He's 1 meter full length, posable neck with plastic ball and socket skeleton inside, bendable tail and loins with wire inside. Legs are slightly movable.
Head and paws are printed from my original 3d sculpt. Fabric fur, feathers, acrylic paint, varnish. Also used glass taxidermy eyes for him.
Everyone keeps saying how scared they're of the nuclear strike by russia, but when russia commits crime comparable to the consequences of nuclear strile - crickets. Makes me think that if russia nukes Ukraine all we'll get from the west will be "thoughts and prayers" as they collectively exhale with relief that it's not them who's nukes.
It's so wild to me to see under that Xiran Jay Zhao's post about the bombed ukrainian printing house comments like "I hope everyone is safe." And I get it, people are saying this out of kindness and pure consern, there's nothing wrong with it. It just shows how little coverage our war has abroad.
No, no one in Ukraine is safe. No one in that printing house was safe, in fact, 7 people died. No one in a huge hypermarket in Kharkiv on Saturday was safe, in fact, there were 18 killed and 48 injured. And all this happened in the span of only a few days.
No one is safe in territories occupied by russians because the whole family can get killed by refusing to give up their home to russian soldiers. And every time ukrainian army liberates some region, they find mass graves and torture chambers there.
No one is safe even far away from the front line and the border with russia, because missiles and drones fly all over Ukraine, and you never know when the next one will land on your house.
Hell, ukrainians aren't safe even abroad, because there's always a chance there will be some crazy russian or russian supporter who will decide to beat or kill us. And I'm not making this up.
I'm aware that I'm more safe than the people close to the front line and the border with russia or in occupied territories. I don't hear explosions every day, unlike my friend from Kharkiv. But that doesn't mean I'm completely safe. Missiles and drones fly by at least several times a week, especially at night, when I don't hear the sound of an air raid siren simply because I'm asleep.
I am not safe.
My family is not safe.
My friends all over Ukraine are not safe.
We're not safe until russia is gone from our territories. That's why we need all that ammunition and aid. War won't magically stop if our allies stop sending us weapons; that's not how it works. We'll just be more unsafe, because russia won't stop unless it is forced to.
Here's ukrainian news sources you can follow that report daily:
Ukrainian POWs are forced to literally rot to death in russian concentration camps.
"Captured Ukrainians are beaten at the 'reception' (during transfer from the Ministry of Defence convoy to pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiary institutions), thrown in the cells, no medical care is provided. As a result of the beatings, extensive hematomas are formed for which there is no attention from medics (they are simply not allowed to see the prisoners). And then, when the captives practically begin to rot, medics are allowed to visit them, but it is often too late."
A year ago, russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam on the Dnipro River
This war crime caused a large-scale humanitarian and environmental disaster. Nearly 150,000 hectares were flooded in the Kherson region as a result of the dam explosion. The flood zone includes 80 settlements; most of them are on the left bank, which is occupied by russians. 2800 people in the Ukrainian-controlled region were displaced; 32 died and 38 are missing, and we don't even know how many people died in the occupied territory because there was no way to help them.