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Donate to World Central Kitchen

And it's even better to donate directly to Ukrainian organisations. Here are a few good legit places:

hospitallers.life - "Hospitallers", Ukrainian paramedics on the frontlines

savelife.in.ua - "Come Back Alive", assistance to the army

prytulafoundation.org - "Prytula Foundation", assistance to the army, humanitarian causes

starenki.com.ua - "Starenki", helping elderly people

everybodycan.com.ua - "Everybody Can", helping disabled children, elders and hospitals

uanimals.org - "UAnimals", saving animals

People ask why I don't want to see Poland or move to Poland, and the answer is as simple as ABC: at least a half of the country are chauvinists and literally beat or persecute Ukrainians. They even beat and insult Ukrainian children and teens saying "go to your fucking Ukraine" or "get the fuck out of here, you are not welcome".

The reasons? Well, I honestly don't even know which of the reasons I listed is more compelling (sorry, more absurd), but I will try starting with the most widespread piece of gaslighting that young Poles eagerly swallow: the Volhynia tragedy. Nobody looks at the prerequisites; nobody considers how many centuries prior the Poles were destroying Ukrainians, instigating genocide and religious wars. All that matters to them to prove that "evil UPA" (I guess all 40+ million modern Ukrainians from Ukraine proper are UPA too) slaughtered poor villagers solely because they were Polish. I don't recall Ukraine ever aggressively demanding reparations from Poles for centuries of terror, or weaponizing far worse Polish atrocities in the media, for example. Guess our people were not taking kremlin rubles for that kind of outrage-baiting.

The second reason, of course, is the absurd belief that we, as refugees, are mooching em off, draining their very last zlotys, and stripping them to the bone. Well, let me remind the especially brain-dead out there: refugees pay taxes and work, too. Refugee status allows to both sue any unhinged scumbag and tell em straight fucking up that their fucking country lives on the fucking refugee taxes, so fuck off.

The third reason is not actually the root cause of the beatings or even the initial spark of hate; I would say it is more of a purely local prejudice that kicked in after Poland got a taste of the EU: that Ukrainians are automatically "third-world people" (a term I’m convinced is manipulative in itself, created by the Western world to somehow justify racism). I hasten to remind everyone that thet very Poland was part of the Eastern Bloc, and its citizens are currently chugging cheap cherry beer outside Żabka while blasting club eurodance (just like somewhere near moscow in the ruzzia that Poland despises sooooo fucking much). Yet somehow, we are always the dumb, uneducated, and dead-broke ones — because, of course, they need a scapegoat. As for the number of Ukrainians with higher education and the objective quality of our healthcare, I will not even bother listing the facts; it’s all in the public record.

So yeah, I am not going to Poland even for a week, not a single hryvnia of mine will they receive. Instead of wasting my nerves, I prefer mentally mature or at least well-not-my-business-where-you-come-from countries.

And yea, "nooooo not all Poles-" — I don't care. I have a sense of dignity and an objective take on who Ukrainians really are and what we all are actually capable of. A couple of idiots from back home are not the face of the nation, for sure. If Poles do not get that on purpose or because of their natural stupidity, then I will not be swayed by "not all Poles are like that" either. Two can play at that game. I will wrap this up with a fine n beautiful quote from Teach You a Lesson:

For example, life somewhere in the USA, Spain, France, Finland, Germany. Of course, normal life has its problems too! But at least they don't have the backdrop of war. For me, living in peace—is just movies, books, photos of others on my phone. You know, when you live in this almost your entire life, you don't even notice how this "background" affects you. And then, at some point, you turn around and realize what you've lost. And it wasn't your fault, someone just thought they had the right to steal it!

In 2014, as a child, I drew pictures about peace, hoping that it would come very soon, the children around me too, and the adults too. I wished for my birthdays, like many children then and now, for the war to end. I guess when I was little, if I saw how Russia decided to destroy and seize not only my home but also the homes of others, and also saw the indifference of many people, I would have burst into tears. As a child, like anyone else, I hoped that a couple of years would pass and it would all end. But this did not happen.

You know, I can't make friends online with anyone from a more normal world. For them, war is a fairy tale, but for me, peaceful life is a fairy tale.

So...people only hear 1% of my life, like the mere fact that I live here, and they immediately get tense. They don't want to take on such a burden, like sometimes some information about my life during the war. And of course, after that, they quickly cut off communication. As if I'm somehow contagious, even though I'm actually a very good person, calm, cheerful.

Tonight, russia attacked numerous Ukrainian cities, targeting the west and centre. Lviv, Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih area, and others were massively attacked, around 30 people were injured in Lviv alone.

When you listen to russian music, watch russian shows, and promote russian culture, you indirectly harm Ukrainians and help the t*rrorist country to attack us again and again. Our lives are not up for debate. If you want to help us, look up the ways to donate money to the rescuing teams, hospitals, and Ukrainian army directly.

Слава Україні!🇺🇦

The overwhelming majority of them never seem to listen to Ukrainian voices. Or, if they do, it's always: "We understand you're at war and going through a lot, but that's not what this is about".

I've noticed that these trends always become especially active whenever Ukraine is not only defending itself but also fighting back. Russia suddenly needs to restore cultural empathy towards "uwu poor ordinary Russians" — who, in most cases, were perfectly fine with what their fellow citizens were doing or simply didn't care. Now they're crying over the packages they lost from Wildberries while we've been burying our people for years.

But every single time I still can't get used to this level of indifference and hypocrisy. These same people would defend their favorite artist even if they walked out wearing an "I love Russia" t-shirt, insisting that it somehow wasn't support for Russia and that Ukrainians were just overreacting. Or they'll passionately defend a fictional Russian character while bullying real Ukrainians.

Since 2022, I've only become more disappointed in much of the Western left. We simply don't fit into their understanding of war, genocide, discrimination, or the victims of centuries of imperialism and colonialism. So, to them, we're just annoying people from an uninteresting country.

Their feminists don't care about Ukrainian women.

Their LGBT activists don't care about Ukrainian LGBT people.

And I don't even want to start talking about the Crimean Tatars. They're an Indigenous Muslim people who were forcibly deported from their homeland by the Soviet Union and have now, once again, almost completely lost their home in Crimea, where Russians are being settled instead. Many of those who remain are abducted or sentenced to impossibly long prison terms under horrific conditions. You would think this is exactly the kind of story this political camp always claims to stand for — but you almost never hear them mention the Crimean Tatars at all.

I used to believe that Ukraine's history and struggle naturally aligned with the values many on the Western left claim to defend. But with every passing year, I believe that less and less. At this point, I'm starting to doubt that even with enough time, our story will ever become something they genuinely care about.

I'm trying to see the good in people. I really am.

But I don't know.

you decided to wage the biggest war since world war 2

IT'S YOUR FAULT and there's no good way to end it even if you would have done it yourself. in some universe

you have been demolishing the apartment buildings in Ukraine continuously every single day, murdering generations of Ukrainians in, sometimes, one strike

you choose not to stop your bloodthirsty military so then you suffer the consequences of Ukrainians doing everything in their power so that you have less and less opportunities to murder them in their sleep and stop russian troops from committing atrocities on occupied Ukrainian land and stop russian forces from advancing and destroying the nature along the way too

Here is a list of just some artists you could support instead: click here.

It's eating breakfast and reading about a whole family that was killed by ruzzian drone in their own house. An engaged couple that was to be married next week, his parents and his sister. All dead.

It's taking a break, and seeing the news of a 10y.o. girl whose heart stopped. Her body sustained 70% of burns, and she fought hard, but ruzzia still killed her.

It's about a whole street in Sumy being in ruins after aerial bomb ruzzians send. It's seeing a mess of glass and debris left by a Shahed in the apartment of a young mom. It's constant torrential downpour of victims from Kherson, Nicopol, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk region. It's horror stories from occupation and captivity.

And then I hear "we are going to war! To get concert tickets". And I hear "ruzzian games are weird and fun!" And "oh, that new tv show/movie featuring ruzzians is so cool!", and another celebrity in some way shows a support for the fuckers that we see do monstrous things every day.

Ordinary people are working at factories and making bombs. Ordinary people are going to the occupied cities to settle there. Ordinary people taking the abducted children for "re-education". Ordinary people doing all the soft power work and whitewash state's crimes. Ordinary people launching missiles. Ordinary people go to newly occupied territories for vacations. Ordinary people do nothing and say nothing about state's crimes even when they have a chance. Ordinary people teach their kids to be the same.

And ordinary people loudly play victims while sending you death threats and calling you slurs. Ordinary people are telling the people their government bombing that they deserve to be bombed. Even if they were claiming they hate their government just a moment ago.

Army consists of ordinary people who decided to go to kill people in another country for some cash.

Russian strike destroyed UNICEF children's humanitarian aid depot in Ukraine.

Also fuck all russians! Those who made the missiles, those who loaded them up, those who pressed the buttons and set the coordinates and then celebrated when those missiles hit the residential buildings and killed people. Fuck those russians who did all this and then went home to their families. Fuck their families too.

i want to talk specifically about the first comment

this is always so insane to me because it's only said when we speak against our oppressor, it's always a response to us not being okay with seeing people who wish death on us and actively participate in making that happen in spaces designed for celebration

go make your own post about the usa and israel and see if we come in the comments justifying their war crimes because god forbid people going through a genocide are most vocal about their own genocide

this weird need to force people sleeping in shelters every night to speak about things they barely have even time to think about is so strange especially when it comes from westerners who live unbombed lives and can actually advocate for the causes they care about but instead they bitch and moan online because a victim they don't like is speaking up about their own tragedies

July 19: Due to the Russian attack, the Khnyholav publishing house lost almost 250 000 books