Every soldier has a cemetery bearing Syrskyi's name. Every volunteer has one too. The worst day for me was 26 guys in a single day.
What is this cemetery, you may ask?
It is the cemetery of those who died for absolutely no reason, simply because they were carrying out a senseless order.
That is what has hurt the most throughout all these years. There are several soldiers who lost their minds and have spent endless time in hospitals because they could not endure all of this.
Yes, a few times in 2022 and 2023, Syrskyi saved our men from even more reckless butchers. But I cannot recall a single similar case from 2024 through 2026. There simply were none. He became increasingly ruthless.
And one more thing.
Syrskyi considers the Battle of Kyiv to be a lifetime justification for everything that followed. But I will say this plainly: if Syrskyi had been Commander-in-Chief on February 24, 2022, the Russians would have entered Kyiv.
Because Syrskyi carries out every wish of Zelenskyy and Yermak. One of those wishes before the invasion was to send all the brigades from the Kyiv region to the East. Zaluzhnyi, at his own risk, delayed the 72nd Brigade for a week under a fabricated pretext and made sure Yermak's people knew nothing about it. On February 23, he moved the brigade to defend Kyiv along the Irpin River—again entirely at his own risk. There was no longer enough time to occupy positions along the Prypiat River.
The 72nd Brigade became the backbone of Kyiv's defense, and the enemy did not enter the city. Would the 72nd Brigade still have been in the Kyiv region if Syrskyi had been Commander-in-Chief? No. Every wish would have been carried out, the battle would have been lost, and there would have been a sea of blood and defeat.
We should think not only about the victory near Kyiv, but about the lessons of February 2022, which go much deeper.
Soldiers are issued only 12 shotgun shells to shoot down drones. This is already the fourth year of the drone war, yet they keep buying Safari shotguns that spend endless time being repaired. Holosun thermal super-collimators have only recently begun to be issued, and only to some special operations personnel.
If American soldiers were protected this way, they would sue—and they would win. But here, in the fifth year of the war, saving soldiers remains the responsibility of the soldiers themselves and the volunteers.
All of this hurts...
We keep working, because we hope against hope...
And we try to save at least someone from this endless hell...
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Toen de Russen dachten dat MH17 een Oekraïens vrachtvliegtuig was, werd het triomfantelijk geclaimd als Grootse Prestatie van moeder Rusland. Toen het een passagiersvliegtuig vol onschuldige levens bleek, begon het grote liegen en ontkennen. Tot op de dag van vandaag. De lafaards
Putin
Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.
Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.
The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:
Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.
To name a few.
An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.
Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.
The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.
As an American medic serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, I would like to thank everyone still standing with us after four years.
The world has a short attention span. You didn't.
We will not forget who stayed. 🇺🇦
@BNR schrijft over neo-nazistische praktijken bij het Oekraïense leger, maar het lijkt of de auteur, afrikanist @MVanHarreveld zich beter bij dat continent kan houden.
Hij verkondigt namelijk het russisch narratief en leunt vrijwel volledig op één bron: Marta Havryshko. Een controversiële onderzoekster die regelmatig optreedt bij pro-kremlin influencers als Glenn Diesen en Jackson Hinkle en zich positief uitlaat over figuren uit de pro-russische en extreemrechtse hoek, waaronder Alice Weidel van de AfD.
De auteur trapt met dit artikel volledig in de val van russische desinformatie die al jaren over Oekraïne wordt verspreid. Dat BNR ervoor kiest om uitsluitend dit perspectief te verkondigen, roept serieuze vragen op over de journalistieke afwegingen achter dit stuk.
Voor wie meer context wil over de achtergronden en het netwerk van Havryshko, lees deze analyse van een echte Oekraïne- en ruslandonderzoeker @P_Kallioniemi:
https://t.co/94eDN4DBQ2
#Mali / #Russia 🇲🇱🇷🇺: Al-Qaeda (#JNIM) struck Russian Africa Corps and Malian Army members, aircrafts and helicopters in Mopti Airport in #Sévaré.
Militants notably used several Drones —apparently armed with air-dropped HE / HE-Frag Explosive Devices.
I’ve been investigating the russian refinery for days now and the story gets darker and darker. The shipments are sent to Siberia, smelted, and sold to the russian company ‘ASK’. This company distributes aluminium directly to Russia’s missile & drone manufacturers.
“Putin, you fucking bald parasite, do you realize that a KVN comedian made you look like a fool? Zelenskyy pissed all over you!”
An absolutely brilliant response from a Z-propagandist 💀🤡
A drone hit the roof of our heroes’ vehicle.
One second separated them from death. One meter — and the consequences could have been irreversible.
Today, a real miracle happened. Our guys were lucky to stay alive.
Every such mission is a risk. Every kilometer of the road can be the last, yet they keep moving forward, no matter what.
Please don’t forget Ukraine. Don’t forget the people who risk their lives every single day for others.
Support Ukraine. Support our defenders and volunteers. 🇺🇦🙏🏼🫂
I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.
He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.
This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.
Proud russian doesn't want to live in the shit Hole Russia 😂😂😂
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🇷🇺 Anton Makarov ZOV 🇷🇺
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@AntonMakarovZOV Hey man. I just want you to know my former commander was involved in assassinating this loser. He's done a lot of great work since then as well.