#ruzzia is genociding Ukrainians

[swemtpotamtam]

I hope people will keep talking about Ukraine 'cause we are still being genocided by ruzzia They are attacking our cities and killing off tons of people every day. Literally no one is safe. Doesn't matter if you live in a place farther away from the frontline or right next to it, ruzzian missiles can still get you. Literally tonight ruzzia sent ballistic missiles at Kyiv. They are trying to hit our critical infrastructure, trying to kill our people. And they should pay for this. Please, keep supporting Ukraine

#cardi rambles #support Ukraine #ruzzia is a terrorist state #ruzzia is genociding Ukrainians

[imfeelingbad]

(As a ukrainian) I lost all hope in humanity forever ago and I'm pretty sure I won't change someone's opinion, but I just want to tell the truth that i cry about every time.

I didn't see my home for 2 years. When I was there all I heard was explosions, bombs and warplanes. I saw ruined houses. I saw my half-destroyed school near which a projectile fell. I saw fire, smoke, a lot of it. I was in there. I heard all this. I heard. I saw. with my own eyes and ears. And what did you see and heard in the west, saying "This is all just Ukrainian propaganda"?

I was in the metro and saw hundreds of my fellow citizens, that a few months ago were casually going in this metro to their jobs, schools, universities etc. Some were sitting on the floor, some on old crusty carpets, with no fresh air, no normal ability just to go pee, not even talking about washing. But they were there just to be safe. Just to not die. They didn't care about hygiene, warm food and bath, delicious drink in their favorite café, all they did care about was just surviving.

Then I heard about Bucha massacre (read about this, if you think "russian soldiers are just poor people who don't want war and against Putin!!"). I heard hundreds women, children, men being raped, killed, tortured and firstly I was shocked. Then I heard about Irpin, Mariupol', Izium, Bahmut, now Avdiivka and many other ukrainian cities, that were completely destroyed by russians. But the difference is now I'm not shocked or surprised. Because now I understand this is Russian world, Russian culture, whole Russia in general.

But no one cares. No one cares about genocide, if the victim is big country in the center of Europe (even though every country has many people of color, and the biggest country in the world terrorizes it).

I saw a girl in the tiktok that was telling about the film "20 days in Mariupol". I looked in the comments and started crying. Why am I, my family, my friends, all ukrainians supposed to suffer while some westerns and russians are just laughing and saying "slava russia"?

Many people were talking about Gaza and I agree, there is total hell in Gaza and I feel very sorry for Palestinian people. I know how it is. But what gives YOU, a person that is sitting in the safe place with all basical human needs and think a war is just some trend, the right to compare the DEATHS of people that DIED from GENOCIDE and say that one GENOCIDE is less bad than another.

I'm not saying that we are suffering more than Palestinians, I'm saying that it's just so cruel to normalize deaths of people.. any people. That DON'T HURT anybody. That just want to live in a free country.

If I say, boycott Israel, all people from Israel are terrorists, people will agree with me. But when I say Russia is the terrorist, people will say "No, you're just xenophobic!"... And the genocide of my people is NOT xenophobic?? And the hundreds of years of destruction of Ukrainian culture is not xenophobic??

"What about Gaza?"

Gaza needs help. Ukraine needs help. Congo needs help. Syria needs help. No one should suffer. THAT'S my point.

Did you hear something about Holodomor in Ukraine? About MILLIONS of Ukrainians that died because soviet government were taking LITERALLY EVERY FUCKING BREAD CRUMB?? around 3.9 million ukrainians died. And this is only according to official data. These are only people whose identities have been established. It does not take into account people who were missing, or who were just horribly maimed.

If you still think I'm an ukrainian propagandist and not some fucking random teen like you who's just sharing my thoughts, read about Holodomor in Kazakhstan, first Russian-Chechen war, SECOND Russian-Chechen war, Russian-Georgian war, Russia’s invasion of Syria, Illegal occupation of Crimea and Donbas or just anything that involves Russia and war crimes.

If you're still saying this is all propaganda, Photoshop, I'm not surprised. Of course, everything around is propaganda. But not your beautiful truthful swamp.

Sometimes I just wish I was in yours shoes. Not caring about anything.

I don't care what russia supporting bots will say, I don't care people will not believe me, I just want to feel alive again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes

#war #genocide of ukrainians #russia is a terrorist state #ukraine #україна #palestine #free palestine #free ukraine #genocide #first post #last post #russia #ruzzia #israel #ussr

[hamiltonyumyum]

(Gonna write this js in case

I'm not saying that you shouldn't uspoort helping Palestinians w/ the genocide. Not at all. I am with the free palestine movement, but this is not about Palestine, ok? Js want to make this clear so I don't get backlash )

the amount of frustration I get when someone glorifies the soviet union in any way possible/makes a statement about something they aren't even going through

the soviet union was terrible. No excuses at all. Genuinley jump off a cliff if you have an argument against that statement.

and most of the time, the people who say this are those who have never experienced communism of any sort or even been told what half the pain of it is like. people suffered and died.

The same goes w/ ruzzia sympathisers!!

Secondly, please do not ever compare two wars— it isn't the Olympics.

"Palestine is going through more!" -Probably someone whose never experienced war

Genuinley kys!! People are *dying*!!!

It's genuinely so sad seeing people post comments saying: "Free Gaza!" On posts about Ukraine.

The fact that Palestine is also becoming a trend is ,, sad, and it's gonna end up like Ukraine: forgotten and having comments on it saying "I thoguht the war ended??" (These comments make me so mad)

In conclusion, Ruzzia sucks and the war is NOT over.

#save ukraine #free ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #ukrainian #russo ukrainian war #free gaza #slava ukraini #слава україні! #stop listening to ruzzian music #stop funding genocide #stop funding ruzzia

[unhonestlymirror]

It makes me sick to see "arguments" in defence of russia as "but their culture..." - did you know that a Wegeners granulomatosis was renamed because it was discovered(?) by the nazi doctor, Wegener? And they renamed it to granulomatosis with polyangiitis, and nothing bad happened. Did you know that a nazi Germany actually had a bunch of good doctors/artists/singers/etc who supported and even participated in the fucking genocide? We don't forgive nazis, then why should we forgive ruzzia?

Why do people still glorify russia? Why do people STILL draw Ukraine and Belarus as russia's sisters? Why do people use russian names for Ukrainian and Belaruthian cities and history? Why do people completely ignore what russia does to Ukraine? Why do people ignore the total linguicide of Belarus? Why do people erase us and glorify our rapist?

Sometimes, I feel like most of us never studied WW2 at school. Everyone is just ready to glorify the new hitler. Seems like most people are able to understand what Eastern Europeans feel only when a russian rocket hits their house. Otherwise, they just don't understand why rusliet or drawing Belarus with prorussian flag or drawing MY COUNTRY AS RUSSIA'S SISTER is fucking disgusting and very offensive.

I wish every such content maker to find out how it feels to live under russian occupation. Seems like the experience of real people is not enough for them.

#hetalia #hws russia #aph russia #russia is a terrorist state #russia is a new nazi state wake up #hws ukraine #aph ukraine #hws belarus #aph belarus #hws lithuania #aph lithuania #hws latvia #aph latvia

[alcestas-sloboda]

I am so fcking sorry for you. Seeing ruzzia trending and the content which is presented therein is horrifying. Just this morning I had to read a post about how many tragedies are occuring atm snd although the post also mentioned one or two other things, the only ruzzia associated tragedy was the stupid ass law which frankly really doesn't change the political situation of Queers in Mordor all that much because it's mostly a law for posturing ... but suuure just mention Palestinians but conveniently forget about Syrians and Ukrainians.

And yes Queers in ruzzia are supressed and may to some extent deserve pity and sympathy - although not few of them may be flawed I may recognize their tragedy - but comparing not being allowed to express yourself in public, albeit horrific, to a freaking genocide is crazy and people who do are insane.

I cannot even. There is no words to describe ignorance of such an extent.

Just sorry for you.

Can't donate atm as I have to save up for a big move, but I will definitely donate more money to Ukraine as soon as I begin at my new workplace.

the funny thing is to see russians saying that everyone should care about this when they have never mentioned anything that their country has done to people all around the world. like yeah vanya, I must care about you when rockets and uavs with your country’s code are being launched at my people every day. yeah, westerners share info about a law that literally changes nothing as russians and their cronies have killed queer people in chechnya. yeah, support people who have done nothing to change anything in their country while ukrainian queers are fighting on the frontlines and are in dire need of help. bunch of hypocritical morons.

nevertheless, thank you for your support and donations, they are vital for our defenders.

good luck at your new job ❤️

[silverfox66]

Whenever I read the news, I honestly get the impression, that "Western" press in particular continues to be unable to not fixiate on ruzzia above all else. Like there will be a two person anti war picket with pretty much zero relevance in Moscow, but you better be sure, it'll be covered extensively by press. I really don't understand what is wrong with the press - reading English and German language nrws primarly - that they still need to romanticize ruzzia at every turn or at the very least push a narrative, that quite frankly is trying so hard to be humanising as if a genocide wasn't unfolding before our very eyes. And then Ukrainian officials be like: hey so the damn is being mined (October statement) and yet press will be like, well why would ruzzia possibly do that, absolutely scrambling to not push this onto ruzzians but rather having to put some official ruzzian statement side by side as if ruzzia hasn't repeatedly proven to be lying, unreliable and outright purposefully manipulating. And like. You just know, that if another state would pull stuff like that Western press would devour them. In fact German press extensively covered human rights abuses in Quatar and in the end German viewership for the world cup was the lowest in years and all kinds of fanproducts were pulled from stores weeks before the championship even started. But with ruzzia it is this weird obsession and projection of an image that was never anything but propaganda. So yeah. Checked all major news outlets and its like dozens of opinions on the mutiny - often also forgetting to mention how awful Wagner is - but almost zero to no coverage of Budanov's statements.

Yeah, the West continues to romanticize russia for some reason. I know that people like to do that for some reason, and the media follows because articles that romanticize russia get read more.

The Dutch news NOS likes to share the narrative of russia, "russia claims this or russia claims that" without any fact-checking. The blowing up of the dam is a good example. The dam was in russian hands, Ukraine warned enough times that russia was going to blow up the dam, and the NOS was like: "but russia claims this! It's a mystery! Who could've blown up that dam?"

And I think lots of people here in the West still believe that russia is in some way rational. That they would never do something that could backfire on them, like blowing up the dam (where russia also killed their own soldiers) or blowing up a nuclear power plant. But russia is not (and perhaps never was) rational. And russia is not afraid to use scorched-earth tactics and sacrifice its own soldiers.

#Ukraine #war #russia

[ailaven]

Missile strike on the village of Groza in Kharkiv region

On October 5th ruzzia launched an Iskander missile strike on the village of Groza, more precisely - on its main grocery store and cafe where commemoration for Andriy Kozyr, a Ukrainian war veteran, was carried out. 52 people were killed. The total population of the village before war was about 500 people. Before the missile strike about 100 people lived there. Do the math yourself.

Some of those who were killed: 

The whole family of Andriy 

His son Denys Kozyr - before the full-scale ruzzian war Denys and his father worked in Poland, on February 24th they decided to come back to Ukraine and protect their country. 

Son’s wife Nina Kozyr - studied musical art to become a teacher

Mother of Nina and grandparents of Denys were also killed. 

Viktoriya Sapach - a nurse in the emergency department

Alina Sirokurova & Maksym Sirokurov - a couple of entrepreneurs who were selling children's toys and clothes. The couple had two sons, 2 & 4 yo, who are now orphans thanks to ruzzians 

Volodymyr Mukhovatyy - a computer science teacher, head of the financial literacy club. His mother and wife died as well. 

Tamara Solyanyk - a math teacher 

The youngest victim was 8 years old. 

It is always painful to read about victims of ruzzian death cult, because behind each of them there are parents who lost their child, spouses who lost their partner, children who lost their parents etc etc etc. So many memories and joyful moments that will never be made. But it’s even more painful and terrifying to read about whole families being wiped out by a single rocket. Nobody was left behind, there are only empty houses and photographs that no one will look at anymore. 

Genocide is ruzzian culture. 

(last picture - a cardboard says “Taken. Mukhovatyy. 3 people”) 

#ukraine #stand with ukraine #russia ukraine war #slava ukraini #stoprussia #kharkiv #ukraine war #russia is a terrorist state #groza #fuck putin #missile #save ukraine #war in ukraine #worldnews #україна #український tumblr #війнавукраїні #війна #glorytoukraine

[tolands-husband]

Okay, I didn't have an intent to write this post but honestly I'm fed up. If I had a nickel every time somebody brought Ukraine to issues which didn't have anything to do with them, I had millions of nickels. And I wish it was a joke. "everyone here dabbles in a bit of genocide" bro my ancestors were genocided and enslaved, the fuck are you even smoking??? extremely funny that I don't even consider myself ukrainian because this culture was forced upon me, and me being an autistic child just went "no". "everyone is still frothing over because communists" MAYBE BECAUSE OF THE SAID COMMUNISTS UKRAINE BECAME INDEPENDENT IN ONLY 1991 INSTEAD OF 1918, YOU KNOW??? MAYBE BECAUSE THE SAID COMUNISTS BUILT A TOTALITARIAN REGIME AND EXECUTED BILLIONS??? WHO KNOWS?

Oh, and don't forget that ruzzia is a direct heir of the USSR, not like you care about this, because be honest, you don't care about victims, you just want to satisfy your feeling of justice.

I'm so fucking tired this war isn't about you, shut up your dawn mouth you freaking brainless cunt. And never open it again.

it's amazing how people look at other war victims and instead of "every country which starts a war should be under worldwide sanctions and stopped asap" they go "oh you are so privileged the world cares about you instead of -insert any other country name here"

Just. shut. up.

It isn't about you, stop bringing me and my family in your bullshit as if being considered ukrainian somehow saves us from missiles(which hit the northern part of the area I live in just today, it was about 3 pm).

I wish all the people who never lived over bolsheviks just shut up their goddamn mouths because it isn't about you, this will never be about you, if you want to help other countries suffering from a war just do it instead of blaming victims because you're comfortable doing so.

and in the end, стули свою обісцяну пельку й ніколи не розкривай її знову, смердюче нікчемне лайно.

[fungusamongusblog2]

Everyday ruzzia commits terror and genocide of Ukrainians.

[porterdavis]

This is the image Tumblr tried to block.

#russian war crimes

[swemtpotamtam]

Tomorrow is gonna be the second anniversary of the invasion ruzzia launched against Ukraine, and the tenth anniversary of ruzzian aggression since 2014

Please, support us, keep talking about us, we are still being attacked and killed everyday

Make sure to donate to Come Back Alive, to Serhii Prytula, to any Ukrainian creative to keep us all afloat

War and genocide isn't a trend for social media, those are not some silly things for people to talk about and then forget once it's not "popular" anymore, those are actual atrocities that shouldn't even be a thing in the 21st century

#cardi rambles #Ukraine #support Ukraine #stand with Ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #russian war crimes #fuck russia

[a---fire---inside]

I am not Ukrainian and even though I suffer and get angry and worried every time ruzzians do something bad in Ukraine, which is on a daily basis, because they are monsters, my anger and pain and worry is nothing compared to what Ukrainians feel every second of their lives.

What they don't feel, on the contrary, but I feel very strongly, is shame. Because I feel ashamed every time some Italian ass*ole politician or so-called expert justifies ruzzia's terrorist actions. Or when them and their followers spread telegram based conspiracy bullshit where putin (with his buddy trump even) and ruzzia are the good guys or even victims.

I feel ashamed every time some leftist intellectual sympathizing with ex soviet union and claiming to know better than Eastern European countries that used to be a part of it, blames Nato or the USA for provoking ruzzia into a 'proxy war', completely deleting Ukrainian victims' suffering, or their brave fighters' heroic actions. Or when they call ruzzia's aggression of Ukraine 'conflict', not saying who's the invasor and who's the invaded side. Or when they turn their heads away from destroyed civilian structures, r*ped children, mass graves, and give their support to other causes, other countries, other oppressed populations, preferably that receive no support from the USA/Nato, even better if they oppose the USA/Nato& allies, even better if ruzzia has nothing to do with such 'conflicts' (it's more likely that they are involved but they don't know, as those ass*oles are everywhere).

I feel ashamed every time so-called pacifists whine that the real problem is 'weapons' and ask to stop sending weapons to Ukraine...as if by doing so, by preventing Ukraine from f*cking defending itself and its ppl, ruzzia would automatically stop as well...the same ruzzia that f*cking bombed Kyiv the day the UN secretary was there. Or whining to make peace pls, but only whining to Ukraine, never to f*cking ruzzia itself. Or wondering how they got to that point in 2022, how it's possible to have a war in Europe, not understanding whose fault it is, as if it wasn't clear that ruzzia invaded Crimea first, then Donbas and then went full out invasion of the whole Ukraine.

I feel ashamed every time some impartial or neutral individual feels sorry for Ukrainian ppl having to escape abroad to not be tortured, r*ped and killed by ruzzia's terrorist genocidal actions, but also for ruzzian men escaping mobilization, as if they weren't totally ok with war as long as they weren't forced to do it with their asses out of the sofa and in a tank. Or when NGOs that should be impartial are totally proruzzia instead, minimizing their crimes like IAEA, accusing Ukraine like Amnesty International, or, like Emergency, asking the Italian government to stop sending weapons to Ukraine "for peace", conveniently forgetting that if Ukraine stops fighting Ukraine won't exist anymore, while only if ruzzia stops fighting there will be peace.

The same Emergency, btw, that in 2018 was given the copyright of the song Non Mi Avete FAtto Niente by Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro.

Both singers disappointed me very much, saying very vague things against the war, not taking a clear position aganst ruzzia and supporting Ukraine, not getting involved in donation campaigns. And now not taking position against Emergency, which like Amnesty International took ruzzia's side with their affirmations. So now idk if they don't take position bc they want to be safe (in case ruzzia wins? it won't happen anyway. Are they afraid to go against the prorussia higher ups in media, and that this will f*ck their careers? Uhm...), bc they don't care, bc they think it's nato's fault and some more bullshit propaganda theories for intellectuals, bc they are a part of this fake 'pacifist' movement that is totally blind about how ruzzia is behaving and what is happening.

For me it's really shameful and disappointing to know that artists I used to follow, and one I still follow, aren't vocal about this horror. Especially since they wrote a song against terrorism and violence, exactly what ruzzia is doing in Ukraine. Especially since one talks about freedom so much, the same freedom Ukraine is fighting to have back.

For months I told myself that it was impossible that they were indifferent. That probably they were helping in private with donations. Because they are good people...but silence helps the aggressor, and talking about donations spreads awareness among fans, which leads to more donations. Every day I open their ig accounts and see if I missed something, if they said something, because every day something horrible happens in Ukraine and ppl die so if a celebrity just said one vague thing in February it's not enough, attention must be kept high always. But every day I see nothing.

The difference with Maneskin is evident. And I don't even care about Maneskin, but I appreciate their effort supporting Ukraine materially and morally, taking a clear stance and showing their fans where's the right side.

It's not just Meta and Moro, it's clever ppl like Max Gazzé, Daniele Silvestri, Carmen Consoli (who condemned a vague dictator, as if there is only one in the world right now), Paola Turci, Fiorella Mannoia (but she found the time to support Kurdish fighters which is very cool. and it would have been cool to also support Ukraine and condemn ruzzia). It's pretty much the 99% of the Italian music scene, as well as actors and the show business elite.

It's shameful and disappointing.

#ukraine #metamoro #eurovision #sanremo #russia is a terrorist state #I stand with ukraine #*but you aren't a real fan if you criticize them* I'm a better fan than those who don't. I have my own brain and dignity #I'm still following Fab and writing fanfiction and stuff but more than ever I can say fanfics are about actors looking like them #the real ppl are disappointing selfish and cowards #I'll delete this post when I'll see a proof I'm wrong about F. especially. something tells me I'll keep it here for a very long time #I speak from my personal experience being kinda antiamerican and prorussia because of my upbringing...in italy ruzzian propaganda is strong #I realized it only after february 24. it was a shock for me #most still are believing bullshit and instead of calling ruzzia the terrorist aggressor #they prefer to repeat over and over that america is worse...like. wtf it's not a competition

[a-random-internet-user]

Hi. I saw your comment on a post about how one cannot argue with fascists, but must kill them instead. You said, "also applies to ruzzians." I would like you to consider that the Russian people do not all approve of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and many have protested, facing the threat of 20 years of jail time. Many more would protest if they were not so coerced. I would like you to ask yourself what the act of assessing people's character solely by their country of origin or ethnicity makes you.

... Would you tell a jew not to hate germans during WW2?

I do not know who you are and where you are from, and I don't care. I was born and raised in Ukraine. I am here right now. Every day of my life since the start of the war I have lived in horror. I was scared even before 24 of February, after all it didn't start there. I still had hope that that damned country wouldn't attack mine, I hoped they wouldn't slaughter, rape, deport, steal, and starve our people like they did for hundreds of years. It was false hope.

I hate ruzzian people, the thirty thousand of soldiers that now feed our soil could do many thing. They could rebel, they could simply put down their arms, but they didn't do that. They marched on. And they did what they do best: They destroyed. I am sometimes still afraid of looking at the news and seeing another report of a toddler raped by russian soldiers.

The millions of russians in it that could do something, but didn't, they still don't. Over 70% of them support this. They bully and laugh at us for being angry and afraid on the internet, they demand we speak their shit language after centuries of erasing ours. They whine about not having a future while sponsoring the destruction of ours. And those that claim they don't still lash out at us and call us slurs when we don't buy their bullshit. Of course, hopefully, not all of them are like that, but at this point I'm tired of hoping.

Did putler do this himself? No. He wasn't there, unfortunately, if he was he might have gotten killed... Still, that wouldn't stop those people.

I hate him just like any sane person does, but he gave orders, he didn't execute them, the people you try to protect did.

Did putler himself deport the millions of Ukrainians that ruzzia admits they deported? No. The people did.

What do the ruzzians outside of that shithole do about this? They whine. And a lot of them support this genocide. Some even attack the refugees that cannot afford to stay in Ukraine, write disgusting messages on whatever their place of living is, and some even tell them to go back to their country and that no one wants them in whatever country they fled to... I wonder why they aren't living in their beloved ruzzia.

They claim that we have no culture, they dare to say this after destroying and stealing it for centuries. In the 20th century in Ukraine there could be a cultural renaissance, can you guess why it's called the "Shot down Renaissance"?

Are Ukrainians the only victims? Unfortunately no. Many other people had been erased by ruzzians.

My own father could die at any moment protecting his family and country. He isn't even in the military, he signed up for territorial defense.

You do not have the right to tell me, or any other Ukrainian, how to feel about those pieces of shit.

I preferred not post about the shithole's actions here because I use my Twitter for that. Fuck you for giving me a reason to write this.

[automatismoateo]

(rant) Fuck this old pile of crap via /r/atheism

(rant) Fuck this old pile of crap https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-says-ukraine-should-have-courage-white-flag-negotiations-2024-03-09/ ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the "white flag" and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow's full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands. I'm Ukrainian, and this bullshit really triggered me. So the pope wants us to forgive and forget about tens of thousands murdered and tortured civilians, kidnapped children, raped women, destroyed cities. We're facing a real genocide: ruzzia wants to eliminate us simply because we dared to exist. But we keep fighting for our land, our loved ones and families, our homes, we fight for our right to live. Just how inhumanly awful is sounds asking us now to surrender to the "mercy" of fascist dictatorship. ​ Submitted March 09, 2024 at 08:31PM by living_in_nightmare (From Reddit https://ift.tt/IpCbM4H)

#reddit

[bloggimy]

Die ruzzia.

Death to ruzzia. Can we please just give Ukraine alllllll the weapons already. I mean Everything all the F16s & F18's we arent using & all the new stuff we have heaps of & are not sure if it works as well as we think but the Ukranians want to test for us like Hawkeis & amphibious transports.Seriously if you don't agree with me on this cos orcs are genocidal scum committing war crimes on an industrial scale with pride wtf is wrong with you. Also fuck you. But ok if you need selfish reasons, do you not see that the instability in world food markets at the moment is in very large part due to orcshitistan? Enjoying this recession?Millions are starving because even though the Ukrainians are trying in the midst of hell to keep up not just their grain sales but also their massive donations of food aid despite the racists. If you don't care about the people of Ukraine, do you care about the massive ecological disasters happening in some of the most beautifull ancient forests in Europe?I don't communicate well enough to get my feelings out coherently. But I want you to know if you support orcshitistan in any way. I hate you.

[sunflowerseedsproject]

It feels really weird and surreal, seeing all of the events, that are happening right now. For a long time Russia was not seen as a country that could do such things (by me and probably quite a majority of lithuanians), even though it's quite ironic and sad, really sad, given all of the events of the past (Chechen wars, Georgian wars and conflicts in that region, the annexation of Crimea), especially that last one... It should have been a wake up call, for us, for everyone but we all brushed it aside and moved on: "It was mostly russian" or "Crimea was given to Ukraine by Khrushchev, it was a mistake, they have a right". I and probably others believed and expected that war is unimaginable, that it is impossible for such things in Europe in the XXIst century to occur. I remember THAT February, the one when Russia attacked, I was having some discussion and I strongly believed (and hoped) that war was impossible, that Putin wouldn't do such a stupid thing (feeling that drove Europe to war multiple times). But here we are. It all reminds me a bit too much of certain guy almost a hundred years ago, just this time Europe is lucky, that we have UKRAINE. Personally, I think some parts of me (and some of us) are trying to cope, by thinking that Putin would never come to Lithuania, that we have NATO and EU, to help and protect us and especially now. Moreover, you don't really think too much about it, when Ukraine is pushing back and in a way winning. But the start of the war, siege of Kyiv and most recently the rocket in Poland scared me and probably the most of us the most. You just sit there imagining yourself in the field, with a bunch of your countrymen, ready to fight and it's just feels unreal, yet you read the article again and again, and maybe sometimes you start thinking about running away and you know, that it might be real, maybe you wake up and everything you know, your whole world just changed.... I truly believe that if we weren't in NATO or EU, I would be shaking right now and probably every other day. I feel really lucky and grateful. 

The war really marks an era of change in everyone here, in Lithuania. Some of us cried, some of us were scared for days, some of us were shaking, anxiety became #1 friend, it was really difficult emotionally for probably most of us (NOT AS difficult as for ukrainians!!). It showed the real face and what that face can and is willing to do. It's horrifying and we should try to help as much as we can because it's necessary for Ukraine and therefore for us. Ruzzia should be no more...

As a finishing touch, I would add, that Russia was seen and was acting as an unfriendly country for quite some time, it seemed that Russia was the enemy of Europe (or at least someone we need to watch out for). And yet, when the war broke out, just a handful of countries started helping Ukraine (it borders Poland and you know which country comes after Poland), which is fighting in A WAR against RUZZIA.

We need to help Ukraine, we need to talk about Ukraine, we need to talk about genocide that russians are commiting and we need to learn from history and stop being such hopeful and optimistic europeans everytime war is looking at our face.

Слава Україні!

#Lithuania