In addition to Zelenskyy’s videos, they’ve made sure that the final words of the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island are known and now echoed around the world: “Russian warship, go fuck yourselves.” A video has gone viral of Ukrainians mocking a group of Russian soldiers whose tank had broken down and who didn’t know the way to Kyiv anyway, presumably because of all the new road signs. They are utilising the internet to its fullest extent. And morale is vital in an invasion like this, and Ukraine are smashing it out of the park there. Was he any good? No idea - but what he IS good at is producing funny short videos he can put on Twitter and that, which are absolutely fantastic for Ukrainian morale. Here is something you may not know about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - he used to be a standup comedian. Zelenskyy remains in Kyiv, with his people.Īnd Putin, in his desperation to be adored, has turned Zelenskyy into a global icon and hero. America offered him asylum in the White House. No one expected Zelenskyy to survive the night but he did. Here is an image of a Russian tank receiving roadside assistance from Russia’s finest, an old Lada. Putin’s plan was to take Kyiv fast and move on, and he didn’t have a plan B - hence these kids, playing soldier. Russian soldiers keep abandoning their tanks and handing them over to the Ukrainian army. ![]() Ukraine captured 200 soldiers in one go, and most of them were confused 19 year olds with no training. Meanwhile, it turns out the Russian military might we feared is… possibly not quite as advertised? ![]() I can only say a handful of sentences in Ukrainian, Tumblrs, but as I understand it, from top to bottom, it says: To help stop the Russian advance, Ukraine has made and installed new road signs, like this one: Most countries have banned Russian planes from their air space. ![]() Volunteers from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan and Israel are all entering Ukraine to help fight and bolster the anti-Russian forces, which is probably illustrative of how Eurovision voting is going to run for the next decade. That is, I shit you not, the single biggest hit to the Russian military since the Second Chechen War. Ukraine successfully shot down a transport plane 20km from Kyiv. They started rolling out and using these WW2-style anti-tank thingies that look a bit like angry gabbions, look, here’s a picture of one being delivered:Ī bunch of spare iron girders turned into a hefty octopus of Russian misery, basically.īut it’s not just tanks they’re taking down, oh no. They managed to defend every single city overnight, including Kyiv. Ukraine is absolutely nailing this? Actually? Here is the conclusion of all that’s happened so far: Given Russia’s military might, it really looked likely. The plan was to push through fast, take Kyiv, and force Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, to surrender. So, Putin and the rest of the world believed that this invasion would take 1-4 days. This post is solely about what has happened, and how the invasion is going.) (This is also not about why the invasion has happened. But, I haven’t seen this stuff except in bits and pieces on Tumblr, so here we go. Please don’t take me as the spokesperson for Ukraine right now, nor as a solid reliable news source. This post is me putting it all in order, as a way to try and process my own emotional response as much as anything else (I freely admit there is an element of self-indulgence here). So naturally, my husband spent all day yesterday obsessively researching everything he could about it with the help of his journalist friends, as a way to help me process it. I think maybe her hair might have been blue? But - I will never know if she lives through this, and it’s driving me very slightly mad. I can sort of remember what she looked like now. As I said in that post, I can’t get our waitress out of my head. I posted yesterday about the time we spent there, and we’re all getting super pre-occupied about the invasion. Becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys: Ukraine, 26th Feb, 2022Ī friend of mine told me yesterday that he didn’t realise how much Ukraine meant to him until now.
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