Remembering...
1. Russian troops fire warning shots at Ukrainian soldiers, after a Ukrainian soldiers marches towards the now Russia-controlled Belbek airbase in Crimea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbGpSvtuGY
2. Dr. AnnaPirate MD
@AnnaPartisanka
West: Ukraine, stop resisting. Just let #Putin hold you down, rip off your clothes and rape you because you are not worth us being afraid. And when he’s done we will call you whore for making us pay for you resisting, now be good girl and go quietly
11:41 PM · Oct 3, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Dr. AnnaPirate MD
@AnnaPartisanka
So we can look away and feel safe, while he drags you behind iron curtain so we don’t have to know that he beats you, rapes you and traffics you because we are leaders of free world.
11:41 PM · Oct 3, 2022
3. Eight-Year-Old Sings On Lviv Streets To Raise Money For War
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=embed_video&v=754608795635844
https://www.rferl.org/a/eight-year-old-sings-on-lviv-streets-to-raise-money-for-war/32024475.html
ARTICLE
‘Without Leaving Home, We Became Foreigners’: Ukrainians Escape Russian Occupation Through The Only Open Border Crossing
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
By Aleksander Palikot
October 13, 2023 10:59 GMT
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainians-escape-russian-occuption-border-crossing/32636052.html?withmediaplayer=1
KRASNOPILLYA, Ukraine — Their paths crossed at a volunteer center a short drive from the Russian border: Bohdan, an athletic, shaven-headed 17-year-old with a wide smile; Natalya, an exhausted middle-aged woman barely holding back tears; and Valeriy, a spry, smartly dressed pensioner.
A few hours earlier, they had all been on the other side.
Bohdan came a long way, from Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, where he had gone with his mother to join relatives after the war forced them out of Kostyantynivka, their hometown in Ukraine’s east. Natalya had been in Enerhodar, home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, now occupied by Russia, just two days earlier. Valeriy had left Donetsk, the largest city in the Donbas seized by Moscow-backed forces in 2014, just that morning. (excerpt)
The Shortest Way In
The small Kolotylivka-Pokrovka border crossing, between Russia’s Belgorod region and Ukraine’s Sumy region, is the only place where Ukrainians can enter government-controlled Ukrainian territory from Russia. Travel in the opposite direction is not possible.
After Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine officially closed all its border crossings with Russia and Belarus. For several months, displaced people were able to cross the front line from Russian-occupied territory inside Ukraine in a few places, often risking detention or death from shellfire, but the last of such routes, in the southern Zaporizhzhya region, was closed last autumn.