Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
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Friends, these are especially difficult times for Ukrainian businesses. Today, for example, several Ukrainian publishers and bookstore chains announced that their warehouses had been destroyed by missile strikes from fascist Russia. Unfortunately, among them was my favorite bookstore-cafe in Kyiv, ReadEat. The guys there asked readers on social media today to support them and help their business survive this. So I made a point of coming to their store on Antonovycha Street today, and despite everything, they are still here: a place where you can buy a wonderful Ukrainian book or a vinyl record, and enjoy coffee and desserts in a cozy atmosphere to the sound of a piano. So if you’re in Ukraine, I encourage you to support any Ukrainian bookstore or publisher you can, and help this wonderful culture of bookstore cafes survive, we are so proud of in Kyiv and across our country.
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WTF?? This is a Russian mobile air defense group -- I can't believe this is not AI 🫣
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I got just one question for this video: for the sake of fucking WHAT did this three-men crew of this Russian T-90M evaporate in a second? So that Ukraine would possibly abandon a scorched wood line 5,000 kilometres from their home that would only change hands again the day after? So that Russian Z-channels could present this as the elimination of a Ukrainian Leopard 2 and then of an Israeli Merkava 4? So that Putin spends another day fellating his wretched ego and not admitting the obvious failure of his 600-day “special military operation,” the end goal of which even Putin himself struggles to explain? I wanna know.
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Well, there you have it: Putin has crawled out of his bunker and is reviewing a parade in honour of “Russian Navy Day” -- on foot, alongside a handful of sailors in costume, somewhere in a backyard in St Petersburg, with a printed photo of a submarine stuck on the wall behind them, because apparently it’s too scary to do anything more. You could hardly find a better illustration of the “naval greatness” of modern Russia. Strangely left out of frame are the burning oil refineries and ports, the Black Sea Fleet that has barely dared to stick its nose out to sea for the fourth year running, its flagship lying on the seabed since 2022, and even the fact that internet service was shut down across St Petersburg today just in case Ukrainian drones might frighten the tsar.
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So why are Russians screaming and shrieking in every video now that Ukrainian cruise missiles and massive swarms of drones are finally flying back toward their cities? Weren't they the ones who spent decades happily consuming kilotons of the Kremlin's warmongering propaganda in everything from the daily news to films, TV series, and even cartoons? Weren't they the ones who enthusiastically echoed their permanent regime's slogans of "We can do it again!!!" and spent generations indulging in fantasies of a glorious war against the "decadent gay West," provided they could stay comfortably on their couches, consuming triumphant war reports and the sound of military marches on television? Weren't they the ones dreaming of putting those "stupid khokhol swines" in their place, cheering with delight when Ukrainians were "punished" for their pro-Western democratic revolution through the criminal seizure of Crimea and the unleashing of the bloody war in Donbas? Weren't they the ones who for years swallowed the revanchist pseudo-historical ravings of their KGB bio-robot in the Kremlin, shouting "On to Washington!!" and "On to Berlin!!" while dressing their own little children in military uniforms and putting them into toy tanks and cardboard missiles? Weren't they the ones who erupted in euphoria at the launch of the "Kyiv in three days" operation, only to then flock by the hundreds of thousands and millions to kill Ukrainians as mercenaries for peanuts and to work for Russia's military-industrial complex, counting their blood-soaked profits? Weren't they the ones who descended into complete moral savagery as a people and as a country, watching with their own eyes as horrific war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians were committed every single day, from torture and beheadings to the destruction of entire cities and nighttime missile strikes that brought apartment buildings down on top of the people inside? Weren't they the ones who celebrated every mass killing of Ukrainians on social media, gleefully fantasizing about "leaving Europe without gas" and "freezing the khokhols in the dark this winter"? Weren't they the very same people who loudly applauded and shouted "THANK YOU!!!" to the Wagner mercenaries in Rostov-on-Don three years ago? Aren't they still happily consuming nonstop propaganda about the "Kyiv junta," "Ukrainian Nazis," and the "former so-called Ukraine," while listening to state propagandist Solovyov and Putin's officials calling for Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv to be wiped off the face of the earth with nuclear weapons because they refused to submit and fought back? So what is it? Do Russians no longer enjoy the "sacred war" now that the time has come to answer for that entire orgy of hatred, chauvinism, revanchism, militarism, the cult of death, totalitarianism, and the cynical exploitation of the memory of World War II to justify new wars of conquest? Now the Ukraine they despised so deeply and looked down upon as inherently inferior -- has survived this war, rallied the support of the free world, armed itself to the teeth, and is now systematically breaking the very backbone of their inhuman war machine.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine's Mykolaiv: they are reopening McDonalds. There’s really nothing to laugh about here. For this war-weary city that has spent four years living just 60 km from the front line, under shelling and strikes, a McDonald’s open again is a giant piece of normal life returning to its people. Especially for kids.
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He tried to tell us everything in advance many years ago
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