⚡️Russians shelled the centre of Kherson
"Russians carried out another terror attack, they shelled the city centre! People died, buildings destroyed. Centre, a day off, many people on the street. All services are working, we are investigating the consequences," Kyrylo Tymoshenko
Merry Christmas to Western Rite Orthodox Christians!
Today and all future winter holidays we meet in difficult circumstances. Someone will see the first star in the sky over Bakhmut, Rubizhne, and Kreminna today.
Someone will celebrate the holiday in other people's homes, but strange people's homes – homes of Ukrainians who gave shelter to Ukrainians. Someone will hear Shchedryk in another language - in Warsaw, Berlin, London, New York, Toronto and many other cities and countries.
From the very early morning, the sky above the Black Sea was covered by heavy clouds on the horizon. They hovered like a dense black blanket a couple of kilometres above the water, with nothing to be seen from the sky on the surface of the sea
Almost no one knows about it, but the first combat use of the Neptunes took place in the first days of the full-scale invasion by Russia. It was then that three Russian landing ships left the ports in Crimea and headed towards the Ukrainian coast in Mykolaiv Oblast
Buckwheat with the taste of death. Four weeks of the occupation of Irpin through the eyes of Kuzia the shaggy dog pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2…
March 2022. Irpin is partially occupied by the Russians. A large black and grey dog wanders the streets of the city.
The world is upside down in his eyes. The basements where homeless dogs used to hide away from the cold are now inhabited by humans.
Things fly and fall from the sky, making the houses catch fire and collapse like dog houses. The air smells of burning and soot. The streets are lined with humans having a rest, and for some reason they don’t move.
In contrast to Kyiv, Chernihiv and even Sumy, Kharkiv is unfortunately situated only 40 kilometres away from the Russian border. That’s why even when the occupiers were pushed back, the war was far from over for Kharkiv.
A scarred city
If you spend some time looking at the Derzhprom building in Kharkiv, it might seem that the war never happened. [This is a building in central Kharkiv known as the State Industry Building or the Palace of Industry in English.
Calling others fascists while being a fascist is the essential Putinist practice. Jason Stanley, an American philosopher, calls it ‘undermining propaganda’. I have called it ‘schizofascism’. The Ukrainians have the most elegant formulation. They call it ‘ruscism’."
In this interview, the renowned historian shares his view of China's role in the war against Ukraine, reflects on propaganda, and explains why the Ukrainian resistance reminds him of literature.