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Darüber bin ich überaus glücklich, denn jetzt sind wir frei
11.11.2022, Befreiung von #Cherson
4 years old. A bullet. Water. Eternity. Oleksandr Zdanovych-Yakhno will never say “mom” again.
Sashko was four.
He celebrated his birthday under shelling in Sukholuchchia.
On March 10, 2022, he fled with his grandmother from the Russians across the Kyiv Reservoir.
The boat was shot at. His grandmother drowned. Sashko disappeared in a life jacket.
Three weeks later he was found with a gunshot wound.
A little boy who simply wanted to go home to his mom.
Russia killed him while he was trying to escape.
Eternal memory to Sashko.
And to all the children this war has taken forever.
We have no right to forget.
I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported Ukraine throughout these years and ask for your help in the end of this text, please read the whole post and repost it greatly helps.
Today, russian terror continues all across Ukraine. Unable to make progress on the battlefield and achieve control over the Donbas, russia has switched to terror against Ukrainian cities.
Hundreds of families, children, and their mothers are being killed with no military objective. The only objective is terror, to make Ukraine unlivable, to make its people surrender.
As if that terror weren't enough, russia uses its influence over the US administration to pressure Ukraine into surrender.
The results are quite depressing. The death toll is terrible. Images of dead Ukrainian children and entire families are being suppressed by social media platforms run by russia-aligned oligarchs.
Ukraine is in a very tough position. But even considering all of that, Ukraine is still standing and holding off russian aggression.
The voices of traitors and enemies are getting louder: "Just die and let us move on to the next target."
You must understand exactly that. The goal is not to make Ukraine surrender so that it's all over. The goal is to destroy the precedent. The goal is to remove Ukraine as an obstacle to further conquest and terror against those who remain free.
I know it sounds dramatic, but if history teaches us anything, it's that after devouring one target and celebrating its success, the monster will only grow hungrier.
Most citizens of the West live without thinking about the death and suffering that could be unleashed against them.
They think that wars against them are a thing of the past, and that the protection provided is guaranteed. It's not.
The main message to Ukraine from tyrannical dictators and wannabes is that it's not a real country, that it's Ukraine's fault, that Ukraine started the war.
The gaslighting is there to make sure that no one will support you. If you think someone will come and help you, that may not be the case.
The techno-oligarchy will launch a wave of gaslighting, making the victim into a villain, an aggressor who could have just surrendered to stop the terror and suffering it inflicted on itself.
But Ukraine still stands, and it needs help.
Today, I'm fundraising to help Ukraine get critical engineering machines. These machines build shelters and bunkers that protect people from russian missiles, drones and bombs. These are excavators that dig deep into the ground to help Ukraine survive.
Our goal is to raise $100,000, and we're already 65% of the way there.
I'm asking you to donate, like, and share this message.
I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported Ukraine throughout these years and ask for your help in the end of this text.
donation link: https://t.co/IAw7FiCWe4
"A Russian FPV drone killed civilians who were transporting bread. Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Two civilians were killed, and another was wounded. A man, covered in blood, is trying to make a call to arrange for the evacuation of his deceased wife. Another man burned to death inside the vehicle.
Meanwhile, we are observing a weakening of U.S. pressure on Russia."
“They threw me from side to side like a toy… beating me with sticks, feet, and fists. Then they used a stun gun to make me stand up whenever I fell.”
Ukrainian officer Artem Dubyna spent 2 years and 4 months in russian captivity.
Olenivka. Taganrog. Kamyshin. Beatings, electric shocks, hours standing with his hands raised, sleepless nights under constant lights. No medical care.
They tortured him. They couldn’t break his will to return home.
Artem is free. He has returned to service.
Thousands of Ukrainians are still held captive by russia.
Don’t let the world forget them.
#FreeUkrainiansPOWs
#FreeAzovstalDefenders
"Тату, я, як ти і хотів. В спецназі. Правда, трохи з іншої сторони. Але я тут. Як ти і хотів".
Він сказав це вголос лише тепер. А батько вже його не почує.
Полковник МВС Росії помер, так і не дізнавшись, що його син воює за Україну.
Його позивний - Карел. Йому 23. Він народився в Новосибірську, закінчив юридичний коледж, мав власний бізнес.
А вдома, за стіною, жила ціла система: батько-полковник, знайомі ФСБшники, друзі родини в погонах.
Хлопець pic і виріс усередині того світу, який сьогодні знищує Україну.
І він від нього втік.
Ще школярем він почав дивитися відео про Навального, а потім виходити на протести.
Його били палкою, і він ішов додому. Батько не знав. А якби затримали - швидко витягли б і сказали: "Більше так не роби". У цій сім'ї все вирішувалося за дзвінком.
Батько не був ідейним. Він просто хотів стабільності. Хороша зарплата, пенсія, можливість іноді переступити межу - і ти в порядку.
Він хотів, щоб син пішов тим самим шляхом. А син сказав, що буде підприємцем. Батько відрізав: "Все, не дзвони мені".
Вони довго не спілкувалися. А коли син вперше потрапив в Україну - у батька відірвався тромб. Він так і не встиг дізнатися, куди насправді поїхав його хлопець.
Карел каже: "Я думаю, йому було б дуже цікаво".
Він довго їхав до цього рішення. Спочатку донатив на ЗСУ з Казахстану, де жив два роки.
Потім зрозумів, що грошей недостатньо. Подав заявку в РДК, пройшов півроку перевірок, поліграфи.
Тепер каже: "Я чистий, все добре".
Про Росію він говорить без жалю:
"Це дурдом. Там неможливо жити. Ви навіть не можете собі уявити, наскільки там гулаг - і цифровий, і на вулицях.
Люди бояться вийти на протест, бо до тебе зранку можуть залетіти з обшуком, а ти не робив нічого. Просто поставив лайк не під тією фотографією - і завтра до тебе залітає Собр".
Він каже, що страх у росіян вироблений. Навіть відмінник, який ніколи ні в чому не винен, усе одно буде боятися. Просто тому що так улаштована система.
На війні він - штурмовик і бойовий медик. Пройшов Харківщину, Запоріжжя, Донеччину.
Перший вихід - чотири години в окопі на двох, де сиділо восьмеро, під гранатами з дронів. Вийшли всі живі.
Під Покровськом було гірше. Його друзі штурмували промзону. Один загинув.
Інший, Вадим Чіпс, чотири години не виходив на зв'язок - а по ньому били "Градами", артилерією, ПТУРами, поки він біг ті 600 метрів. Карел думав, що втратив його. Вадим вижив.
"Для мене то був верх жаху. Просто світ перевернувся".
Він не вірить, що дочекається перемоги, яку хотів би бачити. Але знає головне:
"Поки для мене перемога - щоб встояла Україна. Щоб встояла ваша нація. Тоді буде можливість повернути все, що ви втратили. І те, що ми втратили".
А про батька він сказав найкоротше й найсильніше:
"Тату, я, як ти і хотів. В спецназі. Правда, трохи з іншої сторони. Але я тут. Як ти і хотів".
І додав:
"Але на правильному боці історії".
where do we start?
350 Billion dollars to Ukraine by the USA - complete lie, figure came out of russian officials that said the USA could have made 350 billion dollars if it wasn't for sanctions. Not only a lie but a clear russian propaganda.
Zelenskyy is gambling with WW3. Absolute lie, Ukraine is simply defending itself against russian invasion. If fighting back is gambling with WW3. Complete lie, WW2 started because people like today-Trump decided to give Germany Sudetenland thinking it would stop WW2, and not fighting back was the reason for WW2 to start.
Diplomacy with Putin had not been properly attempted. A complete lie, on every stage leading to the war, everyone including France and German leadership went to putin to negotiate, everyone has failed. Russian demands has always remained adamant, that it gets Ukrainian land it doesn't control, Ukraine gets limitations on it's military and russia has a say in internal Ukrainian processes. Which aren't serious demands.
On the battlefield, Ukraine has been successfully employing a defense-in-depth strategy for the past five years, forcing russia to pay an enormous price in manpower and equipment for minimal territorial gains.
The only real victories russia seems to be achieving are political, winning over far-right parties in Western countries, including Germany, the United States, and France.
Why is the US suddenly buying russian diesel(it wont lower the cost)? Why are all the anti-Ukraine voices in the West suddenly singing in unison?
The answer is in the numbers.
russia in 2026 vs. 2025 (Jan to Sep):
Territorial gains: DOWN 72%
Personnel losses: UP 2%
Budget deficit: UP 49%
russia is losing more men, capturing far less land, and running out of money faster. Russia cannot keep fighting this war forever at this cost.
It needs Ukraine to lose, but it cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. So now Russia needs Ukraine's Western partners to finish the job for it.
THE WORLD CAN TURN AWAY FROM UKRAINE. ZELENSKYY CANNOT. 🇺🇦
There is a photograph of Volodymyr Zelenskyy that I think the world will remember long after this war ends. Not because he looks particularly powerful or presidential, but because of how exhausted he looks.
You can see what the years have done to him.
The man who once entertained millions now spends his days negotiating for weapons, visiting wounded soldiers, speaking to grieving families and trying to persuade foreign governments that Ukraine’s survival still matters.
Imagine carrying that responsibility while knowing that, somewhere in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro or Odesa, another family might not survive the night.
And imagine doing it while some of the people you once depended on begin treating your country’s suffering as an inconvenience.
That is the part I find hardest to comprehend.
Politicians can grow impatient. Allies can change their priorities. The public can become exhausted by another headline about Ukraine. Eventually, people turn off their televisions and return to their lives.
Zelenskyy doesn’t have that option.
He has endured years of personal attacks, diplomatic pressure, disappointment and the constant knowledge that his country is fighting for its existence. Yet he continues to appear before the world, asking not for sympathy but for the means to defend Ukrainian lives.
I often think about the decision he made when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
He could have left Kyiv. He stayed.
His reported response to an American evacuation offer, “I need ammunition, not a ride,” became famous almost immediately. But the real significance of that moment wasn’t the sentence itself. It was the decision behind it, and the years of leadership that followed.
None of this means Zelenskyy is beyond criticism. He is a political leader, and Ukrainians have every right to question his decisions, disagree with him and eventually choose someone else.
That is what democracy is supposed to look like.
But whatever anyone thinks of his presidency, I believe the personal burden he has carried deserves recognition.
There is something profoundly human about watching a man who looks as though he desperately needs a few days of sleep continue fighting for people who cannot afford to surrender.
He cannot bring back those who have died. He cannot rebuild every destroyed home overnight. He cannot force the world to care as deeply as Ukrainians do.
What he can do is keep showing up.
And he does.
One day, the fighting will end. Ukraine will have to rebuild its cities, bury its dead, confront its political disagreements and decide what kind of country it wants to become.
Zelenskyy may or may not be the person Ukrainians choose to lead them into that future.
But I don’t think history will forget that when Russia tried to destroy Ukraine’s independence, its president remained in the capital and faced the consequences alongside his people.
He looks tired because this war has taken years of his life.
And behind that exhaustion is a country that has sacrificed far more than the rest of the world can ever fully understand.