#national flag day of ukraine

[dontforgetukraine]

Two flags, one motherland!

Source: Crimean Tatar Resource Center

[fotos-art]

Reflection of Kilchurn Castle in Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

© Tom Mackie

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Scotland's National Day is celebrated today in honour of St. Andrew, patron saint of the country and other nations such as Greece, Romania and Ukraine. Although the apostle never arrived in Scotland, his figure is fundamental in the Scottish identity and is present in the iconic flag of Saltire, which represents the cross on which he was martyred.

[lillovingsoul]

Bringing this back for the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Ukraine's Independence Day 💛💙

It is the 900th day of Ukraine's resistance against full-scale russian aggression. We are still here, and we will get our freedom and peace.

Been meaning to draw these for a very long time, but drawing in general has been a challenge. I'm so happy I finally finished them... Please check my pinned post for links to help Ukraine and Ukrainians like me, if you are willing. Sharing is very appreciated. Thank you..

[originalleftist]

Russia blew up a ship carrying humanitarian for Palestine.

"The strike, which killed eight people and injured another 11, hit a Panama-flagged civilian vessel and damaged its cargo of aid. It was the third Russian attack against a civilian vessel in four days.

The U.N. had delivered an order for the aid to be sent to Palestine.

"Ukraine, despite the war, supplies products for 400 million people around the world," said Agriculture Minister Vitalii Koval."'

Russia's attacks on civilian shipping from Ukraine aren't just attacks on Ukraine- they're an attack on the entire world, in particular poorer nations who often rely on Ukrainian grain.

But hey, I'm sure the "pro-Palestinian" Tankies who also love Putin and its Iranian allies because they're against "the West" will not be silent about this. Right?

Any time now, guys.

[kobzars]

Today is the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine, tomorrow is the Independence Day of Ukraine! Peace and happiness to you and your families!

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

On the night of 1st May 1966, on the eve of Workers' Solidarity Day, the Soviet flag was torn down from the building of the Kyiv Institute of National Economy (now Kyiv National University of Economics) by G. Moskalenko and V. Kuksa.

They replaced it with this flag of Ukraine.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

For context to the Ottawa thing, Ottawa City Hall commemerates national/independence days of many countries if they request it (it was in the news in 2022 that they rejected an application by Russia to fly their flag due to the invasion of Ukraine).

This is not to say they are right to or that people should not protest the event, just to clarify that this isn't a new event they've decided to do this year for the first time ever; they raise it every year because this is standard practice here, and unfortunately Canada is, as we know, very close to Israel.

Again, please protest the event.

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[ukraineblr]

The dearest colors in the world ❤

August 23 - the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine.

[starseedpatriot]

It is the 4th day of 2024

- Epstein’s associate list is catching the world on fire for the elitists and the media is in a tailspin.

- The US is having to literally bomb Iran to try to create a distraction. They apparently have nothing else to offer as a ready made false flag.

- The US Federal debt surpassed $34 trillion and we have a negative GPD. The world outside of the snow globe is avoiding global war and watching the machine lose its economic power.

- Deep blue sanctuary cities are having to lash out at their own party’s Badministration over illegal immigration.

- The black and Latino communities are taking a hard right. Young voters are moving right. Labor unions are moving right. The pendulum is swinging.

- The truth of the 2020 election steal is seeing more light with the release of a 32-page play-by-play on swing state shenanigans.

- The J6 narrative is falling apart and is being shown as a federally organized and perpetrated false flag.

- Jack Smith is failing to, “get Trump,” and may be disqualified as a special prosecutor while the baseless Trump indictments fall apart.

- The machine is so stuck with Dopey Joe as a de facto candidate that it is being forced to prop up deep state marionette Niki Haley, who is currently behind Trump by 55 points in the polls.

- Ukraine is falling apart and Israel is losing its mystique as God’s chosen nation as their ruthless technocracy is exposed.

- The globalist warming climate change narrative is disintegrating as the creeps are forced to hyperbole that is easily seen as ridiculous overstatement.

2024 is four days old. We told you it was going to be a year to remember. So far, so good.

[dontforgetukraine]

Ukrainian and Georgian activists unfurl a 32-meter-long Ukrainian flag on the Peace Bridge in Tbilisi.

Source: UKR Embassy in GEO

[talkingattumble]

I feel like a complete asshole for saying this. But I wanna say it.

I feel like on these past few years, the internet has been focused on justice for horrible things happening everywhere. The war in Ukraine, the earthquake in turkey/Syria, the women’s rights situation in Iran, the ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

And I feel like every single time Armenia is left out of it. For so long we’ve been attacked. We lost Artsakh after almost a YEAR of the civilians being literally starved by Azerbaijan. And no one said a fucking word.

And it’s like no matter how many people I tell, no matter how many posts I make, no matter how many protests I go to, nobody cares about Armenia.

I learned about ethnic cleansing and genocide before I could multiply. I knew there were entire nations of people who wanted nothing more than to see my entire people wiped out before I knew what a cell was. I go to sleep most nights worrying about my family, terrified that I’ll wake up the next day and find that my country doesn’t exist anymore.

And nobody even cares enough to make a post.

The extent of most peoples knowledge about conflicts in Armenia is “well there was a genocide and then everything was okay again.” If they even know Armenia exists at all.

It’s just. When will it be Armenia’s turn? When will I start seeing people post about Armenia everywhere? When will I see the Armenian flag on lawns and profile pictures and bumper stickers, in solidarity with us? When will Turkey and Azerbaijan be called out for their disgusting actions?

Did you know that the Armenian genocide is the first to be described as a genocide? Did you know that Hitler mentioned Armenia by name? He mentioned us in one of his speeches, describing why the holocaust would work, why he would not be punished.

He said, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

No one. And their silence is deadly.

[still-searching-for-something]

Today is the fourth Saturday of November at 4:00. As you read this, millions of Ukrainians the world over—both within Ukraine and without—are gathering to light candles, put up symbolic vessels of grain, and to observe a minute of silence for the millions of Ukrainians murdered in the Holodomor. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day, when Ukraine commemorates the 1932-1933 man made famine that killed between 3-5 million Ukrainians. It was a deliberate genocide engineered by the USSR under Stalin to quash the Ukrainian independence movement and punish Ukrainians for their resistance to Soviet policies. For decades afterwards, the Soviet Union refused to allow public discussion of the Holodomor and denied the famine took place, and it wasn't until Gorbachev's glasnost reforms that this changed.

Today, as Ukraine battles against another genocide by the Russian state, remember Ukraine. Remember the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children ripped from their parents' arms and being indoctrinated into Russian culture. Remember that Russia has declared the Holodomor to be "disinformation at the state level" and have destroyed a memorial in Ukraine to the murdered millions. Remember that Russia is cracking down on the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, and any expression of Ukrainian national identity with the intention of destroying it. Even the very colors of the Ukrainian flag gets you in trouble. Kharkiv is bombed so often that it no longer makes the news.

Remember the 3-5 million murdered Ukrainians. Because they were murdered—deliberately starved by a colonial oppressor which hated their children, their culture, their language, and their identity. Even though the news cycle and the incoming American president do not care about Ukraine, remember that—because the more people know about and remember and commemorate the victims of the Holodomor, the more Putin and Stalin failed in their goal to eradicate the Ukrainian identity, failed to make people forget what they did, and failed to extinguish them.

Slava Ukraini.

[marykk1990]

My next post in support of Ukraine is:

Next site, is another day. It's August 23, 2024, in Ukraine right now, which is the Day of the National Flag in Ukraine. It's a flag with beautiful symbolism of the Ukrainian fields of grain covered by the blue Ukrainian skies. It has been celebrated on August 23 since 2004. The first historically verified use of the beautiful yellow and blue flag dates from 1848 when it was raised over the Lviv Townhall, which was known as Lemberg at that time & was the capital of Galicia & was part of the Austrian Empire. The modern flag was adopted as the official national flag of Ukraine in 1992.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

[misfitwashere]

The 3 Baltic States — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — are all very much aware that they are Putin’s next target if he wins in Ukraine. So they are understandably nervous about our election, as their future is at stake as much as ours.

We just wound up a 10-day trip to the Baltic capitals — Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn — and are now in Helsinki, so I thought it a good time to report on what I saw and heard.

One local quoted to us Putin’s 2005 claim that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”. Not World War I, or World War II, or the Holocaust, and certainly not Stalin’s planned famines, but the breakup of the Russian/Soviet Empire. He means to restore it, including not just Ukraine but the Baltic States. And Byelorussia — but he already owns it in all but name. And Central Asia, and Poland, and anything else he can. He wants to make Russia as powerful, as respected, and as feared, as the old Soviet Union was.

The Baltic states are doing more than watching Russia in Ukraine; they are acting. All 3 states, but especially Lithuania (being the closest) have taken in many many Ukrainian refugees. Ukrainian flags fly on official buildings in all 3 capitals, and in many other places. I didn’t get a chance to visit the Russian embassy in Vilnius, but in Riga and Tallinn, there are protest signs and messages — some quite nasty — in front of and facing the embassies there. (See the photo on top for an example.)

These are not exactly actions calculated to make the Russian bear play nice. Putin already hates the Baltic states, Lithuania in particular, because their declarations of independence in 1991 are what helped trigger the final breakup of the old Soviet Union. (It’s more complicated, but that’s a decent short summary.) Yet the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Estonians are speaking and acting in ways that will anger Putin even more. Their love of freedom, pride in their heritage, and sense of responsibility all demand it of them. In one city, we visited volunteers making camouflage netting for Ukrainian soldiers, and even helped (or tried to help) weave a few strands. More important than trying to help, though, was our showing up, hearing their stories, and encouraging them to persevere. They are spending as much as 5% of their GDP on their defense (the exact numbers are not clear). They are preparing for war. One expert told us that it is an open secret that their plan is to hold out for 72 hours, long enough for the West to respond.

Which we will be obliged to do. All 3 nations have been members of NATO since 2004, and entitled to Article 5 protection which proclaims that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all, and that all will respond to such an attack with all means necessary, including armed force.

This is why I called the Baltic States the canary in the coal mine in my title. They are members of NATO, while Ukraine is not. If Putin attacks any of them, the United States is obligated to come to their defense. Putin is very well aware of this, and so will only attack if he has calculated that we will not respond as we ought. When we read reports about Russian interference in our elections, we must understand what Putin is trying to accomplish: the destruction of NATO so that it will not be able to respond when he invades a NATO ally like Lithuania, or Latvia, or Estonia.

We are with a group of Americans and not supposed to discuss US politics, but I managed several private talks with locals, including a diplomatic contact. All of them are very aware of our upcoming election and very concerned about what it will mean for them if Trump manages somehow to regain power. They know very well what he’s had to say about our NATO responsibilities.

The US has generally been fortunate in its wars (the Civil War being a major exception). We have not had to fight on our home ground; when we go to war, we fight on other people’s land. That allows an illusion of safety which we can no longer afford. It’s not just the missile threat; it’s cyber threats and terrorism. A Latvian reporter for the New York Times wrote the other day about how Putin is able to reach out anywhere in the world to attack individuals who oppose him (or who even decline to support him by joining the army): Putin Is Doing Something Almost Nobody Is Noticing

There are also the hundreds of thousands of Russians who left home because they did not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin’s war or were forced out, accused of not embracing it enough. These low-profile dissenters are subjected to surveillance and kidnappings, too. Yet their repression happens in silence, away from the spotlight and often with the tacit consent or inadequate prevention of the countries to which they have fled. It’s a terrifying thing: The Kremlin is hunting down ordinary people across the world, and nobody seems to care.

One cannot travel to the Baltic States without becoming aware of just how fragile our freedoms really are. ALL our freedoms — for if the Baltic States fall, so too will the rest of Europe, and so too will we. It is critical to defeat Trump and elect Harris for many reasons, including reproductive rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to dissent, freedom to think. In addition to that, it is critical to stop Trump in order to stop Putin (with the recognition that Putin will still keep trying even if he fails to put Trump in power). In the United States, this can seem a bit abstract. Here in the Baltic States, it is much more immediate and real.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

2021: Sunflowers in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine on Day of the National Flag. 23rd August.

[neboskhyl]

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇦

UKR🇺🇦 -> ENG🇬🇧

Щороку 23 серпня моя кохана Україна святкує День Державного Прапора, 24 серпня — День Незалежности. Сьогодні нашій сучасній державності виповнюється 33 роки, хоча насправді українська історія сягає тисячоліть. Це — роки здобуття Майбутнього, Волі, Незалежности. Це — роки Віри, Самоусвідомлення, Шляху.

Україна — це Боротьба. Вічна боротьба за долю.

Дякую кожному та кожній, завдяки кому ми можемо святкувати цей День. Дякую всім, хто боронив, боронить і боронитиме нашу Державу.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

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Every year on August 23, my beloved Ukraine celebrates the Day of the National Flag, and Independence Day on August 24. Today, our modern statehood turns 33 years old, although in fact, Ukrainian history goes back thousands of years. These are years of gaining Future, Freedom, Independence. These are years of Faith, Self-awareness, Path.

Ukraine means Fighting. Eternal fighting for destiny.

I thank everyone, thanks to whom we can celebrate this Day. Thank you to everyone who defended, defends, and will defend our State.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam slava!

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OCs in their nationalities' folk clothes: Ian (Ukrainian) and Alim (Crimean tatar).