💔 This is one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read from a Ukrainian soldier.
Please read every word. We owe them that.
"Please remember us.
We won't be the ones shouting about ourselves when we come home, because we have no strength left. And we probably never will.
Most of us won't do anything. We'll come back quietly and try not to be noticed. We'll be dirty, sad, reeking, and we'll only talk to each other.
We're so exhausted that we no longer feel like human beings. We're just labels of our former selves.
A part of us will stay there forever, and we'll never truly exist in the same world as you again. We understand that.
So please, remember this: we stayed there not because someone sent us, and not because we wanted to. It was simply the price that had to be paid.
That's what that choice cost—the whole of you.
Please remember that we don't wish you any harm. We don't want anything from you. And, to be honest, we're fucked up ourselves."
Маріуполь за 86 діб осади став могилою для десь 100 000 маріупольчан. Оборона Маріуполя тривала 86 діб. Немає жодного дома, щоб во дворі не було поховань. Маріуполь це сама велика рана на тілі України.Після деокупації волосся будуть стояти дибки після того що ми дізнаємося.
🇷🇺 The Root of the Russian Malignancy
The problem with Russia did not begin with Putin. Russians have always been like this mentally. Russians have always hated others; Russia has always been a country of lies and aggression, and Russia loves to kill, masking it as grand missions.
Historians like Richard Pipes and Alain Besançon have long argued that the nature of Russian autocracy—whether under the Tsars, the Soviets, or the current regime—is predicated on the total erasure of the individual in favor of the State. This creates a psychological environment where "the other" is inherently seen as a threat to the messianic, expansionist project of the "Empire."
As the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev noted in his analysis of the "Russian soul," there is a recurring tendency to oscillate between extreme nihilism and extreme religious-political expansionism. The "mission" provides the moral anesthesia necessary to commit atrocities; by framing the destruction of neighbors as a "holy" or "civilizational" duty, the perpetrator absolves themselves of individual guilt.
When a society consistently defines its identity through the negation and subjugation of its neighbors, it becomes trapped in a perpetual cycle of violence. As the philosopher Karl Popper warned in The Open Society and Its Enemies, closed societies built on myth and aggressive ideology are inherently incapable of peaceful coexistence until they are forced to confront the reality of their own moral bankruptcy.
The question remains, can Russia be cured? The situation here is not at all the same as with Nazism in Flight 3, because Nazism there arose in one historical period and disappeared within one generation, while in Russia the disease has been present for centuries - from the very beginning of the founding of Russia by a Ukrainian...
Ukraine has just done something astonishing.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has just launched TrophyLab - essentially making access to all captured Russian weapon technologies free for foreign governments, research institutions and the defence industry.
They will even send physical hardware to allies for examination and to rip it apart to discover Russian military secrets. As well as technical specifications, blueprints and research results.
The website includes listings for armoured vehicles, missiles, aircraft, UAVs, EW assets, UGVs, cruise missiles etc.
Governments usually want to keep this kind of captured tech a secret for its own advantage. Ukraine has decided to make it (relatively, I think) open access for the benefit of the West.
Moscow is burning, and that's how it should be. The comments from Muscovites are particularly interesting. The most common ones are: “What is this?” and “Why us?” This is that uncomfortable moment when Muscovites come face to face with objective reality—and they don't like it.
The fact is simple: if your country is at war, you can die at any moment because that's what war is. Russians, and Muscovites in particular, spent a very long time not understanding this. The war was being fought in Ukraine, far away from them, and when they supported it, they were supporting the deaths of Ukrainians, not their own. Dying for the goals of the “special military operation” is not something Muscovites are prepared for.
Their first encounter with reality has been shocking, so now they stand in front of cameras asking in confusion: “Why are we being bombed?”
You're being bombed because you wanted this war, lived through it, and enjoyed the news from Ukraine and the videos of destroyed cities like Mariupol, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, and Pokrovsk.
But war has its own laws, and now what is happening to you is what you wished upon us.
After the spectacular fire show at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin received another loud slap in the face—this time in Moscow. Dozens of drones breaking through Moscow's air defenses are a sign of his inability to protect even his own capital.
I think that from today on, many fewer Muscovites will be cheering for the “special military operation.” People tend to start thinking when they get hit in the face.
Of course, not everyone learns the lesson. That's why there will likely be more strikes on Moscow and across the territory of this aggressive petrostate.
Thank God Ukraine has its Defense Forces, which provide far stronger security guarantees than any Trump ever could.
We will win.
Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.
JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?
ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.
JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?
ZELENSKYY: I love you.
JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?
ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.
JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?
ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.
And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.
JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?
ZELENSKYY: No.
JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?
ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.
Putin thinks he's already won.
Today, he drank champagne, cheering: "For victory! Hurrah, hurrah!"
What kind of world does he live in and what reports reach him, exactly?
Kasparov: Nothing will happen in Russia unless Ukraine wins the war. Period. Ukraine must win, Russia must lose.
Any war that ends “okay” for Russia strengthens the regime; only Ukrainian victory can open the road to change by proving the empire is dead. 1/