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I’m very tired. you probably heard that Russia destroyed the Kakhovka Dam to slow Ukraine’s counter offensive. here’s something I didn’t quite realize: since this February, the Russians operated the dam in juuuuust the right way so that as much water would build up as possible when the snow melted and spring showers started. and then they blew the whole thing up.
40,000 people may need to be evacuated. I don’t really have the energy to say anything else right now.
Hospitallers Medical Battalion: actual angels can confirm. they’re combat-zone medical services - you know how humanitarian groups like MFS and Red Cross have to pause operations due to the Russians fucking shooting at humanitarian zones? yeah, these guys don’t pause for bullets, they fucking walk into them and they bring out anyone they can.
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation: you can choose from a number of various fundraiser projects here, if you’re feeling particularly picky. for those of you who balk at the idea of supporting anything military just please remember that things like vehicles and drones aren’t just for military use, they’re also for evacuation and finding the wounded and they’re fucking vital.
KSE Foundation: similar to the above, KSE has multiple projects you can choose from to donate to. looking at it right now, one of the projects with the lowest amounts of money raised thus far - despite being started in April - is Seeds for Ukraine, which will help Ukraine recover from the ecological devastation Russia has been wreaking (and with Ukraine, the countries that rely on Ukraine’s grain exports that Russia keeps trying to steal).
Come Back Alive: do these guys even need the introduction? they’re Come Back Alive. I’m kissing all of them.
United24: Zelenskyy’s brain child, and the official fundraising platform of Ukraine. Mark Hamill recommends the fundraisers for drones in particular.
UAnimals: Nova Kakhovka’s zoo got… pretty much completely swept away. all zoo residents except the birds have drowned. UAnimals has tried throughout the occupation to keep the animals safe, and they’ve been reporting on the status of the zoo. I don’t really know what to say except that I hope they’re able to save the pets and strays in the towns along the river.
You can find NGOs specific to evacuation efforts in this post; please signal boost it as well. I’ve listed them but am leaving the links for the op post.
Ukrainian FireFighters Foundation
Helping To Leave
VOSTOK SOS
Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Members of St. Michael's and St. George's Ukrainian Orthodox Church's Women's Council decorate traditional Easter eggs to sell until Easter Sunday. The Pysanky, as they are called, are made using a wax-resist and dye method, not paint. Profit from the decorated eggs went to Ukrainian refugee relief. Photos from 1947 and 1948.
Ukrainian Easter Egg photos from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Хочу привітати Вас усіх з Днем Незалежності!
Усім сил та терпінння, особливо захисникам нашої держави!
33 роки і це не буде останній! За Україну!
love ya😘
Just a normal Monday morning in Ukraine:
- a nation wide attack at night with russian drones and missiles
- over 40 missiles in the morning, with many explosions in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk
- russians have damaged a children’s hospital in Kyiv. Not just any hospital - this is Okhmadyt, one of the best hospitals in the country, and this how it looks right now:
That’s very close to where I live, by the way
- There are at least 11 injured people in Kyiv, the number may increase when the debris is cleared
Ordinary people are clearing the rubble of a Children Hospital "Ohmatdit" today in Kyiv, July 8th, 2024.
Today, Russian terrorists launched a massive missile attack 50+ missiles on several main cities of Ukraine, including the capital. All of them hit civilian infrastructure. "Ohmatdit" is the biggest and most famous, most modern children hospital in Ukraine, one of the biggest in Europe. Parents from all over the country bring their kids there. The missile hit the wing where cancer kids were placed as well as where the intensive care unit was situated.
For now 5 people confirmed dead in Kyiv. 11 confirmed dead in Kryivyi Rih - where Russians also hit civilian infrastructure and an administrative building.
russia blew up the dam
russians doesn't do any rescue operations on the left side of the river which they occupy, they don't allow to evacuate of those who survived
why?
Because russians filthy crazy orcs
Kherson region.
People and animals being rescued for more than a day.
Fucking russians.
An excellent list of organizations that can help Ukraine :
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS! RUSSIA HAS BLOWN UP THE KHAKIBKA HYDROELECTROSTATION DAM AND IS FLOODING COUNTLESS UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES! THIS IS THE BIGGEST ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE IN EUROPE SINCE CHORNOBYL! Post written and provided by @ohsalome: Now, the situation is desperate. I know I've bothered you with donations recently, but this is a time-sensitive matter. I've collected several organisations that are currently helping to evacuate people from the territory that is/will be soon flooded. Please, please, send them any cent you can and signal boost this, the things are really BAD and we need as much help as we can get: Vostok SOS helps people evacuate from dangerous territories, since the beginning of the war they've already helped 46 000 people. Elderly and disabled people are of an extra need of assistance. Helping to leave is another organization that has been helping evacuate people from occupied territories, and is currently gathering funds to help people in Kherson region.
Denys Fedko is a volunteer who currently collects money for fuel, which is always in short stock during war; and general evacuation needs.
PEOPLE ARE DROWNING, THE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ARE BEING WIPED OUT! THIS IS SOME OF THE MOST FERTILE SOIL ON THE EARTH, WHICH HAS BEEN GROWING GRAIN FOR EXPORT TO HUNDEREDS OF COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE ONES MOST DEPENDANT ON FOREIGN EXPORTS!
Ukraine today. This is what russia calls a “denazification and peacekeeping operation”
24.02 updates from Ukraine
please spread the information, dont trust russian propaganda
Watch this
Nazism comes from inferiority not from superiority complex...
Only the ones who feel left out and inferior feel desire to become nazi and experience life in different colors.
Anyone can be a nazi regarding of race.
god, I may say I wanna die on the smallest inconvenience but I really don't wanna die in a war, so please fingers crossed #ww3 won't happen. Istg I am already losing so much hair, if the war starts i will actually be bald.
Seeds For Tomorrow
Inspired by the brave Ukrainian woman who told the invading Russian soldier “Put sunflower seeds in your pocket so that sunflowers will grow when you die here.”
As a trans man and as a Ukrainian Jew, I cannot stress how important it is for us to know our history.
LGBTQ representation in Slavic countries is almost nonexistent. The ubiquity of gender norms is so often baked into our culture and societies. The looming threat of violence if we don't comply is so omnipresent that it prevents us from forming a strong community. Our stories are shared privately, hushed, with bated breath from friend to friend.
Far too much, i've witnessed the loneliness and alienation of people like me, the paralysing fear in parents' eyes for the fates of their children. I still cannot share my transness with my closest friends or relatives. People I have known since I was a child, whom I've shared my whole life with.
Imagine how many of us are living in the exact same circumstances. But we can never appease them enough, no matter how much we bend and mold ourselves for a semblance of normalcy that never existed.
It does not have to stay this way. Through making our history known, we must stay alive and stand united now more than ever.
We have always existed, and we aren't going anywhere.
Queer Jews Project Day 8 - Berel-Beyle
We only know about Berel-Beyle through Yeshaye Katovski’s letter to the Forward in 1936 about “the girl who became a man.” To summarize: Berel-Beyle was AFAB, grew up in Krivozer, Ukraine, left home for Odessa, transitioned to a man, went back to his hometown, was accepted by his community, and married an old girlfriend, Black Rachel.
To quote the letter, “In our shtetl, Berel-Beyle always had a good name as a fine, upstanding Jew.”
I wish we knew more about this trans ancestor, but I’m glad we know about him.
Learn more about Berel-Beyle here.
Queer Jews Project
Normal is a memory
Normal is a memory, but time moves so slow, so much like it always has, that no one notices.
No one notices that we don't talk about jam anymore, or how beautiful your dress is.
Because have you seen the news? There are war crimes, beloved.
Your dress? The price of weeks of food thirty years ago
And it tastes like small hands working sowing machines.
The jam? No one has time for home mades anymore, my dear. There are tears to be swallowed.
I wonder if there ever was a normalcy, with Sunday brunches and sadness, not depression. Or if it was always a memory.
Always just a few generations out of our reach.
See, I was wrong.
We do notice.
Some asshole insulted my Ukranian roommate then had the audacity to send a "apology" letter (or so he claimed) that even through my autistic brain was so rude and insensitive that it actually pissed me off. He claims that because what he said was "just facts" that he wasn't in the wrong and didn't need to apologize for what he said and sent an apple gift card as sympathy for the going on in Ukraine and with her friends and family there. No care whatsoever that what he said hurt her. He expressed no care for her feelings anywhere in this essay long letter, it was literally framed like he was telling the history of Ukraine for a school assignment for most of it, and to make it worse the last line reads "ps.dont strive for happiness, you will be disappointed every day." After this man man-splained the history of her own country to her.
"Facts don't care about feelings." Maybe, but people sure as hell should.
KOSA Links
https://chng.it/dPpyttg2bK
This is a petition against Kosa! Please sign it if you can!
Some more links:
https://www.badinternetbills.com/
https://www.stopkosa.com/
https://www.change.org/p/save-our-free-and-open-internet-stop-the-kids-online-safety-act
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/censorship-wont-make-kids-safe?nowrapper=true#:~:text=Privacy%2C%20free%20expression%2C%20and%20LGBTQ%2B,tell%20them%20to%20reject%20KOSA
https://www.tumblr.com/gomi-panda/742955024970317824/get-kosa-trending
https://www.tumblr.com/h0ly-tea/743149648740548608/anti-kosa-masterlist
https://www.tumblr.com/circuswhisprs/743163926709223424/if-you-live-in-the-us-please-contact-your
https://www.tumblr.com/mollyjimbly/721667434038362112/attention
Palestine Links:
This is a link to a button you can click every 24 hours to help Palestine. Please remember to click. (EDIT: And please dont forget about the war between Russia and Ukraine)
https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/
Other links:
https://www.tumblr.com/kafui-7/743849339759296512/daily-click?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/maraschino-fairy/732939527730102272/palestine-masterpost-masterpost?source=share
(EDIT 2: If you have any other links in mind, feel free to reblog this with them and add tags)
Ukrainians: *oust a Russian puppet President who had protesters assassinated*
Russia: *invades Ukraine, violating an international agreement to not do that*
Russia: *annexes part of Ukraine after a sham referendum*
Russia: *backs far-right Russian nationalist insurgents in Ukraine*
Russia: *talks about partitioning Ukraine, openly, on Russian state media*
Russia: *invades Ukraine again*
Ukraine: *starts to seriously consider joining NATO*
Russia: *openly talks about committing genocide against Ukrainians*
Russia: *sets up filtration camps in occupied territories*
Russia: *annexes more parts of Ukraine in another sham referendum*
Ukraine: No peace talks until Russia stops occupying our territory
Western Leftists: UKRAINE IS RUN BY UNREASONABLE WARMONGERING NAZIS! THE SOLUTION TO THIS WAR IS TO ACCEPT RUSSIA'S VERY REASONABLE DEMANDS AND GIVE PUTIN EVERYTHING HE WANTS!
Yeah *coughs* it’s more Ukraine (from Hetalia)
Final drawing of her trust ⭐️
I know her brother rlly likes sunflowers and I’ve seen other artist draw her with them so I put her in this greenery white void :33
Next drawing will be of Hungary 🇭🇺 !!!
*Coughs* 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Some people forget that Ukraine is LITERALLY Russia’s sister.. she’s hella scary
(drew her from the chin up because I lowkey don’t wanna draw her big boobs lol)
Kharkiv, my beloved city💙💛
At first drew Ghost from COD, but that ended up as a Ukrainian soldier.
19 innocent people 9 of whom were children (on the playground)—that is how ruzzians call a so-called meeting place of (military) commanders and instructors that was bombed succesfully.
that is how ruzzian peace looks like. occupation, murders, gaslighting, and bloodlust.