Hey @google I’d like to report an error.
The lake that borders New York and Ontario is an international body of water, and it is widely agreed by the entire world, except one rogue leader, that the name of this lake is “Lake Ontario”
Grow a spine and fix it.
🎬 We are used to seeing people like this only on the screen.
James Bond, Ethan Hunt, John Wick — fictional heroes who fearlessly penetrate deep behind enemy lines, carry out impossible missions, and disappear from places where others wouldn’t survive for even a minute.
But Ukraine doesn’t need fictional secret agents. We had — and still have — our own. Real ones. People for whom the most dangerous special operations are not movie scripts, but reality.
One of them was Oleh Babii.
On one mission, he had to travel about 600 kilometers deep into Russian territory. On foot. With no room for error, no guarantee of ever returning, and the clear understanding that the enemy could be waiting behind every step.
The targets of the operation were Russian Tu-22 strategic bombers, aircraft that were used almost daily to bomb peaceful Ukrainian cities.
At the time, Ukraine did not yet have the capability to strike targets at such distances with its own drones or missiles. So people had to do the job. Practically with their bare hands.
Oleh Babii and his comrades managed to penetrate deep behind enemy lines and strike three enemy aircraft at once. The operation dealt a serious blow to Russian aviation capabilities and complicated the enemy’s plans for missile strikes against Ukraine.
But this story is about far more than a single operation. Oleh had carried out more than nine reconnaissance missions deep behind enemy lines. During those missions, he helped identify around 70 important military targets.
To some, these are just numbers. But behind every one of those numbers were kilometers of enemy territory, hours of waiting, the constant risk of being discovered, and people who knew that a single mistake could be their last.
But Oleh would never return from his final mission...
On August 30, 2023, the reconnaissance group was returning after the operation to destroy the Russian Tu-22 bombers. On their way back, the Ukrainian scouts encountered a group of FSB special forces.
A battle broke out.
Oleh Babii covered the retreat of his comrades. He stayed behind, where every second he bought could save someone else’s life. And he paid for it with his own.
Oleh was mortally wounded. He was only 32 years old.
After his death, Oleh Babii was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine and the Order of the Gold Star. And at home, his family was waiting for him — his wife and two young children. His daughter was only one year old when her father was killed.
We can talk endlessly about fictional secret agents, their courage, their weapons, incredible stunts, and spectacular special effects. But real courage looks very different.
It is 600 kilometers on foot deep into enemy territory. It is dozens of reconnaissance targets identified. It is carrying out operations you could not even tell your loved ones about. It is knowing that tomorrow may never come.
And perhaps the most terrifying part of all is the moment when someone consciously chooses to stay behind and cover the others, knowing that the price of that decision may be the highest possible.
Oleh Babii was not a movie character. He was a real human being. A son, a husband, a father. A warrior who did what seemed impossible for Ukraine and for his comrades.
Today, August 30, marks three years since his death.
Let us remember those who went where returning seemed almost impossible. Let us remember those who did their work in silence, without cameras or applause.
And let us remember Oleh Babii — a Hero of Ukraine who gave his life while covering the retreat of his comrades.
Eternal memory to the Hero. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
🚨 BREAKING:
Canadian journalist Mark Slapinski on Trump:
"Donald Trump thinks that if he keeps posting stupid bullshit on social media, we'll forget that he raped children with Jeffrey Epstein."
🚨 BREAKING:
Greenlandic politician Tille Martinosen:
"We don't want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are—they're even trying to invade their friends' territory.
Even if there are minerals and oil beneath our land—worth far more—we won't sell ourselves.
We know what happened to Alaska's Indigenous people and Native Americans. Their lands were taken, and they weren't treated well.
We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white supremacists—and we're not white. We're people of color.
We know our rights will likely be taken away."
A report from Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine Oleh Ivashchenko. Our military intelligence has established that, according to internal Russian documents, certain categories of exports from the aggressor state have already fallen by 80% this month alone. These are significant losses for Russia’s federal budget, as well as for regional budgets that were already on the verge of bankruptcy as it was. The Russian side acknowledges that the ships of its Black Sea fleet are basically blocked in Novorossiysk as a result of our drone strikes and are unable to operate at sea. The Russian leadership cannot find a way out of this situation.
Since the Russian fleet is unable to convoy commercial vessels and the shadow fleet entering the relevant ports, among the solutions considered are equipping civilian vessels with small arms, electronic warfare systems, and military personnel. We will prepare appropriate response measures to Russia’s militarization of shipping.
Military intelligence confirms the high effectiveness of our deep strikes, particularly against Russian military production facilities and oil industry sites. According to the available data, based on information from the Russian side itself, after a series of our long-range sanctions against the Kamensky Plant in the Rostov region, the Russians lost a significant share of their capacity to produce solid-fuel rocket engines. We will continue this long-range work.
We now also have updated data on Russia’s production of ballistic missiles and its plans to scale up that production. We will counter this, and it is important that there be corresponding sanctions support in the world’s major jurisdictions. All supplies of components, equipment, and machine tools that Russia uses to manufacture missiles must be completely blocked. And this is also the responsibility of our partners – without foreign components, the Russians are unable to implement a single element of their missile program.
The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine also has evidence that operations have stopped at one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which processed 17 million tonnes of oil annually, as well as at other oil refining facilities. I thank our warriors for their accuracy. Glory to Ukraine!
🔥BREAKING: Security Service of Ukraine struck a 🇷🇺Tu-95MS strategic bomber in Engels, Russia as a result of a drone attack on the city
It is precisely these aircraft that are launching X-101 missile strikes against Ukraine
🔥 CONFIRMED: A Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber has been hit at Engels-2 Air Base.
The aircraft is one of Russia’s key platforms for launching Kh-101 cruise missiles against Ukraine.
Another Russian strategic bomber won’t be launching missiles at Ukrainian cities. 🇺🇦🔥