I had an encounter with a neighbor today. He’s an elderly gent who owns a 260sq m apartment in the centre of the city, worth a fortune, he dons a pinkie ring and is very proud to be one of the few people in Kyiv centre with not one but two (!!🙄) working fireplaces, a luxury which our local council now forbids for many obvious reasons. He was picking up some post and complained under his breath about “how things were more efficient in Soviet Union”. I stopped and asked if he could sell his apartment for a million dollars in Soviet Union. He said no,

A quick-build house built for a family in Moshchun village (Kyiv region), the entire village is almost completely destroyed. This house was built by a local church in just under 1 month! Ukraine will rebuild faster than katsaps can get a pot hole repaired. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Here is another one in Irpin.. built in about a month and cost about as much as an average car 💪 these are projects in villages, built on the very land where people lost their homes. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

18 hours without power now, I’m on the verge of dipping uncooked pasta into mayonnaise 😂 #odesa We will probably get power very soon for about 1.5 hours, and my wash cycle is 1 hour 20 minutes, so I’ve set up the washing machine and literally sitting next to it so I can gun straight for “daily cotton” with a chance of making it 😂

Donetsk residents are complaining that Russians are shelling Donetsk from Donetsk again. Pukin is a master of self-terror so this is hardly surprising. (dill = Ukrainians, a slur in Russian, “ukrop”) Here is a video from August - outgoing & incoming artillery in Enerhodar. Same story

https://twitter.com/typicaldonetsk/status/1557795099345666050

A lot of lovely people are offering me places to stay in Europe. I am Dutch/Ukrainian, my parents live in the Netherlands, I have lived in 12 countries in my life and for the past 8 years in Israel. I was born in Ukraine but only moved to Kyiv in 2021 during Covid. I can get on a train and go anywhere I want. But there is absolutely nowhere else I want to be. There is energy in the air I have never experienced before, maybe at insane music festivals. Unity, love, motivation, determination, anxiety, fear, bliss, the whole bouquet of human emotions

Air raid alert in Kyiv. After being woken up every hour by explosions last night, I haven’t properly slept for a while, I was hoping to have a full night’s sleep tonight. Oh well 🤷🏼‍♀️ Apparently dozens of Iranian Shahed drones flying over us right now. I don’t hear any, and I never have yet, but people say they sound like mopeds in the sky