Exactly one month is left until the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The day that changed our lives two years ago. And for many, it took away their lives

1/ We are aware that after the initial shock and the wave of unprecedented support, war becomes routine, forgotten, and replaced by other news events. But in fact, they do not disappear. People continue to die in the fields of Donbas or from Ru missiles hitting Ukrainian cities

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Hi, we are anarchists from Kyiv who joined the armed fight against the Russian invaders on 24 February 2022 because we believe that the cause of defending society depends on every member of said society For 1,5 yrs now, we’ve been working as members of the TerDefense in a mortar unit. We worked in the Kharkiv sector, & when Kharkiv Region was deoccupied, we were relocated to the East. Right now we are nesr Bakhmut, where we continue our work defending against the occupiers

One more extraordinary person has been taken from us by the war. With great sorrow we inform you about the death of our comrade, left-wing journalist and popularizer of science Yevheniy Osiyevskyi. Zhenia died on 22 May near #Bakhmut The beginning of the war caught him at a university dormitory in Vorzel, a town near #Bucha, Hostomel and Irpin. So he spent the first two weeks under occupation and wrote an excellent piece about it👇
commons.com.ua/en/dva-tizhni-…

Later he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Today we want to tell you about another comrade of ours who was killed in action on 19.04.2023, Finbar Cafferkey, aka Heval Çîya.

He was a deeply committed comrade who always put struggle and his love for others first. He was funny, kind and loved fully and openly Finbar was an internationalist who worked and fought against state and capital. He saw past superficial contradictions and dilemmas that might paralyze others and appreciated instead the complexity of the world. One can be both discerning and decisive, as he was

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On April 19, in a battle on the outskirts of #Bakhmut, 3 of our comrades, international volunteers, were killed.

We’ll tell you about each of them.

We’ll start with our close friend & convinced anarchist Dmytro Petrov aka Illia Leshyi Dmytro had a PhD in History and was an anthropologist. He was active in all protest events in Russia, particularly the protest on Bolotnaya Square. And in 2014, he supported the Maidan