24 | she/her | ukrainian artist | укр/eng | possible nudity, gore, mature subjects in art; discussions of war
DNI: russians, nazis and xenophobes, ussr apologists and hammer and sickle people
Not gonna lie, my morale is at the lowest point it's been since the beginning of the invasion. Russians are successfully occupying more and more territories and shell frontline regions every day. People are dying, our culture and herritage is destroyed. International aid dwindled significantly because of american bullshit. Mobilization law has been signed and there is a chance that my family members get conscripted soon. Don't even get me started on internal political problems. A bunch of articles in foreign media talking about our defeat and "peace talks" (what a joke).
It feels like there were no at least moderately good news in a while. On top of that, the feeling that we are screaming into the void is stronger than ever. I'm happy when I see a foreigner online supporting us and spreading the word, because it gets rarer. Ukrainians feel like none of what's happening gets outside our info bubble. Most likely no one but Ukrainians will see this post either. Honestly don't know what to make of all of this.
Two years ago RF invaded Ukraine and tried to take Kyiv in few days (failed). Since then it occupied east-south Ukraine (~26% of territory) and keeps committing war crimes against us. Aside from fights on frontline, RF keeps shelling our cities, towns and villages with missiles. Even tho we desire to gain our deserved freedom and victory as soon as possible, our enemy is ready for a long war which is horrible. And of course it contributes greatly into propaganda to make people believe this invasion was justified even tho it is absolutely not.
Any donation is important and very appreciated, even one dollar, even 25 cents (believe me this is averagely how much people donate at a time). And I remind you that the sooner we win, the sooner we won’t need to be financially supported as we are now.
Also if you have any advices i will listen. +There's gonna be updates to keep you all in touch.
PS. my monitor glitched and turned off from time to time (usually it went black screen for every 2 to 5 minutes before working again) but after i tried to change HDMI cable it just started to show an error "no video input" with both new cable and an old one. I tried to use sister's laptop with this monitor and it works but with same issues my PC previously had before changing cables.
У вас є унікальна можливість виграти оригінал роботи, а також книжку та наліпки, якщо візьмете участь у розіграші на сторінці velorum publishing в інстаграмі
Today's morning is one of the worst ones in a while. Woke up from explosions, spent a few hours in a cold basement with my parents and little sister. And it's something that has been happening daily, just on a smaller scale, all over Ukraine.
Hospitals, maternity wards, shopping malls, schools, residential buildings, storage facilities - nothing is off limits. And most of it is debris from russian missiles and iranian drones. I can't imagine the death toll and the amount of destruction, if they reached their destinations.
It's not surprising to us, but extremely discouraging to see, that barely anyone cares about it anymore.
Good fucking morning from Ukraine after the massive shelling by russia with almost everything they've got. I personally heard pretty loud explosions over my head. Thanks to our air defence I am alive.
But still there are lots of injured people across all the country as well as some dead.
"Gentle" reminder that russia is a terrorist state
Upd: the numbers of injured and killed are growing
My favorite Ukrainian poem is "Чари ночі" ("Charms of the night") by Oleksandr Oles'. We were studying it in school when I was in 10th grade. I just got out of really toxic friendship and had been battling depression for almost two years at that point. But this poem did something to me back than. It is about celebration of life, because who knows, how much time we have left. It helped me to get through some tough times.
My favourite lines and my rough translation are here.
your favourite ukrainian poem?
I don't know a single Ukrainian poem. I never had time to dive that deep into Ukrainian culture and never encountered one just randomly. The arts haven't been my priority here, but I'd love to read some Ukrainian poems.
Ukrainians, please feel free to send me your favorite ones.