#Glory to Ukraine!

[cheesehambu]

Greetings and lots of love from Germany also. I'm a bit of a coward but someone else said something so now Im doing it too. Thank you french anon for being braver than me.

Please know that you have support from here also. Every day I think about the people of Ukraine, and I think about you, and hope that happier days will come soon. I think about you every time I put on my work coat, it has a 🇺🇦 pin on it. I hope that's not silly to you. But I want to show support somehow.

I don't really know what is appropriate to say, but please know that you are all in our hearts. I wish I could give you a hug.

Fuck Russia. Слава Україні. (google translated that, sorry if it's incorrect)

I hope at least the sunrise is beautiful tomorrow. You'll see it a few hour(s) before I do. I will look at the sun and think of you.

Lots of love, and good luck with your studies, and whatever else you do.

-(poetry) anon

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AWWWWWWW THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

You are also the bravest person!

You are my hero!

You and your poems always make me happy!!! You are an incredible person, I want to give you a hugs and kiss<333

Furfur conveys all my love to you~

[vatalive-eng]

Glory to Ukraine!

Current news of Ukraine and its strategic partners. News for brotherly peoples for Ukraine. We multiply the side effects and the interview by zero. Let's break the bonds of brotherhood. Brothers and Sisters, let's tear them apart forever together!

[sailor-moon-rei]

Two years ago, my town woke up to explosions. russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has been going on for two years now.

Today I thank all the fallen soldiers for the fact that I can write here. Don't forget the price these people pay every day.

This is not a crisis, this is not a conflict. The war continues. We are still dying.

Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні!

[derehono]

24.02.2022.

The day that changed my life forever.

24th of February 2022 should have been my usual day. No, not usual. A wonderful day. I should have been checked with a doctor, gave notice to teachers in high school of my absence, and then fly away on vacation, my parents wanted it so much.

On 23rd of February 2022 I felt happy. I had a secure, happy life, preparing to finals, hanging out with my friends, already having an offer from university.

Until 5AM 24.02.2022.

I had not a single class in my school since then.

I haven’t seen my friend group in 2 years.

I didn’t have my finals.

We did not have that vacation.

“Daughter, wake up. This old psychotic man attacked us. We are leaving.”

That was my first photo of the day, trying sarcastically keep myself normal. I remember that actual emptiness, reading my classmates texts about how their windows were shaking because of explosions, the sky was orange. They sent that video.

He called it “a special military operation”.

I collected random clothes, some hobby stuff just to keep my sanity, grabbed my pet, emptied my safety locker. I was scared that russians would intrude into our home and steal all my savings, so I throw away key to that lock. This key became my symbol of war, I have never found it even after return.

When I with my parents and pet got out of flat to car we heard for the very first time air raid siren. We would hear so many more of them, we would learn to differentiate them, but then we were confused.

It was my second photo. People were going away. Foot, cars, bicycles. I remember such a surreal picture. Some moms were carrying their toddlers, one woman was carrying a bucket of water with turtles, other people were carrying cages with parrots, with dogs, with cats, with exotic pets despite air raid siren, temperature, rain. Everyone was so confused and scared.

Few days later the road we were riding was occupied. Bridges destroyed. Factories burnt. Supermarkets demolished. Houses in ruins. Road in holes. On the side of the road burnt cars with “DO NOT TOUCH, POSSIBLY EXPLOSIVE”. That gut wrenching feeling seeing photos of dead bodies and recognising the place.

But back then it was still lively, not a road of death. I remember reading news then. First victims, first shelling. Invasion from East. Invasion from Kharkiv region. Invasion from Crimea. Invasion from Chernihiv. Invasion from Zhytomyr. And we were in Zhytomyr region at that moment. Explosions in Kyiv. The border was destroyed.

I felt nothing. Just emptiness.

This precious girl was keeping my head cool all the road. She was also scared and irritated, but she was so strong, such an amazing girl. I am so proud of her.

We were heading to my grandparents who lived closer to West Ukraine, so we would be safer. The road that takes usually just 4 hours but that time it took 13 hours. 13 hours of driving exhausted and nerved. We saw soldiers, trucks, jets, how barricades were built, signs were removed.

But we made it. We were lucky. Lucky to be alive, to have family alive and mostly close to West, further from russia. Even though, part of my extended family still was under occupation in Chernihiv region, suffering from such close border with belarus.

When we arrived, we were just silent. Then collected mattresses for shelter, asked grandpa to grab some patrol (we knew that they would definitely destroy reservoirs and literally next day the started doing that), and just fell asleep in something that we arrived in, being so scared.

That day I also cut ties with russian friend who I am shamed to admit having. He was proving me that this is just a military operation, no one would be harmed.

Then, arrived spring that I will never forget but at the same time never remember. I remember 10 people in one floor house. I remember the whistle of rocket that woke us up. I remember sirens. I remember news. I remember losing hope. I remember first photos after deoccupation of Kyiv region. I remember how forgotten friend of my dad suddenly called him saying that his city is fully destroyed, his neighbour right on his eyes was exploded attempting to get into the car and evacuate.

I remember my first mental breakdown. How I was crying in the darkness, but quietly so no one would notice.

We were able to return home three months later. But we are just lucky. Someone would never return. Someone is not even alive to see their home again. Someone’s home is forever destroyed.

I was lucky that I have secured my place at foreign university before war, but my whole family is still in Ukraine.

War is not over at all. 20% of Ukraine is occupied. So many displaced civilians, so many deaths. No one could even count, we do not have any access to bodies. Only way to identify is to deoccupy and find mass graves. No other means. Children are suffering from PTSD even in such a young age. Almost in every city, big or small, you would find graveyards covered in Ukrainian flag, grave of the soldier.

Maybe media does not talk that much of us, but it doesn’t mean that everything is alright. Avdiivka is destroyed, right now operation searching for people under debris of the civilian house after attack is undergoing.

And this is happening all the time.

Who was punished for Olenivka? Who was punished for destruction of Kakhovka Dam? Who was punished for all fully destroyed cities? Who was responsible for all that absolutely atrocious videos torturing Ukrainian soldiers?

Please, remember, Ukraine is still on fire. People are still dying. Soldiers cannot even counterattack because they do not have enough ammo, just for protection. Information war is also waging, sharing all that misinformation, Nazi narratives, russian propaganda.

Remember.

Help.

Share.

russia is a terrorist state.

Glory to Ukraine.

Glory to the Heroes.

[magnetaz6]

* Two years ago on this date, the russian federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.

* To this day, mass racial genocide occurs throughout the country.

* Never forget this. Don't forgive anyone who is guilty.

* Never stop talking. Any silence, ignorance and apoliticality is only support for all these actions and will help the main enemy.

Everything will be Ukraine.

[bogdansavchenko]

Пройшло 717 днів того як Україна захищає світ

Я створив цей плакат ще на початку вторгнення по своїм першим враженням.

і ось знову наближається річниця яку ми не забуд��мо ніколи. "Лютий ранок"

717 days have passed since Ukraine defends the world

I created this poster at the beginning of the invasion based on my first impressions.

And now, once again, we are approaching an anniversary we will never forget.

[ukraineblr]

[shamanicnoise]

[felinefractious]

Slavny Kit Glory to Ukraine [Pedigree]

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Slavny Kit Cattery

🎨 Black Silver Ticked Tortoiseshell Tabby Bicolor

[kordupel]

Even the russian invasion won’t stop Ukrainians from celebrating Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all!

[tomatomoon]

“The Witch of Konotop,” at the Ivan Franko theater in Kyiv, Ukraine, last month. Credit to Nicole Tung for The New York Times.

A play based on an 19th-century literary classic is a smash hit among Ukrainians who see in the story cultural and historical echoes of what they face after two years of war.

Full article.

[speedygal]

This is in part because of beavers building dams, with nobody stopping them due to the war.

[heldentenxr]

Palestine supporters are now making russia a victim. this is what i feared would happen, as russia supported Palestine. russia is a terrorist state. please don’t forget that. they razed numerous Ukrainian cities to the ground.

picture 1 - this is what’s left from once prosperous city of Maryinka. nothing. i wish it was just AI generated, but it’s not. it’s real. look at it. in 2020 almost ten thousand people lived there.

picture 2 is Avdiyivka. one of the hardest battles now are happening at it’s outskirts. in 2020 it’s population was 32 thousand people. now it’s about one thousand.

picture 3 is Bakhmut. it is now occupied by russian terrorists. before they occupied it, they almost razed it to the ground. 73 thousand Ukrainians used to live there happily. until russia came.

the only thing russia brings is violence, terror, and death. whenever you want to make it a victim, remember tens of thousands of civilians dead because of it in Ukraine alone. we didn’t “deserve it,” as they may force you to think. the only thing we want is to live freely, in our own country, and they hate us for it.

[anastasiamaru]

🥳 Welcome Home 🥳

🥹The commanding officers who defended Mariupol in Ukraine now

Glory to the Heroes of Ukraine

[bluizu]

A list of countries that are against Russian war crimes, that are also against Israeli war crimes!

Ireland

Norway

Thank you for coming!

Edit, 8-11-23: It is with great honor i may add Norway to this list! I would like to thank our brothers to the west for not being idiots.

[aodhan-art]

Today’s Inktober prompt is ‘Passport’. I drew a Russian passport (as a person who has one) to remind everyone that Russia is a terrorist state as well as a dictatorship waging civil war against its own citizens, and to honour pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin resistance within Russia.