#standwithukraine

Victoria, 28, Ukrainian (suspicious) | Хто прийшов сюди на танках, повернеться у мішках

[qqueenofhades]

What is the best way to financially help Ukraine? Is it better to go through organizations or gofundmes or something else I'm not aware of?

Thanks for asking, nonnie. That's very kind of you. If you or anyone else has some spare change and wants to give, here are a few ideas:

United24 is the official fundraising platform established by President Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian governmental members and directs money to all areas of the country.

The Olena Zelenska Foundation is primarily focused on medical, humanitarian, and educational aid across the country and was founded by the First Lady.

Stand for Ukraine gives you a range of charity options, depending on whether you want to donate directly to the military, or you would prefer to fund non-lethal or humanitarian aid, etc.

Come Back Alive is the main fundraising platform for the Ukrainian military. You can choose to donate to air defense, heavy weapons, demining, medical aid, overall combat equipment, etc.

Donate to Ukraine's Defenders also offers various (carefully vetted) links and options to donate to rebuilding projects, private medical assistance programs, initiatives for democracy, and others.

[ohsalome]

Hope you died after you quit lol

Lol

[ohsalome]

I’m sorry to see you go but you have to do what’s best for you. I hope you’ll be safe! ❤️ Slava Ukraini! You will always have my support!

Thank you 🥹🫂 I'm so glad to hear from you! I hope you stay safe as well, and wishing all the best to you <3

[ohsalome]

Glad to hear you're fine and sad to see you go, even though I totally understand that step. Not just tumblr has become such a hostile environment for you guys thanks to so many people who get their info from solely tiktok and think they know the one truth now.

Stay safe!

Thank you!

Alas, too many people have become like that 😬😮‍💨

I'll do my best to keep myself safe 🤞

[ohsalome]

So glad to see that you’re okay (relatively speaking) and I completely understanding not wanting to deal with the harassment. It’s awful how people treat Ukrainians on this website. Thank you for all the information you’ve compiled and put on this blog, I hope that you and your loved ones stay safe. Glory to Ukraine!

Thank you for your kind words 🤗

Yeah, that is sad, but that's just how internet is. I am not as much influenced by the harrassment as by the general indifference and the "I know better" attitude from the folks who, well, don't know better.

At a certain point you have to realize you are wasting your choice fighting pointless battles and go fight bigger, harder battles, you know?

There are a lot of english-speaking ukrainian influences who share relevant information both on this site and others (YouTube, Twitter, tiktok), so y'all have every opportunity to stay on top of the news

[ohsalome]

Hello! I'm so sorry to cause trouble to you!

By "them" I meant those teens on Tumblr/anywhere else defending Russian culture in Ukraine, not you! I didn't elaborate well in tags, I was in shock that "cancelling Russian culture" narrative spreads quite deep💀

Once more, I'm sorry

Oh, I am the one who needs to apologise, I misunderstood you then! But all's good, as long as we clear everything up

[ohsalome]

Thank you, random empty blog with a russian title and 5 likes, for sharing your opinion. And now

[ohsalome]

You've been inactive for a while. I hope you're okay

Hi, I hope I didn't cause too much worry with my inactivity. I am alive, but I don't think I'll be posting on tumblr anymore.

This blog began with the intention of making the ukrainian perspective on war in Ukraine visible for the foreign audience, and with most of the interaction coming from other Ukrainians, I feel like I'm in an echo chamber.

Not to dissmiss the foreigners who still care - rest assured, your support is seen, appreciated and much needed.

But the majority of people on this website are actively hostile, condescending and dissmissive towards Ukrainians, and my time is better spent elsewhere than arguing with privileged teenagers who think the peak tragedy of the war in Ukraine is that "russian culture is being destroyed" (reality check: russian artists are thriving in Europe on foreign grants, while ukrainian artists and art are being destroyed every day, together with everything we have).

If anyone still cares, please donate to any trustworthy initiative (if you don't know any, United24, BackAndAlive, Serhiy Prytula Foundation and Hospitaliers are always sound choices). The word "desperate" fails to describe the atmosphere right now. We feel like we are left to die.

[ohsalome]

@amaitte-42 if you would like an example of what I am talking about, I am happy to oblige

Some relevant context: the person in question they are defending has made films funded by Russian government, has ties to Vladislav Surkov, who is considered a mastermind of Russian policy re:Ukraine, and he has recently used his voice on the Cannes festival as an opportunity to call for lifting the sanctions off russian oligharks who have close ties to the Kremlin

This is just one example of many times when Russian association with "great culture" and the effort modern Russian immigrants have made to self-victimise has been used against Ukrainians. Ukrainians who often communicate with westerners will all tell you the same thing: the association with "great culture ballet tolstoevsky" regularly prevents foreginers from accepting the reality that russia commits the war crimes that we have an excess of evidence of. And, at the same time, russian culture is perceived as "cancelled" (somehow, despite this, ru book keep getting republished and featured in the "top 10 best books ever" lists, and russian academics get invited to work abroad on projects associated with Ukraine, where they use their power and influence to spread anti-ukrainian propaganda about "one nation" and "poor uwu russians")

After all, to quote Michail Piotrikovsky, director of the biggest Russian museum Ermitage, "our exhibitions abroad are a kind of a special military operation of itself, our great cultural expanse"

That being said, I am using this case as an example of people I do not want to interact with, because, empirically, it is a waste of time. When it comes to influential people, this rhetoric straight up dangerous, but teens with stan accounts are merely annoying. If you think it makes me a "victim of stupid propaganda", I can live with it.

[ohsalome]

fully understand why you would want to stop using this site, the indefensible amount hate and indifference towards Ukrainian accounts is just sickening. Thanks for ever sharing updates, history, culture, and literature on Ukraine here. Tangibly, info you've shared has helped. I was able to get coworkers to actually see Russia's criminal invasion for what it is, instead of them just brushing it off the way some tankies do as "two empires fighting"; I know more than a few people who've shared donation posts I reblogged from you who proudly donated, and a few keeping it up regularly. Freedom for Ukraine!

Thank you for sharing this. It helps to hear my time and effort were able to make any difference. And thank you for keeping Ukraine in your heart, it means a lot to know people don't forget about us. 💙💛

[ohsalome]

Im so relieved to see that you posted again

And I am glad to see you again! Hopefully you are safe and sound ❤️

[ohsalome]

I'm so happy you're okay, I was getting really concerned. Your presence and voice matters, you matter 💙💛

I'm sorry that there is so much hate and ukrainephobia on this fucking app, you deserve so much better. All Ukrainians deserve better.

I may not have much but I donate as often as I can and I have been since the beginning.

Stay safe friend, Slava Ukraini 🌻

🥹🫂

I wish I could offer more than words. Thank you.

[ohsalome]

You've been inactive for a while. I hope you're okay

Hi, I hope I didn't cause too much worry with my inactivity. I am alive, but I don't think I'll be posting on tumblr anymore.

This blog began with the intention of making the ukrainian perspective on war in Ukraine visible for the foreign audience, and with most of the interaction coming from other Ukrainians, I feel like I'm in an echo chamber.

Not to dissmiss the foreigners who still care - rest assured, your support is seen, appreciated and much needed.

But the majority of people on this website are actively hostile, condescending and dissmissive towards Ukrainians, and my time is better spent elsewhere than arguing with privileged teenagers who think the peak tragedy of the war in Ukraine is that "russian culture is being destroyed" (reality check: russian artists are thriving in Europe on foreign grants, while ukrainian artists and art are being destroyed every day, together with everything we have).

If anyone still cares, please donate to any trustworthy initiative (if you don't know any, United24, BackAndAlive, Serhiy Prytula Foundation and Hospitaliers are always sound choices). The word "desperate" fails to describe the atmosphere right now. We feel like we are left to die.

[panimoonchild]

People are much bigger than their sphere of activity 

Here is an example of an adequate priest who, unlike the pope, understands that peace can only be achieved through our victory. Otherwise, all cities in Ukraine will turn into Bucha.

I do not condemn or evaluate people by what profession they have. Actions speak louder than words. And this is exactly the case with lady Yuliia. She gives people a sense of importance and tactility that people without limbs need. But to go and write that she is a whore. It's disgusting and dehumanizing.

Don't be rude to a nice person. There will be a better world if that is the motto

[propalahramota]

Russia shelled the Sumy Oblast over the last couple of nights to such an extent that the roads and bridges to some villages and towns near the border are destroyed completely, making the necessary evacuation of the remaining civilians extremely difficult.

Happy Maslenitsa or whatever

[aceofmoxes]

Bomb more oil refineries!

[snovyda]

Historically, some of the biggest Russian opponents to domestic repressions are imperialists. Solzhenitsyn, most famously, is, on the one hand, bravely fighting the GULAG, and on the other hand - a vile imperialist with a sense of fascism. These aren't new phenomena, in many ways. Somehow one feels that [moving away from imperialism] is unlikely in Russia, because it goes so deep. This is just the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, this is not just one war, this has been going on for centuries. Russian imperialism is embedded in Russian humour, Russian literature, codes of thinking. It's not about statements. It's not just about policies. When Pushkin writes, I don't know, "Кавказ подо мною" ("The Caucasus lies below me"), one of his famous poems... the amount of imperialist psychology that goes into saying that - that goes very, very deep. So until those much, much deeper sort of deep cultural roots of Russian imperialism, racism and oppression are addressed, nothing is changed. So let's think what we have agency over, in a way. [...] we can change the way Russia is perceived globally and in the West. Because this idea that Russia is a great power that has the right to a sphere of influence and that has the right to suppress others because it's great - that sits very deep in people's heads across the world. We can start working on that. So why don't we start working on that? Let's get people in my world - Britain, America - to re-read the Russian classics and understand how much imperialism and oppression of others there's there. Let's start de-mystifying this idea of "the Russian mystic soul" and really start rooting it to very specific histories of violence and oppression. Let's start changing the way Russia is perceived, so it's no longer seen as inevitable and so vast and huge that you have to drop on your knees in front of it, which still sits in people's heads. That means changing the way the universities overfocus on Russia studies and completely silence the voices of Ukrainians, Georgians, Kazakhs... There's so much we can do that will make people's perceptions of Russia rooted in reality. And they will help gain self-confidence to say, "Stop, we're not dependent on you".

Peter Pomerantsev

[dr-falcon-fox-and-coyote]

I absolutely think that Russia is the bad guy here, but you could replace "Russia" with "The United States" and this reads exactly the same way too.

If we're going to be demystifying imperialism, we also need to look a lot closer to home. We've scapegoated Russia as The Great Evil, and don't get me wrong: their war crimes are numerous and they are not the good guy here. But countries in the west are not the good guys either. They are not the unstained shining heroes of True Democracy when they continue to act in imperialist ways abroad.

The United States in particular needs to look at its place on the global field and its constant interventionist strategies - particularly in places like the middle east and literally anywhere south of their own border.

We can't castigate Russia for being imperialist and for engaging in wars, assassinations, and imperialism when we do the same thing.

So yes, we need to be aware fully of what is happening in Russia, but we also need to be aware of how our own actions can be perceived and do the work to make ourselves better too.

[ohsalome]

[snovyda]

Historically, some of the biggest Russian opponents to domestic repressions are imperialists. Solzhenitsyn, most famously, is, on the one hand, bravely fighting the GULAG, and on the other hand - a vile imperialist with a sense of fascism. These aren't new phenomena, in many ways. Somehow one feels that [moving away from imperialism] is unlikely in Russia, because it goes so deep. This is just the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, this is not just one war, this has been going on for centuries. Russian imperialism is embedded in Russian humour, Russian literature, codes of thinking. It's not about statements. It's not just about policies. When Pushkin writes, I don't know, "Кавказ подо мною" ("The Caucasus lies below me"), one of his famous poems... the amount of imperialist psychology that goes into saying that - that goes very, very deep. So until those much, much deeper sort of deep cultural roots of Russian imperialism, racism and oppression are addressed, nothing is changed. So let's think what we have agency over, in a way. [...] we can change the way Russia is perceived globally and in the West. Because this idea that Russia is a great power that has the right to a sphere of influence and that has the right to suppress others because it's great - that sits very deep in people's heads across the world. We can start working on that. So why don't we start working on that? Let's get people in my world - Britain, America - to re-read the Russian classics and understand how much imperialism and oppression of others there's there. Let's start de-mystifying this idea of "the Russian mystic soul" and really start rooting it to very specific histories of violence and oppression. Let's start changing the way Russia is perceived, so it's no longer seen as inevitable and so vast and huge that you have to drop on your knees in front of it, which still sits in people's heads. That means changing the way the universities overfocus on Russia studies and completely silence the voices of Ukrainians, Georgians, Kazakhs... There's so much we can do that will make people's perceptions of Russia rooted in reality. And they will help gain self-confidence to say, "Stop, we're not dependent on you".

Peter Pomerantsev