There are the victims of russian occupation. After the libaration of numerous Ukrainian cities by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a terrible pictures of russian crimes opens up.
Women and young girls are raped! Children are killed! Civillians are tortured!
This is genocide of the Ukrainian Nation! WORLD, DO YOU NEED MORE?
Reblog and share this photos please. World must see what russians really are!
I know it’s uncomfortable to look at, but you HAVE TO. Burn these images into your brain to never ever fucking tell me that I don’t have the right to hate any russian. We will never forget and forgive this. Never.
These towns were shielding my home city just like Ukraine is currently shielding your home countries. If russia is not stopped now, this horror will come to other places.
And if you feel the same coldness, rage, and disgust I feel looking at this pictures, let’s prepare ourselves for what we’re about to see from Mariupol and other cities and towns in Ukraine which are STILL under russian control/blockade.
Every time I think, “What else do we have to show the world for it to break ties with russia and help us fight it”, the “else” appears. Because russia doesn’t stop its atrocities for a second. There will be more. The sooner you accept that russia can’t be healed, can’t be trusted, and can’t be reassured with words, and that its people have to bear the collective guilt just like the Germans did, the better. We’ve known this for a long time here in Ukraine. Now it’s your turn to wake up.
(and no, our country and our people are not the only ones suffering in this world. we fucking know this. please stop the whataboutism, it doesn’t help anyone)
i really wish for someone to show this to all those russian and belarusian gymnasts like Baktrishyna, Halkina and Harnasko whining about ukrainians spreading hate and banning them to win competitions…like Tur wrote many young and promising girls won’t be able to perform anymore, to try to enter the national team, to win international medals, to become olympic champions. My heart is hurting so much because of this still happening in 2022. Rest in peace Katya, you are gone way too soon 💔.
Chris Howarth & Louise Walden from British Eurosport commentary after Ivan Shmuratko’s SP at Worlds Figure Skating Championships 2022.
I wanted to share their commentary because combined with Ivan’s beautiful performance it brought me to tears. There was a lot of (justified) controversy surrounding figure skating commentary the past 24 hours and I felt it’s important to give credit when it’s well done and not just when it’s subpar. I hope it will be moving for you as much as it was for me.
yeahhh, there were lots of athletes there. imo, it’s not surprising at all. there have been signs of this for years, now it’s finally obvious to (almost) everyone. and i wish people would stop being so naive thinking “they had no choice”. i know it’s hard to accept your fave athletes are delusional bigots, but this is the reality.
being an RG fan has been especially difficult since most top athletes here support/ignore the crimes of russian and belarusian governments (and, unrelated to this war, israeli).
and no, i don’t care about the environment of propaganda they’ve been raised in. i’m done looking for excuses for them. i’m done feeling sorry for them, because “they might have been made to do this”. while my people in Mariupol really don’t have a choice and have to somehow survive the blockade while being shelled constantly (almost the whole city is destroyed now, dead bodies lying on the streets and not yet counted officially, because there is no way to get to them, humanitarian corridors are shot at by russians while other russians in their comfortable homes are spreading lies about it all being staged by “nazi Ukrainians”). and it’s only one of many cities and towns where people are trapped and don’t have a choice to live peacefully.
sorry for the darkness on your dash. i’m just so tired of this, of them, of people supporting them. it makes me sick, just like it has always made me sick to see gymternet jokingly learning russian anthem.
they’re scared to speak out? well, i’m scared to take a shower or go for a walk, because there might be an air raid siren while i’m there, not being able to protect myself right away (and it’s the tiniest problem you could face in Ukraine atm, since there are much bigger and scarier issues in other regions). i know i shouldn’t make these emotional comparisons, but it’s all i feel now. some Ukrainians are fighting armed soldiers with bare hands, and these people dare to mention fear. how should i feel about it?
a few thousands anti-war russian protesters vs. hundreds of thousands pro-war ones. it’s not Belarus, it’s not North Korea, russians actually keep CHOOSING their leader over and over again, they keep CHOOSING this life over and over again (there are multiple surveys about it, if you don’t believe the elections’ results). wake the fuck up, the opposition is a minority there, and even they are not sure they can do anything. if they wanted a revolution it would’ve already happened, like it did in Ukraine in 2013/14. i really wish there was an uprising in russia to prove me wrong, but we’ve been living near this country for far too long to know it’s naive to expect it.
“When you feel sorry for russian teenagers without Instagram, remember Kruty.”
“When you feel sorry for russian liberals, remember the Ems Ukaz.”
“When you feel sorry for russians who are standing in lines for food, remember Holodomor.”
“When you feel sorry for artists ‘not involved in politics’, remember Executed Renaissance.”
“When you feel sorry for russians detained at rallies, remember Ukrainian dissidents.”
“When you feel sorry for russians, remember the history of Ukraine.”
And if you don’t know any of it, go read a book or wikipedia or something. Just freaking stop praising rare examples of resistence in russia, including staged ones, and stop trying to grasp at straws of hope that the majority of this country’s population are just victims of the regime (open your eyes, about 70% of them support the war). And stop putting an equal sign between the struggles of Ukrainians and russians, who’ve been oppressing us for centuries. Don’t freaking embarrass yourself (looking at you, Western media).
P. S. If I hear one more time that we’re “brothers” or ever have been… Anyone who uses this kind of language has obviously learned the history of our countries from russian/soviet point of view.
Ivan Kuliak chose what was probably the last time he would compete internationally for a long time to wear a “Z” on his chest. That is the symbol in support of the Russian war in Ukraine. He was standing on a podium with a Ukrainian whose home is a war zone.
In case you were feeling sorry for Russian athletes.
I hope the sport never forgets what he did here.
really reminds me of germans competing with nazi symbols on their uniforms. what a time to be alive (unless i get shelled at any minute by my amazing neighboring country).
btw here is how the wiki page of this asshole looked like today:
