Ginta Veja

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Another painful loss for Ukrainian sports 🕯️

The Russian army killed 13-year-old track and field athlete Ulyana Vorona. On July 11, Russia carried out a strike on Sumy using guided aerial bombs (KABs), as a result of which the girl was killed…
A girl who had her whole life ahead of her.

At the same time, international sports organizations are bringing back the Russian anthem and flags to international sports arenas. Pure madness.

Condolences to her family and loved ones… Eternal memory to Ulyana and to all victims of Russian aggression.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Russian drone vs Ukrainian swimming pool. Strategic targeting.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

Saturday protest in Georgia.

Soon it will be 600 consecutive days of #GeorgiaProtests

People keep demanding free and fair elections and the release of regime prisoners.

📷 Protest 24

[Dabas aizsardzības pārvalde @dabaDAP]

Mīli ar acīm! Dabas aizsardzības pārvalde aicina saulgriežu vainagos nepīt retos un aizsargājamos augus: https://t.co/ycMZOcOIkM.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

This is grandma Manіa. She is 96 years old. And this is her second war.

For more than a month, grandma Mania and other residents were under occupation. Her son was killed. She was beaten up. For more than a week, Mrs Mania ate nothing. Then she found potatoes the size of peas and boiled one for herself each day.

📹:_maryna_shliapina_/Instagram

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This is what Christianity truly means to Russia.

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the oldest and most significant monastery of Eastern Slavic Orthodox Christianity, a UNESCO site with almost 1,000 years of history, was under Russian attack last night in Ukraine’s capital city.

This is what happens in reality while that monstrous Soviet KGB regime obsessed with war and territorial grabs tries to pose as “based and trad” to fool Christian conservatives in the West.

And it started raining in the Ukrainan city when its main holy site was on fire.

[jasonbellini @jasonbellini]

Three years ago today, Sudan's war began. More people are now in famine there than the rest of the world combined. Sexual violence is so widespread, doctors created code names just to speak of it. The least covered catastrophe on earth. @scrippsnews

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

I wish you a big garden and a clear blue sky.

Franz Kafka, 1921.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region.

Russian forces are wiping a Ukrainian city from the map. Homes and innocent lives destroyed.

Absolutely horrific.

📹: libkos, 28th Mechanized Brigade

[TVNET Sports @SportsTVNET]

Roberts Krūzbergs 🇱🇻 🥉

https://t.co/HHHtPLN4wK

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Behold the Barbara Streisand effect

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Це ціна нашої гідності.
This is price of our dignity.

[Gatis Šļūka @KarikaturaLv]

Šodien 🇮🇹 oficiāli atklātas ziemas olimpiskās spēles, kas Milānā un Kortīnā d'Ampeco notiks līdz 22. februārim.

Starptautiskās Olimpiskās komitejas izpildkomiteja pieņēmusi lēmumu, ka 🇷🇺 un 🇧🇾 sportistiem būs atļauts piedalīties šajās spēlēs zem neitrālā karoga. @lasilvportals

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.

It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)

This crime is being deliberately committed by russia.

In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide.

Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is:

"Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

Many Ukrainian cities - Kyiv foremost among them - have been without electricity, heating, and water for the second week in a row, amid severe frosts.

What does this mean?

It means people are being condemned to death by russia.

This is what is happening:

▪️ Elderly people cannot leave their apartments to buy food or water because elevators do not work - or because they are physically unable to walk down the stairs;

▪️ No communication: mobile phones are dead, there is no way to call for help or an ambulance;

▪️ Sick people cannot use life-sustaining medical equipment because there is no electricity at home;

▪️ Mothers of small kids carry their children and strollers up staircases in high-rise buildings - along with water and food;

▪️ No hot meals and no possibility to cook food at home;

▪️ Sewer system failures, creating critical and dangerous conditions;

▪️ Illness caused by extreme cold and the inability to stay warm;

▪️ Children cannot attend schools because there is no heating. Distance learning is also impossible without electricity;

▪️ Kindergartens are closed, mothers cannot work, earn money to feed their children;

▪️ Stray animals are freezing to death on the streets;

▪️ Even pets are dying from the cold - parrots, aquarium fish, animals kept in terrariums;

▪️ Animals in zoos are freezing;

▪️ Collections of rare plants in Kyiv’s botanical gardens have frozen and died;

▪️ Small businesses are earning nothing, forced to spend money on generators and fuel - causing direct losses to the economy;

▪️ Severe harm to the environment and public health due to the constant operation of massive numbers of generators;

▪️ Public transport functions far worse due to power outages; electric transport does not operate at all, leaving people unable to reach work, doctors, or essential services;

▪️ Burst pipes and freezing temperatures are destroying homes, making them uninhabitable;

▪️ Hospitals are forced to cancel planned surgeries, operating in emergency mode and at full capacity;

▪️ Rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout are sharply increasing.

Russia wants to make large Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.

This is a humanitarian catastrophe deliberately caused by Russia.

Source: Anton Gerashchenko

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Dnipro - Ukraine 🇺🇦
2 men are playing chess...

You can't defeate this nation❤️🇺🇦

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

I recently read a powerful article titled "Kyiv, the City with Dark Circles Under Its Eyes" by @ArianeChemin. It captures the emotional exhaustion, the psychological weight, and the extraordinary resilience of people in Kyiv who are forced to live under relentless Russian attacks.

It paints a portrait of a city running on interrupted sleep and interrupted electricity, yet somehow still standing.

Kyiv today is physically exhausted. The streets are decorated for Christmas, but the tree on Sofiiska Square feels dimmer this year. After the December 6 attacks, electricity is off for 14-17 hours a day on average.

Constant air-raid alerts - sometimes lasting eight, nine, even ten hours - have become a defining feature of life. Poets like Ella Yevtushenko describe these nights as moments suspended between life and death:

"Too late to fall asleep, too early to wake up... too late to die, too early to live."

▪️ Children learning to run for shelter in under 7 minutes

One of the most painful parts of the article describes how the war is reshaping childhood in Kyiv.
Tetiana Yermak, the director of School No. 157, says:

"I see children who have no appetite, who cry when you raise your voice, who walk with their heads down and fall asleep standing up."

Trained by constant alerts, her students can now pack up and evacuate to shelter in less than seven minutes. Many spend nights in metro stations or hallways, then show up to class the next morning - exhausted but present. Despite everything, absenteeism is low. Kids are trying.

▪️ An attack on the city is an attack on our body

Psychologist Svitlana Roiz notes that people in Kyiv no longer say "good night." Instead, they wish each other a "quiet night," meaning a night without alerts and Russian attacks.

She says:

"Every attack on our city is an attack on our body."

And she warns that the biggest threat is not only physical destruction, but emotional collapse. Russians, she explains, want Ukrainians to fight with each other out of exhaustion - to break internally.

She calls irritability "the first marker of fatigue," and says that even her Facebook posts about psychological resilience get targeted by Russian bots:

"This is also a Russian offensive: targeted strikes on the mind, just like missiles hitting energy infrastructure."

That is the deepest message of the article: Russia is trying to break Ukrainians emotionally just as much as physically. To wear us down night after night, alarm after alarm, blackout after blackout.

But despite everything - sleepless nights, cold apartments, damaged schools, destroyed pharmacies - Kyiv keeps going.

Source: https://t.co/2CQI5mvKuq

📹: Ukraine lives

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

What a speech!!

Thank you, @Kasparov63

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Children #KilledByRussia in one strike in Ternopil.... Rest in peace, little angels...

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far it’s a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.