the first 3 episodes of season 1

fucking amazing, gg even

add that to the iceberg (iykyk)

СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!

[juyuy]

3 years since beginning of full-scaled war. 3 years since my life changed forever. 3 years as I learn about things I wish I didn't have to. Russia will fall. Ukraine will win. And there's no other way. Together we will do it. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[jupiterkatia]

Не сплю, матюків не вистачає. Така супержахлива ніч на пам'яті вперше. Летять і летять - месиво ((

Потім від таких звуків "ззззззз" буду дьоргатися ще(

А вибухи - то взагалі ( йдуть поспіль, а не через паузи

Коли ж вони всі виздихають на тих болотах!!!???

Слава ЗСУ, інакше цього б я не написала, якби не наші воїни !!!

Ганьба Трампу та всім, хто ставить Україні патики в колеса на догоду пуйлу!!!!!!

рускій корабель іді нахуй!!!!!!

Update: близько півсотні - сотні вибухів поспіль було. Це приблизно, бо було месиво

[littleshploinka]

Ten years ago the russian set foot in my country. The russian raped. The russian killed. The russian pillaged. The world kept on silently turning, ignorant of what Ukraine was going through. Peace of mind was higher on the list of priorities than peace.

But then the 24. February 2022 happened. And the world seemed to, for the first time, notice.

It's 26. February 2024 now. Two years and two days since.

Last year I was thankful for my comfort, yet this year I am revolted by the comfort those around me choose to bask in, consciously buying it with the lives of those they deem far enough away to be expendable.

It's been two years and still the russian rapes, kills, pillages, tortures, steals, defiles and rapes again and kills again. And the "war in Ukraine" is still somehow a controversial topic and the life of the Ukrainian mother, child, husband, uncle, grandmother, neighbour, friend, or classmate is but a statistic.

So I address this post to you, the comfortable one.

Look in the eyes of the pregnant woman raped to death by russian soldiers and tell her "you're a statistic".

Look in the eyes of the man shot by russian soldiers while on his way to feed his elderly mother and tell him "you're a number".

Look in the eyes of the child bringing canned food to their mother's grave after she was starved to death by russian soldiers sieging Mariupol and tell them "your mother is a number".

And to you compassionate ones:

Break the silence. Speak and scream and sing of russia's crimes and Ukraine's resistance,

Donate. A dollar, two, five, ten, twenty. Alone, with your family, with your friends. Buy a vest, helmet, a bandaid, a meal, a drone.

You can save a life.

I'll keep on doing just that. I will shout and donate and cry. And hope we can finally heal. Hope we can finally grieve.

Hope we can finally.

Fucking.

Rest.

Слава Україні 🇺🇦

[isthatastarfishinthesky]

feels like Ukraine and Palestine just got public death warrants

[applefarter]

Рома Руденко з крутого українського мультсеріалу Університет Чупарського! Що ще взагалі писати? Класний персонаж, смішний і таке інше..

[deadgoatproject]

That is what ruzzians did with my house recently.

8th of July, 2024. ruzzian terrorists bombed many buildings of Kyiv, including Okhmatdyt hospital. however, let me show you what they did to my house that very day (the hospital is kinda close to us). I survived the first wave of rockets on my floor, I also monitored the next one, but sadly did not have time to get to a safe place in the elevator. in front of my eyes, under extremely powerful explosions, the neighbour's door flew off its hinges, the ceiling crumbled (did not fall), and the entire floor was covered in a fog of dust. speaking nervously, most likely delusional, I went down (it was also dangerous to do, NEVER DO THAT, PLEASE). I picked up a neighbor’s girl (a teenager) on the floors below, whom I thought I left in the house where the door was broken (I was afraid, I аm sorry, I was afraid to come closer, I was only thinking about myself); well...everything went well: the girl managed to go down the stairs before the rocket detonated. the neighbors were scared, a few of them were crying, we had an injured child (of preschool age, her temple was covered in blood), I filmed a little of what was on the street. my hands were shaking, I could not call anyone, I just mumbled something. my relatives came as fast as they could (I live with one of them), they even dared to go up to the apartment, clean it up a bit, and then we left the house and now live in another one.

it is temporary, of course. yesterday, I went to clean the house (as you can see in the video), it is almost clean of glass and pieces of walls. we are going to fix the windows ourselves, because it will be 100 years before the state does them. however, this bittersweet memory of how I almost died at home (it was a cruise rocket...the ballistics would have buried us all alive) would never allow my already shaky mental state to recover.

I have been trying to shout at people for a long time about two things: ruzzia must be destroyed; Ukraine must receive comprehensive assistance. I don't care how many kidneys I will later sell to the USA, Britain or Germany to thank for the fact that my country will live in peace, I am ready for anything, as long as children stop dying in front of my eyes. I heard the moaning of people under the rubble, I regretted that I was living instead of the dead. we are not a third world country. we deserve to exist, and fucking ruzzians are not allowed to decide our fate.

[koy5z]

Коли я вперше побачив тебе в школі, я зрозумів по твоїй зовнішності, що ти будеш мати найкращі оцінки в класі.

Так і сталося.

По тому, як ти посміхався і сміявся, я знав, що ти завоюєш серце кожної дівчини в школі.

Так і сталося.

Коли ми були у випускному класі, всі думали, що ти виграєш чемпіонат з тенісу для нашої школи.

І ти виграв.

Коли ти запросив мене на побачення, ти пообіцяв, що завжди кохатимеш мене.

І ти кохав.

Коли нашу церкву розбомбили, я знав, що ти будеш першим, хто допоможе відновити її, тому що твоя любов до Нього була понад усе.

Так і сталося.

Коли тебе призвали в армію, я знала, що ти віддаси все за свою країну і помреш за її свободу.

Так і сталося.

Дмитро, ти залишив мене з порожнім серцем і головою, повною спогадів.

🌻

[lemon-tree-in-paperbag]

dont worry you'll be safe after january 20th when trump pulls all support from ukraine and forces zlensky to cede all the lost land. you arent palestine and you never will be homophobes and nazis like you deserve everything that happens

I'm sorry I'm not an illiterate i don't understand what you're saying

[tomorrowusa]

When I first glanced at the headline about Ukraine's drone attack on Russian military planes I thought it was similar to times in the past when they took out two or three planes at Russian bases. But when I saw all the details, it was more like: "HOLY FUCK!"

Ukraine not only took out a bunch of Russia's most expensive military aircraft, but they did it in an ingenious and painstaking way. Planning for this apparently began in late 2023.

It's hard to exaggerate the sheer audacity - or ingenuity - that went into Ukraine's countrywide assault on Russia's air force. We cannot possibly verify Ukrainian claims that the attacks resulted in $7bn (£5.2bn) of damage, but it's clear that "Operation Spider's Web" was, at the very least, a spectacular propaganda coup. Ukrainians are already comparing it with other notable military successes since Russia's full-scale invasion, including the sinking of the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, the Moskva, and the bombing of the Kerch Bridge, both in 2022, as well as a missile attack on Sevastopol harbour the following year. Judging by details leaked to the media by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the latest operation is the most elaborate achievement so far. In an operation said to have taken 18 months to prepare, scores of small drones were smuggled into Russia, stored in special compartments aboard freight trucks, driven to at least four separate locations, thousands of miles apart, and launched remotely towards nearby airbases.

The drones were launched inside Russia from modified cargo containers on trucks. The destroyed aircraft included those used to launch missiles against Ukrainian civilians.

"These strategic bombers are capable of launching long-range strikes against us," he said. "There are only 120 of them and we struck 40. That's an incredible figure." It is hard to assess the damage, but Ukrainian military blogger Oleksandr Kovalenko says that even if the bombers, and command and control aircraft were not destroyed, the impact is enormous. "The extent of the damage is such that the Russian military-industrial complex, in its current state, is unlikely to be able to restore them in the near future," he wrote on his Telegram channel. The strategic missile-carrying bombers in question, the Tu-95, Tu-22, and Tu-160 are, he said, no longer in production. Repairing them will be difficult, replacing them impossible.

Russia likes to think it is invincible. These successful attacks, as far north as the Kola Peninsula and as far east as south central Siberia, are a psychological blow as well as a military one to Russians.

This is the best overall description of Operation Spiderweb. The narrator is author and retired US Navy Seal Chuck Pfarrer.

Back to the BBC article...

Ukrainian defence journalist Illia Ponomarenko, posting on X, puts it another way, with a pointed reference to President Volodymyr Zelensky's infamous Oval office encounter with Donald Trump. "This is what happens when a proud nation under attack doesn't listen to all those: 'Ukraine has only six months left'. 'You have no cards'. 'Just surrender for peace, Russia cannot lose'." Even more pithy was a tweet from the quarterly Business Ukraine journal, which proudly proclaimed "It turns out Ukraine does have some cards after all. Today Zelensky played the King of Drones."

That comment from Business Ukraine sparked this meme...

Ukraine has plenty of cards, and it ain't bluffing.

REMINDER: Putin's "3-day special operation" in Ukraine began 1,195 days ago. Putin's continued pointless aggression suggests that he's not playing with a full deck.

[is-this-working]

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[demonsky]

Бонжур, люди! 🇺🇦

Зробила ще один дубляж українською, але через те що скоро Хелловін , вирішила зробити дубляж Spooky Month або ж Моторошного Місяця.

Я озвучувала всіх власним голосом.

Оригінал 👇

[aroacebaker]

Today it’s the 24th of February, 2 years after the full-scale war started in Ukraine. Most know that this isn’t completely out of the blue, since Crimea was invaded 10 years ago, but let’s go back even further.

During the first world war, Ukraine was torn to pieces, literally, it was occupied by Poland, Russia, France, anarchists, and the Whites, Kyiv changed hands over five times in a year, communication inside and outside the country was almost completely cut off.

This war eventually resulted in the Soviet Union occupying Ukraine. Due to this Ukrainian people fought in the Soviet army. At the end of the war Ukraine did gain some independence, for some decisions, such as being accepted into NATO as Ukraine, rather than as the Soviet Union.

On the 21st of January 300 000 Ukrainians lined themselves up between Kyiv and Lviv, forming a human chain for independence and on the 24th of August Ukraine declared itself independent from the Soviet Union.

In 2004 there were presidential elections between Yushchenko and Yanukovich, in which Yanukovich won, however the results were falsified, and the Ukrainians protested for 2 months, this is known as the Orange revolution. The protestors won, and the elections were re-done, where Yushchenko won fair and square.

6 years later there are new elections, in which Yanukovich wins, again, fairly. He promised that he’d integrate Ukraine with Europe and join the EU. However, in 2013 when he was about to sign the agreements to improve relations with the EU, he made a complete 180 degree turn, and spoke about rebuilding relations with Russia. This, naturally made upset the Ukrainians very upset, so they protested for three months straight. They’d eat and sleep on the streets to protest every minute of every day and night, this resulted in police brutality. Every February 20th the people lost during these protests are mourned for their sacrifices for Ukraine’s freedom.

Yanukovich, unable to resist these protests fled the country, While the population was looking for a new president Russia invaded Crimea, there was a referendum, which was accepted due to the pressure and the country we are dealing with, Crimea was taken, and soon the fight over Donetsk and Luhansk begins.

Then, on the 24th of February, the full-scale invasion begins. Ukrainians have fought strongly, never ever giving up, fighting for there freedom, for the freedom of Europe, fighting for the truth and honesty Russia has yet to show. Take a minute today, after reading this far (thank you for still sticking around!) and thank the Ukrainians who have lost their lives in these battles, those who have lost their lives in merciless attacks, and those left behind.

Now, let’s listen to the experiences of one awesome Ukrainian: Living in war is terrifying, “you stop caring about food, sleep. Just staying alive, only thing that matters. We [Ukrainians are] Europeans. We’re not Russia. We died for this, and we continue to fight, every day, for this. We’re not just some people dying somewhere. We are real! We have our language, our songs, our fairytales. We exist. We matter.

Finally, a line from the Ukrainian anthem: "Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу, І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду” Meaning “We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom, And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation” Слава Українi!

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