#stand with ukraine

[dontforgetukraine]

On the 1000th day since Russia's full-scale invasion, 1000 candles were lit in Kyiv to mark each day and remember those that sacrificed for Ukraine's Independence and freedom. The candles covered the steps that led up to the Mother Ukraine monument.

Source: Maria Avdeeva

[beastblade69]

today is a holodomor remembrance day, holodomor aka genocide of ukrainian ppl who were starved by soviet union (russia). more than 3 million ukrainians died from starvation. and no, holodomor wasn't fabricated by american government to make americans hate communism. it was very much a real famine that aimed to destroy ukrainians as a nation. and we're still living with the consequences of this genocide. I personally was always told to finish my meal and not to waste food. so it still pains me when food is thrown away or wasted in any other way. I didn't realise it was a national trauma many ukrainians still have BECAUSE of holodomor until like last year. stop silencing ukrainian voices as if y'all know our history better than us out there in usa or wherever you are. on the other hand if ur supporting us, ukrainians, believe me, we're VERY MUCH grateful. thank you

[beastblade69]

say it LOUDER (ukrainians have been shouting these exact sentences for literal YEARS and ppl still ignore our voices)

[liusia-piu]

ordinarily i love your art but i'm very disappointed to see you posting content for hogwarts legacy when jk rowling is so virulently anti-trans and sees support for her media in any regard to be support of her and her beliefs. posting harry potter content in the current social media climate makes you seem unsafe to trans people, so i'm going to have to unfollow you. i hope you do your research on this issue and reflect on it

I don't keep anyone on my page? If you feel uncomfortable, you are free to do what you want (I also recommend banning tags that are triggering for you), you don't have to inform me about it, I'm positive about it. Personally, I don't care about Rowling's opinions and their narratives, as well as most of her haters' opinions. I treat her setting as my own consolation, given that I live in a country at war, it supports me quite well. Personally, I love the game solely for its aesthetics and atmosphere and the shadow of nostalgia it gives. I shouldn't have to explain myself for something that brings me pleasure.

My stance has never been transphobic, it's evident in my art, if it's not, I'm sorry that I didn't prove my adequacy in this social media enough.

Instead of talking about transphobia and my strange involvement in it, you can help trans and queer people who have suffered losses due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and those who are now fighting on the frontline to protect us!

Some links where you can learn more:

Cohort, an association of trans people in Ukraine, provides assistance with housing, equal access to healthcare services, visibility, and protection of rights by the community itself

Ukrainian LGBTQ+ and feminist NGO ‘Insight’ collects donations to support LGBTQI+ people during the war in Ukraine

Help for LGBTQ+ military, current collections for their needs

[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.

[folklorespring]

If you want to support Ukrainians, DO NOT donate to Red Cross. Can't speak about their work in other countries, but they're useless in Ukraine. The only trustworthy international organisation I can think of is World Central Kitchen.

Donate to World Central Kitchen

And it's even better to donate directly to Ukrainian organisations. Here are a few good legit places:

hospitallers.life - "Hospitallers", Ukrainian paramedics on the frontlines

savelife.in.ua - "Come Back Alive", assistance to the army

prytulafoundation.org - "Prytula Foundation", assistance to the army, humanitarian causes

starenki.com.ua - "Starenki", helping elderly people

everybodycan.com.ua - "Everybody Can", helping disabled children, elders and hospitals

uanimals.org - "UAnimals", saving animals

[kashiomi-art]

Not gonna lie, my morale is at the lowest point it's been since the beginning of the invasion. Russians are successfully occupying more and more territories and shell frontline regions every day. People are dying, our culture and herritage is destroyed. International aid dwindled significantly because of american bullshit. Mobilization law has been signed and there is a chance that my family members get conscripted soon. Don't even get me started on internal political problems. A bunch of articles in foreign media talking about our defeat and "peace talks" (what a joke).

It feels like there were no at least moderately good news in a while. On top of that, the feeling that we are screaming into the void is stronger than ever. I'm happy when I see a foreigner online supporting us and spreading the word, because it gets rarer. Ukrainians feel like none of what's happening gets outside our info bubble. Most likely no one but Ukrainians will see this post either. Honestly don't know what to make of all of this.

[adskadrochilnya]

ukraine may be fighting the biggest modern empire in the world that wants to take its colony back to oppress and subjugate its people and culture as it has been for CENTURIES but that still not anti-imperialistic enough for some people

[kyitsya]

saw the video of the ukrainian soldier who asked the bus headed to the battlefront to stop for a moment so that he could hug his family one more time and now i wanna sob.

don’t forget about ukraine. do not forget what ukrainians are going through to keep their families safe.

[lengthofropes]

Full article here: https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukrainian-hospitals-have-been-repeatedly-targeted-by-russia-the-latest-attack-is-not-a-coincidence-1134?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZnWizqUhHBRudALVzeWkIPQsBgove3zFFDPbzV-20BLrnXHEEL41C3rwE_aem_xleeCAq_D56UukWHzqXIdw

[thyinum]

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

[dontforgetukraine]

Twitter Thread from Замаханий репортер (@/ReporterTired) on Nov. 17th 2024

"This thread will be in English, just in case someone from abroad wants to read it and understand a bit more about the war in Ukraine. Feel free to share it if you like. These are purely reflections on how daily news about killed people has become routine.

In journalism—likely in Western journalism as well—there’s a concept called “corpse-kilometers.” In one phrase, it would sound like: “For a reader to pay attention to a terrible event, the number of deaths must be proportional to the distance between the event and the reader.”

You’ve probably noticed this. If a car crash in your country kills 20 people, it resonates with you. If it’s 20 people 5,000 kilometers away, you might not pay attention. After all, it’s far away, in a country unfamiliar to you, and those terrible events barely touch you.

And that’s normal. People are naturally more interested in what’s happening around them because it directly affects their lives. Unfortunately, they care less about events far away, even though those events might also have significant impacts on them.

Now, about Ukraine. Since 2013, my colleagues and I have observed spikes of interest in events here. This lasted until around the winter of 2015. The reason was clear: first, protests against Yanukovych, then the occupation of Crimea, then the war in eastern Ukraine.

It all came to a halt after Ukrainian troops withdrew from the encirclement in Debaltseve and the Minsk agreements were signed. After that, the war entered a frozen stage, where it remained until February 2022.

Why did this happen? The protests against Yanukovych, who was actively pulling Ukraine toward Russia, escalated gradually: mass protests, the first brutal beatings of protesters, the first MASSIVE rallies in Kyiv, barricades in the streets, clashes with police.

Then there was a brief lull, followed by gunfire against protesters on February 18, and mass shootings on February 20. Yanukovych fled, and the south and east of the country ignited with pro-Russian rallies (if English-speaking readers are interested, I’ve written about this).

Next came the occupation of Crimea, where Russian military forces without insignia pretended they weren’t interfering. Then the occupation of Sloviansk, involving Igor Girkin (callsign "Strelkov"), who arrived in eastern Ukraine straight from Crimea.

What followed was the active phase of the war, with a dynamic frontline where Ukraine was reclaiming territories, generating newsworthy events. After Debaltseve, the war was frozen, and a frozen war doesn’t make news.

What’s more, people grow accustomed. To maintain audience attention on the horrors unfolding at home, the horror has to become increasingly massive. From 2015 to 2022, Ukrainian soldiers were dying almost daily along the frontline.

But this was almost unnoticed even in Ukraine. Daily reports of 5, 7, 10 soldiers killed became numbers, a routine. Everything changed in January when the media began actively discussing an impending Russian full-scale invasion.

About two weeks before the full-scale war began, the Russians ramped up shelling along the frontline. Ukraine was back on the front pages. Then came Kharkiv, Kyiv region, Chernihiv region. There was Mariupol. There was horror and shock.

Then came the de-occupation of Bucha, Irpin, Makariv. Yahidne in Chernihiv region. Mass graves of murdered civilians. These dead people in pits probably still haunt many journalists from time to time. Then there was the counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. Graves in Izium.

Ukraine conducted a successful offensive in Kherson. Uncovered torture chambers. The summer of 2023 passed in anticipation of a counteroffensive, which ultimately didn’t succeed. For a number of reasons.

Then there was the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. Flooded Kherson. Villages near Kherson under water. Dead people who drowned because, on the left bank of the Kherson region, the Russians didn’t even try to help them. Hell, the Russians even abandoned their own troops to drown.

And then came the Russian offensive. Which continues to this day. Against this backdrop, news of daily missile and drone strikes gets lost – strikes that kill civilians. Every week, the Russians kill a dozen or two civilians. But this has become routine.

Because what are ten dead people compared to Chasiv Yar or Toretsk, which are being literally leveled to the ground? What’s the investigation of Russian crimes from March 2022 compared to Pokrovsk, which now waits for Russian bombs?

What are civilian prisoners, about whom we have almost no information, compared to all this? Hell, even Kharkiv, which is hit daily with guided bombs, has become routine. Not just for foreign media, but even here in Ukraine. For different reasons, though.

Because nearly every city in Ukraine is hit by drone and missile fragments. Every week. And people are more worried about what’s happening nearby. Unfortunately. For foreign colleagues, it’s hard to hold the audience’s attention, because those bombs fall somewhere far away.

More pressing matters include Trump’s elections. Or what the Labour Party will do. Or whether the far-right will gain votes in Germany’s elections. The war in Ukraine – it’s somewhere. And to keep attention, you have to find new ways constantly. And every month, it gets harder.

If in November 2022, 120 missiles fired at Ukraine were big news and a topic of discussion, I doubt it would be a major story now. Because what’s far more important is what Scholz talked about with Putin. And when those negotiations will finally happen.

Because Europe is tired of the war. And as a Ukrainian who sleeps every night in a bathroom behind two one-meter-thick walls, listening to Russian missiles being shot down, I find this both laughable and infuriating. But it is what it is.

So read the news about Ukraine. Read what Ukrainians write about this war. They understand Russians much better than wise Russo experts. Because we are the ones who live next door to the Russians. It’s us who spent ten years trying to negotiate with them.

Otherwise, one day you might be in for a surprise when Russian tanks roll from Belarus toward Königsberg, and the Russians wipe themselves with the peace agreements you’ve signed with them. Believe me, Ukrainians have had plenty of those over 10 years of war.

And if you’ve made it this far – thank you so much for reading. Have a peaceful day.

A few hours ago, the Russians struck a residential building in Sumy with a ballistic missile. Ten people were killed, including children aged 9 and 14. 50 people were injured. Surrounding residential buildings were damaged. Sadly, this is just an ordinary day in Ukraine.

This morning, Russians launched a ballistic missile strike on Odesa. There are casualties and injuries, but the exact numbers are not yet known. The flight time of ballistic missiles is so short that the air raid siren doesn’t always activate in time. Nightmare."

[swamp-cats-den]

Will never forget how long the 2-metre walk from my bed to the window in the morning of 24.02.2022 felt as I was desperately trying to persuade myself that the booming, earth-shaking sound was just an unusually vicious thunder, and simultaneously thinking 'what if I pull the curtains open and there is no rain?' I pulled the curtains open, and there was no rain. No thunder clouds. Just the faces of neighbours also woken up by the missile explosions looking out of the window. That's when I understood that the war began.

Here's a reminder that Ukraine still needs donations badly to fight off the invasion.

United 24 and Come Back Alive are both verified charities that support the Ukrainian military. They offer various options, for example, collecting money for medical equipment, humanitarian demining and rebuilding Ukraine if someone doesn't feel comfortable donating towards weapons.

[guhfis]

today, February 24, second year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The tenth year of the war. A centurys of struggle. Thousands and thousands of killed and maimed people. Endless grief and pain. Fear and rage. If you have Ukrainian friends, support them today, this is a difficult day for all of us 🫂

[folklorespring]

Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine after russian missile attack.

[swemtpotamtam]

Tomorrow is gonna be the second anniversary of the invasion ruzzia launched against Ukraine, and the tenth anniversary of ruzzian aggression since 2014

Please, support us, keep talking about us, we are still being attacked and killed everyday

Make sure to donate to Come Back Alive, to Serhii Prytula, to any Ukrainian creative to keep us all afloat

War and genocide isn't a trend for social media, those are not some silly things for people to talk about and then forget once it's not "popular" anymore, those are actual atrocities that shouldn't even be a thing in the 21st century