A huge fire at a gas storage facility in Saratov, Russia, which is about 850 km southeast of Moscow. The governor of the regions claimed the fire was caused by “an unusual heat, which led to depressurization and combustion,"
Keep on hitting it until it’s a smoldering ruin.
It is reported that about 400 Russians in Vovchansk are cut off from escape.
They can surrender or they can pretend they are at the Alamo.
Surrender is the best option.
War by other means. Taking down the FSB website was especially sweet.
This report from the Kyiv Independent is a stark reminder how Russians use rape to terrorize and dehumanize.
She describes how, days later, after troops attacked and interrogated residents, a drunk soldier started asking the ages of women and girls in the house where Maryna was sheltering. After taking her mother into another room briefly, Maryna says the soldier returned for her, took her into that room while her mother and the children in the house waited in the kitchen, and raped her.
“He said that if I resisted, he would shoot me. He also threatened me with his fists. I told him that I was pregnant and that I didn’t want anything, and he said: ‘Don’t be such a tease. If you don’t want to be with me I’ll call 20 people and you’ll be with everyone in turns. So choose, either be with me, or with them.’ I still remember this very foul-smelling alcohol breath. I tried to push him away, and even though he was drunk, he was stronger than me,” she said.
This is a very well-written story on life in Kyiv and about the life and death of noted Ukrainian photographer Arsen Fedosenko.
This island of normal life was, it should not be forgotten, hard won. That Kyiv was saved by Ukrainian defenders remains the point from which all potential futures in Ukraine now depart. With its air defense in place, it is an unwalled fortress of Ukrainianness. Children go to school, they go to the mall with their friends. People go to work, they go to cafes, they stop in the bookshop — perhaps to choose the latest Ukrainian book about the war, or a selection of Ukrainian literature or history, the revival of which has been bolstered by a decade of Russia trying to steal it from them, again. The primal wail of the air raid siren scratches deep into the psyche, a reminder that these are not normal times. Even in the silence, in the rain, in traffic, in the sound of passing crowds — the phantom alarm is a hollow that the ears strain to fill. Not reacting at all is a badge of resilience. Even the birds continue singing. Everything is the same as the moment before. “If you hear the sirens, you are still alive.”
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Fedosenko had a knack for war photography, unflinching under fire, always looking for the moment that needed to be captured on film. He quickly became the soul of the team, a steady, professional presence whatever the circumstances. No matter where he went, his teammates say, he had a thousand different conversations with the soldiers and civilians caught up in the war — conversations about better times, and the future, and dreams of everything that Ukraine would be. The soldiers he served with say they never saw him sad — concerned, maybe worried, but never sad. Fedosenko brought sunlight with him where sometimes there was none to be had.
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Arsen Fedosenko traded a life of capturing beauty for a life of capturing the love and terror and loneliness and brotherhood of war. He showed us faces, sacred objects, joy, devastation, the vast and the small. He showed us moments of a war too immense to conceptualize in a way we could see clearly if we chose to look. He showed us who and what to fight for. He knew the war for what it was — and what it was for. He never looked away. He knew Ukraine will win.
Aside from the roughly thousand-a-day losses of soldiers it amazes me how Russia can afford to lose so many artillery systems.
Russia must be worried about losing Crimea down the road. They did this same kind of art theft before pulling out of Kherson as well.
Not many things would burn for that long other than maybe a huge pile of old tires.
Adios.
This incident is reported to have happened in Gorlovka.
These clueless idiots think Russia is a place where you can appeal to the authorities and get justice.
Hahahahahahahaha
The men were kidnapped from Russian territory and transferred to Ukraine, despite all of them having medical certificates and injuries. Some do not have the right to carry weapons due to psychological problems. But Putin needs meat.
Putin did this.
Dad’s home.
Puppy on patrol.
All kinds of animals in Ukraine need rescuing.