We remember, too. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

And now, the latest triumphs of the invincible Russian army in the fifth year of its blitzkrieg on Kyiv: Ukrainian McDonald’s restaurants adjust their menus due to increasingly complicated supply logistics. Russian bot farms on social media writhe in victorious ecstasy.

Odesa: gets bombed by Russia on a daily basis. Also Odesa: launches 5G in test mode.

Bought this little treasure years ago at the bookstore inside NATO Headquarters (I absolutely love that place and miss it dearly, if you know, you know!). The great HBO series turns 25.

Meanwhile in Russia's Sochi

Judging by the absolutely rabid level of activity from Russian bot farms and paid useful idiots, insane even by today’s standards, Russian forces really must have suffered a very painful defeat near Lyman, and the news urgently needs to be drowned out in torrents of propaganda bu…Mostrar mais

In his previous “op-ed” on how “Ukraine is losing the war,” this shining light of journalism simply spent five minutes cherry-picking convenient snippets of random people’s personal takes from Twitter, stripped of the slightest bit of context, even misidentifying the people he wa…Mostrar mais

The “funniest” thing here is that the Russians themselves have long since stopped hiding or feeling embarrassed about their invasion of the Ukrainian Donbas in 2014–2015. Since about 2022, they have openly been giving interviews, savoring and bragging about their “brilliant sabo…Mostrar mais

Meanwhile in the Russian port of Novorossiysk

Propaganda does not make people stupid, but it is designed for the stupid

Thank you, dear peoples of the free world. Never doubt for a second that the kindness you have shown will surely come back to you from Ukraine when the time comes. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08...Mostrar mais

I remember that in May 2022 I was with Ukraine’s 79th Airborne in the trenches in the forests along the banks of the Siverskyi Donets. By then, Russian forces had already enveloped Lyman, entered Drobysheve, soon captured the city itself in northern Donbas, and advanced almost a…Mostrar mais

What if, with his stupid lie about the capture of such a great metropolis as the Ukrainian town of Sviatohirsk (population around 4,000 before 2022), Putin was simply trying to impress Witkoff and Kushner ahead of their latest farcical visit to Moscow? Much like when he occupied…Mostrar mais

Putin’s “aspirations” (c) incoming in Kyiv

The sky over Kyiv Oblast tonight. While I was photographing this, a fighter jet roared high overhead. Then came a burst of rapid cannon fire, and moments later something crashed to the ground somewhere in the distance -- a Shahed, I guess.

Well, judging by the fact that General Biletsky came to Sviatohirsk and filmed a video there, there’s reason to suspect that Putin is a lying clown who can only gush about his military triumphs with his mouth in front of his propaganda lackeys.

Let me guess: with the midterms coming up, Trump desperately needs at least some kind of “victory.” He has no leverage over Putin and his chronic starry-eyed infatuation gets in the way. But twisting Ukraine’s arms and demanding its surrender to the aggressor to call this “peace…Mostrar mais

Jesus Christ -- but what if the matters of war and peace and life and death in the world don’t work quite the same way as the corporate environment of elite investment funds and real estate firms in Manhattan???

Absolutely nothing from these endlessly repeated sessions of groveling before Putin will produce, or can produce, any result other than Putin once again getting a propaganda victory for his audience and once again becoming convinced that he can do whatever he wants, escalate the…Mostrar mais

Today is the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive day

You know, Ukrainians can "run out of food" in only one circumstance: when a Chekist occupier stands on their land (some of the most fertile in the world) pressing a Nagant revolver to their temple and seizing the grain they honestly grew to fund his deranged imperial schemes, as…Mostrar mais

I’ll go even further: the closer the Kremlin’s economic and military capacity to continue the war gets to a critical breaking point, the “tougher and tougher” its “demands” will become -- even though the reality on the battlefield gives it absolutely no reason to puff out its che…Mostrar mais

I wanna throw up

Well, at least people in Kyiv will get three nights of decent sleep without Russian attacks on the city -- maybe.

And this guy would’ve turned 80 today

Just a scene from Kyiv at dusk: a gray-bearded priest with a grave expression arrives by bicycle at some crowded tourist spot, lights a cigarette, and, squinting through the smoke, plays old guitar ballads and sings into a microphone, his guitar plugged into an amplifier. In fron…Mostrar mais

Everyone is freaking out over the possibility that Witkoff’s visit to Kyiv might be canceled, as if his visit could even theoretically change anything about the war.

I’m fairly skeptical about the prospects of this “M&Ms” operation to shut down all air traffic to Moscow (but let's wait and see). But for the love of Christ Almighty in heaven, get this Kremlin-planted thought-virus out of your heads: “Why do this? Now the Russians will launch…Mostrar mais

The feed is now almost entirely made up of the dumbest Russia-bootlicking bad takes imaginable, each with about 12 likes, but Elmo’s wonderful algorithm somehow feels the need to shove them all down our throats.

Goodnight, the heroic city. There will be a better time ahead.

Goodnight, the heroic city. There will be better time ahead.

Remember how we were so confidently told that the presence of American businesses in Ukraine was the best security guarantee we could possibly hope for against Russia and that we shouldn’t dare ask for anything more in exchange for surrendering our own territory to the Kremlin?…Mostrar mais

Arrived in central Kyiv, by the football stadium and Olimpiyska metro station. Absolutely normal, ordinary city life: noisy evening rush hour in the streets, people behind cafe windows, cyclists and scooter riders on the sidewalks, office workers, some out for a stroll, some goi…Mostrar mais

Yes, yes, yes, everything in this world is a global conspiracy that conveniently fits your culture wars, your personal resentments, petty politics, dissatisfaction with the modern West, and your false sense that totalitarian dictatorships somehow offer a righteous moral alternati…Mostrar mais

Translating from Putin-speak into human language: yes, there will be a new wave of large-scale mobilization in Russia, despite all the furious denials from Putin and his lackeys. And a full-scale seizure of Russians’ bank deposits is coming too, to further finance the war again…Mostrar mais

Tun, tun, tun. Another one bites the dust.

Just look at this boundless horror. This is only one tiny patch of the frontline, the area of responsibility of the 4th Battalion “The Power of Freedom” of @RubizhBrigade. Across the scorched earth and among the ruins lie piles of decomposing bodies of Russian soldiers who, fo…Mostrar mais

Mariupol five years ago on this very day. Back then, my friends and I took some time off and just jumped in a car to spend two weeks traveling around Ukraine. Lviv, the Carpathians, Odesa, Kherson, the Black Sea… and, as fate would have it, Mariupol. We returned six years afte…Mostrar mais

Aaaaaaaand… sent to print. Big announcement coming soon!

By the way, remember this, kids: - spending five years raining missiles down on Ukrainian apartment buildings, - burying Ukrainian families alive beneath the rubble of their homes night after night, - dropping bombs on theaters, railway stations, and supermarkets packed with p…Mostrar mais

Putin now spends his every appearance before his state propaganda pool just gushing out imaginary offensives, triumphant advances, entire Ukrainian divisions being encircled, nonexistent “liberations” of Ukrainian towns in Donbas (sometimes the same places several times over). H…Mostrar mais

The roar of fighter jets often rolls across the sky above the clouds. The pilots over the Kyiv region must be working themselves to exhaustion right now. It’s worth once again thanking the nations that generously provided Ukraine with fighter jets, they are saving lives and our…Mostrar mais

Oh no, now Russia will retaliate™ by bombing our airports to the ground, raining missiles down on our cities, and cutting us off from all civilian air travel for years. Oh, wait. Russia has already been doing all of that for years — with complete impunity.

Look what I've got for this rainy day of autumn 🍂

Well, if we’re on the subject -- unfounded pre-emptive pessimism based more on contrarian instincts and opinions cherry-picked out of context than on the experience of 4.5 years of war isn’t helping Ukraine either.

Wouldn’t it be great if Narendra Modi, instead of philosophically lamenting how every day of the war sets humanity back and calling for peace, actually stopped buying bloody oil from Putin and thereby finally stopped financing Russia’s war to exterminate Ukraine?

I stopped by the supermarket where I usually shop today. The only noticeably empty shelves were those for juice in Tetra Paks and a few kinds of expensive imported beer, including some very good Lithuanian ones. Otherwise, it was the same absolutely normal, almost absurdly vast…Mostrar mais

Every day, this heavenly blessed website reveals to science ever new, breathtaking in their sheer unattainability, shining heights of human stupidity.

Rural Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. A quiet, clear night has comedown, the last one of this calendar summer. Above your head: the entire universe at once, with satellites moving back and forth like flies. Every now and then, the hum of engines carries through the air; somewhere in th…Mostrar mais

As I understand it, Kremlin political strategists are now working around the clock to sell the message to Western public opinion: “See? Putin is still quite reasonable and moderate. In this war, he is holding back his bloodthirsty people and his hawks. We need to negotiate with…Mostrar mais