🚢 Noosfera is back at Vernadsky! 🇺🇦🇦🇶
On November 12, our ice class vessel reached Ukraine’s Akademik Vernadsky station for the first time this Antarctic season — after battling 6–7 m waves and winds of up to 60 knots in the Drake Passage! 🌊
🐧 After nearly 7 months without visitors, our wintering team finally welcomed their first guests — a group of technical specialists bringing essential equipment and a very special treat: fresh apples, oranges, kiwis and lemons! 🍎🍊🥝
🛠 The team will prepare the main fuel tank, repair a pier and build a foundation for an auxiliary crane.
🔬 Scientists will arrive in early December for seasonal research.
📸 Anzhelika Hanchuk, Oleh Horiainov, Andrii Starish, Kyrylo Sulima
Lembit Öpik’s YouTube channel is, quite possibly, the most pathetically sad thing you will ever see.
Hours and hours of pro-Russia conspiracy content uploaded daily, sometimes getting views in the low single digits.
Some videos have ONE viewer.
His video this week with pro-Russia neo-Nazi Nick Griffin was a relative success, only because it made it into the double digits.
Öpik was a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, left his wife to date pop stars, appeared on popular prime time shows.
Voters kicked him out of one his party’s safest seats, losing a massive majority, on the night that the rest of his party made gains nationally.
This week, he was also exposed as one of the participants in a Russian disinformation campaign for which his video criticising Ukraine was disseminated across fake news websites.
When approached by @thenerve_news, he gave a bizarre, paranoid response.
At least, if his own channel is anything to go by, he didn’t exactly bring his Russian handlers any star power.
We could lecture you about Aughinish Alumina sending refined alumina to russia that ends up in rockets that kill Ukrainians, but your bitch arse government refuse to admit and acknowledge it. So yeah yall aid killing same people you spit in the face of
🐪 GOOD MORNING, TOONIACS! It's FIVER FRIDAY, OPEN TOONIE TUESDAY! 💙💛
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@peterjukes@BylineTimes You should be ashamed to call this journalism or an investigation. Six months for this pile of crap? Just look at the reposts and you see the vilest anti-Jewish propagandists top of the list. In no way should you take pride in this.
@Hamza_a96 Doctors Without Borders *MSF) has announced the suspension of some operations at one of Gaza ‘s largest functioning hospitals after patients and staff reported seeing armed, masked men roaming parts of the building.
https://t.co/XVJzz2wBUP
Good morning, Fellas!
Winter sleeping bags campaign is still ongoing but slowed down a bit. Time is not on our side, pls step in and show some love.
Join us, we need to act now.
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Please watch, like and share my latest Frontline interview with Kate Gerbeau for Times Radio. 🇺🇦
Speaking from Dnipro, I discussed the atrocities Russia continues to commit in Ukraine while Washington searches for another adjective to describe diplomatic progress that just isn’t happening.
Watch the interview below. 👇
https://t.co/Yt5dqxBHRx
So great to give the award for outstanding investigative journalist to @panyiszabolcs for his work exposing Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto's hotline doing the bidding of Russia's Sergei Lavrov -- despite facing intense pressure & criminal investigation from the Orban regime
Kyiv. This is the Ukrainian Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics after last night’s russian attack.
A medical institution. A place where people come to heal. Another target of russian terror.
Happy Thursday, dear friends of Ukraine! Just a little reminder that pro-Ukrainian accounts still seem to be heavily suppressed. Please help us escape this algorithm nightmare by boosting our posts. 🇺🇦🫂
28-year-old border guard Yevhenii Sholudko survived russian captivity, where his captors ripped the skin off his back while he was still alive. During the torture, they stripped him naked and beat him with an iron rod tipped with metal balls. With each strike, the balls clamped together, tearing the skin off in strips.
Yevhenii says that some men could not endure the pain. Some fainted, others lost control of their bowels. He tried to lift those who lost consciousness — and for that, he was beaten even harder.
More of his quotes from an interview: “There was a guard named Nikita, a former soldier. He could kick a person twice in the same spot — and the person would fold in half. He beat guys to death, just with his feet. He crushed all their internal organs.”
“We went to the dining hall in formation, singing songs like ‘Katyusha’ and ‘Den Pobedy.’ If your voice dropped or you lost the rhythm, they beat you. They could run in during lunch and start hitting everyone.”
“In the Kizel detention center, there was a ‘standing regime.’ You stood all day: head down, hands behind your back. Talking was forbidden. If you turned your head for a second — that meant you were ‘talking.’”
“There was a ‘rubber room’ — no windows, no toilet, no water. They stripped you naked and left you standing there. If you needed the toilet, you did it right where you stood. At night, you could hear people screaming: ‘Please let me out, I’m cold, I feel sick.’ They would open the door, beat them, and lock it again.”
“In ten months, I lost 29 kilograms (64 pounds). When they started preparing us for exchange, they suddenly stopped beating us. They began giving us porridge swimming in oil so we’d gain a little weight.”
“When we were brought to Chernihiv, my family didn’t recognize me at first. Then my mom said, ‘It’s him — I recognize his eyebrows.’”
“The first weeks after coming back, I couldn’t stop eating. In the hospital ward, we barely slept — we just ate. Only a few weeks ago, I finally felt full again.”
Source: translated and adopted from Tymofiy Mylovanov