Ukrainians who didn't grow up in the East of Ukraine:
"Winter in the East is like an alternative reality"
Me:
🥹🥹🥹 FINALLY SOME ACTUAL WINTER LANDSCAPES
Jokes aside, this might look shocking or even scary to people who didn't grow up in the steppes, but this view was the view I grew up with. On the contrary, when I had to evacuate to the central Ukraine in 2014 away from the Russian invasion, and later traveling the West of Ukraine, I've always had this acute feeling of "I MISS THE SKY " Which, logically, makes no sense - you can still see the sky in other parts of Ukraine, but it is not the same.
I mean, just LOOK at this:
I used to feel sort of boxed in and missing the sky for the first 5 years of living in Kyiv. Hills and forests of the Northern Ukraine are beautiful too and the mountains in the West are simply breathtaking, but... not the same.
1st September 1990: The opening of Donetsk Specialised Humanitarian School No. 65, the first Ukrainian school in Donetsk to be restored into the Ukrainian language at the collapse of the Soviet Union.
🤬 Окупанти продовжують терор: сьогодні загинуло троє людей.
📍Шахед вдарив по електричці під час руху на Дніпропетровщині в Криворізькому районі. Загинув один чоловік, а четверо дорослих і 10-річна дівчинка отримали поранення.
📍Ще дві людини загинули та одна отримала поранення в центрі Дружківки на Донеччині - московити вдарили ракетою по житловому будинку.
📍Також окупанти здійснили удар КАБами по Комишувасі в Запорізькій області. Зруйновані та пошкоджені приватні будинки та нежитлові будівлі, виникли пожежі. Поранені двоє людей - 61-річна жінка та 66-річний чоловік - їм надана уся необхідна допомога, - повідомив голова ЗОВА.
📍 В Шевченківському районі Харкова ворожий дрон атакував багатоквартирний будинок, міський голова Ігор Терехов повідомляє про наявність постраждалих.
Details of post-summit call were leaked in which US president supports plan for Kyiv to give up Donbas region
Edward Helmore and Pjotr Sauer at The Guardian:
Donald Trump will back a plan to cede unoccupied Ukrainian territory to Russia to secure an end to the war between the two countries, it was reported on Saturday, after details of his post-summit call with European leaders leaked out.
Trump told European leaders that he believed a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agreed to give up the Donbas region, which Russian invaders have not been able to seize in over three years of fighting, the New York Times reported, citing to two senior European officials.
Two sources with direct knowledge of the talks in Alaska told the Guardian that Putin demanded Ukraine withdraw from Donbas, which is made up of the Donestk and Luhansk regions, as a condition for ending the war, but offered Trump a freeze along the remaining frontline.
Although Luhansk is almost entirely under Russian control, Ukraine still holds key parts of Donetsk, including the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and heavily fortified positions whose defence has cost tens of thousands of lives.
Putin told Trump that in exchange for Donetsk and Luhansk, he would halt further advances and freeze the frontline in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, where Russian forces occupy significant areas.
Trump’s support for ceding Ukraine’s Donbas region, which is rich in mineral resources, including coal and iron ore, to Russia comes as he voiced support for moving straight to a peace deal and not via a ceasefire, which, Trump said in a social media post on Saturday, “often times do not hold up.”
US support for ceding the Donbas to Russia represents a breach with Ukraine and European allies that oppose such a deal.
As part of a deal, the US is ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Saturday. Trump has threatened economic penalties on countries that buy Russian oil if Moscow refuses a deal and flew US bombers over the Russian leader as he arrived in Alaska.
But Ukrainian and European leaders fear that a straight-to-peace deal, skipping over a preliminary ceasefire, gives Moscow an upper hand in talks. Zelensky is expected in Washington on Monday to meet with Trump. Europeans were invited to join the Ukrainian leader at the White House, officials told the New York Times.
Russian Asset Donald Trump backs Vladimir Putin’s deranged request to force Ukraine to cede territory to Russia that was illegally stolen from them in the “peace deal” set to be possibly made.
See Also:
Reuters, via HuffPost: Trump Tells Zelenskiy That Putin Wants More Of Ukraine, Urges Kyiv Make A Deal
PoliticusUSA: Trump Made A Deal With Putin That Only An Idiot Would Accept
They say twenties are your best years, but I don’t remember the last time I was truly at peace.
Some days reality creeps in a bit more than usual and I’m forced to accept the fact that it’s very likely I’ll never go back home again, it’s very likely it won’t even exist anymore.
Sometimes you don’t know what the future holds, you hope for the best. I don’t dare hope. Not anymore.
