"It's not the lack of intent.. it's the super-abundance of evidence of genocidal intent which makes us raise the standard, and that becomes another way of looking away"
After the full-scale invasion of russia into Ukraine, brave Ukrainians decided to do everythink possible for defending their Homeland. Here is a video of training in essential military skills according to NATO requirements.
Training takes place throughout Europe.Military assistance and support from allies are among the most important components in the Victory over tyranny.
I had a nightmare a few days ago. I was in my mom's home town (it's under russian occupation since 2014) and was framed as an 'Ukrainian supporter'. I woke up in cold horror because I knew what would've happened to me after such accusations.
Today I woke up and one of the first things I saw on my news feed was photos of executed civilians, hanged for 'betrayal of Luhans'k people'. Reality is way more cruel than the worst nightmares.
“At the cost of the lives of 13 russkie pilots Putin and Prigozhin staged a theatrical “coup” to create a pretext for getting rid of Shoygu” — is the prevalent feeling among onlookers today.
Let’s hope every staff decision involves elimination of more ruskie criminal war personnel. The utter stupidity of Russia’s leadership is just fantastic.
In USSR knowing foreign languages was a privilege of very selected few. Borders were closed and 99,9% of the population never ever visited any other country in their whole lives. Most did not ever travel beyond borders of their home region.
I was born in 1991 in Luhansk, the year Ukraine became Independent.
When it was time for me to enter my 1st grade, my mother selected for me a school that specialized in foreign languages - it was her belief and hope that soon many foreign languages would soon spread in our country, as business would enter and economy would flow, so knowing languages, especially English, would be a good boost for my career. Like any mother, she wanted a bright future for her daughter.
I - an ordinary child from a rather not-well-off family - traveled to Paris on a trip organized by my French teacher in my high school.
In university, I got into a program of language studying in China for a year - as part of many collaboration programs our university had with many other universities throughout the world.
All that was possible in our rather small administrative centre town with a population of some 500k people.
All these things were unfathomable for my mother and everyone else who grew up in the USSR.
I graduated Uni in 2013.
My mom could not have ever predicted that one year after my graduation, a whole war would start and we would lose our home.
And that the most common way my foreign language skills would serve me in life - would be writing posts on the Internet, telling the world about it.