I join you nightly, before I sleep, the distance erased, the 9am Kyiv Radio minute of silence and Ukrainian Anthem. I will come back, I'll find a way to join the fight for Victory. Slava Ukraini! 💙💛 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦
Beloved Kyiv, your 1544 anniversary, Kyiv Day. I came to you last summer, my footprints melted with so many. the sacrifice of all defenders against the serene magnificence of the mighty Dnipro, of Kyiv, I left but I can't leave.
My KYIV. My beloved and unbroken. For me, you are the best city, with a magnificent history and the most wonderful people! I LOVE YOU! I wish everyone who has been here to return again, and for those who haven't, to definitely come! In the photo is my main place of spiritual strength, the St. Sophia. Happy #KyivDay everyone🌳🇺🇦❤️
My beloved and dearest!
You are incredibly beautiful and picturesque!
You are wise and steadfast, but sometimes strict and instructive.
You are cozy, creative, atmospheric, and diverse.
My beloved Kyiv, happy birthday.
Як тебе не любити, Києве мій?
I filmed this moment.
For three days, to mark Kyiv Day, the fountain of Kyiv’s founders came back to life.
Why only for three days?
Because of security and energy-saving measures during the war.
@strategywoman Kyiv is life. Kyiv is love. Kyiv is light. We listened last night to Kyiv radio for the 9am minute of silence and anthem. i do most nights, Kyiv is unforgettable. Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦
Russia uses 695 forms of torture against Ukrainian prisoners of war, including beatings, physical torture, sexual violence, and psychological abuse.
This was reported by Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, during the presentation of the project “Made in Russia. Delivered into Captivity,” which documents Russian war crimes.
The Ombudsman said that prisoners are strangled, attacked with dogs, beaten with electric shock devices, and forced to stand in one place for up to 18 hours. If they try to sit down, they are beaten again.
“One form of torture is the ‘barbershop.’ During shaving, the Russians cut off not only hair but also pieces of skin from the head. If a person starts screaming, they are beaten physically or shocked with electricity,” Lubinets said.
Russia has returned to Ukraine the bodies of 375 military personnel and civilians who were verified as prisoners. Of the verified Ukrainian prisoners of war, 149 were tortured to death.
He also emphasized the lack of international response. In particular, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross were invited to the event, but none attended.
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I’m sitting near the Dnipro River.
Rescuers are trying to find people under the rubble.
Already, five people are dead in Kyiv.
A 12-year-old girl is among them.
I’m looking at the water.
It doesn’t know.
Ukrainian drone forces "destroyed" Swedish troops during NATO exercises on the island of Gotland.
The Swedish side stopped the training three times and tried to change tactics after realizing that under real battlefield conditions they would already have been killed.
All Western forces need to "learn rapidly" how to perform drone and counter-drone operations, and the "fastest" way is to listen to the Ukrainians, Sweden’s chief of defense, Gen. Michael Claesson, said.
Source: Associated Press
Ever fucking day. And yet many are more concerned about Ukraine bombing the Russian energy infrastructure that funds its war of aggression and murders Ukrainian children.