Going to retweet this video of the "Russian warship go fuck yourself" song I posted yesterday, but with the Russian lyrics translated into English. The original lyrics are a poem (in Russian) by Alexandra Smelyanskaya. You can watch here: 1/5
Someone, of course, is good, but he is not ready to sit in a prisoner transport vehicle
And to some the Calvary isn't a scaffold
The difference in principles is, in principle, only five words:
"Russian warship, go fuck yourself" 2/5
The voice from the tube is calm, intermittent and muffled:
"Mom, I'm wearing a hat, I took the documents, there is no fear."
My daughter fell asleep on the floor in the subway today.
Russian warship, go fuck yourself. 3/5
If you really want something good for our land
over there the garden is plowed
Put grains in your pocket so that they grow.
Russian warship, go fuck yourself.
Here near Arta are Chechens, Belarusians and Kazakhs,
Here they believe in Buddha and Cthulhu, in Christ and Allah. 4/5
We will paint new frescoes on new churches
"Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
This empire needs both Kyiv and Crimea
Maybe I won't live long enough to see her collapse
But, rest assured, my great-grandson, upon meeting yours,
He'll say: Are you Russian?
OK.
Go fuck yourself. 5/5
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Some thoughts on the scenes we're seeing on social media of armed Russians, confronted by unarmed, protesting Ukrainians, being pushed back. Again, these are just insights from someone watching from afar, who just happens to know Ukrainians and Russians and Soviet mythology 1/
In the lead-up to this invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media was wall-to-wall all about how the Russian forces were going to be welcomed by ordinary Ukrainians. Like when the Soviets liberated European nations from the Nazis, freed concentration camps. 2/
Genuinely, I think, many of these young, unhardened Russian soldiers expected a heroes' welcome from ordinary Ukrainians who were being oppressed by an evil government. 3/
Getting a lot of questions about EU fighter jets for Ukraine. A word of caution on this. Many EU countries want to help Ukraine in any way they can - particularly those that have reason to fear for their own territories. But people are getting ahead of themselves. 1/4
EU has received Ukraine's request for jets, but it has walked back on previous comments and acknowledged it doesn't have enough money to pay for them. If Ukraine is to get jets, it will have to get them bilaterally from EU countries. 2/4
Jets are hugely expensive and need to be the sort of jets Ukrainian pilots can use. It's not like riding a bicycle. Some EU countries have these jets, but whether they'll send them to Ukraine is still an open question. 3/4
Dispatch from Kharkiv, from Professor Marina Petrushko, Dr Vladimir Pinyaev and Dr Taisiya Yurchuk, who are sheltering at a doctor's clinic in the second-largest city in Ukraine. They write:
"On the fourth day we live in HELL" 1/4
"Our lives have narrowed to the limits of basements. Our Drt Clinic, where life was born, has become a shelter for patients with young children of employees. Thank God - the house has thick walls and a solid basement." 2/4
"The Russians are destroying everything: residential neighborhoods, kindergartens, hospitals, even a blood transfusion station," these three doctors write. "Our guys from the ARMED FORCES of UKRAINE have been defending our lives for the fourth day." 3/4
Глядя на Путинские атаки на Украину снова и снова, меня поразила мысль, что он извлёк неправильный урок из ошибок Афганской войны. И что он совершенно неправильно понимает современную Украину, Украину президента Зеленского. 1/
У меня не сложилось какое-то конкретное мнение о Путине, несмотря на то, что я прочитала много написанного о нем. Написанного людьми намного умнее меня. Но я знаю современных русских, украинцев и украинских евреев. 2/
И я думаю, что Путин до сих пор живёт в мире до 1991-92 года. В мире если и нефункционального, но целостного СССР, частью которого была Украина. Вот в чём дело! Он потерял связь с действительностью. Привет, бункерный менталитет! 3/
Zelenskiy drops two more videos this morning. I will translate key bits of the first. It is in Russian, and he speaks directly to Belarusians who are voting today in a "referendum" on allowing Russia to host nuclear weapons on their land. 1/?foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/26/bel…
"My words are addressed to the citizens of Belarus. You've been called today to the ballot box to vote in a referendum. This could've looked like a normal political process, but now clearly there's nothing normal. Now, decisions are being taken on a very different level." 2/?
"The past night in Ukraine was cruel. Again, shootings, again bombing of civilian areas, civilian infrastructure ... [invading forces] are fighting against everyone. They are fighting against everything living. Against kindergartens. Against homes. Even against ambulances" 3/?