Alina Sarnatska

From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Zelensky has thanked the United States at least 78 times, CNN reports.

Kyiv was hit by two massive russian attacks tonight. Six people were killed.

A game that will teach Germans the rules of civil protection in the event of a russian attack, while they wait for help from the Ukrainian army.

I’m going home tomorrow ❤️🤗💫
Lining up the printed visuals for the exhibition. The Germans will see them on November 29–30 at the art institution

Ukrainian soldier of the Sich Riflemen, photographed circa 1917.
The Sich Riflemen Halych-Bukovyna Kurin was one of the first regular units of the Ukrainian People’s Army.

Thank you to everyone who shows up at pro-Ukraine rallies across Europe — and especially to the organizers.
You’re wonderful, and you’re firmly on the side of good ❤️💫🌸

Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else in the world. We are just afraid that this new plan will lead to an even greater escalation of the war. I don't want women in Poland and Estonia to have to fight on the front lines too. Help us protect Europe.

This is the Golden Gate of Kyiv, the main defensive gate of the city from the 11th century, built during the time of Kyiv Rus (the early medieval Slavic state with Kyiv as its capital).

#StandWithUkraine
#DefendDemocracy
#UkraineStrong
#AmericanLeadership
#FactCheckRussia

Kyiv now

Ukrainian defenders are the same civil people as you and me. They took arms both voluntarily and forcibly at the same time: because it was their response to russian aggression.

Today the winners of INDEX-2026 were announced.
It’s a huge honour for me.

I’m grateful, and honestly a bit terrified by the responsibility. But determined to use every minute in Lviv to its fullest.
My residency will run from January to March 2026.

In two settlements in Donetsk region, where russian FPV drones are hunting people, a forced evacuation of families with children is underway.
501 minors still remain.

Fifty children were evacuated in the last week alone. #Ukraine

Tonight in #Ternopil a Russian missile strike killed at least 20 people, including two children.

I need help finding mentors for @balakunua.bsky.social
If you have access to English or German-speaking communities, please invite them to spend a couple of hours a week helping Ukrainians learn languages.
All they need to do is register balakun.org.
Please repost!

I need help finding mentors for @balakunua.bsky.social
If you have access to English or German-speaking communities, please invite them to spend a couple of hours a week helping Ukrainians learn languages.
All they need to do is register balakun.org.
Please repost!

With great pride, we announce the beginning of cooperation between the patronage service of Azov and our volunteer international network Balakun.
@balakunua.bsky.social

⬆️ As long as you first move away the pinecone under your towel, two cigarette butts with lipstick on them, and the cap from a Pepsi bottle.
Then you lie down on the towel in your wet swimsuit and start drying in the sun. And while you dry, you sift the sand with your toes. Tap, tap. Tap.
Soft.

⬆️ Soft like the sole of a brand-new pair of New Balance sneakers - only in the first two months, before it gets flattened.

Your foot sits in them a bit awkwardly, but the softness makes up for it.
Your hair is soft like the featherbed in my grandmother’s house.
Soft like the river sand.⬇️

You touch me.
Especially when you laugh. There’s a tiny hook right in the middle of my chest. And I catch onto you with that little hook. It holds.

I touch you. I say: I only need sex from you, nothing else. You laugh. And when you laugh, you touch me even more.

I touch your hair. It’s soft.⬇️

Kyiv yesterday

Kyiv now

Four people were killed in Kyiv last night after a russian attack.
Another night of terror for our city.

Right now

I’m watching in real time as ballistic missiles fly toward Kyiv.
The monitoring channel says there are three targets, they’re about to hit.
My family at home is in the hallway. I need to wait a minute, the missiles will land, and they will text: “wow, that was a hit!”
So the hallway still exists.

⬆️ “With these (bang) injuries (bang) it doesn’t (bang) work (bang)». Broken rhythm.

We’ve been in the combat zone for four years, and it works. For my injuries, it works.
Drive me.
Drive.

⬆️ It’s because you drive me, and it feels like artificial respiration, mouth to mouth.
Did you know artificial breathing isn’t recommended when giving first aid in a combat zone? Instructor Ivan banged a tourniquet buckle on the table and said, ⬇️

⬆️ maybe it would be easier if a missile just hit our apartment in Kyiv and that was it. Of course I think it. But I’m ashamed.
Because of you, I read about the subjunctive mood in English grammar.
Because of you, I’ve enrolled in university again, even though I’m thirty-eight and it’s too late.
⬇️

Because of you, I trim my cuticles, dye my grey roots (every month!) and buy a new bra. Not as a set with panties, but don’t push it. The panties are fine. Because of you, I smear blue serum and do cheek-lifting exercises in an app, from bottom to top.

Because of you, I feel ashamed to think⬇️

⬆️
and that trip to the mountains almost here — so close,
and yet this week just keeps dragging on and on,
on and on.

That’s the forever I want with you.
To live through it entirely
every damn day,
every minute,
every second
to bite into it,
devour it,
tear it out for ourselves
and live it together.

⬆️ and then stand in line for twenty minutes,
because every woman there has already had her beer and come to pee.

The kind of forever that feels like the last workweek before New Year’s —
three online meetings at the same time on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
four unfinished projects,⬇️