In the photo on the left is an ordinary boy, a schoolboy from Brovary, who was only 13 years old. His name is Yelisey Ryabokon.
On the right is the hat the boy was wearing, completely riddled with bullets and shrapnel, as well as his white T-shirt, which he put on over his jacket to show the russians that he was a civilian.
However, the bullets from the russian soldiers pierced right through it.
This is a terrible reminder of what happened.
On March 11, 2022, Yelisey's family tried to escape from a village called Peremoha, which had already been captured by the Russians.
As they were driving, the Russian soldiers first waved at them, as if wishing them a safe journey.
But then, for no reason at all, they simply opened fire on the car full of people. When the column came under fire, Yelisey's mother and younger son were in one car, while the boy himself was riding in another.
The first car exploded after taking a direct hit from a shell; people started jumping out of the cabin and hiding.“I dragged the little one by the hood,” Inna recalled.
She hoped that her older son was alive and simply hadn’t managed to get out of the car. It was enough for her to glance at her son to understand: he had died instantly. The mother miraculously managed to survive and pull her younger son out from under the shelling.
At first, Yelisey was buried simply in someone’s vegetable garden in that village. Only after some time was the family able to transport his body back home to Brovary to bury him properly.
The coffin was never opened. His father Yevhen, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was never able to see his son one last time.
Yelisey’s mother Inna says: she wants the whole world to know what Russia has done in Ukraine. So that people remember every murdered child, every woman. So that Russia is held accountable for all these crimes.
Those who knew Yelisey say he was a very calm, polite, and always smiling boy.
In May of that year, he would have turned 14…
Source: W.a.f.Ukraine
“Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them even three or four times, None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.”
- Kaja Kallas
Take 20 seconds to watch this video. It shows a part of a building in Zaporizhzhia collapsing after a Russian strike tonight.
Now think of all the buildings in Ukraine struck by Russia in the past 1,344 days collapsing with families still sleeping inside.
This isn't a war. It's terrorism.
Russia should have no seat at the table in shaping global health policy — not while this atrocious country bombs hospitals, schools, and kindergartens.
Yesterday, at the WHO Regional Committee, I said this aloud. The hypocrisy of Russia lecturing others about health and humanitarian values is beyond comprehension.
When Russia took the floor, I walked out. Twice.
Latvia, Lithuania and Poland did the same.
It was important that Russia got the message — and it did.
Thank you, Danish minister Sophie Løhde @sophieloehde and the Danish EU Presidency for leading with courage and clarity — standing for real peace and real health together with the rest of us.
#WHO #Ukraine #HumanRights #GlobalHealth #StopRussia
This is Viktoria Zamchenko. Her body was found in the arms of her beloved Bohdan and their cat after a russian Shahed drone strike on October 17, 2022. She was only 28. They were simply sleeping—they were expecting a child.
Viktoria and her family were among the first victims of russia’s drone terror. Sadly, in just three years, this terror has claimed thousands of innocent lives.
Ukrainians are paying a terrible price for the world’s weakness.
⚡️Russia killed a 7-year-old boy in Zaporizhzhia — the son of a Ukrainian soldier just freed after three years in Russian captivity.
The father is in critical condition, and the family’s new home lies in ruins.
A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.
A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.
A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.
A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.
A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.
A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.
A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.
Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag.
Not under “neutrality.”
Not as individuals.
In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.
If you see this, RT and like. Let the IOC hear us. Let the world hear us. Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState
Two years.
It's been two years since that fucking night of February 24.
We knew -- well, we've been told "it's not 100% confirmed yet...but THIS is possibly due at 4 am or 5 am, stay put."
A half-glass of single malt whisky with ice poured into a glass, the final hours alone in sweet silence in front of a laptop.
Scrolling through the news all the time.
And then the morbid face of Putin twisted with sick rage live on TV. And, shortly after, the rolling thunder of missile strikes coming in from all around Kyiv.
That was supposed to be the apocalypse of a nation, but, thanks to so many men and women standing up, that night became the beginning of Ukraine's finest hour.
The one that old grandpa Winston was once talking about.
Oh, it's been an epoch of time ever since that day.
The Battle of Kyiv. The heroic resistance of Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. A lone Ukrainian Marine sacrificing his life to blow up a bridge and stop advancing Russian tanks.
The tragic debacle in the south. The Russian extermination of Mariupol. The Bucha massacre. The unspeakable meat grinder in Donbas. The Kharkiv operation. The cheering crowds jubilating from the Ukrainian colors getting back to Kherson.
The fields of death and gore at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Battles in the sea and the air.
So many ups and downs, so many heroes, human-made miracles. The price of survival as a nation is terrible. We're going to mourn and shed tears many decades in the future over what Russia has done.
We've seen unbelievable things in this war. Ukraine has done and is doing incredible things in this war in spite of all odds.
The Ukrainian military has been making a gargantuan sacrifice against one of the largest and the most brutal war machines in human history.
Everyone in this war has revealed their true face, from very ordinary people to the highest-ranking power brokers.
Frankly, I don't get it how some could choose to side with the evil, bloodlust, blatant lies, hypocrisy, and imperial savagery over the story of a nation that was supposed to go extinct within weeks but now enters the third year of resistance against the most terrible war of extermination since Adolf Hitler.
With everything that has happened over the last few months, we all should be ready for a lot of hard things to happen. A lot of hopes have been broken due to things we have no control over.
Yet, we need to keep doing what we should and what is simply right.
We've made an extremely long way, and the struggle continues no matter what.