My essay “I Had Good Luck Today” has just been published by Akademie Schloss Solitude.
It’s about ordinary life in Ukraine during the war.
www.akademie-solitude.de/de/i-had-goo...
The navigator asks - are we going home?
Yes, navigator, yes.
We are going home.
Ukraine will train Persian Gulf countries to shoot down drones. The first group of Ukrainian experts and military personnel will depart there tomorrow.
🤬 Washington has asked russia not to share intelligence with Iran, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Kharkiv: a russian strike on a residential building. A primary school teacher and her son, a second-grade student, were killed. An eighth-grade girl was also killed together with her mother.
Search and rescue operations at the site are ongoing.
Massive russian overnight attack.
🔵 Kharkiv: missile hit a residential building, at least 4 killed, 10 injured, including three children (6, 11, 17).
🔵 Zaporizhzhia: a baby injured.
🔵 Odesa, Kyiv: infrastructure hit, 4 people injured.
🔵 Chernivtsi: Kalibr missile strike on energy infrastructure
We’ve been doing this project for three years now, without a single professional stand-up comedian, and people still keep coming. Now we’ve even launched a collaboration with a body armor manufacturer.
Every three weeks in Kyiv we run veteran-volunteer stand-up nights: cringe jokes and fundraising for tactical medicine. We usually raise up to $1,000 in a single evening.
Hosted by the brilliant Andrii Zotikov and a whole team of people who forbid me from joking about hair ties or telling old jokes⬇️
A direct ballistic missile strike by russians on a residential high-rise building in Kharkiv has been confirmed. Significant destruction and a fire have been reported. People may be trapped under the rubble.
500 Ukrainian POWs came back home in just two days. 500 families can breathe again.
During a combat mission, Mariia Bihun, a servicewoman of the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade, was killed. Her partner Serhii Solovei, who served alongside her, shared the news.
Social skepticism is toxic. Around me, people volunteer, and it’s a better world than the one where everyone assumes hidden interests.
The exhibition in Lviv? Only printing costs. The playwriting course for veterans? Also volunteer.
Do the work.
In Balakun there’s a question: “How did you hear about us?”
Options:
– social media
– friends
– Alina
That just means many students learned about the project from me. I’m not paid. It’s fully volunteer developers, admins, 2,000 mentors, all unpaid.
Same with Leleka. I support because I choose to.
Today marks four years since the official creation of my home battalion.
Happy anniversary, my big, strange, and wonderful family!
Today, ornithologist Hanna Kuzio and I are opening our exhibition. Through art, we speak about empathy and the connections between sparrows, which are disappearing in modern cities, and homeless women.
Join us at 6:00 PM in Lviv at the Center for Urban Mobility, 24 Bandera Street.
Today I will speak about Ukraine at NYU Prague.
The discussion, “Culture during Wartime,” marks the 4th anniversary of the full-scale russian invasion. We will talk about how culture documents war.
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9.Churches
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101.Pregnant women
102.Elderly people
103.Civilians held in Russian captivity
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Ordinary Ukrainians are somewhere here
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1001.Poor-quality stretch ceilings
1002.Green candy wrappers
1003.Fallen soldiers of the Ukrainian army.
The World of Post-Empathy
A list of objects of empathy for most Europeans in relation to the war in Ukraine:
1. Wild animals
2. Pets
3. The environment
4. Cultural heritage sites
5. Children who remain in Ukraine
6. Child refugees
7. Ukrainian refugees in Europe
8. Democratic values
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Ukraine has intelligence indicating that the Russian Federation intends to continue carrying out similar terror.
Twenty-five people were injured and one person was killed.
The perpetrators were recruited via Telegram, and the organisation behind the attack is Russian
During a nighttime terrorist attack in Lviv, police officer Viktoriia Shpylka was killed. She was only 23.
Last autumn she married a patrol officer. They served together and were dreaming about their future.
This is police officer Viktoriia Shpylka. She was killed during a nighttime terrorist attack in Lviv. She will forever be 23.
Another night attack by russians across Ukraine.
Drones and missiles moved from the north and east toward central and southern regions. Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa were under threat.
Right now, russians are striking my city, Kyiv, with missiles and drones. Other Ukrainian cities are under attack as well.
This is what our night looks like.
We invite you to the photo exhibition ‘Connected’ at the Lviv Centre for Urban Mobility space.
This exhibition brings together documentary photography and scientific data to ask: what happens to living beings when social bonds are torn apart?
— Centre for Urban Mobility, 24 Stepan Bandera Street
“Menstruation” – Performance of the Year!
Today we received the Black Lotus award.
I am incredibly proud that we gave these women a voice. This performance is about hidden and uncomfortable female experiences during the war. Two of the five protagonists are sex workers.
Yesterday in Stockholm, there was a performance based on my text “Military Mama” at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Dramaten. The text is about combat medics, and afterwards I had the chance to speak to the audience about their work and ask them to donate to the Leleka Foundation.
Among the requirements were C1 English and about a million years of communications experience, so I applied with zero expectations, just so I would not regret not trying.
So here it is
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It is always worth trying.
I had my interview for a fellowship at the train station. The train was supposed to depart, but it was delayed, so I was telling a very serious Polish-German committee about Ukrainian resilience while boarding the carriage, and the conductor was scanning my ticket from my phone at the same time.
Maybe my face looks this way because I am an old woman living in difficult times. I have no optimism, but I do have people. Right now, the most recent contacts in my messenger, are all people who sacrifice their own interests for others.
We are shaped by our time. Not cheerful, but full of stories.
We want to speak with Europeans in the language of art. Let this discussion remind artists that their task is to toughen people and to save them.
I did not sleep today and spent seven hours at the border just to fly to Stockholm. Only for one day, then I have to return to Ukraine
