At the Asian Security Conference in Singapore, China singled out Japan, criticizing it as a "new type of militarism," to which Defense Minister Koizumi refuted the claim. Koizumi said, "A country possessing a large number of nuclear weapons and strategic bombers calls Japan, which possesses neither, a 'new type of militarism'... Don't you find that strange?"
Did you know that Keanu Reeves is incredibly generous and kind?
While filming "The Lake House," he overheard two costume maids talking, and one of them was crying because she couldn’t pay $20,000 to save her house. Keanu quietly deposited the money into her account.
On his birthday in 2010, Keanu went to a bakery alone and bought a cupcake with just one candle. While eating out, he also gave free coffee and bread to all the customers. That was his idea of a birthday celebration.
From what he earned from the Matrix trilogy, he gave $50 million to the special effects team because, to him, they were the real heroes of the films.
Keanu rarely used doubles for his roles, only for specific stunts. To show his appreciation, he gifted each of his stunt doubles a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Even with his fame, Keanu regularly takes public transportation like the metro and buses because he finds it practical, and he’s never embarrassed about it.
Many hospitals say they’ve received tens of millions of dollars from Keanu, as he’s been quietly donating over the years.
He also donated 90% of his salary from some movies so the productions could hire other big-name stars.
In 1997, a paparazzi found him sitting on the street having breakfast with a homeless man, just listening to his life story.
All the good things we know about Keanu weren’t shared by him, but by the people whose lives he touched. He never talked about his kindness.
Despite all the tough things he’s been through in life, Keanu chooses to be a bright light in the world, staying positive even when others might feel sad or angry.
💔 In Mariupol, he was known as the man who took children off the streets.
Today, all of Ukraine knows him as a father who gave his sons to the war.
Hennadiy Mokhnenko was never an “ordinary” pastor.
While others preached about kindness, he went into sewer tunnels, basements, and drug dens where homeless children were living.
Dirty. Beaten. Forgotten by everyone.
He literally pulled them out by the hand.
One was eight years old.
Another was twelve.
Some were already using drugs.
Some could not remember the last time they had eaten.
And almost every adult had already passed the same sentence on them:
“Lost cause.”
But Mokhnenko saw them differently.
That is how the “Pilgrim Republic” was born in Mariupol — a place where children feared by society were given, often for the first time, a bed, food, a family, and the words: “You are loved.”
Over the years, thousands of teenagers passed through his hands.
And at home, he was raising one of the largest families imaginable: more than 40 children, most of them adopted or foster children.
He never divided them into “his own” and “someone else’s.”
As he once said:
“A child is not guilty that adults destroyed their life.”
⚔️ Then came the war.
And suddenly, the boys he had once rescued from the streets became the ones rescuing others.
On February 24, 2022, Mokhnenko was given only minutes to evacuate children from Mariupol.
He managed to do it.
But his son Artem — once a homeless child himself — kept returning to the burning city again and again.
Through shelling.
Through Russian checkpoints.
Through minefields.
His vehicle drove at the front.
Behind him followed columns of civilians.
Thousands survived because, years earlier, one man decided not to walk past a little boy living on the street.
But the war took from Mokhnenko as well.
Russian forces killed his daughter Viktoria in Mariupol.
Later, his son Bohdan, a fighter of the 3rd Assault Brigade, was killed at the front.
A boy he had once saved too.
After his son’s death, the pastor wrote only a few lines:
“We are holding on…
There will be a Day of Reunion.”
No pathos.
No curses.
Only the pain of a man who has already lost too much.
🙏 And do you know what is most remarkable?
After everything he has endured, he did not become cruel.
He still goes to the front.
He still evacuates people.
He still prays over the wounded.
He still speaks about love.
In a world filled with so much hatred, Hennadiy Mokhnenko almost seems unreal.
But perhaps it is precisely because of people like him that Ukraine still stands.
Not because of those who shout the loudest,
but because of those who continue to remain human even in hell itself. 🇺🇦