Британський актор Ієн Мак-Келлен, відомий своїми ролями Ґендальфа у «Володарі перснів» та Магнето у «Людях Ікс», до річниці початку повномасштабної війни записав відео для українців і зачитав вірш нашого ветерана та письменника Артура Дроня. Послухайте ❤️🩹
🎥: Ukraine WOW
Вчора говорили з Оксаною за колір і кольорознавство, і я згадала одного українського художника, та не могла ніде його знайти. чат джпт не допоміг, нічо не допомогло. а сьогодні зайшла в фейсбук і одразу ж він в першому дописі. Тому поділюсь тут. Максим Поливяний і його роботи
His helmet bears portraits of our athletes who were killed by Russia. Figure skater Dmytro Sharpar, who was killed in combat near Bakhmut; Yevhen Malyshev, a 19-year-old biathlete killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv; and other Ukrainian athletes whose lives were taken by Russia’s war.
I thank the flag bearer of our national team at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Heraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle.
This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or called a “political demonstration at a sporting event.” It is a reminder to the entire world of what modern Russia is.
And this is what reminds everyone of the global role of sport and the historic mission of the Olympic movement itself – it is all about peace and for the sake of life. Ukraine remains faithful to this. Russia proves the opposite.
МОК забороняє використання мого шолома на офіційних тренуваннях та змаганнях 💔
Рішення, яке просто розбиває серце. Відчуття, що МОК зраджує тих спортсменів, які були частиною Олімпійського руху, не даючи можливості вшанувати їх на спортивній арені, куди ці спортсмени більше ніколи не зможуть вийти.
Попри прецеденти в сучасності та в минулому, коли МОК допускав подібні вшанування, цього разу для України вирішили встановити особливі правила.
Ми готуємо офіційний запит до МОК і будемо боротися за право змагатися саме в цьому шоломі.
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The IOC has banned the use of my helmet at official training sessions and competitions 💔
A decision that simply breaks my heart. The feeling that the IOC is betraying those athletes who were part of the Olympic movement, not allowing them to be honored on the sports arena where these athletes will never be able to step again.
Despite precedents in modern times and in the past when the IOC allowed such tributes, this time they decided to set special rules just for Ukraine.
We are preparing an official request to the IOC and will fight for the right to compete in this exact helmet.
Vladyslav Heraskevych at the 2026 Olympics wearing a helmet with photographs of Ukrainian athletes who had been killed by the russian war.
“Some of them were my friends,” he said. 💔
In 2025, Russia bombed and attacked Ukrainian cities for 361 days. Only 4 days all year did Russia hold back! That’s right — just 4 days without bombing Ukrainian cities!
Map of the flight paths of Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles throughout 2025.
The number of missiles launched and the cities targeted is simply shocking.
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So I lived a completely normal life until Russia attacked my country.
And when I woke up on the morning of February 24th to the sound of explosions — somehow “our government” was to blame? Seriously?
I’m so tired of this mantra about corruption that some people use to justify the aggressor.
Corruption exists in every country — in Europe, in the US, and certainly in Russia.
But only one country came to us with missiles, tоrture, and daily tеrror against cіvilians.
So don’t shift the responsibility from the occupier to the victim.
We live in a reality where every night means sirens, drones, and rockets.
And it’s not “corruption” launching missiles at Ukrainian cities. It’s Russia!
A shocking part of the Trump–Russia "peace plan" isn’t just what it does to Ukraine. It is what it quietly does to Poland.
Buried in point 9 is a sentence that looks harmless: European fighters will be stationed in Poland.
On paper, that sounds fine. In practice, though, it looks like Washington and Moscow have agreed over Poland’s head to limit the presence of foreign forces on Polish soil, including US forces, and to put a ceiling on NATO air power over the region.
If “European fighters” are explicitly named, the obvious Russian reading is simple: no US jets in Poland. And if Russia is co-signing language that defines who and what can be stationed here, it is also a de facto say over NATO air policing in the Baltics and the rest of the eastern flank.
That is not “Pax Americana.” That is the US accepting a Russian veto over the security posture of front-line allies.
For Polish politics this hits a very specific nerve. For years, Jarosław Kaczyński and now President Karol Nawrocki have built their doctrine on one core idea: forget Brussels, forget Berlin, our security rests on a direct, privileged relationship with Washington.
For a country that has spent a decade telling itself that American power is the only real guarantee, that should be a brutal wake-up call.