Young Ukrainian Warrior ‘Maniac’ Fires Upon Russians
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WATCH: Young Ukrainian Warrior ‘Maniac’ Fires Upon Russians
This is from the early weeks of the war. A young Ukrainian warrior, a polite student by all accounts, he shared his food with his comrades in the trench and he said he did not want to kill anyone. Then, when the necessary time arrived, among hardened foreign combat veterans, he stood up fearlessly to find his target and hit it amid incoming fire.
They call him Maniac.
Beijing Installs New Leader for Hong Kong Whose People Once Were Inspired by Ukraine
"Were not the Maidan protests themselves originally a primal holler for freedom? "
In February 2021, activists in favour of a Free Hong Kong participated at a conference at Lviv's Ukrainian Catholic University, virtually due to the pandemic. Back then, Ukraine was a safe and free country.
Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity had served as a blueprint for Hong Kong’s umbrella movement and for its massive 2019 protests when as much as 1/7th of the population took to the streets demanding that Beijing not take away their freedoms of speech, press, and assembly.
There were photos of Hong Kongers waving not only Hong Kong, British, and American flags, but also the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukraine.
Then, in the pandemic, in the summer of 2020, Beijing ended Hong Kong’s liberties, in violation of its treaty with the UK that pledged to keep HK’s liberties. Ukrainians were angry when their government refused to join Canada and 40 other nations in condemning China’s actions.
And now liberty is under threat in Ukraine. Already in newly Russian-occupied territories such as the Ukrainian city of Kherson, free speech and assembly are gone.
Ukrainians, going back to the Cossack days, have always been a wildly free-spirited people. Imperial and Soviet Moscow sought to subdue this spirit, but still the spirit, language, and culture thrive.
Here's a story from 2019 seeing some parallels between Hong Kong and Ukraine.
Daily Situation Summary: 10 May
Lend Lease for Ukraine, Russians Bomb Azov Plant, Relentlessly, Russian Attacks Ukrainian Journalist in Berlin
BY PAVLO VITENKO, Ukrainian Freedom News
UKRAINE: There are 12-14 thousand inhabitants left in Izyum, Kharkiv region: it is impossible to bring medicines and products to the city
🔵 In Izyum, the bodies of 44 people who died in March were retrieved from the rubble, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Sinegubov said.
🟡 The Russians export stolen grain and vegetables from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and the previously-annexed Crimea.
🔵 In Mariupol occupiers bomb Azovstal plant again.
🟡 There are more than a thousand servicemen on Azovstal, many of them wounded – said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
WORLD: Macron of France and Orban of Hungary will discuss an embargo on Russian oil
🔵 «We all want this»: the Bundestag called for Ukraine’s accelerated accession to the EU
🟡 On May 9, Russians and participants in the Victory Day rally in Berlin attacked the Ukrainian TSN film crew, which was filming a story about violations during commemorative events.
🔵 Hungary will assure that it is not against Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Budapest has been an ally of Putin and has refused to go along with the EU’s proposed embargo so far.
🟡 The EU has approved a decision to provide 600 million euros in aid to Ukraine
🔵 The Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) unanimously recognized Russia as a terrorist state.
Read the rest, including our region-by-region updates: Daily Situation Report
Speak Freely: Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal
These Strange Days of Expecting Something Terrible
Here's a near-daily audio war-journal from Lviv, Ukraine with American journalist Joe Lindsley and Ukrainian bartender Zakhar Pikh.
This episode:
May 9 came and went. Russia continues to Azozsteel plant and added a fresh attack on Odesa. But in western Ukraine there has been a lull. What's happening?
*Includes explicit language, because the goal is to share honest thoughts and the mood of the moment.*
You can also listen on Spotify:
Songs discussed:
🔵 "False Alarm," The Weeknd
You can access the playlist of music discussed here.
Daily Supply Needs
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