Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
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Russia, with its missile attacks, destroyed last night the unique National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv’s Podil… look at the precious heritage of our history the Kremlin is waging war against, because fighting the Ukrainian army is proving far more difficult for it. The museum housed more than 22,000 exhibits related to the 1986 nuclear disaster.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦208,345 views • 11 days ago
Meanwhile in Russia’s Taganrog: The Magyar’s Birds 414 Magyar's Birds destroy two (!) Tupolev Tu-142 aircraft and an Iskander launcher (!!). Fantastic haul, yet again. And then, the Unmanned Systems 🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces forces also struck a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker, an oil depot in Taganrog and an oil terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦60,519 views • 5 days ago
The center of Bakhmut today, three years after the end of the bloody battle for these ruins, the Verdun of our era. Just a few years ago, this was a well-kept and thriving Ukrainian city of 70,000, famous for its fountains, its long traditions of producing famous local salt and sparkling wine. It had the Atlantic Hotel, widely known across Donbas. It had good cafes, sushi bars, restaurants, cozy flower-lined alleys. Now, there's nothing but death, ruins, emptiness, and time that has stopped here forever. Now this is the "Russian world," and of course, there will never be any life here again.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦224,779 views • 18 days ago
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.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦11,090,316 views • 2 years ago
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.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦497,377 views • 2 months ago
Four years ago, in these very days, the fate of Kyiv was finally decided. Here, in the small dacha village of Moshchun on the outskirts of Kyiv, on the banks of the Irpin River, Russian forces suffered a decisive defeat, and on March 21, 2022, Ukrainian troops cleared the area of the enemy, securing a decisive victory in the battle for Kyiv. It was here, in Moshchun, that Russian forces managed to cross the Irpin River at the only point and threaten a breakthrough directly into Kyiv. It was here that the heroic 72nd Mechanized, as well as units and formations of the territorial defense, special operations forces, the National Guard, and volunteers (including foreigners), fought a heavy battle to prevent this, and the fate of the capital hung by a thread. But the heroism of the defenders prevailed. Russian forces, in particular the ill-fated 155th Naval Infantry from the Pacific and elite VDV units faltered and retreated from Moshchun. Not a single Russian soldier ever set foot within the administrative boundaries of Kyiv. It is sad, but Moshchun barely survived the battle of 2022 -- it became largely depopulated and significantly destroyed, although residents have already rebuilt and restored much. It is always very quiet there. The local community and authorities have for several years now been arranging and developing an open-air memorial museum called “Angels of Victory.” On the very site where Ukrainian trenches once stood in opposition to advancing Russian forces. I went there again a couple of days ago to pay respects to the souls of the fallen soldiers. This is a place of mourning and a place of the greatest gratitude, one that every person who values the ideals of the free world should visit.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦270,440 views • 2 months ago
Tonight here in Bucha, we are holding a night of remembrance. 561 civilians were killed here over 33 days of fighting and Russian occupation. Across the entire territorial community surrounding the city, more than 1,000 people died during that time. Hundreds were shot by Russian soldiers, and the bodies of many lay in the streets and against walls for weeks, until Russia's defeat and the return of Ukrainian forces to the city, along with the global media. And the name of this comfortable, prosperous suburb of Kyiv among the woods became a shocking symbol of atrocity and inhumanity, images that went around the world. This is the church in the center of Bucha, next to which a mass grave of 67 bodies was found. During the occupation, people buried their dead as best they could -- like this, in a pit beside a church. Every day I can see that church from my home in the distance, and every time, I remember how we were present at the terrible exhumation of that enormous grave. That's something I would want to forget forever. A memorial complex now stands on that spot.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦236,038 views • 2 months ago
Ukrainian heroes of the Battle of Mariupol 2022 are coming home now
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦369,383 views • 3 months ago
The Russian military executed 16 (!!!) surrendered Ukrainian soldiers at sight. This is the worst incident of POW execution known so far in this war. It happened near Pokrovsk. Look at what the Russians did - they lined the surrendered Ukrainians up, shot them all down, and then finished off those dying on the ground. When some sneaky character says 'Ukrainians just need to surrender," -- this is the answer regarding what will happen if Ukraine "just surrenders" to Russia, which is absolutely out of its damn mind and sick with absolute sadism.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦1,564,937 views • 1 year ago