Icarus Alan Apteros; he/him one/one's; Ukrainian; eng/ua. An artist, a writer I guess. @lewis-yellow-dreamer —> It takes an orphan with a stutter, who's also blind! And mute! And dead!
Mstyslav Chernov, who won an Oscar for 20 Days in Mariupol, said while wearing a black memorial suit:
“I am grateful. But I will probably be the first director on this stage to say: I wish I had never made this film.
I wish I could exchange this for Russia never having attacked Ukraine, never having occupied our cities. I would give up all this recognition for Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I would give it up for them to release all the hostages — the soldiers who defended our land, and the civilians who are in their prisons”:
Meanwhile, a Russian “no to war” teacher, after receiving an Oscar for a film about how Russia prepares schoolchildren from an early age to go and kill Ukrainians:
Do they not feel sadness about what their work is based on?
Doesn’t it make them wish that, instead of receiving all these awards — including an Oscar — it would have been better if what they filmed had never happened at all?
Next site, is some different artworks by Taras Shevchenko. My apologies, I missed his birthday, which was March 9th. I've posted about Тарас Шевченко before. He was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, folklorist, and ethnographer.
Organizers of the 2026 Olympics asked a Ukrainian athlete, whose father was killed in the war, to erase the words “Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine” from her skis
“I’m upset. Since 2024, at every start I raise my skis and always show this inscription. It’s been in every broadcast. And for two years no one told me to remove it.”
Ukrainian athlete also said that the organizers asked her to erase these words from her skis before her final performance in Italy.
“It hurts me a lot, because I didn’t write it for nothing. I don’t want popularity — I just have my own story, and my heart hurts too. When I showed the words ‘Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine’ on camera, there was a lot of hate, people saying I wanted money and so on. I didn’t pay attention to it, but then Enver Nazimovych [my coach] was told that I had to erase it,” Angelina said on the YouTube channel Glyvynskyi Pro Sport.
The 21-year-old Ukrainian explained why she was not ready to follow the path of skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified for intending to compete in a “helmet of remembrance,” and spoke about her difficult feelings about this choice:
“I erased it. We can argue about it, but when you train for four years and come here knowing the next chance will be in four years… throwing away all that work isn’t an option either. I believe you can compete first and then show it. I’m young, I want to stay in this sport, and I’m not planning to end my career.
If I knew that in two years, or even two months, I would finish anyway, then maybe I could argue. But I want to keep doing freestyle skiing and represent our country with dignity on the international level, so I won’t do that,” Brykina said.
It should be noted that in the first qualification Angelina performed a jump after which she showed the inscription on her skis — “Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Pavlo Brykin, the athlete’s father, had been fighting in eastern Ukraine since 2015. He was a grenadier in the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade. Before the full-scale war he worked as a rescuer. He mobilized in the first days of the full-scale invasion.
Pavlo died on August 6, 2022, from wounds received in a battle with an enemy sabotage-reconnaissance group near the village of Blahodatne in Mykolaiv region. He left behind five children and his wife.
Personally, I understand how difficult this choice was for a young athlete, and I sympathize with her. As I wrote in another post, unfortunately, there is No medal for resistance:
💬 0 🔁 7 ❤️ 28 · There are no medals for resilience · Just as there are no national survival competitions during a military invasion. No on
With this post, I also want to remind everyone that Russian and Belarusian athletes at this year’s Paralympics will compete under their national symbols. Some of these Paralympians are former military personnel who took part in Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine.
I rarely ask for anything, but we (Ukrainians) need help!
Please send complaints about this game from Russian Nazis. It should be completely removed, not just blocked in Ukraine and think we are blind!
A sample of what a complaint should contain:
The game was blocked ONLY in Ukraine, thinking that Ukrainians are blind.
But we must achieve the complete removal of Russian crap from Steam!
So, the Paralympic Committee banned Ukrainian athletes’ parade uniforms with a map of Ukraine on them...
Olympic committees are really doing everything they can to make Ukraine look like a country without symbols — like a “neutral country” — instead of countries like Russia and Belarus, which should be in that role but are currently competing under their national symbols.
I want to say — then ban Ukrainian bodies altogether.
Ask how people become disabled in our country.
A Russian shell that leaves me without an arm — is that apolitical?
A fragment from Russian destruction that leaves me without an eye — is that outside politics?
Losing my leg to a Russian mine — is that just some natural disaster, like something blown in from Russia by the wind?
Masses of tortured bodies in territories occupied by Russia, which you won’t allow us to show together with the map of our country — is that “political” because it might make Russian Paralympians uncomfortable, since they were the same soldiers?
You are just as “for peace in the world” as those Russians who simply don’t finish the sentence out loud — “without Ukraine”.
Taking a long shot and posting this since I haven't seen anyone talk about it. Which is weird...
A Russian-developed game, "Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes" is planned to release on Steam on the 24th of March. A "real-time strategy game" portraying the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as heroic and "brilliant".
It is beyond sickening to make a game glorifying war crimes that are still happening today, despite that everyone seems to have forgotten about them. I urge everyone reading this to report the game on Steam as "Defamatory" or "Legal Violation" (Suggested reasons: Hate speech and discrimination against Ukrainians, fascist Russian propaganda, manipulation of historical facts), and at the very least reblog this post to reach more people
I love leabian medusa with a blind lover but theres smt about the tragedy of a lover that isnt in fact blind and one of them always has to close their eyes or cover them and them wanting nothing more than to know what the others eyes look like
hey I’m a queer ukrainian and felt an unfriendly vibe from the queer community recently so just want to say. Civilians are still dying in my country every day and I’m scared for my family every day. it’s still happening. and no, the fact that there are bigots in my country doesn’t mean children deserve to be bombed. there are no perfect victims and there are probably no less bigots in your country.
when i say i’m from ukraine, people assume i live somewhere else now. when i say i live in ukraine, they assume i’m somehow immune to war, and there’s a logical division between a ukrainian they chat with on discord and a ukrainian on the news. bitches my yaoi is written from the bomb shelter
russian propaganda about Ukrainians bombing Donbas is the stupidest thing ever and russians fucking believing in it would never stop to amaze how zombified they are
russians invaded our country, destroyed once prosperous cities and dare to blame us for their crimes???
"yes they are crazy, started to bomb their own lands!!!!!" What is the logic in this?
people who don’t support Ukraine need to see any video with family crying over their kid who’s body got torn apart by the explosion of a russian rocket on the street
and as a bonus read cheerful russian comments under those videos
