#stand with ukraine

[temnashafa]

Боги, так. Я теж, нажаль, спочатку хотів вести блоги російською, бо здавалося, що української мови в інтернеті практично не існує... Серйозно. Я був тоді підлітком. В іграх були тільки іноземні мови включно з російською, якою діти говорили на вулиці, до речі. І я теж нажаль. А коли я просто перестав і почав дуже багато читати з інтернету (а там часто писали статті +- літературною українською мовою, а також я почав включати субтитри та користувався перекладачем у пошуках іншої інформації з інтернету та почав знаходити українські блоги), то мені в моєму районі почали говорити, що я напевно звідкись з-за кордону... Аргументуючи це тим, що люди у нас так не говорять... :/

Це все ще стається, регулярно

Oh my God, yes. Unfortunately, I also initially wanted to run my blogs in Russian because it seemed that the Ukrainian language practically did not exist on the Internet... Seriously. I was a teenager then. The games only had foreign languages, including Russian, which the kids spoke in the streets. And me too, unfortunately. And when I just stopped and started reading a lot on the Internet (and they often wrote +- in literary Ukrainian language there, and I also started turning on subtitles and using a translator to search for other information on the internet and started finding Ukrainian blogs), then people in my neighborhood started telling me that I must be from somewhere abroad... Arguing that people don't say that here... :/

This still happens, regularly

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

[folklorespring]

Kyiv after today's russian missile strike

[kyitsya]

there’s nothing like waking up to explosions 😍

fuck you, russia

[marykk1990]

My next post in support of Ukraine is :

Next site, due to getting a very late start this evening, is more beautiful Ukrainian stamps. I really love the artwork on Ukrainian stamps.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

[hubt0i]

my home city :( I fckng hate r🤢ssians

This is how the day of 20 December began for residents of the Ukrainian capital. Mine also began with me getting out of bed to the sound of Russian missiles and calming frightened animals.

I don't like to talk about it, but there is still a war going on in Ukraine. It may seem that it is over, but it is not. Kyiv and the Kyiv region are under threat, so don't forget who Russia is, and there are drones flying overhead every night. Some people are used to sleeping under explosions, while others run to bomb shelters or the subway every night to hide from Russian drones.

Today my city came under rocket fire again. Three districts of Kyiv were attacked. In one of the districts there is a beautiful Gothic church of St Nicholas, which was damaged, as well as several historic buildings. In addition, six consulates and embassies were damaged. So do not forget who Russia is and its crimes against Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, etc.

[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

[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

[dontforgetukraine]

CathFawr: If the war doesn't worry you, you need to stop thinking in terms of "russia is bogged down in Ukraine, so we're fine" and start seeing the current war as the battle of Britain. In that sense, if Russia wins here, Operation Sealion is enabled- russia will believe they can push further West to settle their perceived scores from soviet times; China will be emboldened to try for Taiwan, North Korea to South Korea, and Iran to Israel, and potentially other neighbors. In the most basic sense, all these other autocratic dictators are waiting to see if Putin ends up like Hitler and Mussolini, or if their hateful expansionist ambitions will be permitted to bear fruit by an apathetic and self absorbed world. Wake The Fuck Up Or war will be at your door. Your sons and daughters will die in foreign (or domestic!) fields. Or the west can send a united message that international law is to be upheld, and dictators made to wither and scatter to the wind like chaff from the grain. It's your call, I'm already bleeding for our collective freedom.

[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.

[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

[folklorespring]

Kyiv today

[kyitsya]

the pose i hit each time russia threatens to launch a nuclear icbm at us

[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 🫂

[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

[pterodach]

Since the beginning of the year, more than 700 libraries have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.

Russia struck Ukraine’s major printing press, Faktor-Druk in Kharkiv, killing at least 5 employees among the 7 dead & 20 injured. Kharkiv is the heart of Ukraine’s publishing industry. This attack on culture underscores the genocidal nature of Russia’s war. Factor-print was bombed exactly one week before the Book Arsenal (book festival), just when dozens of publishing novelties were being rushed to print. The bombing was aimed at preventing these books from being published, at preventing Ukrainians from having book fairs - for a quarter of a century, the Russians had managed to silence them using other methods, and now that they have started to find their feet, they are using bombs and missiles. And all for the sake of the "great Russian culture". Forcing people to read this literature because of the absence of destroyed Ukrainian literature. My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Vivat publishing house (the bookshop belongs to them).