๐ซ War is full of brutality, and then suddenly it gives you a moment like this.
A volunteer and a soldier, a #NAFO truck just handed over by @69thsb.bsky.social, and nothing left to say except this hug.
This is what standing with ๐บ๐ฆ actually looks like.
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๐ป How much does it cost to save a life?
At the front in Ukraine, sometimes the answer is a truck.
Mobility is survival. No truck means no evacuation, no resupply, no chance under fire.
Join us with @69thsb.bsky.social to fund a truck for the 37th Marines!
๐ฏ โฌ9,300/โฌ20,500 (45%)
๐ See below ๐
๐บ๏ธ It's not just territory. It's how you live on that territory.
Ukraine is defending something bigger than borders: the right of sovereign nations to exist on their own terms.
Thatโs why weโre partnering again with @69thsb.bsky.social to deliver a #NAFO ๐ปto 37th Marine Brigade!
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๐พ Snowy woke up, checked the fundraiser, smiled and went back to sleep.
โโโโโโโโโโ 40% (โฌ8,400/โฌ20,500)
Snowy knows the fellas will handle it.
Together with @69thsb.bsky.social, letโs get that #NAFO truck to the 37th Marines!
Don't let Snowy down ๐ป
๐ Somewhere in ๐บ๐ฆ, a russian soldier is sitting in a 1965 buhanka held together with tape & prayers.
And a brand new #NAFO truck just drove past. And another one. And another one.
Every single truck says the same: "We are here until you lose."
โฌ๏ธ Fund the next one with us & @69thsb.bsky.social!
โ๏ธ I'm flying to a meeting. Normal life.
The kind of normal Ukrainian kids born after February 2022 have literally never had.
They've never known a sky without drones, a plane that isn't a threat.
I refuse to just look at pretty clouds.
Help us get a ๐ป to the 37th Marines โฌ๏ธ
๐ฃ๏ธ From where I live, if I drive...
1,500 km south = sun and beaches.
1,500 km east = missiles and blackouts.
Same continent, but two worlds apart.
Ukraine didn't choose this, but chose to hold the line. We can choose to help.
Help us get the next truck to the front ๐๐ป
๐ Itโs my birthday. Skip the cake. Want to make me happy?
Donate to a ๐บ๐ฆ charity or volunteer group. Better yet: support the @69thsb.bsky.social.
They get much-needed trucks like this โฌ๏ธ to the frontline fast, saving lives.
๐ฏ Donation link in post below ๐๐ป
๐ญ๐บ Well done, Hungary.
The silence of good people is what autocrats count on.
The only counter-move is sustained, and loud refusal to let this become normal.
Your voice is a weapon, and so is visibility!
Share, boost and donate if you can ๐๐
๐๐ป Donation link below โฌ๏ธ
๐ฃ ะ ะะตะปะธะบะพะดะฝะตะผ!
My feed is full of paska today.
Some baked in exile, some in kitchens with no power. Some in cities under glide bombs, some in field kitchens between rotations.
Baked nonetheless.
That's who we stand with, who we send #NAFO ๐ป trucks to with @69thsb.bsky.social!
Join us โฌ๏ธ
๐ This week humanity went to the Moon and back.
On the ground in Ukraine, the 37th Marines still need a truck.
๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ; ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ช๐ต.
Help us deliver a #NAFO truck ๐ป with @69thsb.bsky.social!
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โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Supporting Ukraine is not "taking sides." It is refusing to accept that borders can be redrawn by bombs.
Give in to the aggressor, and the law of the strongest becomes the only law.
We don't normalise the unacceptable. We send #NAFO trucks!
๐ Join us: help99.co/patches/belg... ๐ป
๐ฅ This is your impact.
In February, you funded a vehicle ๐ป with us.
Remember when we said every โฌ/$/ยฃ counts?
These soldiers now have wheels because you showed up!
Every donation, boost & share led to this truck, proudly delivered by @69thsb.bsky.social.
They filmed this for you. ๐๐
๐ฏ๏ธ My friend Sphinx lost his brother-in-arms, call sign Gelo.
Together they bravely held through minefields, flooded trenches, and relentless drone strikes.
Gelo came from overseas and volunteered from the early days to fight for Ukraine.
Rest, Gelo. Sphinx, I'm with you ๐ซ
๐ When Bucha was liberated after 33 days of occupation, 458 bodies were left behind, including 9 children. Executed.
This wall is two things at once: the preview of what a russian โvictoryโ looks like. And the proof that ๐บ๐ฆ refuses to, and will not, be erased.
Never forget โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
4 years ago, ๐บ๐ฆ defenders blew up this bridge to stop ๐ท๐บ tanks reaching Kyiv. I stood here 2 years later and still felt it to my bones.
One of the most consequential defensive victories in ๐ช๐บ since 1945. It proved a citizen army, adequately led, can break a conventional force.
Still in awe.
๐ข Donโt be silent.
Thursday: Lavrov, the foreign minister of a regime at war with European civilisation is given a prime-time slot on French television.
Friday: a russian missile hits a maternity ward in Odesa.
If this makes you angry, good. Letโs not normalise this!
๐ฅ 948 drones in 24 hours.
russia spends billions claiming civilizational superiority.
Yesterday, they hit a monastery, a maternity ward, a civilian train.
They want the Western public to get used to it.
Ukraine doesn't need our pity. It needs our refusal to get used to this.
๐ซถ My mind runs two tabs at all times.
One of corporate meetings and emails.
One of fundraisers, sirens, and goodbyes.
I live between them.
It's the only honest place to stand.
Support Ukraine in any way you can:
@69thsb.bsky.social ๐ป
@dzygaspaw.com ๐ก
@wildhornets.bsky.social ๐
@u24.gov.ua ๐บ๐ฆ
๐ซก I donโt have words big enough.
Today, Ukraine honours its volunteers.
Iโm thinking of four of them: Smurf ๐บ๐ฆ, Fuzzy ๐ฌ๐ง, Herring ๐บ๐ธ, Sphinx ๐ง๐ช.
Four people who looked at this blatant aggression and said: not on my watch.
You are everything to us ๐ซ
๐คจ Four years in.
Western Europe. Dinner with well-meaning people.
"I don't want to take sides."
"I'm not informed enough to have an opinion."
On a war. On a democracy being invaded. On borders moved by force.
I don't know what to do with that blindness.
Except refuse to share it. ๐บ๐ฆ
๐คจ Artistic neutrality is a pretty phrase for moral cowardice.
Text from a friend, somewhere East: โWeโre pinned down by FPVs."
My feed, same moment: "russia invited at the Venice Biennale."
There's no neutral ground when one guest is invading a sovereign nation.
Shame on you Venice ๐คฎ
๐ค His voice deserves to be heard.
Roman fought in some of the most defining battles of this war.
In this podcast, he opens up about trauma, PTSD, survivor's guilt. And death, always close.
I met his family (๐ @lilatrokhymets.bsky.social). Warm, unbroken ๐ซ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3un...
๐ Too symbolic to be accidental.
Shevchenko was exiled in 1847, his work banned.
In 2022, they put a bullet in his statue's head.
What kind of civilisation shoots at poetry?
A culture so hollow it destroys what it cannot own.
Some things don't change.
But neither will he.
ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั. ๐ป
๐ป This is for them. The women of Ukraine.
They serve. They code. They heal. They write. They create.
They are holding everything together, in the middle of everything falling apart.
๐จ O. Kateryniuk
๐ Grace under fire.
Ukraine is under daily & nightly bombardment.
And yet itโs offering drone warfare expertise to countries struck elsewhere.
Thatโs grace under fire most of us canโt imagine.
Now close their sky. Itโs the minimum we owe them #Skyshield ๐ก๏ธ
๐ Ukraine's friends don't always come from the biggest countries.
Markus (left) is from Liechtenstein ๐ฑ๐ฎ : 160kmยฒ...
We drove together on a previous #NAFO convoy.
Now he's funding his 2nd truck with @69thsb.bsky.social for the 30th Marine Corps.
Help him finish it ๐
www.help99.co/patches/liec...
๐ฐ The news cycle is insane. World's attention is moving on.
I stay grounded by looking for beauty in ๐บ๐ฆ. Today, this painting by M. Polyvianyi went straight to my heart.
๐จ A sunset that looks both like a warning and a vow.
PS: Don't let the algorithm decide you've moved on.
๐ฅ This is your impact.
In December, you funded a vehicle for a mortar battery with us and @69thsb.bsky.social. ๐ป
Today, their commander sent this thank you.
Solidarity turned into something with wheels, on the ground, right where it matters.
You made this happen.
Deeply grateful. ๐๐
๐ป It's fully funded!
By people like you, by stubborn solidarity & kindness.
This next truck for ๐บ๐ฆ's defenders exists because you chose not to look away. It will be delivered in March by @69thsb.bsky.social ๐ช
Thank you to everyone who donated, shared, boosted, or amplified ๐ซ
Love will win ๐๐