"To stop the advance of the tank column, the decision was to blow up the Henichesk bridge. The engineer Skakun Vitaliy volunteered to perform this task. He mined the brdige but couldn't leave and blew it up together with himself." The unit successfully redeployed - Land Forces
Zelenskyy has already returned to Kyiv after he visited Washington. He shared a video from his cabinet.
"Good morning and good health for everyone! Phones are already ringing, I'm in the cabinet. Working towards victory. Have a good day!" https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/4506…
American infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are spotted in Poland today
Polish railway company PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe transports Bradleys toward the Ukrainian border.
📹http://t.me/war2022_info/45751?single…
The first wedding dance of Viktor and Oksana in the Lviv hospital ward. Oksana, a 23-year-old nurse from Lysychansk, lost her legs on 27 March. Then Oksana had turned to warn Viktor of the danger, and within a second a Russian mine exploded under her https://facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/videos/1581229688913724/…
"If Russia wins the war in Ukraine, we will see decades of this kind of behaviour ahead of us," the Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin said in Davos.
🎥http://weforum.org
Despite the rumors of her death, the American paramedic of Ukraine's Armed Forces Rebecca Maciorowski is safe and sound.
"I am definitely alive and well", Rebecca wrote on her Twitter.
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No traditional rushnyky, no vyshyvankas, no guests at the wedding ceremony of Yevheniya & Volodymyr serving in the 79th Brigade.
“Our feelings have been tested by time&war, so no one - friend or foe- can possibly change them. We decided not to wait."
https://bit.ly/3GMRSz6
Ukrainian soldier returns home from the frontlines for a short Christmas vacation with his family.
It will be painfully hard for him to leave, but he has to protect his homeland as Russia's relentless invasion of Ukraine goes on.
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These are the first steps in 6 months for Roman Hryhorian, a 🇺🇦defender severely wounded by the Russian shelling
Roman got a chance to go to the US & replace his limbs with bionic prosthetics. The 🇺🇦soldier Mykhailo Dianov crowdfunded $52K to help him.
📹http://instagram.com/p/CnG0N4BjNmL/
Russian forces rain incendiary projectiles on Marianka, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine
Such ammunition creates mass fires that cannot be extinguished with water. Launching incendiary projectiles at residential areas is a war crime.
🎥http://t.me/Tsaplienko/23299…
President Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to marine Vitaliy Skakun who blew the Henichesk bridge together with himself to stop the advance of the tank column of Russian invaders.🕯️https://facebook.com/president.gov.ua/videos/367696028251832/…
Ukrainian Motherland Monument in Kyiv, illuminated by the world-famous Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter on Christmas Day
https://t.me/c/1210003725/28808…📷by Kievskiy Dvizh
27-year-old Alice died defending her native Mariupol, the coastal city besieged by Russia for 82 days.
Her story, recorded by the SaveMariupol NGO: "She knew how to love 🇺🇦by deed, not by word, with her whole life," More on our fb: https://facebook.com/euromaidanpress.en/posts/1970696619780797…
Belarusians really demonstrate they are not with Putin&Lukashenka by fighting for Ukraine:
"We,Belarusians, members of the Anti-Lukashenko, pro-democracy resistance, joined all our forces to resist Russian aggression, and our Belarusian Batallion will defend Kyiv with our lives!"
Illya Hrabar was killed in Bakhmut today
Illya was a young sound designer, who joined Ukrainian Army voluntarily when Russia started its all-out war against Ukraine in February 2022. Illya got married last summer.
R.I.P.
📷Nazar Hrabar
Faces of #Azovstal
24y.o. Mykola “Frost” from Dnipropetrovsk Obl. He dreamt of becoming a dog trainer. But, became a soldier in Azov Battalion.
His fiancée Olha shares his last message:
“We stand for Ukraine, for all the dead, the living & unborn! We stand for our Freedom!"
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime-Minister Denys Shmyhal and other officials share video they are in Kyiv, stay with people. "We are here, defending our state, and so it will be," Zelenskyy said.
"US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment," Timothy Ash writes in his cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy: "The morning is difficult. We are dealing with terrorists. Dozens of missiles, Iranian Shahed [drones]. They have two targets." 1/X
🇺🇦marines of the 36th brigade shared a farewell video from Mariupol, saying they are devoted to Ukraine till the end. However, no ammunition was delivered to them in the besieged city. They ask to finish the job and fight for victory.
The body of 24yo American fighter Joshua Jones, call sign “Jesus”, was returned to Ukraine as part of a prisoner swap in mid-Oct. He was killed in Kharkiv Obl.
“I’m proud of my son. He was selfless in risking his life for a country that we have no connection to." said his mother
In their 50s, 60s & beyond, these Ukrainian soldiers defy their advanced age by carrying out combat missions with dedication.
Calmly and carefully, they work to dismantle & destroy the enemy.
“We will stand and win!” they say.
📷Territorial Defense Forces of Armed Forces of 🇺🇦
🇺🇦defender Serhiy Volyna writes from Azovstal: "It is as if I found myself in some hellish reality show where we, military,are fighting for life, using every chance,&the world is watching an interesting story. This is real:pain, suffering, hunger, torment, tears, fear, death" 1/2
Meet 7yo Stas from the undefeated city of Bakhmut Stas has been a kind of mascot for the soldiers
Stas has been waiting for Ukrainian soldiers to take his family to safety. It finally happened at Xmas. Stas is now safe and healthy somewhere in Ukraine
📷http://instagram.com/petro_ukraina
22yo French volunteer fighter Andreas Gallozzi killed in Luhansk Obl on 16 Feb. He was at defense post, when🇷🇺artillery fire destroyed position
“It was his goal, his reason for living. I knew I might lose him, but I respected his choice.” says his mother
http://bitly.ws/Az3T
The little girl asking mom if they’re going somewhere where Russians can’t throw bombs from the sky.
"I took that picture, I turned away and cried. It was after an intense few days and it finally broke me," the photographer Sasha Maslov said.
They went to war when🇷🇺invaded🇺🇦They believed in Freedom,the right to live in their God-given land
Remember their faces&sacrifice
Remember they laid down their lives not only for🇺🇦but for all of🇪🇺
RIP-Artur Ovdiyenko (23yrs), Bohdan Ischuk (20yrs), Denys Kotenko, Artur Venzhyk
30 km from the front line. Sowing season starts in Zaporizhia Oblast
“The land can't wait; we need to sow, fertilize&plant. Our Armed Forces&people must be fed. We have a second front here, which we, agricultural workers of #Ukraine️️ must defend&protect!” say farmers
📷Ukrinform
This Japanese guy came to Kharkiv in Ukraine to support locals
His banner says: "I'm not so brave to go to the military, I can't support the army with money. But I know how hard time is so I came to hug you and say I'm together with you."
Improvised Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher at work at Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast
The S-8 80mm rocket launcher system recuperated from a shot down Russian helicopter seems to have been mounted on the vehicle.
📹https://t.me/uniannet/84396
30yo Ihor Kuznetsov killed in Donetsk Obl in July 2022. Served as paratrooper & artillery gunner.
He was a strong, intelligent & calm man. Believed in God & God believed in him. Wanted to become a priest after the war, serve God & mankind.
Eternal Memory!
Heroes Never Die!
Someone raised Ukrainian flag over Mizhvodne in occupied Crimea
The narrator says it's Dec22, 08:02 (i.e. 07:02 EET, unclear if it's a.m. or p.m.)
📹https://t.me/war2022_info/43423…
"Where it hurts [muscles] develop." Soldier Yuriy Pavlik spent 2 months in bed after having severely wounded legs by Russian mortar. He underwent operations to cut off dead muscles & clean infection. There was a threat of amputation of both legs but he recovered
📹pavlikjurij
This mural was painted on the wall of the Military Academy of🇱🇹in Vilnius by an artist Linas Kaziulionis
It was inspired by a📷by Andriy Andriyenko, which captures a moment of farewell of🇺🇦border guard Vitaliy and his wife at Kramatorsk railway station https://facebook.com/DPSUkraine/posts/328024789436398?_rdr…
A 6-yo boy brings canned food to the grave of his mother who starved to death in Bucha. 🇺🇦artist Aluona Zhuk illustrated the scene.
"This picture will never leave my mind. So I want the world to see it too. And start calling a spade a spade. It’s genocide, 🇷🇺 genocide agnst 🇺🇦"
Chief of the General Staff of Belarus has resigned. He commented: "Due to the mass refusal to take part in hostilities...Belarusian army does not have the ability to staff any battalion group."
Reported by former Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Nosov https://facebook.com/alexander.nossov.5/posts/5081624665237826…
Another wartime wedding: rescuers Mykola Nechyporenko and Alina Shramenko got married in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The newlyweds work together in the 44th State Fire and Rescue Unit. He is the chief of the unit's guard, and she is the dispatcher.
https://t.me/dsns_telegram/6060…
23yo Rory Mason from Dunboyne, Ireland died fighting for 🇺🇦in Kharkiv counter-offensive. He served in Int'l Legion for Defense of 🇺🇦
“Rory was a private young man of drive, purpose & conviction. We are proud of his courage & selflessness” says his father
https://bit.ly/3EnBkMW
Roman Belinskyy lost an eye, part of his jaw and got numerous shrapnel wounds in a tank battle in Zaporizhzhia in May.
Belinskyy remains an active serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and plans to try himself as a combat training instructor.
📷Reporters
January 2023
Ukrainian servicemen evacuate injured fellow soldiers after a fierce battle with Russian forces
Military medics provide first aid to an injured Ukrainian soldier
📸 Emanuele Satolli https://war.ukraine.ua
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Kamikaze drones hit the factory that manufactures ammunition and drones in Isfahan, Iran.
Explosions are reported all over the country. Looks like Iran won't be able to deliver kamikaze drones to Russia any time soon.
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"In this war, the Russian army will forever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most barbaric and inhuman army in the world" - President Zelenskyy in his address.
"Today, two [Russian] warehouses with ammunition were destroyed in the Bakhmut area, one in the Avdiivka area, and another in the Lyman area [all in Donetsk Oblast]," Serhii Cherevatyi, spox for the Eastern Group of Troops said.
23-year-old Yevhen Palchenko, commander of the tank platoon, saved his brigade, bravely covering the brigade’s exit from encirclement. He was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine by the President.
Currently, he continues to defend Ukraine near Kherson https://war.ukraine.ua/heroes/
Meet Hasan. He was born and raised in Damascus, but for 23yrs has lived & worked 🇺🇦
Hasan has been fighting since 2014.
“My home in Syria was destroyed by Russia. I’ll do everything so that my children here in🇺🇦don’t experience what my parents experienced in Syria.”
📷14 Bde
Swedish military instructors salute Ukrainian soldiers who have finished their training and are heading back to the frontline
📹 via https://t.me/uniannet/95634
73-year-old Norwegian man Kjetil Krane blasts the sound of an air-raid siren outside the home of 🇷🇺diplomats in Oslo.
Krane says he wants to wake up Russians both metaphorically & physically to the horrors of the war. His shirt reads: "Wake up, Russian!"
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Mykhailo Dianov, a Ukrainian soldier who defended the southeastern port city of Mariupol during the 82-day-long Russian siege, donated all the money raised by a crowdfunding campaign for his rehabilitation to the kids whose fathers died defending Mariupol.
Ukraine fatigue? Not with our readers. Many of you have supported 🇺🇦 from the outset& continue to do so. THANK YOU! Indeed, too much is at stake to be guided by media fads. Target optics with thermal imaging✅, 2000€ to go for night-vision drone. Join us! https://euromaidanpress.com/lets-support-ukraine…
Christmas vibes in Kyiv subway.
Kids and their mothers dressed up in traditional Ukrainian clothes sing some folk songs to cheer people up. Merry Christmas!
🎥http://t.me/c/1210003725/28803…
Vlada Chernykh died on the battlefield while evacuating wounded soldiers under shelling.
"At one point I just realized that I needed to be there," she said in this interview. Before the war, she was a Ph.D. student at National Pharmaceutical Academy.
📹Suspilne Kharkiv
Ukraine's Deputy Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishina reacts to news about Ukraine being granted EU candidate status
📷 her fb page
Antonina Samoilova, a Ukrainian climber, successfully reached the top of Mount Everest and celebrated her accomplishment by unfurling the Ukrainian flag at the world's highest mountain
🎥 by InUkraine https://facebook.com/watch/?v=289303293486339…
Soldier Daria Filipieva, call sign “Blyskavka” (Lightning), killed on the front lines
She hoped to become a machine gunner or sniper, yet she excelled as combat medic, saving the lives of many🇺🇦soldiers
“I couldn’t stay home cuz I'm a soldier, it's my duty to defend my country"
Anonymous announced it has leaked the database of Nestlé, the largest food company in the world.
They tweeted about the leak of 10GB data of emails, passwords, Nestlé business customers, 16:15 EET
At least 80 Russian marines refused to participate in the war against Ukraine after they were landed in Kherson Oblast having realized that they were not going to exercise, according to the media project Graty's sources in law enforcement agencies of occupied Crimea.
Oleg Sentsov, Crimean filmmaker sentenced by Putin's regime to 20 years who held a 145-day-hunger strike demanding to free all Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin & was freed in a prisoner exchange, is now part of territorial defense, preparing to fight Russian invaders
27yo American volunteer soldier, Christopher James Campbell, killed on Apr 6, 2023, in Bakhmut, while defending Ukraine.
Engaged to Ivanna Sanina, daughter of🇺🇦filmmaker Oles Sanin. A veteran with 5 yrs military experience in Iraq and Kuwait.
Eternal Memory! Heroes Never Die!
They went to war when Russia invaded Ukraine. They believed in Freedom, the right to live in their God-given land.
They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine, but for all of Europe!
RIP - Viktoriya Polishchuk, Yura Oliinyk, Oleh Adamovsky, Hennadiy Matuliak
#ArmUkraineNow
Ukrainian fighter jet Su-25 flying over the rooftops in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian jets have to maneuver at a low altitude close to the frontlines to evade Russian anti-aircraft systems.
📹http://t.me/britishintelligence/6803…
A family came back to Bucha. Little Daryna wanted to play her piano, but her mother noticed that the prizes on top of the piano had been moved around. She opened the lid and found a bomb inside. A farewell “gift” from the Russians
https://theclaquers.com/posts/9079
After Zelensky's speech in the Australian Parliament, the country imposes a 35% tax on all goods from Russia and stops import of Russian oil and gas, - President's Office
Vladyslav Vashchuk, former player for🇺🇦nat'l team & Dynamo Kyiv -the most formidable football club in🇺🇦history -enlisted in Nat'l Guard of🇺🇦
“Yes, this was my personal decision. Yes, my family & friends are in shock. But I firmly believe in our Victory!”
https://facebook.com/vashchukvlad
🇺🇦soldiers met a wild animal in the forest close to the frontlines in eastern Ukraine
They feed it & made a short video that looks surreal. 🇺🇦ecosystem suffers huge losses due to the Russian invasion. Thousands of animals have already been killed.
📹http://t.me/supernova_plus/16255…
They went to war when Russia invaded Ukraine
They believed in Freedom, right to live and work in their God-given land
Remember their faces & their sacrifice
RIP-Taras Murtuzov, Yuriy Tsvietkov, Yaroslava Kryvonis (28yrs), Yashka Tsyhankov
#PlanesforUkraine#PutinWarCriminal
They went to war when 🇷🇺Russia invaded 🇺🇦. They believed in Freedom and the right to live in their God-given land
They laid down their lives not only for Ukraine, but for all of Europe!
RIP - Atanas Ivanov, Vladyslav Bilatchuk (34yrs), Artem Azarov, Andriy Vorona
#ArmUkraineNow
Russia launched its massive onslaught on Ukraine on Feb 24
We pay tribute to the heroic men & women who stood to fight the Russian invaders. They are proud & free; their sacrifice will never be forgotten
RIP-Mariya Vlasiuk, Volodymyr Karas, Serhiy Hondiuk, Denys Savchuk (24)
Having addressed initial challenges, Ukrainian forces made notable advancements in the Orikhiv direction, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, after an adjustment to their plans, evacuation of damaged armor, and the capture of strategically important positions.