#ukraine 2014

[phantom-at-the-library]

#ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russell brand #critical #videos #lonerbox #youtube #ukraine 2014 #russia #russia 2014 #viktor yanukovych #politics #european politics #eastern europe #eastern european politics #eatsern europe #europe

[canberramaidan]

19th February 2014: Ukrainians protesting on Independence Square in Kyiv. The revolution ousted Putin puppet Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to russia.

#ukrainian history #revolution #euromaidan #russia #ukraine #kyiv #eastern europe #2014 #february #2010s

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

29th September 2014: The Lenin statue in Kharkiv, Ukraine after being destroyed. russia had launched its invasion earlier in the year.

#ukraine #russia #russian invasion of ukraine #2010s #anti communism #eastern europe #russian invasion #war in ukraine #war in europe #kharkiv #ukrainian history #russian history #lenin #communism #2014 #september

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: made a HUGE amount of progress this week (for context—purple is unfinished & yellow is finished; last week all of them were purple) … i am in the home stretch here

#and then… it will be time for me to say goodbye i think #some darkstar politics in here #driven by an essay I read last year titled tinted blue: Air Force culture & American civil-military relations #everyone has a different idea of what modern warfare will look like #1 & 2 are from the same section obviously… i just think it’s interesting #& i wrote elsewhere in may maybe that ice & mav would be on opposite sides of this debate #ice with his big picture managerial perspective… it’s good for warfare… mav with his specialist pilot loyalty POV #obviously their conversation predates the russia-ukraine war which has shown drone warfare in its fullest to date potential #4. is… idk. does it help to tell you it takes place in 2014? #3. * #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #sorry for the like defense ethics conversations if that’s boring #i just think that stuff is philosophically so interesting

[hauntedwoman]

happy ukrainian remembrance day !!!!! russia has literally been trying to kill us for over 90 years but they still haven't and they never will <333

#also the war between ukraine and russia has been going on since 2014 but no one started to report on it until bombs hit kiev <3

[itsyveinthesky]

Edit: There is now an official English translation of the whole article by Meduza themselves: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/03/the-only-thing-worse-than-war-is-losing-one

Meduza is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website.

It asked the readers that supported the war to explalin why.

Sadly the answers paint a very bleak pictures of even young Russians reading independent media.

Some translated statements (feel free to correct if translated wrongly)

Andrey

35 years old, Volgograd

War ends when one side wins. Russia's defeat would mean national humiliation, which cannot be allowed. Consequently, one must win - there is no choice anymore.

Alexei

24 years old, Yakutsk

I do not support the war, but I do not want Russia to lose either.

Pavel

30 years old, Germany

I am angry at both sides of the conflict.

Anonymous reader

38 years old, city not specified

The only thing worse than a war is a lost war. It was an insane mistake to start it, but now it must be won, or else we will have the woe of the defeated. I don't support Putin, damn him.

Anonymous reader

36 years old, Tyumen

I'm not going to pay reparations for the mistakes of others for the next 20 years. No one talks to the losing side.

Nikolai

27 years old, Austria

I think the Western point of view is not quite right and agree with Putin's terminology of a unipolar world with double standards.

Artem

40 years old, Berlin

I have lived in Germany for 20 years and have never seen such propaganda. Western politicians and media have taken an absolutely one-sided position: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is a heroic state, Putin is always wrong, everyone looks into Zelensky's mouth.

Ruslan

28 years old, Kazan

I neither support nor condemn Russia for the war. I believe that since Russia started the war, it showed the weakness of its diplomacy and its inability to negotiate with a neighbouring state. However, I also do not support the point of view of those who compare Russia almost to Nazi Germany.

First of all, Ukraine had a choice; it could have reached an agreement with us in the early days of the war before things went too far and met our demands. It would have lost territories, but would have kept itself as a state. Is land more important than human lives? Therefore, Ukraine also bears some of the blame for the lives of those people who died. I am sure that people living in the territories that would have been handed over to Russia would certainly not have made their lives worse. Perhaps somewhere even better.

Sergey

27 years old, Perm

I support the actions of my president and my country. Yes, initially I didn't quite understand the point of this whole "operation", but after a while I saw the Russophobic statements both from Ukraine and from the European Union and the United States. Anyone with critical thinking and at least some common sense understands: Russia is not a "terrorist state", we are only defending our interests and sovereignty. That is why I, like most Russian citizens, fully support the UAS, and if I have to go to war, then I will go.

My personal favourite

Anonymous reader

30 years old, Astana

In a year and a half, [my] authority figures and moral compasses have turned into traitors (who wish harm to the citizens of their country, call for sanctions and do not try to lift them), shameful people (who offer to surrender to mercy and blame themselves), infirmities and liars.

I still believe that Russia got into this war for nothing, very much for nothing. But the way out offered by those [politicians] I [used to] hope for is shameful, painful, humiliating and deceitful. It is better to wait for those who will replace Putin: Russia is full of smart people.

Repenting for three [next] lives, giving up nuclear weapons and paying reparations - thanks, no thanks. I hope that the war will end as soon as possible and that as few people as possible will die in it, both Russian citizens in the first place and citizens of Ukraine, and if I have to go to war, then I will.

#russia #ukraine #journalism #then again #The Russians had access to all the information in the world when they attacked Georgia in 2008 or when they attacked Ukraine in 2014 #war in ukraine #yeah ok wasn't smart to start the war but suffering through the consequences?no thanks

[greencheekconure27]

The chestnut trees in my garden are blooming and I miss Kyiv all of sudden....

#i haven't been.there since 2014...havent lived there much longer #but i miss it #kyiv #Як тебе не любити Києве мій..... #chestnut trees #i might not belong there anymore but part of me will always belong to it #ukraine

[federer7]

Oksana’s Apple. From the series Internat. Ukraine, 2014

Photo: Carolyn Drake

#carolyn drake #apple #ukraine #2014

[russian-aesthetic]

#russia #war #ukraine #2014 #givi #donbass #donetsk #dpr #people #soldier

[silverfox66]

While I am glad that The Netherlands is helping Ukraine, playing a big role in the F-16 coalition and the Patriot coalition, the reality is that NL was also a massive appeaser of russia in 2014. Unwilling to sanction russia because of "economy" shit. Little to no response to the downing of MH17. Refusing to support Ukraine with military aid in 2014. The focus was on de-escalation, and in the conversations about the war, Ukraine was not seen as a country with its own culture and identity.

Now, our PM says that we support Ukraine because of our values, and that appeasement didn't stop Hitler and won't stop putin. And I agree with that. But he saw the light a little bit, uh, late....

#A big dutch article just dropped about our appeasement in 2014 #we really didn't learn anything from ww2 and how appeasement worked out back then #The Netherlands #Ukraine

[very-lost-hobbit]

I will not shut up about Ukraine until it is free of Russian tyranny. BTW.

#Where I live is so comforting #the world might forget. But in this community? We haven't and we won't. Not since 2014. Not since BEFORE 2014 #Ukraine WILL win. Ukraine WILL be free. We know it in our hearts #and I genuinely believe the Canadian Conservatives backtracked on their voting against a trade deal with Ukraine #(their whole 'carbon pricing is eeeeevil' schtick) partially because they realized how much of the diaspora is in their base #Especially on the prairies. I know *I* sent my MP an angry letter about it. And I know I'm not the only one. #(I'm also not part of their base but that's not important) #*Obligatory there are other things going on to care about too #having a day #kat gets personal #me #current events

[vidma-kazhe]

Poles, take this seriously...

...not even for our sake, but for your own. Push back against such people. They don't represent your best interests. They don't care about the country. All they want is an ego boost and feel big and important at the expense of others.

They would welcome russian tanks and russian soliders for a proper payment and a promise of a high-ranked title. They would sell you, their fellow country people, out to the invaders for speaking out. They would target everyone they personally hate: pro choice crowd, activists, everyone who believes in democratic values and has ever pushed against their conservative worldviews.

(this is the protester's page on Ukrainian database dedicated to pro-russian agents - it's not the first time he fuels russian agenda)

They would let your lands (the one they claim to be protecting right now) be pillaged and plundered - as long as it doesn't affect them personally, they won't give a shit.

These people aren't standing with you. They aren't standing up for you. They are preparing to serve you over to russians on a silver platter for profit.

I know it because this is what happened in my Donetsk in 2014.

Don't think you're safe from it because you're in NATO - russia feels emboldened by the West's hesitation, so it will continue to push and prod. And the more you give in, the more it will dig its claws into you.

Please, let your voices and actions be louder than the voices of russia-sponsored pawns. russia is eyeing you up already. It may not seem like this, but this is a national threat.

Uważajcie, bo inaczej będzie za późno.

#russia is a terrorist state #poland #eu #ukraine #stand with ukraine #nato #russian imperialism #russian agents #donbass #russian invasion 2014 #tumblr polska #polski tumblr

[mapsontheweb]

Russian annexation of southern and eastern Ukraine.

by theflagmapguy_2.0

#maps #igsourced #theflagmapguy_2.0 #ukraine #annexation #2022 #2014

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

26th November 2014: a woman sits outside a destroyed building in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, at the beginning of the russian aggression that led to the full-scale invasion in 2022.

#ukrainian history #russian invasion of ukraine #war in ukraine #ukraine #russia #donbas #donetsk #2010s #eastern europe #russian agression #2014 #november

[storms-are-evil]

The tribe (2014), Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

#the tribe #2014 #Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi #ukraine #cinema

[weezerlover132]

Intro

Hiiiii

Lil bout me

I’m 16 I’m a Ukraine refugee in Sweden,

I love cats dogs but I HATE lizards, lizards are coming.

I love salted hearing and artic monkeys

2014 tumblr revival, comment or follow to be mooties,

Love reblogging but won’t post much

Want to learn English better, so if you wanna talk so I can learn with you my snap is Doucesakwa,🖤🖤🖤

#2014 grunge #courtney love #indie music #kittens #female rage #Ukraine #Russia;( #effy stonem #cassie sandsmark #fnaf lore