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This text comes a bit too late, but I think it is still worth posting. I could confidently predict the failure of the "28-point peace plan" by one critical mistake its authors made: bad timing (and likely an insolent ignorance of the basic facts of Ukrainian history): www.patreon.com/posts/144390...

A weekend is a time to get my soul into order. Today, I suggest you enjoy three documentary films and two texts on the fate of the arts in Ukraine during the war: www.patreon.com/posts/arts-a...

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Finally! There are gasoline shortages in parts of Moscovia and an electricity blackout in Bilhorod today. The more the Moscovites feel the war, the closer the peace is.
Please send more peacemaking instruments to Ukraine.
If you don't own a Tomahawk, you still can support the Ukrainian army today:

Ukraine has finally refurbished its recruitment website - and some of the internal processes - for the international servicemen willing to join the Ukrainian Army in the fight for Ukraine's freedom (and for the defeat of the bloody Moscovian Empire).
Here's the link: www.joinuarmy.org/en/

YouTube video by John Doe Yes, Prime Minister - Russian Tactics and Nuclear Deterrent

I must say the British, with all their mistakes, are one of the nations that have a character, and that can think and act, and even learn from history. Apparently, it does help to lose a global empire once in a while:
youtu.be/QgkUVIj3KWY

I've wrote an offhand and somewhat rambling post on LinkedIn yesterday. On our engineering unit willingness to take in, welcome, and train international warriors. So I'll redo it clearer toda... I've wrote an offhand and somewhat rambling post on LinkedIn yesterday. On our engineering unit willingness to take in, welcome, and train international warriors. So I'll redo it clearer today. 1. I...

2) Normally not a front-line role - therefore, easier requirements for physical fitness and age.
But you will be based in Ukraine and serve in the Ukrainian Army, and you will have to obey the orders.
Here is the post of the officer of the unit: www.linkedin.com/posts/petro-...

1) A Ukrainian engineering Army unit is looking for international specialists to join their ranks.
The unit is looking for "drivers, electronic specialists, engineers, architects".⬇️

YouTube video by BBC World Service Kharkiv War Diaries: Stories from a City on the Edge - BBC World Service Documentaries

Kharkiv War Diaries: Stories from a City on the Edge - BBC World Service Documentaries. From the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion until now:
#Ukraine
#Kharkiv
#Documentary

International firms’ taxes paid in Russia in 2024 are equivalent to 1 million soldiers for Putin. This is the bloody mathematics we Ukrainians have to face today.
Unfortunately, the companies from the "collective West" (and China) lead the rating.
Read more in the latest @b4ukraine.org report.

Happy Ukrainian Independence Day, everybody!
Thank you for standing with us! Please carry on - the fighting continues every day and night, right now!
www.patreon.com/posts/happy-...

Who would have thought! Kudos to Germany for noticing the existence of the elephant!

Another serving of my #UkrainianVoices series: Vitaly Portnikov, on when Putin went off the rails. Available for free, but your signing up on Patreon is much appreciated - it shows me that there is a real interest - and, possibly, a need - in what I do: www.patreon.com/posts/136497...

Great job!

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Night in the Crimea. View of Ayu Dag", 1850, by Ivan Aivazovsky.
Born Hovhannes Aivazian, he was a descendant of Ukrainian Armenians, who settled in Galicia in the 18th century. His family moved to Crimea in 1812.
"Ayu Dag" means "Bear Mountain" in Crimean Tatar.

YouTube video by Clin d'œil Fims Cuba & Alaska - Trailer EN subs

Get your head out of the meaningless newsstream, and enjoy some real-life stories. Cuba & Alaska, a documentary about two Ukrainian combat medics, hits the Ukrainian cinemas tomorrow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0qK...

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Noon. A herd in the steppe", 1895, by Arkhyp Kuindzhy.
Today, Ukrainian steppe is known as an endless field of grain crops. However, until the 1950s, the steppe was mostly used for livestock farming, with large herds of sheep, cows, and horses grazing under the sky.

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Steamship Moskva at the storm", 1884, by Rufin Sudkovsky
Sudkovsky (1850-1885) was born in Ochakiv. He studied painting in Odesa and St. Petersburg, reaching success there, but returning home for health reasons. He loved the Black Sea and mostly painted marine art.

A new post in my #UkrainianVoices Series: Oksana Zabuzhko, on the time-proven method of negotiations with the Russians: www.patreon.com/posts/136184...
Enjoy!
#Ukraine #Russia #Putin

Rest in peace, our beautiful sister. Death to the enemies.

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Justice of the peace", 1887, by Mykola Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov (1850-1929) was born in a wealthy family in the Kherson region. As a young man, he went against the will of his parents and started living with a seasonal worker girl from Volyn, eventually marrying her.

Back in 2019, it appears that HBO used a Russian subcontractor to advise them on certain legal issues related to their famous TV series "Chernobyl". Yes, to the place, events, and people who were located in #Ukraine. What could go wrong? Read more here: www.patreon.com/posts/lookin...

You can now read part 2 of my Cossacks series: Names and Peoples. Cossacks or Zaporizhians? Cherkasy and Circassians. Hetmanate and Zaporizhzhia Cossacks. Cossacks and Kazakhs. Dnipro Cossacks and Don Cossacks. Everything is connected. Enjoy your reading: www.patreon.com/posts/135175...

Great results! Let it burn!

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Before the rain", 1880, by Kostiantyn Kryzhytsky
Despite living in St. Petersburg, Kryzhytsky often travels to his native Kyiv and draws mostly Ukrainian landscapes. The weather in the picture is the exact weather we have had in Kyiv for the last two weeks or so.

believing in Bolshevik propaganda and relative liberalization of the 1920s. In September 1937, Soviet security services arrested him for "participation in a Ukrainian nationalist terrorist organization" and "working for German intelligence". In two months, the artist was executed by firing squad.

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Bohdan Khmelnytsky entering Kyiv in December 1648", by Mykola Ivasiuk.
Ivasiuk (1865–1937) was born in Zastavna, Bukovyna. He studied at the Munich and Vienna art academies. Ivasiuk lived in [Romanian] Chernivtsi until he moved to [Soviet] Kyiv in 1926, ⬇️

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldoviae", 1720, by Johann Baptiste Homann".
One of the illustrations for my new Patreon post on the various names of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Paid members can see it now, free members will see it on August 1.

In Ukraine, "1984" or "Animal Farm" are required senior school reading. In Russia, "1984" used to be listed in "additional reading" recommendations, and was fully excluded from the list in 2024.

#Ukraine #ClassicArt of the day: "The sunrise in Feodosia", 1855, by Ivan Aivazovsky.
Aivazovsky was born in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea, an ancient city known historically as Kaffa. Though he enjoyed great success all over Europe, he decided to live, teach, and work in his home town.

This is disgusting.