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hirkyy · 1 year

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Ok since last posting I’ve fallen prey to getting foaming at the mouth angry at my phone screen again but I want everyone to fucking shut it about the dehumanization of Russians.

Are those Russians apparently suffering real world systemic oppression in the room with us right now? Are they in air raid shelters underground? Are they maybe in the basement of their apartment buildings instead, praying this won’t become their grave if the building gets striked and collapses above their head? Are they already dumped in an unmarked mass grave, hands tied behind their back and body charred after the enemy soldiers attempted to burn the evidence of their crimes? Or does their heart still beat and does it sink every time their loved ones don’t answer the phone?

You are so quick to jump to the defense of poor Russians being a little sad :( when those evil Eastern Europeans are being mean to them online, but you don’t give a shit about the dehumanization of Ukrainians. None of you will even attempt to grasp the utter horror of Russian government (!) media outlets publishing articles and broadcasting TV reports openly calling for genocide, denying the existence of Ukrainians as people and Ukraine as a state, equating Ukrainians to parasites and vermin and completely reducing our lives to nothing; even blatantly using such terms as “De-Ukrainization”.

Westerners can at least claim ignorance even if it’s a pitiful excuse but this is what Russians are exposed to daily and they choose to avert their gaze and dont look at entire cities being leveled to the ground, people forced to survive in conditions your mind would not be able to conjure up, spending sleepless nights listening to explosions and artillery fire in basements, risking their lives to go outside to find dead animals to eat or to bury the bodies of their deceased loved ones outside because they have started to decompose. Instead of listening to Russians crying about how they’re being victimized look up stories of people who were lucky to survive and escape Mariupol and every time you feel a sense of nausea at the utter horror these people have seen you better keep fucking looking. Look up the official United Nations independent investigation report describing cases of rape of children as young as 4. Read about the abduction and mass deportations of thousands (!) of Ukrainian children, either orphaned or taken forcibly from their parents, whose living family is heartbroken and inconsolable, holding on to what little hope they have of getting them back home from God fucking knows where in Russia. Look up filtration camps and torture chambers set up by Russian soldiers. This is what dehumanization does, it convinces you no human life was lost because those weren’t even humans. And it is working in Russia right now because most Russian people feel perfectly fine and cozy at home and to them being dehumanized means people being mean to them on Tumblr apparently. Or forcing them to confront the reality of how their inaction is what allows for all this inconceivable suffering to continue.

Be thankful you and your family are certain to see the light of day tomorrow and you have not spent the past year having to cope with your home being devastated by a genocidal war while knowing this could have just as easily been you every time you see another person mercilessly tortured, raped and killed for simply being Ukrainian, and shut the fuck up

#ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #russian imperialism

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mariacallous · 1 month

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Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods is a surgically precise, raw and devastating documentary about a seven-week mission undertaken in November 2023 by the Ukrainian Berlingo Battalion. The stakes of the Berlingo’s mission are extremely high. The 99 soldiers must defend a section of a railway line that runs through the forest that lies north-west of Kupyansk. If the Russians were to take it, they would be able to resupply and potentially push on to Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine.

This film does not so much explain the mission as show it in visceral detail. You will see death and dead bodies; these images are unlikely to leave your mind. I have never seen war portrayed in this way, so close up, grotesque and frantic.

While the soldiers discuss their experiences in interviews, we also see battles from two other positions. The first is through drone footage. Viktor and Denys are drone pilots who fly explosives, or what they call “gifts”, over the Russian troops and their “foxholes”. With FPV (first-person view) drones, the pilots wear goggles, giving them a direct view of the explosives reaching their targets. When they blow up, the screen cuts to fuzz.

In one attack, from the sky, we see a Russian soldier enter a house. The drone follows him in through the front door. A second drone captures the explosion that follows. The Ukrainian soldiers speak frankly of the thrill of it and how they feel about the men who die: “Why should we feel sorry for them?”

In their own foxholes, the Ukrainian soldiers eat, talk, joke and pray. They hold up rudimentary explosives, made from soap and petrol. They extract mice from their food supplies. They talk about the Russians and ask, again and again – sometimes asking captured Russian soldiers directly – why they have come to this country.

The Ukrainians know they are outnumbered. Maksym, who is 19, says more Russians come every day: “They just die, but they keep coming and coming and coming.” Watching a livestreamed battle on a laptop, Dmytro, a company commander, says: “We kill a thousand, they send another thousand.”

Bodycam footage brings horror from another side. We see decisions made on the fly, hectic and desperate. The Ukrainians shoot at Russian soldiers and the Russians fire back. Foxholes are destroyed by Russian drones. We watch the men discovering the bodies of their comrades, then carrying wounded comrades, groaning in agony, through the forest. In the snow and ice, there are so many bodies. To hear the rapid, panicked breathing of these men – to hear the adrenaline and the fear – is so utterly intimate, direct and powerful. It is deeply disturbing. And it should be.

Over the course of just one hour, we get to know these soldiers, who are deep into a rotation they should have left weeks ago, but there was no one to replace them. Natalia, a combat medic, is the only woman in the battalion. She has a veterinary degree, but now she treats people. She has become “emotionless to certain moments of life”, she says, unconvincingly. Vlad, a unit commander whose family fled Kherson during the Russian occupation, has been rapidly promoted through the ranks. He is “fully 19 years old”.

This film is full of haunting landscapes. In one moment, a soldier examines by torchlight a heap of bags piled on the floor. These are the possessions of the soldiers who have left the battalion. Many are injured; some are dead. A battle takes place at night, in the black of the forest. It is lit only by the flashes of gunfire and explosions. The sky turns red. It is a vision of hell.

But the soldiers of the Berlingo often talk about the after times: what they will do and what they dream of in a free Ukraine. Sometimes, these dreams are as simple as football and festivals, life as it was before. They would like houses, dogs, to spend time with children. In war, in all the loss of humanity, there is a sliver of hope.

Many of us find ourselves scrolling through social media feeds that casually drop in images and footage of conflict and war, among holiday snaps and selfies, flattening these nightmares into a swipeable passing moment. Documentaries such as this insist on the opposite. It is distressing in its frankness – of course it is. But it makes the conflict real and asks you to look, understand and remember what is happening, not so far away.

Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods aired on BBC Two and is available on BBC iPlayer

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alcestas-sloboda · 1 year

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shrapnel damage from russian rocket on ukrainian mosque. ukrainian soldiers praying. supreme mufti of ukraine took up arms on february 24 and has been in military for a year. yeah.

#look I don’t want to start all of this here #but us I know that a lot of arsenal fans are active now #i want you to know #i really love you but some things that are being said hurt me #as it hurts zinchenko and all other ukrainians #mostly it concers people on twitter but still

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anartificialsatellite · 6 months

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Putting this behind a cut, not because it's anything exceptionally serious or disturbing but because it sometimes feels like posting something publicly on Tumblr implies a kind of "I am telling all of you this." sort of feeling, but this is more of a "I'm saying this to no one but you can hear it if you want to" feeling, if that makes any sense at all. Additionally, like, I'm talking about my thoughts and feelings but I need to make clear to passersby that these are not a.) well-organized, or b.) my primary and top and most important feelings about the current situation so... It feels like, idk, symbolically acknowledging that to put it behind a cut?

Anyway.

So I cry really easily, let me say, and it's something I find very frustrating about myself, so if you're like "wow that's not worth crying over" when I say I cried about something, you may well be right and I probably already know it, lmao.

Today at shul we prayed for Israel and we prayed for the soldiers and we prayed for the hostages and we prayed for the Palestinians and we prayed for peace, and I found myself crying a little bit, which is probably not surprising because there is much to cry about these days.

But out of all the complex emotions involved recently, I found myself struck suddenly in that moment by two things, of which I am trying very hard to focus on the first, but need this space to talk about the second.

Those things were 1.) how glad I was to hear my rabbi lead the congregation in praying for peace and for the innocent Palestinians who are suffering right now and how glad I am to be part of a community and a tradition that makes room for this even in the midst of immense grief and anger,

And 2.) how hurt and angry I was to think that I've seen so many people who are not involved and who will never be involved past their armchair activism painting Jews and Israelis as bloodthirsty hateful warmongers for struggling with that grief and anger over what happened on the 7th.

They do this even as the congregation of my synagogue (and many others) prays for peace and for the safety of the Palestinians, while many, many people within that room have friends and family in Israel or are Israeli themselves. I see Israeli friends and strangers I follow posting and speaking about their fear for the innocents in Gaza and reminding themselves and their community not to let their own fear and grief drive them to hate, and yet people who are now and only ever will be exposed to this conflict through their fucking computer screen are comfortable saying some of the most absolutely vile shit I have ever read in my entire life about them.

I don't know. I have to admit that I was pretty disillusioned with many western leftists because of their response to Ukraine, in which their professed principles seemed suddenly not to apply when the aggressor was not aligned with the United States, and I have also seen people who proudly proclaim themselves as champions for justice and oppressed peoples everywhere turn around and spout Assadist bullshit without a hint of irony, along with denying the genocide of Uyghurs in China and past crimes of the Soviet Union against Jews and Ukrainians and... The list goes on.

I know I said I was not surprised by the response several days ago, but I think maybe that's not completely true - I had seen the awful shit people said prior to this specific incident and I knew many of them meant it in ways that maybe weren't obvious to a lot of other people, but I think the scope of it still shocked me. I also guess I must have expected that many people did not realize that the hateful shit some people said about Israelis and "zionists" was said in complete seriousness, and I guess I thought that if those people ever made it clear they were serious and it wasn't hyperbole or simple keyboard warrior blustering that we could count on a lot more people to, at the very least, say "whoa dude that's fucked up" -

uhhhhhhh but it turns out we can't and in fact instead of saying "that's fucked up maybe you should not say that," a lot of people just went "YEAH!!!" and that's something that is going to take a lot of time to come to terms with.

My personal principles (which are pretty damn left-wing in most regards) have not changed one bit in the light of any of this, but I came to recognize something I hadn't really been able to put to words before, which was the strange feeling of discomfort or tension I often got around other people with whom I ostensibly shared these principles.

I realized it last shabbat at kiddush, while sitting at a table full of people around my age -- One started talking about his environmentalist work and even as I nodded along with him, I could feel some discomfort creeping in and without even really realizing it my brain said, "wait, hang on, it's fine, we're in a synagogue." and that discomfort was rapidly replaced with the discomfort that comes with realizing ohhhhhh i guess i do get uncomfortable around people who are outspokenly left-wing even though i might be completely agreeing with what they're saying and... that's why.

This sucks, man.

(before you come in here to say "well do you feel uncomfortable about right-wingers?!" mockingspongebob.jpg, let me say that i make it a point not to fucking talk to people who are outspokenly right-wing if I can goddamn help it, thank you.)

...I don't know where i'm going with this, I just needed to kind of puke it out somewhere and I don't want to take attention away from other discussions that are happening around these topics right now, because I also know that I'm far from the most impacted or affected by the shit going on right now, and that those I personally care for are impacted way more by the rockets being fired in their direction and the actual war they're living in than the hateful words of a bunch of American and European dipshits.

But there won't be rockets forever, and then what?

As upset as I am about the broader antisemitism that has exploded recently (and I am! boy howdy!), and as much as I feel that Israel and the Jewish people are inseparably connected, the anger I feel about this specifically is in two parts - The sense of anger at the attacks on a community of which I am a part (Jews), and a sense of anger at the attacks on a community of which my friends are a part (Israel).

It's hard to articulate the difference between those feelings, but... Like, there's absolutely some (many!) people who use hatred at "Israelis" as a cover for their hatred of Jews, but there are also people who specifically hate and believe awful things about Israelis because they're Israeli and them being Jewish is certainly a part of it but it's sort of secondary, and some people aren't as upset about people saying hateful shit towards Israelis so long as they're clear that they're saying hateful shit about Israelis for being Israeli and not just for being Jews, and I do find that also to be pretty fucked up???? I've noticed there's sometimes a certain amount of attempt to differentiate between the two (Jews vs. specifically Israelis, even though OBVIOUSLY this group has significant overlap) that results in throwing innocent Israelis under the bus because it's important that the speaker is sure, even as they call people out for their hateful rhetoric against Jewish Israelis, that they know the speaker is upset that they're saying hateful things because they think the hateful things are coming from hatred of Jews rather than specifically Israelis. Like, yes it's often a dogwhistle, but sometimes it isn't and this person is just being flat honest that they think Israelis are uniquely evil and I have to tell you that's actually also fucking wrong and hateful.

Does that make sense? I don't know if it does, but I hope so. You're free to reply to this or w/e if you want to discuss it further, I just didn't want to post it not behind a cut for the reasons I mentioned before.

#i/p stuff #israeli politics #political stuff #thoughts

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chloeworships · 2 months

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⚠️ Israel 🇮🇱

God said Hamas and the Palestinian Authority should seek Peace with Israel 🇮🇱

UNQUESTIONABLY… UNDOUBTEDLY…

For the love of God, I pray they listen 👂🏾

He also showed me

“Doha” 🇶🇦

Mmmmmhhhhhhmmmmmm.

It’s been revealed to them (Hamas) that what they were told was false.

Let me also re-affirm that Israel has every right to protect herself 🇮🇱

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Ukraine 🇺🇦

I was also shown our Prime Minister with a filter over his image of the Ukrainian flag 🇺🇦 It almost looked as though he was carrying an enormous flag 🇺🇦 waving it around proudly. I’m not entirely sure what this means other than we STILL need to continue to stand with and support Ukraine 🇺🇦 If I receive additional deets, I will update you all.

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The United States 🇺🇸

I had another vision of American 🇺🇸 soldiers putting a flag in the ground. They were so proud 🥲 They won some kind of battle. It was amazing to witness. It felt as though I was right there standing next to them. I saw a woman soldier as well. God is so sweet. He is clearly acknowledging the bravery of women soldiers BUT that’s not just it….

There will be a battle won for American women somewhere, somehow. I’m just not sure in what context.

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Pray 🙏🏾

PS.

Interestingly, I remember the dream I had of the Pope and his face on a calendar with days 📅 I believe I saw the month of May. This was in 2022. At the time, I thought I had mentioned that I wasn’t too sure what that meant but now I understand. In verse 12 it reads

“Teach us to number our days that we may gain a HEART ♥️ of wisdom”.

Which means we should appreciate the life the LORD has given us and not to take it for granted.

Also consider what the LORD has already revealed to us about “hearts” 💕👀

The LORD has NOT spoken to me about Ukraine needing to surrender 🏳️ and I have inquired of him regarding this matter. He will reveal HIS answer at the appropriate time.

Personally, I believe we should never surrender to evil. EVER. But I am not God. He knows better than any of us could.

Also this scripture (Psalm 90) speaks of God’s WRATH along with his MERCY.

I wanted to add, I did not intentionally post the photo of Qatar airlines to confirm this revelation. I thought it was beautiful so I chose it 😅 and now I’m noticing the Psalm speaks of flying away underlined in purple in verse 10. I just cannot babes. WOW wow.

#for the hundredth time #seriously #PEACE ☮️#America 🇺🇸#Israel 🇮🇱#Ukraine 🇺🇦#women soliders #Qatar 🇶🇦

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leeenuu · 2 years

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Doctors help "Buffalo", the name he uses as a soldier, to train his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. "Buffalo" is among the wounded survivors that were evacuated during the last-ditch defense of the Azovstal steel mill. A fight-crew member took his hand and told him not to worry, they'd make it home. "I told him, 'All my life, I dreamed of flying a helicopter. It doesn't matter if we arrive — my dream has come true,'" Buffalo recalled. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A worker from the war crimes prosecutor's office takes in the damage from overnight shelling that landed on a building of Kharkiv's Housing and Communal College as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

A Ukrainian soldier flashes the victory sign atop a tank in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

One of the coaches collects the remaining equipment at the ruins of the sports complex of the National Technical University in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 24, 2022, damaged during a night shelling. The building received significant damage. A fire broke out in one part but firefighters managed to put it out. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

A Ukrainian service member with a dog observes in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Monday, June 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

Mourners prayed and sang during Artemiy Dymyd’s funeral at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Mr. Dymyd, 27, was killed in battle while serving in a special operation unit of the Ukrainian marines. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)

People watch as a defused 500kg bomb that did not detonate when it landed on an apartment building in March, is lowered from the roof by members of a specialised team that defuses and removes explosives, bombs, mines and other munitions in the Saltivka neighbourhood, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

Svitlana Zhyvaga, 54, who lives in Lysychansk, crossing one of the destroyed bridges still being used by civilians to go back and forth from Lysychansk to Sievierodonetsk, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

Ukrainian service members embrace outside the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer shells lie on the ground to fire at Russian positions in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, Saturday, June 18, 2022. Writing on one of them reads: "Nothing is forgotten". (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

#war in ukraine #russian world

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tigermousse · 1 year

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24.02.2023

Today I woke up at 5 am and had a panic attack. Because exactly one year ago, on 24.02.2022 I woke up too at 5 am in my flat in Kharkiv because of explosions. In less then 15 seconds I've grabbed my coat, boots, backpack with documents (which I packed several days ago) and Mr.Rat. I have only one thought "The war has started". I've never been so afraid in my whole life before. There was a lot of talking about war for months before. We discuss if the war will start and how it will be. Because since 2014 Russia started a war in Donbass region and annexed Crimea, so we were contemplating if it will be like it? It was nothing like it. First night I've spent inside a subway station, so did a lot of citizens from my district due to the fact that not a lot of shelters were fully functional. The sound is spreading on further distances underground, so whole night I've been listening to the sounds of battles in the northern part of Kharkiv region. Only on third day Russian troops reached Kharkiv - on 12 panzer cars - that was all that left from the tank division. They were wiped out till the end of day. And after that rocket attacks and heavy shelling started. Russians understood that they can't take city by storm, so they've decided to destroy it completely. The shelling doesn't stopped till now and probably will last till the end of war. Their targets are civilian houses, living quarters, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, shopping malls, industrial objects, historical objects - pretty much everything. In the spring of 2022 a lot of people choose to live inside subway stations, because it is safer and because some of them have no other place to live - because the largest and most populated living district of Kharkiv - Severnaya Saltovka - was basically destroyed. There isn't any houses that aren't damaged, most of them damaged permanently. Thousands of people lost everything they had. The problem is that Kharkiv situated very close to Russian border. From Kharkiv to Belgorod is only 40 kilometers and the flying time of a rocket is 43 seconds. If the rocket is launched there is no time to seek shelter - you can only hope that you are not the target. If you're inside, you can try to hide in bathroom or in corridor, and if you are outside, you need to fall to the ground immediately - and pray for the best. The audacity of Russia propaganda - they were talking about taking whole Ukraine in the first four days. In the morning of 24.02.22 russian news channels already were telling that large Ukrainian cities - Kharkiv, Odessa, Sumy - are "fallen without a fight and occupied", while russian troops and tanks were burning on their way to Kharkiv and Kyiv. Battle for Mariupol had lasted till May, 2022, and in the process the city was almost completely destroyed by Russian missiles. Suggestively more them 40 000 people were killed. Thousands of now-orphaned children were illegally transported to Russia. You can say that it is not really a war, it is genocide. Since the beginning of war Russia was able to occupy only one regional center - Kherson, which was freed till the end of year 2022. "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" ("Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй" ) was the answer of Ukrainian soldier on Zmiinyi (Snake)Island to the commander of russian cruiser "Moskva" which demanded to surrender or be destroyed. P.S. Later Snake Island returned under the control of Ukraine and cruiser Moskva sank after being shot by Ukrainian rocket Neptun in April 2022

#ukraine #war in ukraine #memories #russian ukrainian war #genocide #Kharkiv #my #personal #Tiger Mousse

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gatekeeper-watchman · 1 month

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Don’t stop praying for Ukrainian soldiers who still fighting on the front line. Grant victory over the powers of evil that have arisen and bless Ukraine with your gifts of liberty, peace, tranquility, and good fortune. We implore you, O Merciful God, to look with grace upon those who courageously defend their land. SPMiller From: Steven P. Miller @ParkermillerQ, gatekeeperwatchman.org Founder of Gatekeeper-Watchman International Groups Monday, March 18, 2024, Jacksonville, Florida., Duval County, USA. X ... @ParkermillerQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Sparkermiller.JAX.FL.USA, Instagram: steven_parker_miller_1956, #GWIG, #GWIN, #GWINGO, #Ephraim1, #IAM, #Sparkermiller, #Eldermiller1981

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anastasiamaru · 10 months

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"We just come out of battle..."

Ukrainian director and former political prisoner of the russian federation,Oleg Sentsov,who is currently serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sustained a concussion on the front line. Immediately after the battle, despite being on the ground,he recorded a video

"We have just come out of battle,and those who remained fulfilled their mission, overall....Very very

It was very difficult and crucial turning point to continue(incoherently) our counteroffensive...

3 soldiers who remained in formation were injured by shrapnel due to close combat and grenade exchanges.One is in serious condition,and the other too but not in immediate danger .jus

I'm currently waiting here until they are taken away (to evacuation).As for me,it seems I have a minor concussion.l am lying down (sounds of explosions) back in formation.I want to share this with you so that you all know that we will still prevail in this war,but also to make you aware of the price we are paying for it here"

Thank you Heroes defending our Land!

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realiv0 · 1 year

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And the new New Year’s Address (2022 into 2023):

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New Year greetings of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Dear Ukrainians!

This year began on February 24. Without prefaces and preludes. Sharply. Early. At 4 o'clock.

It was dark. It was loud. It was hard for many and scary for some. 311 days have passed. It can still be dark, loud, and complicated for us. But we will definitely never be afraid again. And we'll never be ashamed.

It was our year. Year of Ukraine. Year of Ukrainians.

We woke up on February 24. Into another life. Being another people. Another Ukrainians. The first missiles finally destroyed the labyrinth of illusions. We saw who was who. What friends and enemy are capable of, and most importantly, what we are capable of.

On February 24, millions of us made a choice. Not a white flag, but a blue and yellow flag. Not escaping, but meeting. Meeting the enemy. Resisting and fighting.

The explosions on February 24 stunned us. Since then we have not heard everything. And we don't listen to everyone. We were told: you have no other option but to surrender. We say: we have no other option than to win.

On February 24, we began to create our victory. From many bricks – hundreds of other victories.

We have overcome the panic. We did not run away but united. We have overcome doubts, despair, and fear. We believed in ourselves and in our strength. The Armed Forces of Ukraine. Intelligence. National Guard. SBU. Special Operations Forces. Border guards. Territorial defense forces. Air defense forces. The police. The State Emergency Service. All our defense and security forces. I am proud of you all, our warriors!

This year can be called a year of losses for Ukraine, for the whole of Europe, and the whole world. But it's wrong. We shouldn't say that.

We haven't lost anything. It was taken from us. Ukraine did not lose its sons and daughters – they were taken away by murderers. Ukrainians did not lose their homes – they were destroyed by terrorists. We did not lose our lands – they were occupied by invaders. The world did not lose peace – Russia destroyed it.

This year has struck our hearts. We've cried out all the tears. All the prayers have been yelled. 311 days. We have something to say about every minute. But most of the words are superfluous. They are not needed. No explanations or decorations are needed. Silence is needed to hear. Pauses are needed to realize.

The morning of February 24.

Hostomel. Bucha. Irpin. Borodianka. Kharkiv.

Mriya.

Kramatorsk Station. Toy.

Chernihiv.

Mariupol. Drama Theater. The word "Children" written.

Olenivka.

Odesa. Multi-story building. Girl. Three months old.

Vilniansk. Maternity hospital. Baby. Two days old.

Azovstal.

It's impossible to forget. And it's impossible to forgive. But it's possible to win.

We stood on our feet because there was something that kept us going. Our spirit.

Defense of Kyiv.

Kharkiv.

Mykolaiv.

Chornobayivka.

Snake Island.

HIMARS.

Antonivsky Bridge.

"Cotton" pops.

Crimean Bridge.

Neptune.

Cruiser Moskva.

Russian warship.

Izyum, Balakliya and Kupyansk.

Kherson.

And we pray that there will be Kreminna and Svatove, Melitopol, all of Donbas, Crimea.

We fight and will continue to fight. For the sake of the main word: "victory."

It will be for sure. We are approaching it for 311 days.

We gave it a lot of strength. But at the moment, when it seems that you can't go any further, remember that we have already passed with you.

I want to say to all of you: Ukrainians, you are incredible! See what we have done and what we are doing!

How our soldiers have been smashing this "second army of the world" since the first days.

How our people stopped their equipment and infantry columns.

How an old man used his hands to stop a tank.

How a woman knocked down a drone with a jar of tomatoes.

How enemy tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, shells were stolen during the occupation.

How we fundraised for Shahed hunters, naval drones, armored vehicles, ambulance vehicles and Bayraktar drones in several hours.

How we withstood all threats, shelling, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, darkness and cold.

How we supported each other and the state.

Everyone is important in war.

Who holds a weapon, the steering wheel of a car, the helm of a ship or plane, a scalpel, or a pointer.

Everyone who is behind a laptop, who drives a combine harvester, a train.

Who is at a roadblock and a power plant.

Journalists and diplomats, utility workers and rescuers.

All. Who is working. Studying at a university or school. And even those who are just learning to walk.

All this is for their sake. Our children. Our people. Our country.

There are no small matters in a great war. There are no unnecessary ones. Each of us is a fighter. Each of us is a front. Each of us is the basis of the defense.

We fight as one team – the whole country, all our regions. I admire you all. I want to thank every invincible region of Ukraine.

Kharkiv. Mutilated but unconquered. You proved to the enemy that being close territorially does not mean being close in mind. Kharkiv is a Ukrainian city. The hero city.

Invincible Mykolaiv. Heroically withstands all blows. The city on a wave that overcomes all storms.

Sumy city and the region. You were one of the first to feel the full-scale invasion of the invaders. Sumy region became a bone in their throat for them. Ordinary people made Molotov cocktails, burned enemy columns, took the first prisoners. Sumy region is a force.

Dnipro. The support and reliable rear of our front. You received people, you got the lives of wounded soldiers back. Despite constant barrages, Dnipro lives on.

Odesa. Sunny and friendly, now a fortress. World fortress. Which defends us and which defends the world. Feeds it by sending millions of tonnes of salvation by sea every day. Because it is Odesa Mama.

Kherson! You are heroic people! You have been under occupation for more than eight months. No news. No communication. Separated from Ukraine.

Thousands of you took part in actions against the ruscists. You did not know whether we saw it in Ukraine or knew about it. The occupiers lied to you that Ukraine abandoned you and would not fight for you. But you believed and waited despite everything. The face of Kherson is cut by fragments of shells, but the main thing is that we welcome the New Year free and together under blue and yellow flags. And therefore, we will restore everything, rebuild everything. Just like Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia, and Kramatorsk, and Bakhmut.

Those that became a refuge for millions of Ukrainians: Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Vinnytsia. I thank you! Those who receive and transfer millions of tonnes of aid from Europe and the world: Lviv, Uzhgorod, Chernivtsi, Lutsk. Thank you! Those who accept the evacuation of businesses, enterprises, universities: Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr, Kropyvnytsky, Poltava, Cherkasy. Thank you!

And those who are waiting for Ukraine. And will wait. Donbas, Luhansk region, Crimea. Thanks to you, our warriors!

And, of course, Kyiv region and the city are our heart, which always beats thanks to you, all our Ukrainians!

We are all one family. One Ukraine.

This is the year when Ukraine changed the world. And the world discovered Ukraine. We were told to surrender. We chose a counterattack! We were told to make concessions and compromises. We are joining the European Union and NATO.

The world heard Ukraine. European Parliament, Bundestag, the UK Parliament, Knesset, the US Congress.

The world felt Ukraine. Ukraine in the media. In the hearts of people. At the top of Google search.

The world saw Ukraine. On the main squares in Toronto, New York, London, Warsaw, Florence, Sydney, and other cities.

Ukrainians surprise. Ukrainians are applauded. Ukrainians inspire.

Is there anything that can scare us? No. Is there anyone who can stop us? No.

Because we are all together.

It is what we are fighting for. One for each other.

The best salute for us is at the warehouses of the occupiers. The best gift is the numbers in the report of the General Staff.

We do not know for sure what the new year 2023 will bring us. But ready for anything.

New achievements? We will be happy. New hits? We will be steadfast. Continuation of the fight? We will fight. And when we win, we will hug.

Dear Ukrainians!

A few minutes remain until the New Year. I want to wish all of us one thing – victory. And that's the main thing. One wish for all Ukrainians.

Let this year be the year of return. The return of our people. Soldiers – to their families. Prisoners – to their homes. Immigrants – to their Ukraine.

Return of our lands. And the temporarily occupied will become forever free.

Return to normal life. To happy moments without curfew. To earthly joys without air alerts.

The return of what has been stolen from us. The childhood of our children, the peaceful old age of our parents.

So that grandchildren come to visit their grandparents during the holidays. To eat watermelons in Kherson. And the cherry in Melitopol.

So that our cities are free. Our friends are faithful.

And so that our main figure and main success appeared in reports near the figure of 100,000 destroyed enemies, thousands of units of destroyed Russian equipment – it is 603,628 square kilometers. The area of independent Ukraine, as it was since 1991. As it will always be.

May the New Year bring all this. We are ready to fight for it. That's why each of us is here. I'm here. We are here. You are here. Everyone is here. We are all Ukraine.

Glory to Ukraine!

Happy New Year!

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https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/novorichne-privitannya-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelens-80197

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suratan-zir · 2 years

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Since my most personal "shitty propaganda" posts mentioning my family left in Donetsk seem to annoy some people the most, I think I should post these kinds of stories more often?

It's just that I spoke to my mother today and she told my a couple more stories I can share, you know, to please my anonymous "fans"

This morning, some angry woman, intoxicated by russian propaganda, lashed out at my mom at the mall for refusing to give up her place in line to a Russian soldier with a bandaged arm. The woman shouted that "we must pray for russian soldiers."

So when I write about Donetsk, I'm telling the truth. There are a lot of people who have been eating up russian propaganda for many years. Donetsk has been under the russian occupation since 2014, now it's more of a russian city than a Ukrainian, and I'm not trying to hide this sad truth. Over these years, most of the pro-Ukrainian people were driven out of there. Many, by the way, found a second home in Mariupol, and now Russia has taken away their homes for the second time.

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The husbands of many of my mother's acquaintances were forcibly conscripted into the terrorist "dpr army." Now one of them is back (he got in the hospital) and he told some stories about this "army." I can't confirm any of this, but I do believe it's true.

One of their grenade launcher "soldiers" is crossed-eyed in both eyes and is visually impaired. Another "soldier" is deaf in both ears and his hearing aid is broken. Another one recently suffered a stroke and has yet to fully recover. But they were all conscripted anyway, because Russia is desperate for more cannon fodder.

Not to mention the fact that the conscription of the population of the territories seized by your country is in itself a war crime. But at this point there is no such war crime that russia hasn't committed.

Photos taken by me on the outskirts of Donetsk a couple years ago. Surprisingly, the Ukrainian flag and the inscription "DPR is bullshit. Glory to Ukraine" lasted quite a long time before being painted over by utility workers.

Just a beautiful Donetsk field and an old "terrikon"

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Drug use is widespread in the Russian army, both among soldiers on the front lines and in rear positions. One out of every 10 soldiers smokes marijuana, and many also take hard drugs, according to independent outlet Verstka. Drug mules bring synthetic drugs, namely mephedrone and what’s known as “salt,” straight to the trenches, while drug paraphernalia is often found at Russian positions. To learn more about drug use on the front, Verstka spoke with dozens of soldiers, drug users, and local residents in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. Meduza in English is sharing an abridged translation of Verstka’s report.

In the image below, Russian mobilized soldiers are seen taking turns smoking hashish through a tin can. Behind the soldiers stands a makeshift bench, a two-liter bottle of beer, and a dugout.

“Hey, are you out of your fucking mind?” one soldier suddenly yells at another who appears to have dropped the hashish on the ground. “What’d I do?” “Fuck off to bed.”

A video showing this exchange was first posted on Telegram in August. An administrator for an anti-war Telegram channel shared the full video with Verstka. The soldier recording is Vladimir Kozlov, who was found in Ukrainian captivity in August 2023 — that’s likely when the video was taken from his phone.

While there are many reports of Russian soldiers drinking in occupied Ukraine, the use of illegal substances is documented much less frequently.

“Recently, one of my mates took [drugs], stashed them, I saw it all myself,” explains Kirill, a soldier in the Kherson region. He was referring to a 27-year-old contract soldier who had been taking drugs for three and a half years before he went to the front.

How he made it past the selection committee in the Moscow region — that’s a big question. They haven’t check anyone at all here, they just don’t have time for that. He seemed like a normal person, he was sent out to complete assignments. But yesterday he started to shake, he was lying there sweating all over, he couldn’t stand up, he was sleepy, he was trembling, but he had no fever. We called a medic.

According to Kirill, the doctor said the man had most likely suffered from an overdose. When the military police arrived, they started to conduct the search in front of everyone:

They found that my mate had used syringes. The idiot, he threw them there. After that, all 43 people in the battalion got up and immediately said, “We won’t serve with him. We’re going on assignments with him, and who knows what he might do? It could all end badly.”

‘They do drugs out of boredom’

“Since the dugout is small, everyone knows if you’re taking drugs in the trenches. Nobody gives a shit, the main thing is that you don’t bother anyone. Just don’t leave the dugout,” said one soldier who’s a drug user.

“They do drugs out of boredom,” he explains. “War is when you’re constantly waiting for something, often praying for it all to end. When I was smoking salt in the dugout, I didn’t give a fuck about anything. The boredom’s a lot worse.”

A fellow soldier brought him a gram of alpha-PVP from Luhansk right to the dugout. They smoked it through a ballpoint pen off of the metal lid of a jar, and washed it down with vodka out of a tin mug. “While I was high on salt, it even tasted good. It’s horrible, when you’re high, even ration cigarettes are quite nice, but when you’re sober, I’d rather pick sunflowers from a minefield and smoke them.”

Most of Verstka’s sources say that it’s easy to get ahold of drugs in the occupied territories and on the front lines. “It’s like in Las Vegas,” explains one soldier.

Local residents bring drugs straight to the trenches, Verstka’s sources say. They charge a lot due to the risks involved. One source said that three syringes of an illegal substance cost him around 15,000 rubles (approximately $150). Other sources says they get drugs from fellow soldiers, volunteers, or they just bring it themselves.

“You just pick up the stuff and take it with you. The first time, when we went for what seemed like training exercises in February 2022, we sure as fuck didn’t have time to take anything. But in May, one guy from our unit stopped for ‘an assignment.’ And that time he brought some. A couple dozen doses of gunpowder and pinecones,” one contract soldier from Moscow told Verstka.

It’s the second year of war that locals have been growing, processing, and selling poppies, contract soldiers explain:

When we see these kinds of gardens during clearance operations, we immediately burn everything. Last time, the neighbors of the man whose garden we burned told us that he never had a plot like that before the war. But when the Russians came, he started growing it, demand had gone up.

A few soldiers told Verstka that you can also get drugs from pro-Russian volunteers who bring equipment and other necessities to the front line.

Our company has its own kind of support service — volunteers occasionally send us everything we need. We get our friends and family to give them [the drugs]. It’s all greenlit, without inspection. And that’s how we did it last time. Well, not through the volunteers themselves, they didn’t know anything, but through our friends.

‘Making money off of us’

One drug mule, Artem Levchenko, a 28-year-old resident of Donetsk, was arrested in January 2023. A video shows him saying he “was asked to bring” three grams of mephedrone to the trenches. “There was information from soldiers that they were bringing this shit to the trenches… Right to the positions! Fucking salt addicted low-lifers,” says a military officer who detained the dealer.

Besides those inexperienced dealers, there are also so-called “professional guides” in the occupied territories. “These are locals who can illegally bring you through the checkpoints, they have deals with them. They bring drugs through them. These are people who are making money off of the war, making money off of us,” explains one soldier, sounding offended.

As far as how they go about taking drugs, one contract soldier replies nonchalantly: “Like usual, make a line and take a hit. There are plenty of options. Go to the woods, do it during a night patrol shift, or back at the barracks. We rented apartments in a couple of places instead of staying at the base.”

“Just don’t paint a picture that we’re in the trenches, all drugged up,�� explains one of Verstka’s sources from a special unit. “I haven’t even heard about that. There’s a lot of drinking on the front. But fuck knows if people are high on amphetamines while in combat.”

One air force soldier explains that he’s never seen professional soldiers do drugs —only contract soldiers.

‘Most soldiers in the city take amphetamine, mephedrone, salt’

There are advertisements for salt throughout Donetsk and Mariupol, and even in the city of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, which is less than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the front lines.

Russian contract soldiers and draftees can afford expensive drugs thanks to payments from the government. These payments are transferred to their cards, which they then use to buy drugs through Telegram bots.

Verstka estimates that drugs in the “new regions” are two-and-a-half times more expensive. “I don’t think salt prices have deterred [anyone]. The number of addicts hasn’t gone down, it’s stayed the same. And they spend it on all this crap. Most soldiers in the city take amphetamine, mephedrone, salt — I’ve seen [Russian soldiers high], and not just once. I could tell that they weren’t being themselves. Before the blockade, I also knew people from Ukraine’s Armed Forces who took drugs,” said Vadim, a drug user from Mariupol.

New drug traffickers appeared in the region as early as April 2022. Many of them were tortured and beaten by “people in uniform.”

“Someone I know was taken to a basement. They didn’t beat him, they mostly electrocuted him,” said one resident who ran away from the occupied region. “I know that newcomers were squeezing out drugs from a local dealer in Hola Prystan. They tortured him so that he’d hand over his suppliers, so they could sell it themselves. He didn’t say what exactly he told them. But they broke his ribs, arms and legs, stole his Jeep, and threw him out on the street to die.”

Since July 2022, they’ve started to bring heroin to the Kherson region, “and very strong [heroin] at that,” explained one local drug user. “People were dying from it. There were a lot of occurrences like that. Soldiers and our local residents were poisoned by chemicals, [people] nearly died on the spot from the supply.”

“There were a lot of drugs in Kherson, just like there was a lot of booze. Both after the occupation, and now, after the liberation,” explains one of the city’s residents.

In the summer of 2022, drug traffickers from the “people’s republics” came to Kherson. In June, an online drug store called Republic started to hand out “samples” of alpha-PVP through Ukrainian drug forums.

Clearing Lyrica from pharmacy shelves

Soldiers also take pharmaceuticals to relax. “They bring us potent [drugs] and sell them without prescription. Barbiturates were everywhere in the winter,” says one resident of a city in the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic.”

“There are a lot of barbiturates. Like actually a ton, I’ve even taken them myself. Every second or third soldier takes some,” one contract soldier told Verstka.

He’s mostly referring to anti-anxiety medications such as Lyrica, which induces euphoria and relaxation. “Yeah, kind of like Lyrica. You can buy it in Bayatsk without a prescription, in specific places.”

Soldiers don’t consider Lyrica a hard drug, though — it’s seen as similar to beer or wine. “When we were in Luhansk, we crossed paths with Chechens there, they would clear Lyrica out of the pharmacy shelves.”

In Rostov-on-Don and Bayatsk, pharmacists who give out Lyrica and Tropicamide without prescriptions are occasionally arrested. Tropicamide, which drug users call “cartoon,” are eye drops that are used recreationally to enhance the effects of other substances. The substance becomes addictive after just a few uses, and is reported to completely destroy the body after 7-8 months of regular use.

Drug users who are caught get sent to ‘penalty battalions’

On the front lines, drug testing is almost non-existent. “But there were a few scandals in the winter when they made everyone take urine tests to check for drugs, to kick out the users,” one soldier told Verstka. “There are units where there’s a strict prohibition law, you can get in trouble for overdrinking. It was apparently all very strict for the Wagnerites, they couldn’t do anything, but no one checked the assault units. You can’t get a jar and tests out to Bakhmut…”

“They didn’t check the rest of us after they found a mate of mine with injection marks on his legs,” said one contract soldier near Kherson. “Generally, no one here gives a shit, frankly speaking. But if you’re caught, then you have one fate — a penalty battalion, the ‘Storm’ unit.”

“Storm” is referred to as “a battalion for screw-ups, where soldiers are sent for getting drunk, fighting, brawling — everything civilians would get jail time for.”

Most of the time, the courts dismiss the cases and send the relevant files to the commanders of military units to punish the servicemen themselves. Their punishment of choice — sending the soldiers to the front as part of the Storm unit.

“There, the soldiers are on the frontlines and come under fire. 95% of them are sentenced to death,” making drug use at the front effectively a death sentence, said one soldier. “Let’s be honest, no one here wants a commotion, drugs in the battalion are a stain on all of us. No one needs the prosecutor and Investigative Committee here. And there won’t be any trials. It’s easier to put them in confinement for two days and write up a document saying they’ll be transferred to Storm. They can’t say no.”

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the-jam-to-the-unicorn · 8 months

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Congratulations by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Independence Day of Ukraine

The great people of the great Ukraine, celebrating today a great day - Independence Day! A holiday of free people. A holiday of strong people. A holiday of people with dignity. A holiday of equals. Ukrainian men and women. All of them. In our entire country.

Today we celebrate the 32nd anniversary of our independence - the independence of Ukraine. This is a value for each of us. And this is what we are fighting for. And everyone is important in this fight. Because this is a fight for something that is important to everyone. An independent Ukraine.

In a big war, there are no small deeds. No unnecessary ones. No unimportant ones. This is true of people, deeds, and words.

When we celebrate Ukraine's independence, everyone can feel a part of it. Everyone can ask themselves: where are you in Ukrainian independence? What did you add to independence? And what did you do to help independence? And today I want to dedicate these congratulations to you. To you, who is giving Ukraine its independence.

To you, warrior! You stood up to defend Ukraine. I thank every soldier and sailor, every sergeant and petty officer, every officer, every general.

To you, the father of a Ukrainian warrior, and to you, the mother of a Ukrainian defender. To all Ukrainian families who have raised their children to love Ukraine and have the courage to defend it with all their might.

I am grateful to everyone who is waiting for their loved ones from the frontline, to everyone who prays for them every day, who calls or texts such an important "How are you?" to hear the much desired "Everything is fine!". Such a precious "I love you"... "Our son took his first step yesterday"... "Daughter today said: "Dad"... Every word is important. And everyone who makes sure that this word can be said and heard is important. Who provides communication in the country. Connection between people. And this is more than just communication. It is a connection with life. Words of support. Words of gratitude. And, unfortunately, the words that are the most painful in war: "He is gone..." Many Ukrainians lost loved ones because of the war. Heroes who prevented us from losing Ukraine. I thank and bow to each and every one of them.

Last week I visited our combat brigades. Command posts, brigade positions. And there is something that unites them all.

One additional unique armor helps our warriors. The armor of humanity. The armor of sincerity. These are children's drawings. You can see them in every brigade. On the walls, in the rooms. Drawings for a father or brother. Or for soldiers whom the children may not know, but whom they support. Because they are Ukrainian soldiers. And for them, this is the main goal of the offensive, where every step forward is so important, but every step back is so impossible. Because it is you, our children, who are behind them. Ukrainian children, exactly you, those who are creating these drawings. And I want to say to you - to every boy and girl: you have no idea how important it is when you support our warriors. I thank you!

I am grateful to every Ukrainian mother for whom our country is and will remain home. Despite the fact that they had to leave because of the war. And when a mother in any country gives her child a book in Ukrainian so that the child does not lose himself or herself, when a mother teaches Ukrainian, when she worries about Ukraine and waits for news from Ukraine, waits to be able to return, this is the most important thing. Because you are important. All Ukrainians! No matter where you happen to be now.

I want to thank all Ukrainian teachers who are working, who managed to work even online. Who are building an educated future even where the enemy has destroyed schools. And everyone who performs miracles in real life. Thousands of Ukrainian medics who save thousands of lives. Ukrainian doctors. Nurses. Combat medics. Those who do not let go of life 24/7 and fight for it. Regardless of whether there is an air raid alert. Regardless of whether there is a "hit". Regardless of whether you are at the front or in civilian life... Thank you!

Dear Ukrainian people!

Last winter, we experienced massive missile attacks and the threat of blackout. There were different moments. When cities remained in darkness. When it was cold. There was also indomitability. And when our people worked and turned the power back on, there were loud "Glory to Ukraine!", "Glory to Ukrainian electricians!", and glasses were raised to air defense and our power engineers. And this is absolutely true. Our power engineers worked around the clock. During air raids. Sometimes under fire. Always in danger. Always knowing how much people are waiting for electricity in hospitals and defense enterprises. And how much every family is waiting for light and warmth.

But, unfortunately, there are families who have lost their father, son, brother... An ordinary electrician, repairman, rescuer, police officer, firefighter... All those who died in the line of duty. Those who helped to do the most important thing - to prevent the Russian darkness from breaking us, our state, our freedom, our independence.

In light and in darkness, our news was with us. Our Ukrainian journalists. The truth was with us. And the world heard Ukraine. I thank everyone who spreads the truth about Ukraine and this war in different languages. But today I want to speak separately about those who cannot yet be mentioned in the news, whose names are known to few, but whose work is visible to all. Our missiles. Ukrainian munitions. Our artillery. Ukrainian drones: Leleka, Fury. Naval drones, Neptune, Corsar, Stugna. We produce all of this. Ukrainians produce all of this. And when we are proud to have sunk the flagship of the enemy fleet, Moskva cruiser, when we rejoice at hitting the Kerch Bridge, we also thank those who cannot be mentioned now, whose names cannot be told, but about whom books will be written and movies will definitely be made in the future. Those whom I award with classified decrees and who carry out the most difficult operations. Thank you! You are all important!

So is everyone who has no right to make a mistake. Who demines our territories - our cities and villages, our fields. Who sows fields despite the shelling. Who harvests the crops despite the shelling. Who delivers it across the country so that we have bread. Who, despite the danger, transports Ukrainian grain by rail, road, and sea to many other countries so that there is no hunger in the world.

Everyone who works and employs others is important. Everyone who pays taxes, which provide for the army, defense, advancement and future victory. Everyone who organizes fundraising campaigns and keeps the fire of volunteering, this sincere Ukrainian unity alive. Everyone who finds and brings everything that is needed in the trenches. Everyone who trains our warriors. Who glorifies Ukraine with sporting victories. Who opened the doors of their homes and sheltered those who lost their homes. Thank you!

Those who give birth to motivating lyrics for Ukrainians, arrange them to beautiful music, and perform these songs for the warriors at the front, for the wounded in hospitals, and at charity concerts around the world. In the world that is fighting side by side with us. With Ukraine.

Everyone who survived the occupation is important. Who was holding the Ukrainian flag in the squares. Those who are still under occupation, but keep our flag so that the occupier cannot find it. Those who have waited and will witness the return of Ukraine. Who was wounded, who lost limbs, but did not lose themselves. And most importantly, we all did not lose you. Those who survived captivity. Those who were deprived of their freedom, but not their will. Who did not lose Ukraine in themselves. Those who came back and continue to fight. And those who will return. They will.

All those who have proved that everyone is needed, everyone is important - people, deeds, and words. Because we all made it so that when one person says: "Glory to Ukraine!", the whole world responds: "Glory to the Heroes!"

Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!

Glory to Ukraine!

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