#900days

“900 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Over 10 years of its war against Ukraine.... Yet despite everything, Ukraine stands [and] will prevail.” ~ @mfa_ukraine 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @mfa_ukraine with @use.repost . . . 900 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Over 10 years of its war against Ukraine.

900 days of resistance, 900 days during which Ukrainians have adopted a completely new daily routine. 900 days and countless hours of air alerts. 900 days and hundreds more missiles and drones that Russia continues to target at Ukrainian cities.

Yet despite everything, Ukraine stands. And we will prevail – thanks to our defenders, the support of our partners, and the ordinary people who contribute to victory every day.

#StandWithUkraine

📷 Photo: @yurasov.pro

Recently, I watched 900 Days, a documentary by Jessica Gorter about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. Lasting from September 1941 to January 1944, the siege claimed 800.000 lives, mainly through cold and hunger.

The documentary presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors. One woman tells the story of how, during the siege, as a child, she was driven to eating her long-lost pet cat and little sister, whom her family kept frozen in a window sill. She recounts how she would plead to her pastor that she could not go to hell for those atrocities, since they were not sins. Rather, she viewed them as acts born from love.

The personal memories of the survivors tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. Namely, people from this generation are still celebrated as the defenders of Leningrad by the Russian government, even though, at the time, they were only children who had fallen victim to the ineffectiveness of the Russian defense against the German-Finnish army.

Documentary: 900 Days by Jessica Gorter.

Freeze-frame from documentary: woman with self-made painting of her slaughtering her long-lost pet cat with her aunt as a child during wartime.