“They write: “family of four, save us.” A few hours later, a new message comes from them: “Grandfather has already drowned. A family of three…” There are many such messages
The creator and coordinator of the volunteer group and chat in Oleshki, Yaroslav Vasiliev, told ASTRA that after more than two days, the situation in the city and other settlements after the incident at the Kakhovskaya HPP on the left bank has not improved. Yaroslav Vasiliev says that volunteers find the boats on their own, but at the checkpoint in Radensk, not only volunteers, but also the boats themselves are not allowed into the flooded points. People without Russian passports are not allowed out of settlements.
"There was a guy with a Ukrainian passport in Oleshki, they didn't let him out in Radensk, and he turned around and returned to Oleshki. This was back when there was not so much water. Now we have no connection with this guy" says Yaroslav ASTRA. Two more people tell ASTRA that people with Ukrainian passports face problems in the occupied territories. “*First of all, they save people with Russian passports*,” says a source from Novaya Kakhovka. The information is also confirmed by a resident Oleshek.
Vasiliev tells ASTRA that the number of reports of drowned people is growing every hour. Those volunteers who are already in the occupied settlements tell Yaroslav that the EMERCOM of the Russian Federation was seen there only once in two and a half days.
“Yesterday the Ministry of Emergency Situations took away two people in Oleshki, left and never returned. And there people are sitting on the roofs, everyone asked for help. Our volunteers saved them,” says Yaroslav.
Reminder in the beginning of this year, russians forced the population of annexed territories to get a russian passport, treating everyone who didn't do it as an illegal foreigner. A couple of months ago, putler signed a law permitting deportation of anyone without a russian passport in the occupied territories if their presence "causes threat to the stability of the region".
Is it genocide yet or are Ukrainians at fault again, for crossing the red line or something...
This morning, a dam in Kherson, where most of my family comes from, was blown up, creating the worst human-made ecological catastrophe in the region since Chernobyl. As a result, 16000 people lost their homes, a dozen of towns and villages were wiped out, including a chunk of Kherson city. A huge part of Ukraine, including Crimea will lose its main source of water, the nearby nuclear power plant, the biggest one in Europe loses its ability to cool off the reactors. Local zoo was completely destroyed killing all the animals in it except the swans. Due to the flooding of a cemetery, it is feared that chances of disease outbreaks will rise. Also, because ruzzians left many minefields before retreating from the right bank of the river, these mines are now being washed away by the influx of water and will end up randomly scattered along the river bank. All of this happened in less than ONE DAY. It is not even the peak of flooding yet. Also, as I mentioned before, Kherson is being shelled by the ruschists EVERY SINGLE DAY since they retreated to the left bank of the river. Today was no exception. They shelled the city WHILE this tragedy was unfolding, WHILE people were being evacuated from the affected areas.
Russwines are like reverse Midas. Everything they touch turns into shit. I swear, everywhere they go, they bring hopelessness, despair, corruption and destruction. Absolute scum on Earth.
And here comes UN, rushing to not let us forget about the Orwellian nature of our geopolitical reality: they found it appropriate to remind us that today is "russian language day". Russian was the first language I learned and the one I use to communicate with my family, we are all phasing it out since everything that is remotely related to those genocidal orcs reminds us of how rotten this world really is.
"We thought we hit rock-bottom but then we heard someone knocking from below"
- a russian proverb that is as applicable to them today as it was yesterday and as it will be a century from now.
I thought this only happened in movies... I thought a man couldn't look so calm and dignified in the face of death. Know that the last moment has come and leave with dignity... Go on your own terms, leave with the words you chose.. Calm down, give the last push, say the slogan and die... I think only heroes die like this in movies ...
Now I know what respect is.. The true respect of a true Ukrainian hero...
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
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One year ago a nation of depressed alcoholics invaded my country of birth. Most of my family lives in the province called Kherson, which is sepated by an isthmus from Crimea. So they saw tanks rolling in from the south even before the invasion was officially declared. Overnight, my entire family has either become a refugee or was destined to suffer foreign military occupation and/or shelling. Because of its proximity and high-level treason (the isthmus was supposed to be heavily mined and impossible), Kherson was the only provincial capital and the westernmost city those genocidal army of pigs managed to hold for more than 6 months since the invasion. It was also the only city on the west bank of Dnieper river they managed to hold. Shortly after the occupation, the nation with the highest HIV and drug abuse of Europe started their campaign of genocide, imposing their language, school curriculum, currency etc... even time zone was changed. War crimes are more like a rule than an exception for those troglodytes so each one had to make a difficult choice of either submit, fight and/or flee the region. I have relatives that fall into each one of these three categories. None of these "choices" are a consolation, believe me. All are tragic in their own way. The village where my grandmother lived is just literally ruins now and she had to cross the war front under fire to escape to safety. This safety is of course relative since her new town has been shelled countless times with hypersonic missiles and drone strikes.
When they announced the "annexation" of Kherson, the population was half of what it was before the war and they didn't even fully control the region. Shortly after, they announced they will retreat. People were relieved too soon, since before the horde of rapists left the city, they looted and robbed every single hospital, museum and business they could loot, destroyed as much of amenities they could and heavily mined the city, the villages nearby and even the fields. They left an empty shell that was once a city of more than half a million people. Kherson is located just to the west of a very wide delta of a river, so the Ruswines retreated to the eastern side and since the retreat, they have been shelling the city EVERY SINGLE DAY without exception. The result is that as of now, it is a ghost city, unlivable. Around the same time, Putler assigned a notorious war criminal as the new commander of this war. It has been a long time since Syria, the bloodthirsty vampire-demon had to quench his thirst for despair and suffering, so he proposed a new tactic: every 2/3 weeks he launches a massive barrage of missiles against the energetic infrastructure of Ukraine. Everything goes, conventional missiles, hypersonic missiles and ballistics and drones. The goal was to collapse the economy, plunge the nation into cold and darkness before the winter and make the people ask their government to surrender. As the result, majority of Ukrainians now live with very limited electricity and some with none at all. Unfortunately, reducing the population to live like medieval peasants is partially successful. But they didn't surrender. Also, one week ago, my uncle's summer home on the east bank of the river was looted, confiscated and now used as accomodations for the enemy troops.
This is where we are right now. As the most documented conflict of the history of mankind, after one year, it's taking its toll on the informational fatigue of the people but I will not give you the satisfaction to forget how fragile our world is and how easily your whole life can turn upside down. The idea that this war could be a reality would be dismissed as ramble of a demented idiot only 10 years ago but here we are... Never underestimate the human stupidity and how easy it is to brainwash people into believing literally anything.
Also, in case someone wants to bitch about my biases, I'll just let you know that ALL my family is Russian-speaking, many of them are monolingual. Even now. Kherson is overwhelmingly Russian-speaking. There is no oppression of people based on language there (or anywhere in Ukraine; even now), and no one ever called the horde of retarded idiots to "liberate" them in that part of Ukraine. They have to fuck off or die. Anything else is grave injustice. If you think anything other than that, you can just go ahead and have a lobotomy, whatever you have inside your head is just a dead weight anyway. You are stupid and gullible, and we are in a time in history when empathizing with stupid and gullible people is very dangerous.
@stevenroose this is called drug repurposing and we do it very often in our center
Portuguese by nationality. Genetically I'm aprox 50% Ukrainian, 25% Russian and 25% Greek. Living in Spain (Catalonia).
I don't identify myself with any "-ism", but the closest thing would be libertarianism.
I work in the field of Life Sciences. My activity usually revolves around genetics and bioinformatics. I also like programming and data science / machine learning.
I started migrating to more ethical digital spaces and services after I had first-hand experience working for one of the most abominable enterprises. There is so much I want to say about it but can't due to legal reasons.