mr. skel'tse

Once again the UN staff make impeccable choices and statements

The war in Ukraine did NOT start in 2022, that was merely an escalation into a full-scale invasion. It began in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and their green little men invaded Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine (which they have been incapable of fully conquering to this day). The war has been ongoing for 11 years now.

The Baltic countries were practically SCREAMING a warning at everybody's faces about what was about to come, but Western leaders chose to do nothing about the situation during this time and instead continued to shake hands with Russia for economic reasons (e.g. Nord Stream 2). Apparently, the Baltics were "too paranoid".

Trump has boasted that he would end the war in 1 day, then in 50 days, etc. He was elected President of the United States of America from 2016-2020 (with the help of Russian influence), when the war was already ongoing. He had 4 years to do something. He didn't. (Except for licking Putin's boots during these 8 months in power starting from 2025.)

Trump has promised multiple times that he would harden sanctions against Russia if they don't stop bombing Ukraine. He hasn't. Russia is still bombing Ukraine. If anything, the pressure is always put on Ukraine and Russia always manages to get a free pass. Putin is stalling to keep the war going (in hopes that the West will get tired of supporting Ukraine and they are ultimately forced to surrender) and Trump is falling for it every single time. But we will not tire.

Trump rolled out the red carpet and welcomed the dictator (Putin) of the country that is solely responsible for committing these heinous war crimes with an applause. He attacked, threatened and accused the leader (Zelenskyy) of the country who is the victim in this war (in case it wasn't clear: Ukraine) that THEY are the ones "gambling with World War III". Disgusting.

Ukraine hasn't been able to win this war because WE aren't doing enough. By 'we' I mean Western Europe and the United States of America, who have NOT given Ukraine enough weapons and ammunition since day 1 that would give them the upper hand against Russia. In turn, Russia isn't losing this war because WE haven't put enough pressure on them that would force them to give up.

Germany is all weapons, but indecisive about handing them over to Ukraine. France is all talk, no weapons. At least half of America is OK with being in cahoots with Russia, saying that "we don't care about Ukraine" and withdrawing (or completely halting) military aid whenever they feel like it. Also, these countries have jumped at the opportunity to defend Israel's airspace (who is NOT a NATO member either and is now evidently committing genocide against the Palestinian people out of pure revenge by hiding behind the 'we are only defending ourselves' argument), but are afraid to close up Ukraine's airspace to defend their civilians and infrastructure. Western Europe and the United States of America are duplicitous cowards.

The leaders of Western European countries (I'm pointing a finger at.. let's say Germany, France, Italy and Spain) have chosen the welfare of their own people over aiding Ukraine. They have failed to communicate to their people why it is necessary to help Ukraine NOW, and instead, they are trying to ensure the support of their voters by maintaining a "normal everyday life" without raising taxes or spending more on defence or doing anything that would upset the electorate. This is a deliberate, political decision that is ultimately failing Ukraine. (Meanwhile, Estonia has become the country with the highest inflation in the European Union, the people's resentment towards the government and overall frustration grows day by day, but at least we understand WHY we must suffer and still do all of these things.)

President Joe Biden and the Democrats withheld Ukrainian aid for MONTHS prior to the elections in 2024 because they were scared of losing votes. They lost anyway. This was also a deliberate, political decision that cost Ukraine valuable time and countless lives.

When talking about ceasefire or a solution, Russia keeps referring to the fact that the root causes of this war must be eliminated in order for "peace" to prevail. One of the root causes being that the former Soviet Union member states in Eastern Europe should leave NATO and be united to the Russian Federation again. We NEVER wanted to join the Soviet Union during World War II, our region was divided into zones of interest by the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 and we were taken BY FORCE by the Russians. Russia has NEVER had to pay any reparations nor apologized for this occupation because they were seen as "the good guys who helped defeat Nazi Germany" by the West. We were forgotten for almost 50 years.

Russia will NOT stop in Ukraine if we let them win this war. Any Eastern European country could be their next target (including NATO members). The only thing they respond to is FORCE.

Eastern Europe (including Scandinavia, the Baltics and countries with a border running alongside Russia or Belarus) are the biggest supporters of Ukraine (both militarily and financially) because we KNOW what it is like to live under that oppressive regime and that this sh*t will come our way if we don't help Ukraine stop Russia right now.

Fuck Putin (& his Russia). Fuck Trump (& his America).

Happy (belated) Independence Day, Ukraine! 🇺🇦 🌻

(24th August 2025)

Here are some trustworthy charities working towards that goal in Estonia: 🇪🇪 (Likes are welcome, reblogs are helpful, donations are invaluable! 🫶)

NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade

Official Estonian organizations:

Estonian Defence League

Estonian National Defence Promotion Foundation

Estonian Rescue Association

Estonian Food Bank

Estonian Red Cross

Estonian Refugee Council

Estonian NGOs:

NGO Mondo

NGO Vaba Ukraina

NGO Will For Victory

Universities supporting the studies of Ukrainian students in Estonia:

Tallinn University of Technology

The world is enchanted by villains. They so desperately want to understand them, to see their side, to make them human, that they became completely torn off the reality where evil does exist. And the victims are always just a white noise, just the unlucky sheeps, just a frame for the true picture - the picture of a villain. How many films, books, and art have we dedicated to the killers? The world cherishes them like celebrities, while victims are just names on their list.

Notice how discrimination of Ukrainians is "we're getting killed by russian missiles daily" and discrimination of russians is "Ukrainians don't want to interact with us". I'm sorry, it was very unthoughtful of me to be born in Ukraine. I'll educate myself to become a better person. I'll choose a place to be born more mindfully next time to not be killed by russian rockets.

I'm tired of internet activists who would rather see a child torn apart by a missile than see a disapproving replay of their 2D waifu. You are sick. "I see bad replays, and now I want Ukraine to lose," you have mental disorders, and unfortunately, no specialist can help you. "It's all trolls, it's all fake," take off your rose-colored glasses and have the strength to admit that the world is full of terrible people. You're not in an anime, and the power of friendship won't help you.

Maybe World War III would open your eyes when your or your father's arm was torn off and your house burned down. "Boo-hoo, don't you dare wish that on others," yet I wish. And I hope it happens sooner or later to all the monsters who wish my people to disappear because of FUCKING PIXELS ON THE INTERNET.

Those aren't some bots, you need wait some time before you can use all the pixels you have.

Feel free to look for yourself. In almost every foreign city you'll stumble across their "Z" which is still in use by russians as swastika.

Adding this. They're purely mocking and harassing us. I'm more than sure that even here will be brave russians who will write some sweet death threats and call me a nazi pig because it's all they are doing successfully.

If Ukraine has no choice but to accept “de facto” occupation — that’s because WE failed.

Not because Ukrainians failed, not because some mysterious “shit happened”, but because for years we ignored all the warnings, repeated all the mistakes of history, kicked the can down the road and refused to do what it takes to defend the rules and principles that enable sustainable peace and prosperity. This is on us.

We are the architects of this de facto defeat, so now we are trying to pretend it came out of nowhere and we did the best we could to stop it. In a spectacular display of unbombed westsplaining, Mark Rutte is suggesting that everything will be OK in the long run, like it was OK in the Baltic States after decades of de facto occupation by jolly old Uncle Joe Stalin.

Well, I have shrugged off a lot of dumb hot takes about my country over the last few years, but this one is literally sickening. Rutte is revealing that the latest genius 5D chess move to save Ukraine is to casually throw millions of people into a black hole of oppression, torture, rape, kidnapping, murder and destruction of national identity — “de facto, but not de jure”.

And the proponents of this plan will keep a straight face while they cite the misery of the occupation of the Baltic States as a shining example that Ukraine should happily walk into.

In his FT column, Gideon Rachman says little to fill the gap in Rutte’s world view: "The Soviet Union’s annexation of the Baltic states after 1940 was never legally recognised by the US and most European countries. But it was a fact of life, until, eventually, the Baltic states regained their independence."

Yikes, let’s unpack that. The occupation wasn’t “a fact of life”, it was a fact of death. “Eventually” was after decades of deportations, killing, grinding terror and violent attempts to turn everybody into russians. “Regained their independence” was being crushed under Gorbachev’s tanks while western leaders pleaded with us to give up our fight for freedom.

So… this is the path to peace we are supposed to offer to Ukraine with a smile? These are the glorious new security guarantees that will erase the shame of the Budapest Agreement and allow Ukrainians to have faith in the future?

PS: yes, you read that right.

What makes me not believe in absolute pacifism. It is easy to sit down drinking cappuccino/IPA/dubai labubu matcha with working electricity and no air raid alarm, and talk about all those high culture concepts of no borders and no weapons, in the center of empire. Secret is, when you are actively invaded every so often, you cannot afford giving up your means of self defense.

Great example of it is Budapest Memorandum. Before, Ukraine had the third biggest nuclear potential in the world. President Kuchma gave them up for a promise that the land will stay untouched, and borders will stay protected.

In 2014, russia invaded in Ukraine. In 2022, russia did it officially. We remember Volnovakha, Bucha, Mariupol, Bahmut, Irpin. Spiderweb helped to take down multiple bomb airplanes, reducing russia’s means of shelling civilians. If Ukraine had not had any military, there would not be Ukraine anymore.

It happened on the night of 29 July 2022. Explosions were heard in the Olenivska colony, where the russians transferred more than a thousand Ukrainian defenders after leaving Azovstal. Two powerful detonations in one of the barracks completely destroyed the building and killed dozens of people. The investigation proved that it was neither shelling nor missile attacks from the outside.

This crime was not spontaneous. The occupiers had been preparing it in advance. After the soldiers were captured in May 2022, most of them were held in the colony. But a few days before the tragedy, a strange "resettlement" began. A separate list of 193 prisoners, mostly fighters of the Azov regiment, was drawn up and they were forcibly transferred to an industrial hangar, an uninhabitable building on the outskirts of the colony.

On the night of the explosion, this hangar became a death trap. Out of 193 people, 54 died. More than a hundred were injured. And most of them remain in russian prisons to this day. Only the bodies of the dead have returned home.

After the attack, russia blocked any attempts by international organisations to get to the crime scene. Neither then nor now has any expert mission been granted access to the colony. Therefore, the investigators rely only on the testimonies of those who survived and were able to escape from captivity.

We believe that sooner or later everyone involved in this crime will be punished. In the meantime, the main thing is not to let this crime be forgotten. The memory of Olenivka is the memory of those who were killed by russians in captivity, contrary to all international laws.

Today’s piece in Russia’s main news media RIA Novosti.