Russians With Attitude
04.05.202507:28
It has been a year and a half since this tweet and a Yemeni missile just hit Ben Gurion International (there are several Carrier Strike Groups deployed to the theater and Yemen is being bombed by B-2 stealth bombers).
Modern warfare is vastly more complicated and challenging than idiots on the internet believe. The US military does not possess magical powers. More news at 5
Modern warfare is vastly more complicated and challenging than idiots on the internet believe. The US military does not possess magical powers. More news at 5
02.05.202509:03
The Ukrainization of America proceeds at full tilt, I see
29.04.202523:47
There are a lot of jokes one could make here, but the fact is simply that solid air defences have been +/- impenetrable for several decades now. NATO countries have simply not encountered any serious air defences in any of their recent wars.
Saddam had a lot of antiquated AD systems that were centralized through a VERY vulnerable system. Gorbachev gave the US detailed intelligence on Iraq's air defense network before Desert Storm. The entire thing was basically built by the Soviets and thus America had - in addition to 30 years or so of technological advancement - intimate knowledge of the layout of the centralized Iraqi AD network, radar frequencies and vulnerabilities, deployment patterns, communication protocols, etc., etc. Thus, pre-programmed HARM missiles homing in on specific frequencies, flight routes perfectly mapped out to avoid high-threat zones, EW working with diabolical efficiency. Zero chance, over before it began.
Yugoslav AD were obsolete and had virtually nothing younger than the 1960s and no decent radars in 1999, no long-range SAM systems, extremely limited MANPADS, etc. In addition, the territory had practically no strategic depth (as opposed to e.g. Yemen and Ukraine). Yugoslav SAM sites were static and had no means of defending themselves, whereas modern actors have a large pool of fire-and-move AD systems. They had no chance, either.
Russia has been running the most difficult SEAD campaign in the history of aerial warfare against the densest AD network in the history of aerial warfare, with her enemy directly supported by untouchable NATO intel, including AWACS in Poland, Romania and the Black Sea.
America is struggling to establish air superiority even against Yemeni air defences supported by Iran. The game has changed and NATO air power masturbatory fantasies are just that now, fantasies.
Saddam had a lot of antiquated AD systems that were centralized through a VERY vulnerable system. Gorbachev gave the US detailed intelligence on Iraq's air defense network before Desert Storm. The entire thing was basically built by the Soviets and thus America had - in addition to 30 years or so of technological advancement - intimate knowledge of the layout of the centralized Iraqi AD network, radar frequencies and vulnerabilities, deployment patterns, communication protocols, etc., etc. Thus, pre-programmed HARM missiles homing in on specific frequencies, flight routes perfectly mapped out to avoid high-threat zones, EW working with diabolical efficiency. Zero chance, over before it began.
Yugoslav AD were obsolete and had virtually nothing younger than the 1960s and no decent radars in 1999, no long-range SAM systems, extremely limited MANPADS, etc. In addition, the territory had practically no strategic depth (as opposed to e.g. Yemen and Ukraine). Yugoslav SAM sites were static and had no means of defending themselves, whereas modern actors have a large pool of fire-and-move AD systems. They had no chance, either.
Russia has been running the most difficult SEAD campaign in the history of aerial warfare against the densest AD network in the history of aerial warfare, with her enemy directly supported by untouchable NATO intel, including AWACS in Poland, Romania and the Black Sea.
America is struggling to establish air superiority even against Yemeni air defences supported by Iran. The game has changed and NATO air power masturbatory fantasies are just that now, fantasies.
25.04.202510:38
Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik assassinated in Moscow via car bomb.
The war is only going to become more and more asymmetrical with time.
The war is only going to become more and more asymmetrical with time.
23.04.202517:39
Peskov just now: Ukraine must withdraw troops from all four regions — Lugansk, Donetsk, Zapozhye, and Kherson
"If Kiev pulls out now, the conflict ends instantly"
"If Kiev pulls out now, the conflict ends instantly"
17.04.202520:08
The only individual in Trump's admin I find truly fascinating on a personal level is Stephen Miller.
Total monomania, doesn't care about anything other than deporting foreigners. A man on a mission. Every leader needs a henchman like that
Total monomania, doesn't care about anything other than deporting foreigners. A man on a mission. Every leader needs a henchman like that
03.05.202521:43
12 hours between the photos. Spring in Moscow...
01.05.202520:42
Usually, Russia's most watchable content creators are grizzled fishermen or Yakut reindeer herders filming on Soviet camcorders.
But the algorithm gods made an exception: Sasha, of Sasha Meets Russia fame, stopped by RWA. Her channel, once a hit on TikTok and YouTube, got purged for the usual sin of being Russian and interesting.
She brought some much-needed girly charm to our concrete bunker. We explored her fascinating life journey, the social media trench war, diaspora and expat communities — and why there's actually more freedom in Russia to just bee yourself.
Listen to the full hour and a half show on Patreon
On Gumroad and Boosty
But the algorithm gods made an exception: Sasha, of Sasha Meets Russia fame, stopped by RWA. Her channel, once a hit on TikTok and YouTube, got purged for the usual sin of being Russian and interesting.
She brought some much-needed girly charm to our concrete bunker. We explored her fascinating life journey, the social media trench war, diaspora and expat communities — and why there's actually more freedom in Russia to just bee yourself.
Listen to the full hour and a half show on Patreon
On Gumroad and Boosty
29.04.202519:47
From Russian TG channel 'AVC Group':
“After the President and the Chief of the General Staff officially acknowledged the participation of KPA Special Operations Forces in the counter-terror operation (CTO) in the Kursk region, we’ll also add our share: Yes, we knew. Yes, there were certain nuances in coordination. But we didn’t broadcast it to the whole world while the usual pseudo-knowledgeable crowd foamed at the mouth insisting otherwise, unwittingly playing into the enemy’s hands. Everything in its own time.
The Korean fighters had two standout traits: exceptional physical condition and excellent marksmanship. It’s no secret that North Koreans, due to the conditions in their country, are physically hardened and used to harsh living — quite unlike their southern counterparts. As for firearms training, the KPA devotes a massive amount of time to it, and for the average Private Kim, the Kalashnikov is practically second nature. Once our Korean comrades figured out what was what, they began shooting down almost every drone in the sector — both Ukrainian and, truth be told, some of ours too. At one point, guys even started altering drone flight paths to avoid the sharp eyes of the Korean soldier, because the drone kill count was going off the charts. 😂
Regarding their involvement in assaults: they weren’t thrown into frontline storming from the start. Initially, they held positions in the third line, getting a sense of the situation. After adjusting to the environment, they began taking part in supply runs and consolidation tasks. Only after that did the Korean comrades volunteer for assault missions — through trial and error, they developed tactics suited to the realities on the ground. It’s true that some of the KPA’s standard skills didn’t fully apply to the conditions of the Kursk operation, but they adapted quickly and managed to carry out several missions that dealt serious damage to the Ukro-terrorists.
In conclusion: the men of the Korean special forces are undoubtedly heroes, having made the decision to support the Russian army in its fight against the Ukro-Nazis on Russian soil. With their resilience, bravery, and dedication, their high level of training and ruthlessness toward the enemy, the KPA SOF have etched their name into military history and gained invaluable combat experience — experience that will certainly aid the future training of the DPRK army in light of the changing nature of warfare. We thank the Korean people and personally Comrade Kim Jong Un for the assistance. Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, and victory will be ours! 🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵”
“After the President and the Chief of the General Staff officially acknowledged the participation of KPA Special Operations Forces in the counter-terror operation (CTO) in the Kursk region, we’ll also add our share: Yes, we knew. Yes, there were certain nuances in coordination. But we didn’t broadcast it to the whole world while the usual pseudo-knowledgeable crowd foamed at the mouth insisting otherwise, unwittingly playing into the enemy’s hands. Everything in its own time.
The Korean fighters had two standout traits: exceptional physical condition and excellent marksmanship. It’s no secret that North Koreans, due to the conditions in their country, are physically hardened and used to harsh living — quite unlike their southern counterparts. As for firearms training, the KPA devotes a massive amount of time to it, and for the average Private Kim, the Kalashnikov is practically second nature. Once our Korean comrades figured out what was what, they began shooting down almost every drone in the sector — both Ukrainian and, truth be told, some of ours too. At one point, guys even started altering drone flight paths to avoid the sharp eyes of the Korean soldier, because the drone kill count was going off the charts. 😂
Regarding their involvement in assaults: they weren’t thrown into frontline storming from the start. Initially, they held positions in the third line, getting a sense of the situation. After adjusting to the environment, they began taking part in supply runs and consolidation tasks. Only after that did the Korean comrades volunteer for assault missions — through trial and error, they developed tactics suited to the realities on the ground. It’s true that some of the KPA’s standard skills didn’t fully apply to the conditions of the Kursk operation, but they adapted quickly and managed to carry out several missions that dealt serious damage to the Ukro-terrorists.
In conclusion: the men of the Korean special forces are undoubtedly heroes, having made the decision to support the Russian army in its fight against the Ukro-Nazis on Russian soil. With their resilience, bravery, and dedication, their high level of training and ruthlessness toward the enemy, the KPA SOF have etched their name into military history and gained invaluable combat experience — experience that will certainly aid the future training of the DPRK army in light of the changing nature of warfare. We thank the Korean people and personally Comrade Kim Jong Un for the assistance. Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, and victory will be ours! 🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵”
24.04.202514:42
There exists today not merely a difference of opinion, but an epistemic abyss: a severance so deep that even those nominally aligned with a just position are incapable of articulating its moral foundation. In the West, even the so-called "pro-Russian," "pro-peace," or "neutralist" voices rarely rise above technical realpolitik: they speak of nuclear risk, or of missile system ranges and red lines, as though the central horror were merely strategic miscalculation. But this is to argue that a cathedral should not be burned because the smoke might drift into a neighbor’s window.
What is absent, almost universally, is a confrontation with the moral monstrosity of the project itself: to tear apart a country, fracture its inheritance, brainwash its children to hate their ancestors, and call it democracy. To sever language from blood, memory from myth, and call it liberation. To stage a civil war and narrate it as the Birth of a Nation. This is not politics. It is sacrilege. No amount of missile telemetry can speak to this.
Russians in the Ukraine are not a minority population to be "accommodated"; they do not require protection under protocols drafted by globalist NGOs. They are not strangers. Odessa is not a foreign city in need of "integration". Lugansk is not an outpost to be "reclaimed". Crimea, by every measure that matters in the history of civilization, is not contested. These are not ideological claims -- they are facts in the older, heavier sense of the word, and the refusal to acknowledge them is not ignorance, but atheism.
The root of the problem lies deeper still: the Western managerial mind does not believe in history. It is not that they misunderstand it. They have simply ceased to regard it as real. History, for them, is a set of rhetorical devices to be activated selectively in domestic politics, to attack their opponents. When it comes time to apply it abroad, against foreign enemies, they simply outsource memory to the nearest pathetic proxy with a grievance. Hence the grotesque spectacle of liberals praising the Baltic Waffen-SS or Lvov collaborators, not out of malice, but from a vacuum; the moral illiteracy of people who no longer understand what it means to inherit a past.
You cannot reason with such people. Not because they are wrong, but because they are ontologically disqualified from grasping what is at stake.
That is the abyss. It cannot be bridged. Only endured.
What is absent, almost universally, is a confrontation with the moral monstrosity of the project itself: to tear apart a country, fracture its inheritance, brainwash its children to hate their ancestors, and call it democracy. To sever language from blood, memory from myth, and call it liberation. To stage a civil war and narrate it as the Birth of a Nation. This is not politics. It is sacrilege. No amount of missile telemetry can speak to this.
Russians in the Ukraine are not a minority population to be "accommodated"; they do not require protection under protocols drafted by globalist NGOs. They are not strangers. Odessa is not a foreign city in need of "integration". Lugansk is not an outpost to be "reclaimed". Crimea, by every measure that matters in the history of civilization, is not contested. These are not ideological claims -- they are facts in the older, heavier sense of the word, and the refusal to acknowledge them is not ignorance, but atheism.
The root of the problem lies deeper still: the Western managerial mind does not believe in history. It is not that they misunderstand it. They have simply ceased to regard it as real. History, for them, is a set of rhetorical devices to be activated selectively in domestic politics, to attack their opponents. When it comes time to apply it abroad, against foreign enemies, they simply outsource memory to the nearest pathetic proxy with a grievance. Hence the grotesque spectacle of liberals praising the Baltic Waffen-SS or Lvov collaborators, not out of malice, but from a vacuum; the moral illiteracy of people who no longer understand what it means to inherit a past.
You cannot reason with such people. Not because they are wrong, but because they are ontologically disqualified from grasping what is at stake.
That is the abyss. It cannot be bridged. Only endured.
23.04.202516:03
🇺🇸: Do you want to get out of Ukraine?
🇷🇺: No
🇺🇸: Okay
🇷🇺: Are you going to stop supporting Ukraine?
🇺🇸: No
🇷🇺: Okay
🇺🇸: Hm
🇷🇺: Well, good negotiations. See you next week.
This pretty much sums up the absurdity of all the "ceasefire" talk.
Now Washington is framing its so-called "recognition" of Crimea as a major concession to Russia — but it’s completely irrelevant. Crimea has been part of Russia for 11 years, after a landslide referendum monitored by international observers. The U.S. condemned it at the time, and it changed nothing then — just as it changes nothing now.
Let’s be clear: America isn’t some neutral mediator. It’s a direct party to this conflict — one that helped spark it, and still actively fuels it. No amount of spin or mental gymnastics can erase that reality.
🇷🇺: No
🇺🇸: Okay
🇷🇺: Are you going to stop supporting Ukraine?
🇺🇸: No
🇷🇺: Okay
🇺🇸: Hm
🇷🇺: Well, good negotiations. See you next week.
This pretty much sums up the absurdity of all the "ceasefire" talk.
Now Washington is framing its so-called "recognition" of Crimea as a major concession to Russia — but it’s completely irrelevant. Crimea has been part of Russia for 11 years, after a landslide referendum monitored by international observers. The U.S. condemned it at the time, and it changed nothing then — just as it changes nothing now.
Let’s be clear: America isn’t some neutral mediator. It’s a direct party to this conflict — one that helped spark it, and still actively fuels it. No amount of spin or mental gymnastics can erase that reality.
17.04.202520:03
It would be really funny for Russia to put troops on the Baltic borders and then pretend that they're about to invade so the Balts go completely scorched earth and blow up railway lines, dismantle power lines, etc. and then we just don't invade
02.05.202515:37
JD Vance: "For three years these sides have fought, and each of them has said — no peace, we're going to fight until the other guy is basically knocked out."
Except that's not what actually happened. Russia pushed for negotiations as early as March 2022.
Ukraine rejected the terms in Istanbul — which were far more favorable at the time — and the war resumed.
They even KILLED one of their own key negotiators, Denis Kireev, over suspicions of espionage.
As usual, the US is trying to gaslight and rewrite history.
Except that's not what actually happened. Russia pushed for negotiations as early as March 2022.
Ukraine rejected the terms in Istanbul — which were far more favorable at the time — and the war resumed.
They even KILLED one of their own key negotiators, Denis Kireev, over suspicions of espionage.
As usual, the US is trying to gaslight and rewrite history.
01.05.202517:01
The video of a supposed assassination attempt.
Ukranian "social activist" Sternenko, funded by donations "for the army," cruises in a $200K+ Range Rover — flanked by two SBU-issued bodyguards.
Ukranian "social activist" Sternenko, funded by donations "for the army," cruises in a $200K+ Range Rover — flanked by two SBU-issued bodyguards.
27.04.202519:51
JD Vance visits India. A day later, a terrorist attack hits Kashmir — India blames Pakistan, shuts down the Indus River dam, and both sides start moving heavy equipment to the border.
The American strategy is simple: block China's rise — by any means necessary.
The US doesn't want direct war with China. They want proxy forces willing to fight and die for their interests — as always.
Now, why does Pakistan matter?
Pakistan is essentially a Chinese satellite: it relies on Beijing for weapons, trade, while providing them critical access to Middle Eastern oil.
If India and Pakistan slide into a hot war, China would have no choice but to back Pakistan.
And the US would be ready — and eager — to back India as a proxy against China's interests.
If this unfolds, it’ll be the true end of the Ukraine war — not in speeches, but on the battlefield. A fading empire making its final moves.
But, alas. nothing ever happens there lol
The American strategy is simple: block China's rise — by any means necessary.
The US doesn't want direct war with China. They want proxy forces willing to fight and die for their interests — as always.
Now, why does Pakistan matter?
Pakistan is essentially a Chinese satellite: it relies on Beijing for weapons, trade, while providing them critical access to Middle Eastern oil.
If India and Pakistan slide into a hot war, China would have no choice but to back Pakistan.
And the US would be ready — and eager — to back India as a proxy against China's interests.
If this unfolds, it’ll be the true end of the Ukraine war — not in speeches, but on the battlefield. A fading empire making its final moves.
But, alas. nothing ever happens there lol
23.04.202518:24
Main points of the fresh Peskov interview with 'Le Point':
- Ukraine must withdraw its forces from the regions of Novorossiya and Donbass that have joined the Russian Federation in order to end the conflict
- Putin respects Trump because he is a strong political figure and a strong personality
- A meeting between Trump and Putin should be productive; preparatory work is currently underway
- Russia has no territorial claims against the Baltic states
- Europeans try to lecture Russia on democracy, even though they often violate these principles themselves
- Russia seeks negotiations, while Europe seeks war
- Russia does not intend to attack anyone
- Russia will achieve its goals, either by peaceful or military means
- Russia has learned to live under sanctions, while for the EU they cause major problems
- Trump has not set a deadline for establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine; Russia also does not consider it appropriate to impose timeframes
- Relations between Russia and the West are at a deadlock, and for now, Moscow is trying to establish dialogue with Washington
- Neither Macron nor other European leaders wanted to listen to Putin when he told them that Russia had been cornered in terms of its security
- Ukraine must withdraw its forces from the regions of Novorossiya and Donbass that have joined the Russian Federation in order to end the conflict
- Putin respects Trump because he is a strong political figure and a strong personality
- A meeting between Trump and Putin should be productive; preparatory work is currently underway
- Russia has no territorial claims against the Baltic states
- Europeans try to lecture Russia on democracy, even though they often violate these principles themselves
- Russia seeks negotiations, while Europe seeks war
- Russia does not intend to attack anyone
- Russia will achieve its goals, either by peaceful or military means
- Russia has learned to live under sanctions, while for the EU they cause major problems
- Trump has not set a deadline for establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine; Russia also does not consider it appropriate to impose timeframes
- Relations between Russia and the West are at a deadlock, and for now, Moscow is trying to establish dialogue with Washington
- Neither Macron nor other European leaders wanted to listen to Putin when he told them that Russia had been cornered in terms of its security
20.04.202518:40
Happy Easter, friends! We're back in business. Kirill has a new fancy mic. Shows will be more regular again now.
In today's news episode, we talked about Nikolay's impressions from his recent Moscow trip, various attempts at international diplomacy, Azov lore and ongoing Ukrainian military reforms, the Sumy missile strike, SPACE, the final outcome of the war — as well as its fallout, namely Ukrainian spook remnants wreaking havoc, as we're already seeing with the recent Kiev-linked murders & Trump assassination plot from Wisconsin
The episode covers a lot and it's FREE
Listen now on Patreon, Gumroad or Boosty for people in Russia
Also on YouTube
In today's news episode, we talked about Nikolay's impressions from his recent Moscow trip, various attempts at international diplomacy, Azov lore and ongoing Ukrainian military reforms, the Sumy missile strike, SPACE, the final outcome of the war — as well as its fallout, namely Ukrainian spook remnants wreaking havoc, as we're already seeing with the recent Kiev-linked murders & Trump assassination plot from Wisconsin
The episode covers a lot and it's FREE
Listen now on Patreon, Gumroad or Boosty for people in Russia
Also on YouTube
17.04.202515:43
One reason why the Ukrainians are so desperate for a ceasefire is that they want to finish their army reforms in peace.
They have been working on introducing a corps system to improve organization, command & control for their brigades. The first such corps has now been officially formed... Before expanding it to the AFU, they're trying with their National Guard units.
Thus, the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine now exists. It's called "Azov", because it was based on the 12th National Guard brigade (Azov), which, in turn, grew out of the original Azov Battalion.
Several other units have been integrated into the Azov corps:
▶️ 1st Presidential Operational Brigade
▶️ 14th Operational Brigade "Chervona Kalyna"
▶️ 15th Operational Brigade "Kara-Dag"
▶️ 20th Operational Brigade "Liubart"
The 1st Presidential Brigade was originally a riot police unit. It was militarized in 2014 and used as enforcers between Donbass rotations - they killed several protestors outside the Ukrainian parliament in 2015.
The 14th and 15th Operational Brigades were both originally SWAT-type units, also militarized into National Guard regiments during the Donbass War, then expanded into brigades within the so-called "Offensive Guard" (you remember? when they mass-recruited cops, border patrol, prison guards etc. for Le Zapo Counter-Offensive).
"Liubart" was formed in 2022 as a tacticool special forces battalion within the Territorial Defence structures of Western Ukraine, then integrated into the 12th Azov Regiment.
The 12th Azov Brigade, of course, was destroyed in Mariupol back when it was the 12th Azov Regiment, and then taken prisoner along with its command staff, including commanding officer Denis Prokopenko. The commanders of the 12th Regiment were released from Russian captivity as a result of a deal between Russia and Ukraine, brokered via Turkey, where Turkey guaranteed that the Azov leaders would be interned in Turkey until the end of the war. Erdogan, naturally, released them, and they went back to Ukraine and re-joined the army, and went to work rebuilding the 12th Regiment from the ground up. It was also expanded into a brigade for the 'Offensive Guard'.
That was not an easy task, because there is actually a second Azov Brigade - the so-called 3rd Assault Brigade. The 3rd Assault Brigade was formed out of various "Azov" Territorial Defence units in Kiev, Kharkov and elsewhere; these were made up of Azov veterans and ideologically aligned volunteers from the "National Corps", Azov's political arm, the "Azov Civil Corps", the "Youth Corps", "Centuria" and other such organizations. They were widely used as barrier troops ("motivational troops" as they called themselves), spread out behind regular AFU units.
In any case, Prokopenko is now back, the 12th Brigade has, presumably, been built back up, and Prokopenko has been assigned as commander of the new Azov Corps.
They have been working on introducing a corps system to improve organization, command & control for their brigades. The first such corps has now been officially formed... Before expanding it to the AFU, they're trying with their National Guard units.
Thus, the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine now exists. It's called "Azov", because it was based on the 12th National Guard brigade (Azov), which, in turn, grew out of the original Azov Battalion.
Several other units have been integrated into the Azov corps:
▶️ 1st Presidential Operational Brigade
▶️ 14th Operational Brigade "Chervona Kalyna"
▶️ 15th Operational Brigade "Kara-Dag"
▶️ 20th Operational Brigade "Liubart"
The 1st Presidential Brigade was originally a riot police unit. It was militarized in 2014 and used as enforcers between Donbass rotations - they killed several protestors outside the Ukrainian parliament in 2015.
The 14th and 15th Operational Brigades were both originally SWAT-type units, also militarized into National Guard regiments during the Donbass War, then expanded into brigades within the so-called "Offensive Guard" (you remember? when they mass-recruited cops, border patrol, prison guards etc. for Le Zapo Counter-Offensive).
"Liubart" was formed in 2022 as a tacticool special forces battalion within the Territorial Defence structures of Western Ukraine, then integrated into the 12th Azov Regiment.
The 12th Azov Brigade, of course, was destroyed in Mariupol back when it was the 12th Azov Regiment, and then taken prisoner along with its command staff, including commanding officer Denis Prokopenko. The commanders of the 12th Regiment were released from Russian captivity as a result of a deal between Russia and Ukraine, brokered via Turkey, where Turkey guaranteed that the Azov leaders would be interned in Turkey until the end of the war. Erdogan, naturally, released them, and they went back to Ukraine and re-joined the army, and went to work rebuilding the 12th Regiment from the ground up. It was also expanded into a brigade for the 'Offensive Guard'.
That was not an easy task, because there is actually a second Azov Brigade - the so-called 3rd Assault Brigade. The 3rd Assault Brigade was formed out of various "Azov" Territorial Defence units in Kiev, Kharkov and elsewhere; these were made up of Azov veterans and ideologically aligned volunteers from the "National Corps", Azov's political arm, the "Azov Civil Corps", the "Youth Corps", "Centuria" and other such organizations. They were widely used as barrier troops ("motivational troops" as they called themselves), spread out behind regular AFU units.
In any case, Prokopenko is now back, the 12th Brigade has, presumably, been built back up, and Prokopenko has been assigned as commander of the new Azov Corps.
02.05.202513:36
There has been so much more death since then... But May 2 remains a crucial date. 11 years ago, the war became inevitable — no longer just geopolitically, but also spiritually.
No one is forgotten, and no one can be forgiven until the Russian flag flies over Odessa again.
What makes this day so powerful, symbolically, is that the Odessa massacre was not a tragedy. It was a founding ritual.
On May 2nd, 2014, the idea of a Ukrainian political nation was made “real”, not by law, or language, or lineage, but by fire. The charred walls of the Trade Unions House became the first true constitutional document of post-Maidan Ukraine. All that followed—referenda, shellings, mobilizations, treaties, treaty violations, elections—was commentary.
Identity was determined in this singular moment, not by passport or ethnicity but by a single, irrevocable line: if you approved of the burning, you were Ukrainian. If you recoiled, you were Russian.
There was no middle category. There still isn’t.
This is not a metaphor. Nations are always born in blood, but few are so honest about whose. This act became Ukraine’s covenant, its “His blood be upon us”; a vow that cannot be rescinded, diluted by time, or obscured by propaganda.
Every speech since, every flag raised, every conscript sent eastward walks atop the bones left in that building. Everything that has happened since is an echo of that original, sacrificial fire.
And now Ukrainians are bound, as all nations are bound, to the consequences of what they chose to make sacred.
No one is forgotten, and no one can be forgiven until the Russian flag flies over Odessa again.
What makes this day so powerful, symbolically, is that the Odessa massacre was not a tragedy. It was a founding ritual.
On May 2nd, 2014, the idea of a Ukrainian political nation was made “real”, not by law, or language, or lineage, but by fire. The charred walls of the Trade Unions House became the first true constitutional document of post-Maidan Ukraine. All that followed—referenda, shellings, mobilizations, treaties, treaty violations, elections—was commentary.
Identity was determined in this singular moment, not by passport or ethnicity but by a single, irrevocable line: if you approved of the burning, you were Ukrainian. If you recoiled, you were Russian.
There was no middle category. There still isn’t.
This is not a metaphor. Nations are always born in blood, but few are so honest about whose. This act became Ukraine’s covenant, its “His blood be upon us”; a vow that cannot be rescinded, diluted by time, or obscured by propaganda.
Every speech since, every flag raised, every conscript sent eastward walks atop the bones left in that building. Everything that has happened since is an echo of that original, sacrificial fire.
And now Ukrainians are bound, as all nations are bound, to the consequences of what they chose to make sacred.
01.05.202513:19
Sergey Sternenko, a Right Sector activist and a participant in the murder of 42 people in Odessa, survived a reported assassination attempt in Ukraine.
A woman allegedly opened fire on him, but he sustained only minor injuries. Seizing the moment, he is now asking for additional donations while threatening death to Russians.
A woman allegedly opened fire on him, but he sustained only minor injuries. Seizing the moment, he is now asking for additional donations while threatening death to Russians.
26.04.202519:36
FSB captured the terrorist who tracked General Moskalik and rigged the car with explosives. He fled to Turkey but was caught by local authorities and handed over to Russia. Honestly didn't think they'd get him.
What makes this a little strange: Kuzin had Ukrainian residency, but apparently not citizenship. He's an ethnic Russian — while his target, General Moskalik, was an ethnic Ukrainian. Just another reminder this war isn't about ethnicity.
What makes this a little strange: Kuzin had Ukrainian residency, but apparently not citizenship. He's an ethnic Russian — while his target, General Moskalik, was an ethnic Ukrainian. Just another reminder this war isn't about ethnicity.
23.04.202517:44
Trump: Let’s just freeze it, recognize Crimea, grab the minerals, and call it a day.
Putin: Give us 4 oblasts and we're good.
Zelensky: To. the. last. Ukrainian.
The conspiracy theory that Zelensky is a hard-line Russian nationalist deep undercover makes more sense by the minute
Putin: Give us 4 oblasts and we're good.
Zelensky: To. the. last. Ukrainian.
The conspiracy theory that Zelensky is a hard-line Russian nationalist deep undercover makes more sense by the minute
17.04.202520:21
Russian soldiers receive a letter from schoolchildren.
It’s full of “stay safe” notes… and one unexpected request:
“Please kill our math teacher.”
It’s full of “stay safe” notes… and one unexpected request:
“Please kill our math teacher.”
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