@selini0 It feels like a typical problem of anything run by bored California based product managers who can only think of organizing travel, hikes, shopping for clothes/shoes and ordering food. In Europe I would rather have something getting me bureaucratic appointments.
Russian aviation struck an "Aurora" store in Dobropillia, Donetsk region, with a guided aerial bomb‼️
Initial reports indicate a significant number of people were killed and wounded. The exact casualty figures are still being determined.
Aurora stores are a multi-market chain in Ukraine. These stores are essentially discounters or 'dollar stores,' specializing in affordable, everyday consumer products. The are usually packed.
During last night's Russian attack on Chernivtsi, as personnel was taking children from House of Butterflies hospice to a shelter, little Zlata, a patient of the hospice, suddenly stopped breathing.
The doctors, risking their lives, brought her to intensive therapy and resuscitated Zlata under the Russian strikes.
Most of the kids who stay in the House of Butterflies hospice were evacuated from the frontline areas. They are still afraid to sleep near windows and hearing explosions is very traumatizing for them, Marta Levchenko, the founder of the hospice, wrote.
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@NXT4EU Do the way that China did in the past with EU car manufacturers- want to operate here - create a joint venture with local players and provide them with access to technology know how
Oleksandra Matviichuk, Nobel laureate: I spoke to Ukrainian survivors of Russian captivity.
They said Russians beat, raped, crushed them in boxes, cut fingers, nails, shocked genitals. One girl wrote with her own blood. A woman said a Russian gouged out her eye with a spoon. 1/
Odesa: Shahid drones strike in the morning, injuring civilians, and killing a horse known and loved in the city. Ponies and other horses saved but stables burned down.
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💔The owner of a stable destroyed by Russian drones in Odesa says goodbye to her beloved horse, Camellia.
Through tears, Yuliia shares:
“This was my whole life. They weren’t just animals. These were ‘written-off’ horses — some from slaughter, some retired from sport.
Camellia was my favorite. Camellia is gone.
I don’t know what’s next. The stable is gone. The hay is gone. We had five big horses and four ponies here.”
Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas" Pavel Gubarev stated that it would have been better not to launch the "special military operation" at all.
"Damn, three and a half years! The number of casualties exceeds a million. Nothing changes for us — we're still being thrown into meat-grinder assaults. The guys [Russian soldiers] are worn out, they openly call it a serf army. You arrive, and there's no way to leave.
At this pace, how many years will it take us [to fight]? Probably 20 years to 'liberate' everything. If you look at how many cities we've taken — it's a shame. Neither they [Ukrainians] nor we [Russians] can call this a victory anymore — it's a defeat," Gubarev said.
He also raised questions about the "goals of the SMO."
"It's completely unclear what they [the Russian authorities] even want… Do we need territory — for what? Do we need 'living space' — for what? Who's going to populate it? Tajiks and Uzbeks? Or do we need to defeat Ukraine, meaning force it to capitulate — in that case, other questions arise. Why aren't we hitting supply routes, decision-making centers? Why aren't we turning everything into dust?" he said.
Gubarev considers the start of the "special military operation" to be betrayal, and the plan to take Kyiv be insane.
"The start of the special military operation is also a betrayal. Because it felt like we were being sent to the slaughter. The objectives were framed as a police operation. For my specific battalion, the task was to seize the center of Kyiv, where the Right Sector was located, and hold it. We never even made it to Kyiv. The enemy put up fierce resistance, and we suffered enormous losses. The elite units that were attacking there — paratroopers, GRU special forces, and so on — they lost up to half their personnel, killed and wounded," he said.
russia hit Odessa with Shahed drones.
The legendary mare died.
One of the shaheeds hit near the equestrian club on Moldavanka. The strike killed a 20-year-old mare named Kamelia, a favorite and symbol of the club.
Several other horses and ponies were injured. They were literally rescued from under the rubble.
Horrifying footage! Russia killed a 1-year-old Dmytro in the Kherson region.
In the afternoon, the Russians attacked a house in the village of Pravdyne with drones, where the baby was staying with his great-grandmother.