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Legitimate question: why do you care if Ukraine becomes part of Russia? Why kill a shitload more people? What difference would it make if Ukraine becomes another republic in the RF? I don't hear Tatars or Bashkirs or Mordvins or whoever complaining about being a part of Russia. If anything, it should be far easier for Eastern Orthodox Slavs that already know Russian anyway to fit in. Ukrainians would still exist, just with different citizenship. It's not like Ukraine was some super advanced country anyway, the day-to-day life would be the same shit.

hmmmm why the leftist transgender lesbian ukrainian patriot doesn't want to be a part of fascistic dictatorship where people get imprisoned for "LGBT propaganda" where people get kidnapped tortured and murdered for the critique of the government or any kind of protest and where discrimination domestic violence and CSAM are legal 🤔🤔 on occupied ukrainian territories you literally get detained in a concentration camp for any kind of pro-ukrainian sentiment and in those camps people get tortured raped and killed. truly a mystery why do i even care

engenever-beaver

I know that they are asking this as anon to not get kicked in their head. This statement is laced with so much russian propaganda you can literally overdose on it.

1. Why do you care if Ukraine becomes part of russia?

Oh, I don't know. Why would anyone care about freedom or sovereignty or ability to decide what to do? Everyone knows, you should indefinitely bend to someone more powerful than you. There is no other way.

2. Why kill a shitload of people?

If russian army stops, killing stops. If Ukrainian army stops, killing, ethnic cleansing and genocide continues on the never seen before level. I know this personally, since on the first week or so of invasion, my friend in Kherson was kidnapped by FSB and tortured to death. He was bellow 18 at that time. A LITERAL KID WAS TORTURED TO DEATH FOR BEING PRO-UKRAINIAN IN A UKRAINIAN CITY. Imagine if your friends, your Tumblr mutuals, people you were playing rpgs with started disappearing, and months later you would learn of their horrible fate. I want ALL of you to understand, what Ukrainians are living through every day.

3. I don't hear Tatars or Bashkirs complaining...

Another very funny take. Not only I am a descendant of Tatars who fled their homeland because they've lost a war against russians, but also they complain ALL THE TIME.

Not long ago there was civil unrest in Dagestan, Caucasian territory occupied by russia. This was because the central government didn't help with massive flooding and in fact was covering up the catastrophe.

In other words, those "whoever" think living in russia is so good, many of them result with prolonged separatist campaigns like, for example Tatars, Chechens, Bashkorts, Buryats and Yakuts.

4. "Eastern orthodox slavs, who already know russian"

This is straight up imperialist propaganda and a very specific view point you cannot get through just being dumb or ignorant. I will not go on a tangent, but russian orthodox church isn't actually orthodox church, but simply a KGB extension. Then, neither russia is majority Slavic, nor Ukraine is exclusively Slavic. This is straight up ignoring all the other ethnicities as lesser beings who do not deserve representation. And lastly, without russians forcing everyone to learn russian, Ukrainians have no reason to know it. We already have a couple generations that learn russian much later in life or don't learn it at all(i can easily support this with a video of russian higher up saying they need to provide russian lessons in concentration camps, where she is bewildered by the fact that many kids don't know russian or can barely speak it).

Now, quick ones because I am already tired of this shit.

Ukrainians will likely cease existing under prolonged russian control, just like many groups within russia already did. First, lose your autonomy, than language, than culture. That's it. Nation is no more.

And Ukraine is much more advanced than russia is in most sectors, like IT, MIT, some industrial capabilities, engineering etc. Average living conditions are much higher, even though russia is one of the biggest exporters of oil and natural gas. And Ukraine is MUCH more progressive in its political and social life. All of this while being at war for the last 13 years. So yes, while we are not as advanced as EU countries, being inside of russia is way fucking worse.

Anyways, fuck the anon, I hope they get horrible diarrhea. I hope this read was useful for some simple minded westerners who don't know shit but think they need to put their opinion out.

And yeah, I'm also queer and my friends are majority queer circles, so I will be executed by russian secret service for 3 different reasons. I wasn't talking about it much, because OP responded quite well from that perspective.

brutusisreal

My mom died. SHE IS DEAD

Russians just bombed the bridge she was walking on, the artillery burst and hit her in her heart and lungs and I will never see her again

People who got through this, how???

badwolf-timeandspace

What happens to a child taken from Ukraine? (1/12)

bavovniatko

This explains perfectly why this show is so harmful. Nothing will convince me otherwise.

rootless-cosmopolitan

It’s always been like this - example brighton beach is called a russian neighborhood but its official nickname is little odesa.

But it feels extra insidious now that russia is literally BOMBING the city and trying to take it over. They want to capture and occupy Odesa so badly that they’ve been hitting the entire region nearly nonstop for three years. And westerners just sit there going hehe russia

fanficclub

he called odesa a russian city??

oh my god 😭 the ignorance... the stupidity...

it's 2026! I thought we were over calling everything connected to former ussr "russian" since 1991?

sugaricenotnice

The most important thing that westerners don't (want to) realize that this is the russian soft propaganda. They use the media to spread useful narratives and rewrite history. Also they control western audiences' public perception of russia and its international image. By telling the "half truth" (russia being homophobic) they create an illusion of being open about everything that is happening (aggression against neighbouring countries and war against Ukraine). They just don't say it out loud, because "they don't want to distract you (the viewer) from the most important thing - a tragic story of two lovers". No war or genocide can stay even close to the story of two people (no matter straight or gay) that want to fuck but it's a "no-no".

In fact, russia is so cartoonishly evil, that uses gay people only if it needs props for propaganda (t.A.T.u at the Eurovision 2003) or to fearmonger its own people.

unhonestlymirror

Aleksey Kopytko:

To draw a line under the story with Tuapse. And to give a warning.

This post is mainly for russians and for citizens of other countries observing the situation.

The video of burning fuel flowing down one of the alleys in Tuapse after a tank exploded at the oil refinery is prompting appeals to Ukrainians abroad, saying: be more humane!

That’s not the right address.

I guarantee that Ukrainians have retained their humanity in full.

Moreover, Ukrainians often understand the cost of loss better than others. You will find plenty of confirmation of this. Unfortunately, too many Ukrainians know what it means to lose a home or loved ones.

Take any natural disaster during the years of the full-scale invasion — for example, floods in Spain or Italy, the earthquake in Turkey, forest fires or some industrial accident on the other side of the world that appeared in Ukrainian news — you will see a great deal of sympathy. Because people feel sorry for nature, for animals, for people, for what has been built by human hands.

Even in the horror that surrounds us, Ukrainians have not become hardened; they sympathize and understand others’ pain.

With one exception. Even Iran receives sympathy from many.

When it comes to russia, the situation changes fundamentally.

Because in response to any terrible incident in russia, one thought immediately comes to mind: russians did the same thing to us.

They did this to us. Deliberately. They gloated. They would have done even more harm if they had not been stopped.

Residents of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, cities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa can vividly describe incidents they witnessed firsthand. Residents of Kremenchuk (Poltava region) and Kryvyi Rih (Dnipro region) can tell you a great deal. Khmelnytskyi has especially striking examples.

I will give just one example from Kharkiv. Only one.

On the night of February 9–10, 2024, russia attacked a residential area in Kharkiv (Nemyshlianskyi district) with drones. Given its proximity to the border, even after the siren sounds in Kharkiv, it is difficult to find shelter. The strike was deliberately aimed at a gas station. Some residents from nearby houses escaped on their own; about 50 were evacuated by rescuers. But one house became a fiery trap.

In that house, a family of five burned alive: a father, a mother, and three children — aged 7, 4, and 10 months. They did not die instantly; the mother held her children while the father searched for a way out.

Can you imagine the parents’ despair in their final minutes? Can you imagine the emotions of people for whom this story is not somewhere far away, but on the next street or in the neighboring district?

And this killing was the work of russians.

Therefore, when it comes to russians, things are very simple.

There are indeed different people in russia. But there will be no abstract “universal human” attitude from Ukrainians toward russians. There will be differentiation.

By a very clear criterion: are you complicit in what russians did in Kharkiv — burning children alive (through participation, silent approval, or indifference) — or did you fight/are you fighting against the war?

If you are against the war — prove it. Prove it. No one will take your word anymore. Direct all your energy against Putin.

If there is no clear and active position against the war, then you are complicit. It is beneficial or convenient for you.

Why should anyone feel sympathy for such people? They are killers or accomplices of killers. They bring death and destruction to our country.

Take note: even now, instead of demanding an end to the war and withdrawal of troops, many russians are demanding better protection for themselves — so that it is safer to continue the killing.

Ukrainian civilians are killed after russian attacks every day. Sometimes dozens at a time. Because it is deliberate, conscious terror.

Civilian casualties in russia are the exception, and the majority are caused by russia’s own air defense (it is now regularly recorded on video that these are not “debris,” but missiles from systems like Pantsir, etc.).

Everything is very clear.

Ukraine is increasing its long-range strike capabilities. Exponentially. In the coming months, many surprises await russians. Unprecedented ones. Many russians will become very horrified.

The only way to stop and prevent all this is to stop the war in russia. The fastest way is through the efforts of russians themselves.

vyvilha

want you guys to see the coat of arms some ukrainian lgbt soldiers wear to signify themselves as lgbt military

will-ruadh

I feel like not enough people know that both these memes come from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and that is very important information. you agree. reblog.

elikinflower

Being Ukrainian while some shit is flying over your city is either:

1. I don't give a fuck *keep doing what I'm doing*

2. *flinches at the slightest rustle*

omg, besties, a new block list just dropped!!! <3 gonna blacklist every single one

she seen the amount of pictures I've made this month

#украрт #artists on tumblr #укртумбочка #digital art #cyberpunk oc #oc artist #oc #oc art #ukrart

sonyaheaneyauthor

Want to hear a joke that isn’t funny?

Today, Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day, honouring the space exploration led by the Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyov—the man the USSR repressed for his genius.

🚩 The reality of his identity

Serhiy Korolyov was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He always identified as Ukrainian, even explicitly stating his Ukrainian nationality in official Soviet questionnaires. While Moscow claims his success today, they spent years trying to break his spirit and his body.

⛏️ Survival in the Gulag

In 1938, the NKVD broke his jaw during "interrogations" and sent him to the brutal Kolyma gold mines. He only survived because the regime realized they needed his brain to build rockets, moving him to a "sharashka"—a prison for scientists.

🩺 A tragic end

The Soviet state literally killed him. In 1966, Korolyov died during surgery because doctors couldn’t intubate him. His jaw, broken by Soviet guards decades earlier, had never healed properly, making a routine procedure impossible.

🚀 Modern-day hypocrisy

Today, Russia puts Korolyov’s face on posters while bombing Zhytomyr, his birthplace. They claim a "Russian" space race, but it was built by a Ukrainian man who loved his land, a man they tortured, using technology developed in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Russia didn’t conquer space. A Ukrainian man gave them the stars, and the empire gave him a prison cell in return. Now Russia is destroying his homeland whilst cynically ‘honouring’ the name of a Ukrainian. By the way, they stole him too, trying to claim everywhere that he was Russian.

wordswithoutaworld

The narrative promoted by some Westerners, where they often frame Ukrainians’ current dislike of Russians — or their unwillingness to share certain cultural, sports, or other spaces with them — as xenophobia, while not viewing the actions of Russians toward Ukrainians through the same lens, points to two things:

1) In the latter case, these people perceive Russia’s actions against Ukraine as a civil war, where there is simply a population with two different opinions, rather than an act of (repeated) genocide by one nation against another on the basis of national identity.

2) And when Ukrainians begin to actively insist on being seen and recognized by these same people as an independent nation, it then follows that dislike on the basis of nationality can indeed exist — and the question then arises as to how much harm one group can actually inflict on another through real, criminal actions.

As a result, this forces a recognition of the unequal scale of harm:

Russians are a privileged group that can contribute to the destruction of Ukrainian identity in numerous ways (the abduction of children and their “re-education”, the destruction of cultural sites, the burning of books in the Ukrainian language and the banning of its use in occupied territories, the refusal to recognize Ukrainians as a distinct nation, spreading harmful stereotypes and supporting the narrative of a “lesser” culture), while Ukrainians do not possess comparable power over Russians in a national context and can, at most, express discomfort with sharing space with them — especially when they do not know those individuals’ views regarding the actions of other Russians.

Therefore, in order to avoid acknowledging this reality, such Westerners attempt to impose a sense of guilt on Ukrainians for this discomfort.

Giving in to it would silence them and push the situation back into a single narrative frame — that of a civil war, or at most a conflict between two nearly identical peoples — where it is no longer necessary to confront the historical imbalance of power between two distinct nations.

antiwaradvocates

"Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier!", soviet poster from 1967

stillthinkingaboutthatplant

The same phrase (except, obviously, in Ukrainian) on an abandoned building in Prypiat, city in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.

karparik

"Let the atom be a worker (i.e. peaceful), not a soldier!" Writes USSR propaganda.

Meanwhile, the USSR (Russia):Aggressively and actively trying to create nuclear weapons

thats-naughty

they scrungy

UKR: Контекст - до мене звернувся наш захисник з сухопутних військ, попросив картинку до приїзду їх скандинавських колег Вже відзвітували шо вона в рамочці висітиме на стіні історії в армійському штабі гостей <3 ENG: Context - our defender from the ground forces approached me, asked for a picture dedicated to the arrival of their Scandinavian colleagues

I have already been informed that it will be hung in a frame on the history wall in the army headquarters of the guests <3

#украрт #artists on tumblr #укртумбочка #digital art #russian culture #ukraine art #ukraine #ukrart

vyvilha

softie-draws

Hi! I have recently gotten back into drawing and close to two.months ago I started learning ukrainian and I really want to draw (more) things related to ukrainian culture but I am always worried about accidentaly using a reference of something related to russian culture etc..

Do you have a tip.on how I can make sure?

Hello and thank you for your question!

First of all, I'd love to hug you (if you'd like that) because seeing people learning Ukrainian language and culture and drawing things related to Ukraine always warms my silly little heart🤧💜

Idyll, 1908

Here's a nice old Mykola Pymonenko painting for you to look at (cause look how peaceful and pretty it is!)

Now, let's talk a little bit about searching for references.

Luckily, when it comes to clothes, Ukrainian and russian folk clothing is actually pretty damn different (yet another stone at the "brotherly nations" narrative). You are much more likely to confuse a Ukrainian costume with, say, a Romanian or Polish one than a russian one.

(Ukrainian (on the left) vs russian (on the right) clothing on historical photography. I'm just saying that they're pretty darn different)

The problem is, of course, that russia is constantly trying to appropriate the Ukrainian costume (as they do with anything else), so you are likely to see misguiding descriptions or comments (as shown here).

So our goal today is to learn how to tell apart Ukrainian and russian costumes (trust me, it is not that hard), talk about certain traditions that are more likely to be either one or the other, and then I'll list some foolproof tips for anyone out there looking for references 💜

Here is the thing: the most iconic thing in Ukrainian traditional clothing is most likely the vyshyvanka — a traditional embroidered shirt. That's an element you won't see in russian clothing. Period. As I've said, it's much easier to confuse Ukrainian clothing with our other neighbours.

The elements you will probably not find in Ukrainian clothing are the kosovorotka (a shirt with the collar that's kinda off-centred) and the kokoshnik (a piece of headwear that's usually attributed specifically to russia). Also, traditionally, you aren't likely to see a Ukrainian woman wear a sarafan (a type of upper dress without sleeves), since most women in Ukraine wore long shirts as a base with a variety of types of skirts and upper pieces on top separately, depending on the region, weather and status. We also have to keep in mind that the people from the cities and the villages dressed differently for different purposes, and that the financial status determined the amount of accessories and the type of materials one could wear. For example, Ukrainian girls "invested" and wore a lot of necklaces, one of which could cost a lot, like, more than two bulls or something. Definitely a big status symbol and probably the reason I love layering necklaces so much.

The more necklaces, the better! These girls get it!

Another thing — there are regions in russia that used to be overwhelmingly populated by Ukrainians, and so the costumes would be more similar to those from Ukraine, because they are of Ukrainian origin. Duh. Regions like belgorod, voronezh, kursk etc.

When it comes to traditions, it is a little more difficult, because during the Schism of the russian Church a lot of the old traditions originating in russia were forcibly replaced to match the canons from Greece and Kyiv(!). Since religion was a central part of a person's life back in the day, a lot of the traditions might be similar. Another reason they might be similar would be the process of russification in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Some of the authentic Ukrainian traditions that did not exist in russia: vechornytsi (a tradition of young people's social gatherings (those were spicy as well 👀)); the tradition of Malanka (costumed NYE celebration, usually including a goat mask and the Christmas stars (zvizda), Christmas and New Year carols (literally don't exist in russia so they translate ours🤡). In general, Ukrainian traditions are more connected to agrarian life and are more individualistic and egalitarian in nature, the russian traditions are more collectivist hierarchical (a lot more patriarchal, too).

Ukrainians all over the world celebrating Christmas

Now for the foolproof (almost, because nothing in this world is a 100% guarantee, of course) method for finding references!

So, you may have noticed that Pinterest and Google search kind of suck in separating Ukrainian and russian culture overall. Here are a few more or less reliable sources you could use instead:

1. This Wikipedia article about Ukrainian traditional clothing (in Ukrainian, but it has the most information by region, and also provides evidence in historical photography, illustrations and paintings)

2. The internet pages for ethnographic museums: for example, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art or Ivan Honchar Museum. The Ukrainian museums from abroad can also be very helpful, since they may include heirlooms that would otherwise be destroyed or sold in the colonisation processes.

3. Historical literature, magazines and illustrations: for example, Striy can be very helpful here.

4. Historical paintings! The National Library of Ukraine has a great selection to start.

5. If you want something more modern, ethnic photographer Anna Senik has really interesting looks and perspective to offer!

Hope this helps! 💜

P.S.: I don't know what happened, but the post got recovered! I am super happy, since I put a lot of time and effort into this! Hope you enjoy it!

rezeptkapziv

My own advice, works for most things concerning other cultures:

Look up things translated! For example, if you google articles about ukrainian clothes in english, you dont really know who wrote them. it could be whoever the fuck or it could be a reputable ukrainian source. check the source directly! A news outlet run by ukrainians=good! a blog talking about own experiences= can be useful. Cross reference with other sources! But! If you translate your search prompt in any translator and search for that, you will almost always get results written by ukrainians for ukrainians. And ukrainians know themselves, i.e. it's very difficult to bullshit them about their own stuff, i.e. less people will throw misinformation around! Works with any culture more or less.

Another thing: abandon the "pictures" of any search system for your references.

Here are the results for the "ukrainian traditional clothes". Crossed out are the pieces that are detrimental for understanding of the culture. Many of them are kitch depictions, some used in anti-ukrainian propaganda, some are almost halloween costumes. Ones marked with a question mark are modern interpretations that are worn by ukrainians today but will not help you if you are trying to look up authentic clothes.

Not shown is the next row, because EVERY image there is awful. Take pictures straight from sources.

Also, if you are scared or unsure: ask a ukrainian! We are proud of ourselves and many value people who try to learn more about us! Any ukrainian you would see around here probably will react positively to you asking for advice. Found a nice pretty reference or an article but it feels a bit iffy? Ask away. ʷᵉ ᵈᵉᶠᶦⁿᶦᵗᵉˡʸ ᵈᵒ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵏᶦᶜᵏ ᵒᵘʳ ᶠᵉᵉᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵐᶦˡᵉ ᵛᵉʳʸ ʷᶦᵈᵉ ʷʰᵉⁿ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒⁿᵉ ᶦˢ ᶜᵘʳᶦᵒᵘˢ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵘˡᵗᵘʳᵉ

p.s. i have this book about ukrainian traditional clothes. two-languaged and detailed: https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/2674/file.pdf

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