NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 set off for the International Space Station. Among the four crew members is Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, who is of Ukrainian descent 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Ukraine is proud to see a person of Ukrainian heritage among the crew! It is especially symbolic that the astronaut chose to take a piece of his family history with him into space – a pocket watch that belonged to his great-grandfather and was brought from Ukraine more than a century ago.
We are also grateful to Canada for its partnership, its support for Ukraine, and the opportunities it is helping to create, including opening new horizons for us in the space sector.
🛰️ This story is a reminder that Ukraine has its own history and achievements in space exploration and continues to contribute to the development of this field. Ukraine itself is also an active participant in international space cooperation.
In 2020, for example, Ukraine became the ninth country to sign the Artemis Accords – a set of international principles for cooperation in the exploration and peaceful use of outer space. The Accords provide, among other things, for transparency, the sharing of scientific data, and cooperation in the future exploration of the Moon and other celestial bodies.
On October 1, we honour the brave Ukrainian patriots who through the centuries have fought for the freedom and independence of Ukraine. Today, Russia wages a genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine. On this Day of the Defenders of Ukraine, we ask God to grant Ukraine victory.
#NDTR
Today we fly the Survivors’s Flag as an expression of remembrance, meant to honour residential school Survivors and all the lives/communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada 🇨🇦.
#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
having Ukrainian 🇺🇦 & Russian 🇷🇺 heritage is hard because I know some Russian 🇷🇺 fighting for Ukraine 🇺🇦 & I know Ukrainians fighting for Ukraine 🇺🇦 please remember the good ones fighting against the evil 😈 remember they are on the right side of history
On #NDTR, we honour Survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, their families and communities.
#UNDRIP recognizes Indigenous Peoples right to have a voice in decisions that affect them.
#NDTR#EveryChildMatters
Tonight the #CNTower will also be lit orange for @OrangeShirtSoc Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters
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Ce soir, la #TourCN sera également illuminée en orange pour la Journée du chandail orange: Chaque enfant compte
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour Survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, and the families and communities who carry their memories and experiences forward.
Truth must come before reconciliation. It requires accountability and a commitment to addressing the ongoing impacts of colonialism and the residential school system.
Reconciliation is a shared responsibility. The AFN calls on all Canadians to learn the truth, listen to Survivors, uphold First Nations rights, and take meaningful steps toward reconciliation.
Learn more: https://t.co/8aI8k9uW9D
#OrangeShirtDay #NDTR #EveryChildMatters
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress honours the Survivors of residential schools, remembers the children who never returned home, and recognizes the enduring impacts of this painful history.
Here are the graves.
This Orange Shirt Day we are returning the Brandon Indian Residential School cemetery grounds to the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation on behalf of many First Nations whose children are buried here.
This is one of the most well documented burial grounds at a residential school in Canada with not only church and historical records but also contemporaneous newspaper articles describing what happened to these children.
You can not deny history.
#orangeshirtday
#everychildmatters
#truthandreconciliation
#trc
#herearethegraves
From Ukrainian kitchens to Canadian dinner tables, varenyky, or, perogies tell a story of food, culture and connection between our communities, passed from one generation to the next, and continually renewed. Share your favourite way to enjoy it. 🥟🇨🇦🇺🇦
Україна, як ніхто інший, прагне миру, справедливого миру. Ми про це постійно говоримо на міжнародних зустрічах, на всіх майданчиках, у кожному діалозі з партнерами.
Та реальність така, що справедливий мир не падає з неба. Він виборюється і забезпечується конкретними діями, силою, холодною прагматичністю, непохитною стійкістю та єдністю українців.
Ми надто добре знаємо його справжню ціну. Безпека й незалежність не мають альтернативи, як і відповідальність для тих, хто приніс цю війну на нашу землю.
Працюємо заради цього щодня!
Слава Україні!
La Russie ne peut pas utiliser la répression pour fabriquer une légitimité démocratique, ni des élections illégales pour légitimer son occupation du territoire ukrainien.
Le Canada rejette les résultats de ces élections dans les territoires temporairement occupés de l’Ukraine, y compris en Crimée. C’est pourquoi, cette semaine, je participerai à la Plateforme de Crimée aux Nations Unies, aux côtés de nos partenaires, afin de défendre l’intégrité territoriale de l’Ukraine et de faire respecter le droit international.
https://t.co/ul5g3hUNHx
This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined.
Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels.
Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion.
Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.
In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere:
“How many combines are available in Europe?”
“Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.”
“I’ll take them all.”
Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers.
He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him:
“Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.”
Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.
“$14 million.”
“Okay. And what do you expect in return?”
“Nothing. Build it.”
Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients.
But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.
It is food: 642 million meals.
And that is only part of it:
* 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks;
* 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories;
* Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding.
“I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says.
He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson.
Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world.
I simply want to thank him and wish him well.
Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine.
He simply chose to help.
Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.
This is Christianity, Judaism, and Islam without russia weaponizing them against each other.
Once you understand how much damage russia has done to world, you will understand that Ukraine's fight is your fight.