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There's a bunch of resources on how to handle yourself in the international artistic market.

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State Senator Eric Brakey dropped truth bombs about the overthrow of the Democracy of Ukraine, Nazis, Joe Biden, and fake news:

"This posture isn't for the Ukrainian people, this isn't for the American people. This is for the Empire that now stands in the place of our once proud Republic on a mountain of corpses to maintain global hegemony. That's why in 2014 then Vice President oversaw the overthrow of the Democratically elected President of Ukraine..He was regime changed...If you doubt Washington DC had anything to do with it I have a bridge to sell you in Libya. Thanks to leaked phone calls we know for a fact that the current under secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, personally hand picked the leaders of the new government..You can hear the phone call in her own voice..Is this what Democracy looks like? I don't think so... And after the coup, the new government, urged on by local neo nazi groups like the the Azov Battalion..they succeeded in banning the speaking of Russian and launching an ethnic cleansing campaign in the eastern regions of Ukraine.."

https://twitter.com/SenatorBrakey

The second thing that became clearer during my time in Kyiv is this: many people in the West would like Ukraine to be a little bit guilty as well, or at least be problematic. They say: Look at those Nazis of the Azov regime! How about corruption? And wouldn't some Ukrainians prefer to live in Russia?

Why are these people obsessed with Ukrainian problems and issues that are irrelevant to the conflict?

A list of serious problems could be drawn up for almost any country in the world. But, in the case of Ukraine, how are these problems related to being brutally assaulted by a neighbour that wants to steal your land and destroy your culture?

They are not. But it is nice to think they are related. It gives psychological relief. If Ukraine would be a little bit guilty as well, would it not all be much easier? We could then dismiss the conflict as some complicated, hard-to-understand historical struggle between two neighbours.

We could feel good and rational saying that Ukraine needs to find some kind of political solution. Trade some land. Let some of the people be taken over by another country (they speak Russian anyway, don't they?). We helped them alright, but now it's enough.

I have worked for more than eight years on Ukraine and have visited many times. Ukraine has problems, but they have not caused this war.

Today it has only one existential problem: Russia.

This is our problem too. The Kremlin follows a path of revisionist aggression for more than a decade. It wants to destroy European peace and democracy along with the international rule-based order.

Democracies are far from perfect. They apply doubles standards and often make bad compromises between what they define as their interests and values.

But Russia is different. Its policy is to systematically help dictators around the world to crush their people. Ukraine is the frontline of a war against all of us.

The best we can do is support Ukraine to bring this awful war to an end as quickly as possible.

What I learned in Kyiv: any 'political solution' will be brutal

You know the Ukrainian govt/military is infested with neonazis right?

If you use the Russian government's definition of "Nazi", then being Ukrainian is inherently being a Nazi. I think we all know this is bonkers.

Don't fall hook, line, and sinker for Russian propaganda. Yes, the Azov Battalion has a problem. It's a fairly small regiment. The US has similar issues with neo-Nazis. Many countries do, or have similar fascist ideologies. Ukrainian Jews have also worked with the Azov Regiment and have discussed the matter. Yes, Zelenskyy as a Jewish man, descendant of holocaust victims, and president of Ukraine should have stopped the Azov regiment from using Nazi symbols as an anti-Russian-occupation symbol and dealt with the issue (he's had a lot of issues on his plate, however). Yes, Svoboda exists. And it's also drastically decreased in membership and power since Euromaidan.

I think it's also worth noting that Ukraine is statistically the LEAST hostile to Jewish people of all of Eastern Europe from a Pew Research study in 2018.

On the other side, Russia is the aggressor in this situation and is committing genocide. They are the ones stealing children and who believe Ukraine has no right to exist as a state. I stand against genocide, especially since Ukraine has been a repetitive target of genocide by Russia, such as the Holodomor. Ukraine's population got literally decimated (over 10% of the population killed) multiple times in the 1900s, both by Nazis and Soviets. There's been centuries of oppression of the culture, periods where their churches were destroyed, or people were shot in the street for speaking Ukrainian. There's hundreds of years of context to the conflict.

If you are spending more effort condemning the use of Nazi symbolism (yes, it's a problem, no, the country is not infested with Nazis any more than any other country) than you are OVERT GENOCIDE, where Russia claims Ukraine should not exist and Ukrainian culture should not exist, and is actively murdering civilians to that end, you're missing the point of why Nazis suck. Genocide is a worse problem than a symbol on a flag.

Not even Russia is claiming the war is about "denazification" anymore, it's about the belief Ukraine never existed as a separate people and their land belongs to Russia.

I do suggest reading Dr. Timothy Snyder's (he's who I first linked) writings as an English resource on why Ukraine is the way it is and all the historical context behind the war. He's also written a lot on the horrors of the Holocaust.

I mean if Russia says that "Nazi" means "Thinks Ukraine exists", yes, by that metric Ukraine is entirely Nazis. But anyone with three braincells to rub together should understand this definition is ridiculous and based in Russia's far-right nationalism and desire to rebuild the empire. The use of "Nazi" by the Kremlin is a kind of doublespeak to poison the well. An inverse dog whistle. You see a phrase you associate with the worst kind of evil, and assume it of the people labeled such, when it really means something you probably wouldn't even disagree with.

I know this goes against your gut feeling, to critically look into people who are called Nazis. It's safer to assume that people called Nazis are dangerous. But people/governments WILL take this tendency and shift definitions to get you to oppose things that you would actually agree with. The words "Pedo" and "Groomer" are being used in a similar way in the Anglosphere to demonize LGBTQA+ folks. We can see that's bullshit, right? The word Nazi is being used this same way when it comes to Ukraine. That doesn't mean there aren't real dangerous Nazis, groomers, pedophiles, etc, either.

You're being asked to stand against victims of genocide because those committing the genocide are calling them Nazis. Take a step back, ignore the word Nazi, and look at the actions.

Remember...

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And Ukrainian Jews making matzo to supply to the rest of the world in the midst of a war, in defiance of a Russia who believes they should not exist, is still a powerful comparison to me. That's the context I'm getting this ask for.

Here again. I understand what you say and i appreciate you listening and your insight. Thank you for responding too. There are some things i need to say. The 'Ukrainians house nazis' myth was perpetuated by Russian state TV, please don't listen to it. People are often called 'nazis' by Russians for wanting Ukraine to have independence... They have recently on TV said Ukrainians have an inferior genome and that we have to be wiped out for being nazis. And this is something very often repeated by Russians themselves not just the Russian government. Ukrainians both online and offline are attacked by Russians for speaking Ukrainian, wearing Ukrainian flags, ect. Recently a Ukrainian boy was attacked for speaking Ukrainian: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/1/7418095/ The Russian government, the Russian people, the majority of them want Ukrainians dead. More than 30% of Russian citizens do not want their country to return occupied territory back to Ukraine. This is something Americans need to understand and that Russian people are not innocent and simply blind to it. The Ukrainian government may not be ideal at all, but we are only defending ourselves from Russia and its imperial forces and have been for years. I think the answer to how to align your support here is clear, because it is Russians who are celebrating other eastern europeans deaths and losses while they can easily not sign up to the Russian armed forces in its quest for genocide, all they mostly get for not joining their armed forces is a small fine. They are not forced to invade Ukraine but chose to. Russian imperialism has been an issue in Eastern and Central europe for very long. It was the Russian USSR that engineered a famine, lead countless genocides, empowered colonist rule, enact extreme martial law, put people who tried to speak up into labor camps (similarly, Russia is now putting people in concentration camps in occupied areas of Ukraine)... The thing about the American States and Russia (including the past USSR) is that both of them are imperialistic, colonialist superpowers, and to defend one or try to see "both sides" when one is invading a country they helped weaken over decades is inhumane. I agree that America should not try exploit this invasion in order to enact a larger war against Russia.

I agree I don’t think there is a “both sides” situation, however, effective propaganda has a layer of truth to it, and not engaging with what aspect is true makes it easier to buy into lies.

The trouble is, western media keeps showing us Ukrainian nazis. The biggest gift to Russia’s propaganda is the Azov Battalion and larger Azov Movement. A few months ago a Ukrainian WW2 nazi got a standing ovation in Canada before the audience realized who he was. Philadelphia in the US has debated removing a monument to Ukrainian SS members. Similar monuments in Canada, also for Ukrainian SS members, have come to public attention. Far-right, white supremacist, white nationalist, nazi, and nazbol groups have gained traction in the last 20 years in North America and across Europe. Azov and C14 (and their ties to SBU) in particular have been the focus of antifascist Ukrainians for the last ten years. All of these are examples of how allies and axis powers alike have refused to acknowledge their roles in WW2 or recognize that fascism has been on a dramatic rise. None of this is unique to Ukraine.

Nazis are present and we need to address them, without legitimizing Russia’s lies. Every time a squad member of Azov or similarly-stanced platoon shows up with a sonnenrad patch to do an interview, it legitimizes Russia’s lies to people. “No nazis here,” from a guy with a wolfsangel tattoo convinces people that Russia must be telling the truth about nazis, and therefore the truth about everything, since the West acknowledging Ukrainian nazis would force them to reckon with their own nazis.

The reality is that Ukraine is not uniquely nazified, and even if it were, Russia does not give a shit. That’s not why Russia is doing this. And to boot, the fact that antifascists have put combating Azov and co on hold to fight Russia should be a massive signal to everyone what a present and immense threat Russia’s invasion is. If Russia was truly invading to kill nazis, every antifascist would step aside and say “go get them.” But they know that’s not why Russia is there.

Yes, it is a mistake to believe any of the lies and justification coming out of Russia for their imperialism, but it plays right into their hands to sanitize the Ukrainian government or military.

Identifying the grain of truth, adding it into the narrative, and still realizing that Ukraine is victim to Russia’s attack is an essential process.

Also, FWIW, I disagree slightly about the view on Russian people. No, grace should not be extended to Russian civilians delighted in the imperialism, or participating in it, and grace certainly should not be expected from their victims. But resistance IS there. Anarchists work to undermine Russia, and tons of protests have been staged to combat the state, at great cost to participants. Near twenty-thousand people have been detained, with many stories of brutality and torture for the protesters. Russians working to disrupt the war with more direct and violent means have made vows to die before detention, as they acknowledge that they could be tortured for information about their comrades and their death is the only means of keeping each other safe.

Polls kept coming out about how Americans 'mostly side with Israel over Palestine', when anyone on the ground could see how much more pro-Palestinian marches outnumber pro-Israeli. Whether it’s more Russian propaganda that a lot of Russians agree with them, or it’s true and resistance is small, I cannot find it in me to blanket assign condemnation to “Russians” as opposed to attaching sole blame to Russia as a government and state. Russian civilians jonesing for violence could not achieve what they want without being backed in it by the state.

I am an anarchist in communication with international anarchists. Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, North American, German, Swiss, and countless other anarchists are in agreement that Ukraine is the one to support, because the situation not people vs people, it is government vs government, and people vs government--and Russia’s government is attacking Ukrainian people.

a minor point, but it was very strange that your recent correspondent referred to "Ukraine’s fucking Nazi brigades bashing in prisoners’ skulls with sledgehammers". Because that's a Wagner thing; a Russian thing. Which is not to excuse Azov etc.; but it's such an oddly concrete error. Like accusing someone of not speaking out against the Viet Cong's use of Agent Orange, or something. It suggests a lack of attention to detail.

yeah I wondered what was up with that but I ignored it in favor of the bigger howler that I (and Sam Kriss???????) am an Azov sympathizer

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En vista de los resultados electorales, es muy posible que necesitemos ayuda economica.

Voy a hacer una masterpost con nombres/url y piezas del estilo que ofrezcan, ya sean dibujantes, escritores, animadores, diseñadores, músicos, etc.

Si ofrecen comisiones o algo por el estilo, manden un mensaje a @azover-tries-to-art con una "bio" y una o mas piezas del mismo estilo que ofrecen, y métodos de contacto

Esto es con el objetivo de darnos a conocer y recibir ayuda de fuera del pais.

Por favor compartan esto, y si conocen a alguien que ofrezca y necesite ayuda, mandenselo porfa!Ayudemosnos gente! Les quiero.

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Buenass!! Acá les dejo la plantilla en .png, .pdf editable y .ai. Le pueden cambiar fondo, fuente, tamaño de letra, etc. mientras se entienda. Las piezas serían al estilo de lo que ya ofrecen para comisiones. Esto aplica para artistas, diseñadores, y músiques si es que tienen arte de álbum (y me mandan links o los archivos de sonido para c/u). Para escritores voy a hacer una plantilla distinta, y para animadores les voy a pedir que me manden un reel de 1 a 5 minutos y lo editaría en una compilación con el resto :0

Para la parte que va escrita en el masterpost (texto distinto a la de la plantilla): me mandan su nombre o alias, su url donde postean sus cosas, sus pronombres y una bio tipo "x es une artista que trabajó aca, o que se especializa en tal cosa, y en su mayoria dibuja cosas con temas como ____", por ejemplo si haces arte sobre tu experiencia en tal cosa, o si preferís dibujar mechas o algo por el estilo. Si les sirve, piénsenlo como la presentación en el CV.

También mándenme cómo contactarles y/o links importantes como ko-fi, deviantart, etc.

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Hey Penguin man, my friend asked me an unrelated question about Jeffersonian Republicans that ended up being that she was looking for quality Non-Nazi gun content because she'd gotten recs to watch Brandon Herrera. Misinfo seems to be pretty prelavent but I know you've called out Garandthumb and Administrative Results before for basically being mask off white supremacists. Do you know of any channels that AREN'T Rhodesia larping losers?

Oh there are plenty, with some caveats. The chief caveat being what, exactly, you're looking for in a Guntuber's content: entertainment or education. The short answer being that everyone involved in the Leviathan Group is highly suspect and their only value will ever be as entertainment at best. Bunch of fascist dudebros out to make a buck is the nicest thing that could be said about the best of them.

You see, there are plenty of channels that I would classify as politically neutral, even agreeable, but still don't really have anything of value to contribute, like Tacticool Girlfriend. Her best content is basically parroting other people who're more knowledgeable.

Sorry, I'm hemming and hawing. Let's get to it:

InrangeTV: I really can't find a serious flaw in anything Karl puts out. He does a great job challenging ideas about old guns being "just as good" as modern ones, and dispels historical myths. By now he's infamous for his mud tests which show that actually, maybe you're better off with a mud-drenched AR than AK. Blasphemy, I know.

Forgotten Weapons: If you want to know all about old and/or obscure guns work, Ian's your guy. If you want a content creator with a spine, not so much. Ian's allergic to taking sides, something that's caused his falling out with Karl (the two used to be considered essentially the same channel while they regularly collaborated). Absolutely cannot handle controversy and stumbled when confronted with the fact that he was about to publish an Azov Brigade nazi's memoirs.

Royal Armouries: Jonathan Ferguson basically has access to any weird gun the UK has put its hands on and will tell you all about it in a politically neutral fashion.

Okay so the thing is, these guys are, broadly speaking, kinda "gee whiz info" guys. Lots of interesting trivia, not a whole helluva lot that might be practically useful to you. For that, I'm gonna throw a rec to Lucky Gunner.

A big struggle a lot of people have, and I see this problem a lot in online leftist spaces, is the ability to hold in your mind that two things can be bad at the same time.

Donald Trump is unequivocably bad. So is the entrenched establishment of the Democratic Party.

The United States government is unequivocably bad. So is the Chinese government.

Ukrainian fascist groups like Azov Battalion are unequivocably bad. So is the Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine.

Opposing the occupation of Ukraine does not mean that you support or have to support groups like Azov Battalion. They are not Ukraine, and do not speak for Ukraine.

The Israeli occupation of Palestine and that government's crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere is unequivocably bad. So is Hamas, an organization which has a long history of crimes against civilians and of antisemitic hatred.

Opposing the occupation of Palestine does not mean that you support or have to support groups like Hamas. They are not Palestine, and do not speak for Palestine.

The murder of any civilian is a tragedy, and a crime against humanity. The Israeli military is guilty of such murder, on a grand scale, over the course of decades. This does not mean that every Jewish person is guilty of or has to answer for these crimes, nor does it absolve Hamas of their crimes.

Hamas is guilty of the murders of civilians. This does not mean that every Palestinian and every Muslim is guilty of or has to answer for these crimes, nor does it absolve the Israeli military and government of their crimes.

I believe that Palestine must be free, and will be free. I do not believe that this freedom means the murder of Jewish people - after all, are there not Jewish people who are also Palestinians?

As I mourn those killed by Hamas, I mourn also those killed by the military occupation of Gaza. I must mourn them both, I cannot do less.

Part 1: Origins of the Ukraine War

Watch "Kim Iversen: Former NATO Analyst & Top UN Official Says THIS Is The REAL Reason For War In Ukraine" on YouTube

Going back a year to remind people of the origins of the current stage of the Ukraine Proxy-war.

Today, this history is swept under the rug, forgotten about out of convenience because it runs counter to the Western narratives around Ukraine.

Once again, as I have to constantly remind people, the Far-Right forces within Ukraine; paramilitary forces such Azov, Right Sector, and C14 had drastically and exponentially increased shelling of the Donbas in the days leading up to the war. Many Eastern Ukrainians feared the Kiev regime was on the verge of launching an offensive into the DPR and LPR which had declared their Independence in 2014, triggering a kind of Civil War stalemate period for the next 8 years.

I also want to clear up another point of contention; initially, the breakaway Republics were NOT trying to become independent of Ukraine. Instead they were seeking an autonomous status, similar to what Crimea enjoyed for a time prior to the coup regime.

So let's go back to 2014 and review the facts around the origins of the War.

To begin, we must take a look at the actions taken by the Ukrainian Govt after the Maidan Coup. We should all be aware by now, regardless of personal feelings about the war or Russia's justifications for entering into Ukraine, that the United States was elbow deep in it with regards to the Maidan Coup and the govt that took power after the coup, with Victoria Nuland on audio handpicking the next President of Ukraine: Petro Poroshenko

The FIRST official act of the new coup regime in Kiev in 2014 was to remove Russian as an official language in Ukraine, beginning the waves of repression that began in earnest against Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas and elsewhere in Ukraine.

And UNLIKE the propaganda we've been fed by US and Western media, the Russian Federation NEVER supported the Donbass rebels until February 2022. They were NOT funded or trained or directed by Moscow in ANY way, as attested to in this article by Jacques Baud, a former member of the Swiss Strategic Intelligence and a specialist in Eastern Europe, he was also the former head of the Doctrine of the United Nations Peace Operations. Within NATO, Jacques Baud was involved in Programs in Ukraine before and after the Maidan Coups and has authored a multitude of books on Intelligence, war, terrorism, National Security and Russia.

And he says:

But, of course, immediately after signing the agreement, Ukrainian "President" Petro Poroshenko violated the Minsk I Accords (likely on orders by NATO) by launching a massive offensive in the Donbas which ended in failure, forcing Ukraine to once again return to the negotiating table and producing the Minsk II Accords.

Minsk II seemed like it was a game changer. The new agreement afforded the Donbas Republics a degree of autonomy, which was all they ever wanted to begin with. That and to have a say in their own governance. After the Russian language was removed as an official language, the next step was to ban Russian from being spoken by government officials. This of course meant that Russian speaking Ukrainians no longer could work in or have a say in their own governance, effectively handing over control of Eastern Ukraine to Kiev. But under the new agreement, Minsk II offered the promise of a return to a degree of normalcy. It was a framework from which to negotiate a settlement between the Kiev regime and DPR/LPR officials.

Of course, Kiev refused to implement the Minsk II Accords and instead continued with a campaign of terror, randomly and unexpectedly shelling populated civilian neighborhoods with alarming regularity.

And even with all this going on, the Russian Federation treated the matter as an internal issue for Ukrainians to settle amongst themselves. I'm sure in retrospect, Russian officials wish they had done more to intervene earlier in the conflict.

In fact, only 56 Russian fighters were observed in the Donbas during this time.

At this point, the Ukrainian Military was completely and thoroughly corrupt, demoralized and broken. And so they turned to NATO to reconstitute and reimagine the Ukrainian Military. To this end and to move as quickly as possible, NATO utilized Far-Right and Neo-Nazi Paramilitary Forces to form the backbone of the reconstituted Ukrainian military.

Even after the Far-Right Paramilitary Forces were integrated into the Ukrainian Military, they remained fairly independent and still remain unreformed to this day.

Stick around for Part II on the origins of the Ukraine Proxy-war...

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A powerful truck explosion seriously damaged Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestige symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula and the key supply route to Russian forces battling to hold territory captured in southern Ukraine.

The blast on the bridge over the Kerch Strait, for which Russia did not immediately assign blame, prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no direct claim of responsibility.

Russian investigators said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near the truck that blew up.

Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and the 19-km (12-mile) Kerch bridge linking it to Russia’s transport network was opened with great fanfare four years later by President Vladimir Putin, who drove a construction truck across it.

It now represents a major artery for the Russian forces who have taken control of most of southern Ukraine's Kherson region, and for the naval port of Sevastopol, whose governor told locals: "Keep calm. Don't panic."

It was not yet clear if the blast was a deliberate attack, but the damage to such high-profile infrastructure came at a time when Russia has suffered several battlefield defeats and could further cloud the Kremlin's messages of reassurance to its public that the conflict is going to plan.

It also took place a day after Putin's 70th birthday.

The head of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, posted a video of the burning bridge on social media alongside a video of Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy birthday, Mr President".

Since the start of the invasion on Feb. 24, Ukrainian officials have made regular allusions to their desire to destroy the Kerch bridge, seen in Ukraine as a symbol of Russia's occupation of Crimea. Ukraine's postal service said on Saturday it would print a special stamp to commemorate the blast.

Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement that its forces in southern Ukraine could be "fully supplied" through existing land and sea routes, and the Transport Ministry said rail traffic across the bridge would resume by 1700 GMT.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Kyiv's reaction to the destruction of civilian infrastructure "testifies to its terrorist nature".

The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6:07 a.m. (0307 GMT), causing seven fuel tanker wagons to catch fire on a train heading for the peninsula on the bridge's upper level.

It said two spans of road bridge had partially collapsed, but that the arch spanning the Kerch Strait, the waterway through which ships travel between the Black Sea and Azov Sea, was not damaged.

'THE BEGINNING'

Images posted by the Russian Investigative Committee showed one half of the roadway blown away, and the other half still attached, but cracked.

Others taken from a distance showed thick smoke pouring from part of the bridge.

An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted a message on Twitter saying the incident was just "the beginning" but stopped short of saying Ukrainian forces were responsible for the blast.

"Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything that is stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled," Mykhailo Podolyak wrote.

Moscow has presented largely Russian-speaking Crimea as a historic and cherished part of Russia and, especially this year, one where Russians could holiday in large numbers, supposedly safe from the war.

On Saturday, hundreds of people who had hoped to drive to Crimea from the Russian town of Kerch were redirected to the ferry port, only to find that high winds were preventing any sailings.

Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-installed deputy administrator of the Kherson region, said the bridge incident "will not affect the army supply very much".

"But there will be problems with logistics for Crimea," he added in a post on social media.

Mykola Bielieskov of the Ukrainian Institute of Strategic Studies, which advises the presidency in Kyiv, said the Kerch bridge was irreplaceable for Russia's invasion forces, and if it were severed, "the whole Russian southern front will crumble quickly and easily".

Although Moscow's forces have seized a stretch of coastal Ukraine linking the Kherson region and Crimea to Russia, Bielieskov said the transport connections there were poor, and that Russia had preferred to send reinforcements to Kherson along the more circuitous route of the bridge into Crimea.

Russian Railways said trains heading for Crimea would be subject to extra checks, and that it was working with the government to find the "best way to deliver goods to the peninsula".

In a video message Aksyonov, the Crimea governor, said he wanted to "assure Crimeans that the Republic of Crimea is fully provided with fuel and food. We have more than a month's worth of fuel, and more than two months' worth of food".

However, the Russian Energy Ministry said on Telegram that Crimea had only 15 days of motor fuel.

The Russian governor of Sevastopol, which has separate territorial status in Crimea as home to the Black Sea fleet, also sought to reassure locals.

"We are not cut off from the mainland!" Mikhail Razvozzhayev posted on Telegram. "Keep calm. Don't panic."

It's been... hm. Disappointing to say the least to see accounts I know who correctly called out both people's dismissal of Ukraine and leftists that carried water for Russia's imperialism in the name of being anti American, now all suddenly use the same talking points they once condemned in order to defend Israels colonization. All of a sudden viewing everything through a cynical political lens is justified ("Why does Ukraine have to appease Russia?" You said. Only now you keep implying that Palestinians have the responsibility to keep Israel's war crimes as low as possible and never question why the people living in an open air prison and brutalized daily should have to appease their oppressors).

Accounts who have 10 posts condemning both Hamas and general pro Palestine sentiments for every one post touching on the source of the conflict (and none acknowledging that Hamas exists because Israel deliberately quashed other, less extremist resistance movements) are the same accounts who before were able to rightly call out people for using Azov as a quick way to dismiss all cruelty and brutality Ukrainians are experiencing. The switch from criticizing people who only spoke about Ukraine to condemn Azov to becoming someone who only speaks about Palestine to condemn Hamas is jarring to witness. It's just a massive lack of empathy towards Palestinians in comparison to Ukrainians and it does come as a shock from people I thought had more sense and self awareness. How can you spend months on end breaking down exactly what insidious tactics people used to justify Russia's brutality only to turn around and parrot those same tactics? What is it about Palestine that makes you suddenly so eager to focus on everything but the people fighting for their freedom, whereas before you were straightforward in condemning anyone who did not acknowledge the reality of what Ukraine is dealing with?

It really does come down to Palestinian being the "other" to Israel and Ukraine's "civilized" western-approved states. Disgusting and disappointing, to see that those accounts weren't actually principled against imperialism and oppression, just against anyone who disrupted the western status quo. For all their criticisms of pro Russian leftists choosing campism over having principles and a spine, they're no different in the end.