formerlefty

[blueiscoool]

Avdiivka, Ukraine

Avdiivka after the Russian occupation.

The city was completely destroyed by the Russian army.

Putin calls this “help for the people of Donbass.” In fact, this is genocide of the people of Donbass.

[ksenka-zarazka]

“Why is the situation with the explosion of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station so beautiful? I explain. In this war, we will always have one main trump card that can be used against the Ukrainian (“khokhol” slur was used). And it's not even about nuclear weapons. This is the dam of the Kyiv reservoir. A small thin bridge that is held back by millions of tons of water that will instantly rush into Kyiv and wash these Augean stables down the drain. The dam is old, rotten, rusty. You don't need many missiles. Hundreds of thousands of Kyivans, especially those who live on the lower left bank, are likely to die instantly. Kyiv will never recover from this catastrophe. I'm sure this dam is a ticking time bomb whose timer has already started ticking. Thanks to the USSR for this trump card up its sleeve.”

and that’s on “not all russians”. they are bloodthirsty monsters who are ready to fully destroy something they can’t have.

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian sabotage group: The invaders continue their senseless attempts to seize the islands in the Kherson area. Going on assaults, they stay there forever. Such remnants of "good Russians" have been rotting on Kozatskyi Island for a month, Kherson region, Ukraine, July 2024. Source: Cloooud

P.S. At least some Russian war criminals get the punishment they deserve pretty quickly…

[swemtpotamtam]

ruzzia keeps using mass attacks and inbetween these, many cities close to the border with ruzzia get shelled DAILY

It pains me to see that the world literally does nothing to boycott the terrorist state, does nothing to actually stop the fucking aggressor

I'm so tired of being worried and afraid

[anastasiamaru]

Very hard night for us

[nando161mando]

"BREAKING: Opponents of Cop City invade the construction site

On the 7th of September, the Atlanta community sent a "fuck you, Russian warship!" style message to the prosecutors behind the indictments of 61 heroes for opposing the project. They invaded the construction site and locked down to bulldozers while passing motorists honked at a support rally.

No more crap, no more lies, just payback and utterly committed direct action in the face of the most extreme personal risks: Fuck You, Fascist Prosecutor!"

[sebengineer101]

Te Pati Maori Party's co-leader, Rawiri Waititi, appeared on TVNZ 1's leading maori news and current affairs programme, Te Karere, when he shared the stands regarding to the return of fallen NZ Tane Maori soldier Kane Te Tai from Ukraine as well as child poverty.

[hotshoeagain]

Ooh yeah, this is how I want my tax dollars spent

US AIR FORCE

you go, guys and gals!

Fuck the Russian war criminals.

Slava Ukraini!

@srebrnafh​

just a little something lighthearted for a change ;)

[milenaolesinska]

[dawidstrong]

All about the truth.

[blueiscoool]

Ukraine Displays Recovered Artifacts Stolen by Russians

Ukraine has recovered 14 archaeological items stolen by a Russian man who was stopped at a U.S. airport on suspicion of illegally importing artifacts, Ukrainian officials said Friday.

Ukraine’s acting Minister of Culture Rostyslav Karandieiev said the man stole the artifacts from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and then tried to transport them into the U.S. At a news conference in Kyiv Friday, Karandieiev showed some of the artifacts to journalists, along with the documentation that Ukraine received.

The recovered items include various types of weaponry, such as axes of different sizes, and date back to periods ranging from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. One of the oldest is a polished Neolithic axe, dating from approximately 5,000-3,000 years BCE, said Karandieiev.

“It’s safe to say that Ukraine has received a new shipment of weaponry. The only catch is that this weaponry is incredibly ancient,” Karandieiev said with a smile during the public handover of artifacts at the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a sacred Orthodox monastic complex.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its second year, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, causing losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), Ukrainian authorities say.

Most of the artifacts returned were handed over to Ukraine during the visit of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States in September.

The accompanying document disclosed the identity of the individual responsible for the unlawful importation of artifacts, revealing that he hails from Krasnodar, Russia.

The acting director general of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Maksym Ostapenko, estimated the value of the repatriated items to be around $20,000. But he emphasized that each artifact, given its age, is a significant cultural treasure.

Karandieiev also highlighted a case where 16,000 items were found to be missing from the art museum in Kherson after Ukrainian forces liberated the city following a nine-month Russian occupation.

“How long it will take to return our treasures, our artifacts, is hard to say,” he concluded.

[ksenka-zarazka]

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Over the past year, we have identified evidence of a surge in systematic and coordinated genocidal tactics against Ukrainians. Our legal analysis found reasonable grounds to believe that Russia is responsible for the commission of genocide. This position is supported both by actions prohibited in the Genocide Convention and an underlying pattern of atrocities indicating that Russia aims to destroy the Ukrainian national group in part(..)

P.S. What USA and Germany say: Sending to Ukraine long-range missiles and jets to defend their people might escalate the war. What Russia hears: The US & Germany will let us escalate our genocide by hindering the supply of modern long-range weapons to Ukraine.

What Eastern Europeans are hearing and watching: The fact that the West is ready to conclude "peace and business deals with the Kremlin at the expense of Eastern Europeans!" Ukrainian experience shows that the West is too slow and lazy in security matters and still avoids by all possible means effective resistance to Russian aggression.

Yes, the West is helping Ukraine, but is it being done to a sufficient extent. Unfortunately, no! The Kremlin's economic and military sparing tactics chosen by the West allow the Kremlin to adapt and continue the escalation of the war. Strange as it may be, the Russian military industry receives components for the production of missiles and other armaments from the West, Russian "tourists" and businessmen still enter Europe and the United States, Russian business is still not completely isolated...Russian spies, agents of influence and cronies of the Kremlin are still operating unhindered in the West…

[russianreader]

¡Me monté en la montaña rusa tres veces!

Hello, Moscow Times readers! This is your weekly newsletter, which will shed light on: a time of rapid price growth in Russia how Africa feels about free Russian cheese grain why Vladimir Putin remained standing. But first we will discuss a seemingly not too high-profile event—the arrest of the Soviet dissident and prominent Russian leftist Boris Kagarlitsky. Boris Kagarlitsky was jailed by…

[odinsblog]

RUSSIA’S SHAM ELECTIONS, where people are “helped” by armed soldiers who check to ensure they vote correctly—or else.

Does this look like they are helping to conduct a fair, peaceful and democratic election process? Or does it look like repressed voters under duress, who are being forced to vote for Putin under threat of armed Russian soldiers? (source) (source) (source)

[sebengineer101]

Aussie killed in Ukraine

New Zealand Army veteran Corporal Dominic Abelen lost his life in the Russian War in Ukraine in August 2022. Abelen came to New Zealand from Australia before he joined NZDF. He was on leave without pay from NZDF and was the first New Zealander to die in Ukraine. In January 2023, British-New Zealand Humanitarian aid worker Dr. Andrew Bagshaw and his fellow Brit Christopher Parry died while saving many Ukrainian people during the Russian invasion, Kiwi volunteer, and former NZDF soldier Kane Te Tai died while fighting for Ukraine.