Just for us to remember: today is the 94th day of #RussiaUkraineWar.
The words' author Ilona Skala.
The video's author Oksana Gidulyan.
Read by Andriy Fedorof.
#UkraineUnderAttaсk #StopRussia
In English
"I thought it would be impossible to hate you more. But you raised our hatred to some transcendental level. You have dug such depths... You have awakened age-old deposits. The earth’s core was torn apart, and fiery lava gushed from there.
2/2
"We hate you. Everyone who comes, who supports and who remains silent. And send far away everyone trying to sell us some rays of good. At the moment, we have two options available: fear and hatred. But no, fear is also inaccessible. We hate you."
3/
"You came dishonourably. At night. On Our land! You stole old age from our parents and childhood from our children. You stole spring from us. It came, but we did not notice. But we will have many more springs, and you have already drowned in darkness."
4/
"We become ten years older but a hundred lives wiser. And all these hundred lives, we will hate you. For our grey-haired fathers, who should have whiled away their time with a fishing rod, but without hesitation go into the defence forces."
5/
"For children who prepare Molotov cocktails and are born under bombs. For everyone who died. For every city. For every uprooted tree. For the destroyed maternity home. But we will fix everything!"
6/
"You say that we are not a nation and do not exist. But now, every Ukrainian anywhere in the world has heard "the call of blood." These unknown threads, vessels, and neurons transmitted the very code of the nation, turning all of us into a well-functioning mechanism."
7/
"And then our hatred mutates. It will develop into something vile and squeamish. And we will pass on this feeling to the world as a baton."
8/
"And at a time when you will be ashamed to say where you are from, we will proudly say: "Good evening, we are from Ukraine!"

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