This is what Donald Tusk said recently about Ukraine 🇺🇦:
"Even the Nobel Peace Prize would not be enough.
Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite.
The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine."
I would very much like to see relations between Poland and Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion remain as functional as they have been so far.
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the most sacred places in the Orthodox Christian world, is being consumed by flames right now after a Russian strike
🇺🇸 Double Shot of Badass Americans: William J. Crawford
He was a janitor at the Air Force Academy for many years. The cadets who passed him every day had no idea they were walking among a living legend.
Born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1918, Crawford was drafted into the Army in July 1942.
By September 1943 he was serving as a Private and squad scout with Company I, 3rd Platoon, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division in southern Italy.
On September 13, 1943, his platoon attacked German positions on Hill 424 near Altavilla.
After reaching the crest, they were immediately pinned down by machine gun and small arms fire from multiple enemy positions.
Without orders and completely on his own, Crawford moved forward alone under heavy fire.
He first located one machine gun dug in on a terrace directly in front of the platoon.
He crawled through open ground under fire, closed to within a few yards of the emplacement, destroyed the gun with a hand grenade, and killed three of the crew.
He kept going.
Crawford spotted a second machine gun position firing on his men.
Again moving alone and exposed, he advanced on the crew under fire. When he got close enough, he threw a grenade, destroyed the gun, and eliminated the crew.
He still wasn't finished.
He located a third German machine gun that was continuing to pin down his unit.
Once more he advanced alone through enemy fire, closed on the position, killed one of the Germans with rifle fire. Two other Germans who were there fled.
Crawford, the badass he was, grabbed the German machine gun, turned it around, and fired on them as they were running down the hill.
Crawford had single handedly taken out all three machine gun nests that were holding up his entire platoon.
A few days later he was captured by the Germans. His fellow soldiers thought he had been killed.
He would spend the next 19 months as a prisoner of war.
Because the Army believed he was KIA, the Medal of Honor for his actions was awarded posthumously and presented to his father in 1944.
When the war ended and Crawford was returned home, he had technically already received the nation’s highest award, but he was never formally presented with it.
He would stay in the military until the 1960's, retiring as a Master Sergeant.
He then took a quiet job as a janitor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
For many years he mopped floors and cleaned the cadet squadrons without ever mentioning his service. Thousands of cadets passed by him over the years without the slightest clue.
Then, in the late 1970s, a cadet was reading a book about the Allied campaign in Italy and stumbled upon his name. He asked the janitor about it.
Crawford simply replied, “That was one day in my life and it happened a long time ago.”
They were shocked to find out their janitor was that same person.
The cadets spread the word and helped arrange for him to have the recognition he deserved.
On May 30, 1984, nearly 41 years after his actions, President Reagan personally awarded Master Sergeant William J. Crawford his Medal of Honor during the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony.
William J. Crawford is an American Badass 🇺🇸
The past 8 months (my God, has it already been that long??) have beaten the shit out of me. My health, my appearance, my heart, my soul...all have taken and are still taking hits. It humbles me and puts shit in perspective. But I'm still standing. Thank God and my NAFO family.🤍
This attack tonight on the Monastery by the Russians in Kyiv makes no sense. It has a parallel with the bombing of London’s St. Paul’s in 1940 by the Germans. It won’t work. Someone tell me the military necessity of the Russian attack. There is none.
Poor little hosta was unlucky enough to grow in toxic russia 🥺 Now it rains oil in many russian regions and this will only get worse until they continue their illegal invasion in Ukraine 💀
I only feel sorry for the plants and animals there, russian people have only their cannibalistic dictator to blame for the problems they are facing 👹
RUSSIAN ARMY.
Preparing for Operation “Pipe.”
A russian commander forces his subordinate to climb into a pipe. He beats him with a stick and shouts that it's a drone strike, a cluster munition strike, or a Baba Yaga strike…etc 🫠
BLACK SEA BUG OUT: The Russian Black Sea Fleet command has decided to evacuate Sevastopol. Sources inside the Russian Navy, and the UKR partisan network Atesh, report officers have already started moving families and property – before any official order has been received.