Burisma Is a Russian Company Not a Ukrainian one
plus: new podcast from streets of Lviv
Hello from Lviv. It’s 2:20am. We’re expecting missiles to arrive in Ukrainian airspace starting in 20 minutes. We’ll see. And if there’s a refrain I have this week, it’s this: “Burisma is Russian, not Ukrainian. Thank you.” Plus: Enter into life in Lviv by watching episode one of our new war-time podcast Nezlamni / Unbreakable.
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Burisma is a Russian Company Not a Ukrainian One
American conservative opponents of Ukraine like to say that Washington is only helping Ukraine because Joe Biden's family made money in Ukraine. This is not true. Plus: We ask for your support in raising money for an SUV for a Ukrainian recon unit on the front. Donations welcome at ukrainianfreedomnews.com.
You can watch the full episode here, with more war-video and commentary from Michał Rachon and war expert Thomas Theiner on the Ukrainian counter-offensive:
War Day 475: Most of the US Media Gets One Small But Important Deal Wrong About Ukraine
It was a sleepless night, with alarms throughout the country and more Russian rocket attacks on civilians including Kryvyi Rih, the longest city in Europe, in the Cossack heartland. Meanwhile, there's one crucial detail media both left, right, and centre gets wrong in the USA: Burisma is not a Ukrainian company.
Nezlamni / Unbreakable: A War-time Podcast from Lviv—Episode 1: The Russian-Induced Floods
Here’s our new podcast, recorded from the cobbled street outside of Lviv café @facet_lviv , to show a bit of the reality of life in war. Co-hosted by Ukrainian artist Oles Derega @derega , this episode also features @safi.lenter from Crimea and Yaro from Lviv.
“The mission of everyone here is to nurture one’s spiritual growth … so you can be there for others.”
Please help raise money for an SUV for Vlad and his Ukrainian Army Recon Team:
Thanks to our friends at the Deep Inspire Foundation, a Lviv IT company turned into victory charity, we have a request here from a specific soldier. In nearly 16 months of full-scale war, Ukrainians and foreigners here have realized it is most effective to send donated trucks to the custody of a particular soldier rather than to bureaucrats.
Ukraine’s fight is the effort of many individuals every day pushing back against the Russians. While taxpayers and governments from around the free world send high-level weapons, smaller necessities such as first-aid kits and SUVs, so frequently destroyed, are given by generous people around the world.
We want to raise $5,000 for an off-road vehicle for reconnaissance. This will go to a Ukrainian soldier named Vlad 27 years old. Until 2018, he was studying programming and had his own life plan—conscripted.
Vlad went from being a mechanic-driver to commanding a tank platoon and became a sought-after specialist in various reconnaissance units.
Now he's in a new special reconnaissance unit, and they reeeally need an suv - to be mobile, "get stuck in the mud" with recon and rescue missions, and come back in one piece.
We are looking to raise $5000 for the vehicle.
We welcome U.S. tax-deductible donations here thanks to our partners at the U.S.-based Ukrainian Freedom Fund. Please designate your gift for “Vlad.”
PREVIOUSLY: War Day 468: Russia's History of Dam Destruction vs Ukraine's Baseline of Bravery
Through the night, Russia sent a confusing array of missiles and drones throughout Ukraine, often changing course. And at around 3am, the massive Nova Kakhovka dam began to collapse partially, initiating a massive flood. The Russians have a history of harming Ukrainians both by destroying and by building dams. Here's the story ...
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