Margo Gontar

Thank you for your support Phil. Heroiam slava ! 💪🇬🇧🇺🇦

Yeah I know I noticed that too

Explosions in Odesa . Air defense iust show down Russian drone, reports say. Just some 5 years ago one such report would be breaking news, now it’s the most mundane thing . This timeline is bizarre

Like cowardice ?

Wounded whale crying over my city again. Air raid siren alert is on in Kyiv. Ballistic missiles threat. Monday

On a photo: Kharkiv , after Russia bombed apartment buildings this weekend. Source: Suspilne Kharkiv .

Looks almost like a dollhouse . then eyes focus and you see what it really is :

human lives ruined by Russian missile

Hordii actually evacuated from Kharkiv to Bila Tserkva in Kyiv region back in 2022. But, out of all nights, he happened to be back in Kharkiv this weekend, when Russian missile killed him, and his mother.

2/2

Just realised something. which could break your heart. Because it just did mine. You see, Hordii, kid murdered by Russian missile on Saturday night, was from Kharkiv. But hockey club he played for - with a very cool name: Snow Leopard - is from my region, Kyiv region. Turned out 1/2

Source: Suspilne Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior Affairs

In Kharkiv, search and rescue operations are completed after Russian missile hit apartment building on Saturday night. 10 people were killed , including 2 children. They were 13 and 9 years old.

❗️❗️explosions in Sumy ❗️city under drone attack

This. Whatever else is going on, remember this.

Craven?

Sadly, yes

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I don’t want flowers. I want drones, Tomahawk missiles and F-16s.

❗️Russian drones in direction of Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine detected

This 👇💙💛

Photo, source: Kharkiv City Council, Suspilne Kharkiv

there’s still as many left. Which means Russia broken , only tonight, and only in Kharkiv, almost 1000 windows . Broken so many windows , instead of building something beautiful. What a waste.

These might look like some mundane photos you could easily scroll through - and I’d love they were honestly - but they’re not: it’s city workers in Kharkiv today helping people to cover their broken windows after Russia bombed the city this night . They already boarded up 470 of them - and

Fair

Doesn’t this make Russia , well I don’t know, U.S. enemy they should consider fighting instead of lifting sanctions and cozying up to ?

Russia.

Or was it rhetoric?

Going for a jog in a wartime Kyiv in between blackouts and air raid siren alerts

Many of you guys said you like it when I share the everyday stories from wartime Kyiv , how the life looks like, and this is one of those : me , going for a jog , between blackouts and air raid siren alerts

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Russian bombing next to his door,

And i felt relief, at first. And then I thought : what a fckd up world we live in that THIS is my family tradition now

saw the news - attacks on Kharkiv, wounded people in Kyiv, fallen debris, thermal power plant hit - so decided to text me. ‘broken tradition a little’ he laughs - meaning he sent a text when it was just ok, without

My morning started with a text from my father, saying ‘all is ok’. It means only one thing: that Russian attack was happening right next to him, but he’s ok. Immediately, it feels harder to breathe. I call him. Turns out, this time, all really is ok. He just

Something good amid the awful.