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Every year on April 26, the International Day of Remembrance of the Chornobyl Disaster commemorates the anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in human history.

Exactly 38 years ago, an explosion and fire at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine led to the release of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. Dozens of people died immediately after the disaster, and the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is estimated in the thousands. The consequences for people and the environment persist to this day.

On this day, we honor the memory of all the victims of this dreadful catastrophe🕯️

88-year-old man flees from TOT on his own

An 88-year-old man known only as Ivan who lived in the village of Ocheretyne, Donetsk Oblast, has managed to get out of the occupied territory on his own. The russians had taken his Ukrainian-issued passport away in order to replace it with a russian one.

Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, said that volunteers met the old man in Ukrainian territory and helped him reach the town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

"Ivan spent the whole night walking to a crossing. Since there were attacks, he had to wait them out. And then he kept going.

All he had was his pension certificate and a backpack with his belongings,"
Filashkin said.

Ivan is being evacuated to a temporary shelter in the city of Dnipro. Later, he will be transferred to a social protection institution, where he will be provided with housing and any help he needs.

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Good morning Resisters. 100% chance of rain. Thunderstorms. Yesterday so much rain we were moving at 40 mph on the divided highway.

Another Ukrainian family was returned from the temporarily occupied community of the Kherson Region.

The occupiers threatened the family that they would deprive their parents of custody and take away the 12-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl for refusing to go to so-called russian educational institutions.

The parents did everything possible to ensure that their children studied at a Ukrainian school. Therefore, they left for the territory controlled by Ukraine.

Now they are being helped to settle in a new place. Social services, doctors and psychologists work with adults and children.

I am grateful for this return to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets. You and your team did a tremendous job so that this family was on Ukrainian soil 🇺🇦
- commented Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson OVA

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💥"Himarsom" at the enemy: destruction of the enemy self-propelled gun 2S5 "Hyacinth-S".
Operators of the 73rd SSO Marine Center identified the enemy's target, and the artillerymen of the Defense Forces delivered a devastating blow.

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More irises blooming.

Good morning Resisters everywhere. I am outside this morning getting 3 bars. It's a little cool at 45⁰. But in an hour it will be 55⁰. Wearing my quilted flannel shirt.

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

The weekly rally in support of prisoners of war had an unexpected four-pawed participant this Sunday — Kamilla the dog.

Her owner explained that Kamilla was originally sold from Ukraine to a family in Moscow, but at the age of 3, they decided to put the dog down. Instead, volunteers brought Kamilla to Borodyanka, Kyiv region, where the pup found her new home. Russian world caught up with Kamilla there, when she and her owner had to flee from Russian occupation in spring of 2022.

"Free Azov," says the plaque Kamilla wore to the rally, reminding us that the defenders of Mariupol remain in Russian captivity for almost two years.

📷: Novyny Live, Hromadske

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Ukrainian developers of the UAV Wild Hornets demonstrated the testing of an intelligent kamikaze drone.

The drone is entirely made up of components of Ukrainian production: flight controller, engine regulator, video transmitter, camera, and microcomputer that operates with a neural network.

"With the help of the intelligent system, the drone autonomously identifies targets on the battlefield (vehicles, infantry). The operator only needs to select one of them by pressing a button on the control panel."

🔥Shadow unit eliminates another russian military golf cart.

There is a death in this video.

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Good morning Resisters everywhere

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

Norway will financially join the initiative to provide Ukraine with additional air defense systems, — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre for TV2.

“We have limited time to delay, so Norway will be involved in the financing. Several other countries are contributing to this, because there is air defense equipment that can get to Ukraine quite quickly, and they have been working intensively on this in the last few days and weeks,” the Norwegian prime minister said.

He emphasized that it takes time to manufacture air defense equipment. Therefore, the countries' own air defense equipment needs to be sent now.

"This has been the pattern so far, and we have also contributed to it. Other countries will also dig deeper to contribute to this. We also need to increase production. The news every morning is about Russian missiles and drones that hit civilian buildings, power plants and killed many people,” Støre emphasized.

According to him, in order to make an effective impact, Norway will revise the budget of the Nansen program, which provides military and civilian support to Ukraine in the amount of 75 billion Norwegian kroner over five years.

Jonas Gahr Støre states that there are significant amounts of money to be spent on air defense, but does not give an exact amount.

“We will return to this when we present the revised budget. It is expensive, but preserving peace and freedom costs money. Ukraine and Ukrainians pay the most expensive price,” he emphasized.

Rest in Peace Ilya

Ilya Oskin died on April 11, 2024 in Mykolaiv. He worked as a fitter at an industrial plant that was hit by a Russian ballistic missile.

Ilya was 52 years old. Born in Kherson, later the family moved to Mykolaiv. Ilya had his own business - he performed high-rise construction work. He was an industrial climber.

The man was a candidate for master of sports in chess. He liked to play badminton and football with the children. He loved to cook.

From the first days of the full-scale war, Ilya helped restore the roofs of houses that were damaged by Russian shelling for free. Later he joined the ranks of the Armed Forces. After being wounded, he returned to civilian life.

"He believed in victory... He was stable, calm, kind. He quickly forgot the insults and trusted people again. He was not a crybaby, he did not complain. He tried to solve problems on his own," said his wife Iryna.

Ilya is survived by his wife, two children, two sisters, two nephews and a niece.

Good morning Resisters

Goodnight Resisters

⚡️The police detained two suspects in the attack on the police officers - they face life imprisonment.

🔹Two servicemen involved in the shooting of police officers in the Vinnytsia region were detained in the village of Lipetske, Podilsky District, Odesa Region.

🔹Currently, the detainees are being investigated. A notification of suspicion is prepared for them and the question of choosing preventive measures is decided.

🔹The detainees are two military men, a father and a son, aged 52 and 26. They are natives of Vinnytsia region. The policeman, who died in the line of duty, managed to injure them.

🔹 The attack on police officers took place on April 20 around two in the morning. The patrolmen stopped the car to check the documents of the two men, but they started shooting. One patrolman was killed, another was wounded.

Photo: National Police

Ignorant horse, can you tell me why then the Russians destroyed 1000+ churches in Ukraine, including those of the Moscow Patriarchate?

I answer, because they don't care, they simply pursue their goal which is not connected to religion. And even if 100 churches line up in their path, they’ll bomb them and move on

REST IN HELL

As a result of the destruction of a Russian Ka-27 helicopter over Crimea on April 10, four crew members were killed.

Among them are crew commander Aziz Shayakhmetov , air gunner Alexander Solovey , flight technician Ivan Stepin and navigator Nikita Tokarchuk .

Shayakhmetov Aziz Irshatovich, born in 1996, is a native of the city of Syzran, Samara region of the Russian Federation.

None of these pilots can fire missiles at Ukrainian Civilians again.

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