"Still" sounds similar to "steel" and Ukrainians proved to be as tough if nothing else. Regardless how things will go the next days there's already some history written in the most heroic way possible hence the unlimited amount of images and reactions one can observe from this tragedy. I'll share some of the ones that caught my eye the most:
Art spoke once more at tough times like these - in the following case at a perfect simple and spot on way:
Pity I haven't managed to find the creator's name but he/she nailed it.
You probably already know that many Ukrainians went back to their homeland to fight for their country. It's not the first time in history this happens of course but in the case of Ukraine what stands out is the amount of popular people (athletes, artists) who decided to do so leaving behind a rather nice life and career. One of them is Andriy Khlyvnyuk who sings for the band Boombox. He left the US tour of his band to join the Ukrainian army. The cool guy from Kiffness made a video with Andriy singing willing to offer all the royalties to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
The result is impressive:
There's times that you find even a rich language like my native one kinda poor to describe the way Ukrainians defend their land, even at times they are totally unarmed. The following video is only one of the many such cases in which locals stalled Russian military vehicles. See the guy lying on the ground and also the ones that don't step back even at the sight of a huge truck coming:
This unparalleled passion for standing their ground also says a lot about how a Russian future looks to them. Not only this puts Putin's propaganda in the trash bin (that they are not even a nation and they are Russians instead so he goes there to liberate them from Zelensky) but also shows that they literally prefer to die than become part of Russia.
Back to the artists, I couldn't skip Jack Nicholson's contribution of solidarity to Ukraine. What a sweet video he made and so meaningful this 84 years old master:
The over the top resistance of Ukrainian people hasn't left the neighbouring countries unaffected. See the following paper from Belarus:
It is the letter of resignation from the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, ashamed to be part of Putin's tragic parody. Was he motivated by the following drawing? Could be:
Back to the Ukrainian soldiers, I spotted a video capturing a sweet moment in a break of their heroic efforts:
Sure cuteness is the first eye catcher on this one but I think it also shows how hungry the bird is this time of the year. Unique moment in any case.
Since one of the solutions for the dark times Ukraine is experiencing now is in the hands of Russian people and how/if they manage to raise their voice against this loud and early enough, one might find interesting how the Russian society sees things in general. For those who are curious, an interesting YT channel interviewing people on the streets of Russia is "1420" - here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl4R4M9YVfYjjPmILU2Ie1A
There are interesting questions lately about the war but you can also watch older ones to get a more complete view of what's going on there. I think it underlines the generation gap that I previously posted about here.
How one can not defend or support a country with little angels like the following one - see this Ukrainian girl bringing her priceless light in a shelter's gloom with her voice:
The wonders of kids - they can open cute parenthesis regardless the adults's mess.
But the latter still goes on. Wonder how a real journalist's life is at a war zone? Watch the next shocking video (away from your kids):
Hard to comment this. The brave guys from Skynews kept screaming "journalists!" and the girl also tried to scream it in Russian but they kept receiving loads of bullets resulting in injuries despite their helmets and cupids. Obvious attend to murder them. I hope one day the bastards responsible for this will face the court though I've got low expectations.
As the 12th day of Russian invasion in Ukraine is about to end let's have a look at some statistics:
- From 200.000 Russian soldiers 11.000 of them are already dead
- 46 Russian aircrafts and 68 helicopters destroyed
- 1,5 million refugees have already left Ukraine, mainly to Poland and Romania.
- 143.000 Ukrainians came back to the country, 80% men, most of them in order to fight.
- 22.000 foreigners from 46 countries have come to Ukraine to defend the country, some of them experienced veterans
- Thousands unarmed civilians have been killed, among them 38 kids.
- 211 schools suffered bombing
- 34 hospitals have stopped operating either due to being bombed or because of destroyed infrastructures (power, heating etc).
- 400.000 civilians are besieged by Russians at Mariupol (among them 50.000 Greeks).
- 4000 weddings took place from the beginning of war while 4.300 babies were born, many of them in shelters.
Obviously the above numbers can be questionable as usual during a war but they really give an idea of what's going on.