Author Archives: RomanInUkraine
Biden Signs the Lend Lease Act
Canadian Volunteer gives intense accounts of fighting in Irpin, Donbas
20 Year Old Ukrainian GM Beats Magnus Carlsen in Rapid Game
A young man from Azov discusses the conflict
God help these young men.
When I visited Azov, Mariupol, Shyrokyne in 2015, there were many like this. Intelligent and well spoken. Well mannered.
It’s humbling to know that such men exist.
Russian Propaganda showing the same destroyed vehicle over and over
This reminds me of a story about my father’s father, whom I never met. He traveled to Russia as a representative of his village in the late 40s or 50s. Apparently, in some presentation about the abundance of collective farming, they showed him the same pig over and over, in different places, trying to convince the villagers that there were in fact many pigs.
Russians Love Communism
Recent street art in Yalta:
Occupied Kherson:
A town near Kherson:
A Limousine Struggling in the Mud
This old photo exemplifies Russia. Everything is invested in keeping up appearances. Nothing in reality.
Russian Propaganda gets some Wino in Mariupol to Pretend to be a Prisoner (April 10)
Russian Twitter Propaganda from Feb 22 – “looks like Ukraine may fall in hours”
He seemed to have an unusual moment of self-reflection later:
Quotes on early 20th Century Ukraine
Russian Helicopter footage from Kharkiv turns out to be inside of Russia
propaganda
My thoughts on Russia and Ukraine in a recent interview with the Gold Newsletter podcast
For many reasons, Putin’s #Russia has found strange bedfellows with its invasion of #Ukraine. Find out why in our latest podcast episode featuring a US veteran who lived in Ukraine for a decade, Roman Skaskiw (@shchedri)
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Xrystos Voskres!
23-year-old Yuri Gorodetsky of Odessa
23-year-old Yuri Gorodetsky of Odessa, junior sergeant of the 28th separate mechanized brigade. 🇺🇦
Браття українці
Гімн столиці України
Йшли селом партизани
Russian Colonial Imperialism
Russians colonial imperialism never went trough decolonisation as others did. Just painted itself red and denied its existance.
Russia 🇷🇺 wanted to do to Ukraine 🇺🇦, what Muscovy did in the 16th Century to Novgorod
Russia 🇷🇺 wanted to do to Ukraine 🇺🇦, what Muscovy did in the 16th Century to Novgorod, a thriving city-state drifting, culturally, economically, aesthetically westward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Novgorod
It’s been their basis for their successful expansion for centuries. They have already failed.
Russian envoy to UN selectively quotes Bucha survivor. Ridiculous
Russian envoy to UN cites a Ukrainian woman quoted by Meduza as saying Russian soldiers provided humanitarian aid. Ukrainian envoy reads the remainder of the quote: “And then they threw a hand grenade into the cellar.”
Russian Bucha Propaganda case study
A Russian soldier replaced the plate in his body armor with a stolen macbook. He got killed in Irpin.
(April 4)