This is how Ukraine’s Eurovision presenter and commentator Timur Miroshnychenko reacted to the news of Kalush Orchestra’s victory. Due to Russia’s never-ending rocket attacks, Timur had to go on air from a bomb shelter.
eurovision is a magical contest where you get to hear all kinds of different music styles converging on the stage, with the added thrill that every year you're guaranteed to hear The Worst Song You Have Ever Heard
⚡️Berlin bans Ukrainian flag, symbols on May 8-9.
Ukrainian activists planned to hold a peaceful rally in Berlin and commemorate the victims of World War II, which killed millions of Ukrainians. But Berlin authorities forbade them to bring Ukrainian symbols.
Belarusian photographer Pasha Kritchko created Putin's portrait of 1500 war photographs, depicting "horror, pain, suffering, death, crippled destinies, crimes, inhumanity and evil."
"Looking at all these photos, it's still hard for me to understand the people who support it."
Amidst a war of destruction, Ukrainians create: A new word, "Pашизм" sounds like "fascism," but with an "r" sound instead of an "f" at the beginning. "Ruscism" means, roughly, "Russian fascism."
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“Russians can’t travel anywhere because of sanctions,” — but you know where they CAN go? Home.
Meanwhile, the whole world is open for Ukrainians. But I would trade any destination in the world to just be able to go home.
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