LtCol Rip Rawlings
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LtCol Rip Rawlings is a NYT bestselling author, combat journalist and supporter of Ukrainian fighters & aid workers.
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Our Ukrainian Recon Unit went out on a counter-recon mission of the front lines but ran into two russian tanks. So they took them out.
They used the new NVGs and thermal scopes you all bought for them! We're proud to hear they put everything to good use.
#SlavaUkraini
, brothers!
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Howdy.
We just killed a Russian tank.
#Ukraine
#Ukraineinvasion
#UkraineRussiaWar
#War
#Tank
#UkraineWillWin
#SlavaUkraini
#SlavaUkraine
#Russia
#RussiaInvadedUkraine
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Great link up with fellow warriors
@MalcolmNance
@jmvasquez1974
and
@Harri_Est
all here for one mission & a unified purpose: halt
#putin
's illegal invasion of
#Ukraine
!
#SlavaUkraini
!!
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Some very exciting news today:
-In addition to our Legion guys, we've adopted 3 new combat units: a Recon Platoon, a straight leg grunt Company and a Territorial Defense unit.
-We appointed a top tier CFO. She's former Deloitte and worked DOJ/FBI. She's a stud and she's free!!
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#Respect
🫡
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 Army engineers demonstrate the right way to put in a military pontoon, then roll out and into the fight - with our own
#Detroit
🇺🇲 White Stripes as background music... couldn't be more motivating! 😎 Give 'em hell boys!
#SlavaUkraini
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With great appreciation we'd like to announce today that Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Illinois 16th District) will join Ripley's Heroes on our Board of Advisors. His dedication to Ukraine and solid service to America greatly enhances our mission.
#Ukraine
@AdamKinzinger
#RipleysHeroes
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R.I.P. Scott Sibley.
Our International Legion is sustaining combat losses as well
Rest In Peace Scott Sibley 🇬🇧
Thank you for your service. You fought for the most just cause this world knows now.
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"Loaded for bear," I believe is an accurate description.
Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!
A news photo of the new Ukrainian jets taking to the skies.
#SlavaUkra
ïni
#Ukraine
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You all understand what a big deal this is, right?
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
-FDR, Dec 29, 1940.
I have zero problems being one of the brokers of that arsenal. Zero!
How about you?
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Took this over my shoulder, so it didn't come out too well. A man and woman, both soldiers. Rifles in front and holding hands. Couples join together. Everyone here is involved in the war.
#SlavaUkraini
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I'm ready for the "assassinated by one of his generals" phase.
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Just got a message from
@jmvasquez1974
.
He's alive and well. Also looks like he had a successful mission.
#SlavaUkraini
Brother!!
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As a kid I read all of Hergé's Tintin.
'Bravo,' 🫡 and glad to see the young Belgian hero is getting into the fight.
These images were published by Bohdan Tsyupyn from "Voice of America"
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I don't usually like posting pics of myself, but wth.
Slava Ukraini!!
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Flew in to D.C. to meet with
@RepKinzinger
. Extremely pleased for his solid support to Ripley's Heroes and to accept his $15,000 donation, which we will put to immediate use. He remains dedicated to helping the people of
#Ukraine
and to halting the illegal Russian invasion.
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Well that's cool: our Ukr reconnaissance unit sent us this picture and said they took it out, then with the help from some local dudes found new tires, and now it's theirs!
(No windshield replacement though...)
#SlavaUkraini
#Ukraine
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Okay, this is one of our new units:
They are awesome!
They are "Team Baguette" because they are U.S. and French mix.
We're buying them a new ambulance TODAY!
That's 3X vehicles in 3X days for units in the fight.
Maybe I should become a used car dealer after the war...🤔
#Ukraine
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Good morning world!
Wonderful day to be alive and
#SlavaUkraini
!
We're have a great day and wishing you all, everywhere a most excellent day today!
#Ukraine
#goodmorning
#HumpDay
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Two little girls were painted up with Ukrainian hearts and out for a snack with Mom & Pop.
I asked if I could take a quick photo.
One was a little apprehensive about a big dude with a beard. The other smiled and said strongly: "Slava Ukraini."
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Hey Everyone, we CANNOT thank you enough. We made our goal to buy NVGs for our unit and a thermal rifle scope too. We're shutting off PayPal contributions and will post pictures soon as the gear comes in. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts!
#SlavaUkraini
#Ukraine
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Wow... No air raids last night and I slept nearly 5 hours! I feel refreshed and eternally thankful to all Ukranian anti-air gunners/missilemen for keeping everybody safe last night. And every night come to think of it🤔
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@TFBaguette
#Russia
you must treat these men in accordance with the Geneva Convention. They are uniformed members of the Army of
#Ukraine
️!
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I remember the first folded flag I passed on to a grieving family at Arlington.
At the time I wished it would be the last one ever.
But it wasn't.
My only wish these days are swift ends to any and all wars.
Memorial Day 2022.
#USA
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Good Morning Everyone!
And Slava Ukraini!!
#SlavaUkraini
(thanks to
@allisonhare
for today's pic)
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Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!
Here's some of the men equipped with the latest and greatest technology thanks to you alls very generous donations.
They went out on a mission directly after accepting the gear.
Good luck men! Give 'em hell!
#SlavaUkraini
#Ukraine
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Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!!
Great video of a father coming home.
(Video credit
@Kurzaolga
)
#SlavaUkraini
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One of our sniper's inducted a few of our newest warriors into the Dirty Dozen.
They'll be sworn in and assigned their roles ASAP.
#Ukraine
#thedirtydozen
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Everyone
@RipleysHeroes
and
@RipleyHeroesUa
including
@jmvasquez1974
we're bugging me to do a video, so here's one of our next shipment going to
#Ukraine
.
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Good morning everyone,
Gonna be a great day!
You all remember our Uk Grunt company? They sent this pic of a tank they just killed and said to say: Slava Ukraini!! to you all and thanks for all the support.
#SlavaUkraini
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussiaWar
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@jmvasquez1974
Geez, thanks peeps. Just trying to do our part. I'm not a gunfighter in this war like James, but hopefully "Ripley's Heroes" swings big logistics to guys like him and a lot of others in need. When we all pull together we can make a big difference against a very despotic enemy.
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Our adopted Ukrainian Territorial Defense unit asked us to help them get a new van. They're using a friend's mini-van to move around and have some very important AD duties to a certain town.
They sent us this pic...
Good grief: Yes! We will help!
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Hey
@elonmusk
, how are people supposed to get frontline accounts about the
#UkraineInvasion
from real people on the ground like
@jmvasquez1974
when we keep giving bluechecks to hollywood stars.
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This war is like no other before.
Ukraine wasn't a wealthy nation to begin with,
But it certainly is rich in guts and determination.
Good morning, and
#SlavaUkraini
⚡️Six-year-old girl raises Hr 5,000 ($165) for Ukrainian military by playing flute on the street.
Solomiia Reut from Dnipro raised half the sum needed to buy one bulletproof vest, and her mother fundraised the other half on social media.
Photo: Sicheslavska Prosvita/Facebook
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@IAPonomarenko
Hey
@IAPonomarenko
would you do me and
@serhiyprytula
the honor of a retweet of the below for the the 79th? We've been fundraising since Sunday for new comms package for them.
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Wait, what?!?
You all did it!!!
No, seriously, I very much suspect this would still be all frozen if the Dirty Dozen Battalion hadn't gotten behind us.
I guess it remains to be seen how much access we get, but this is a BIG development for the Dozen!
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Additional good news today:
We are shipping 80 Vallons mine-detectors to Ukraine.
In partnership with Ryan
@tipofthespear42
and on behalf of your generous donations: we will give each graduating unit of the Kyiv EOD/mine detecting school a solid mine-detector/kit.
#Ukraine
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💥 For over a month, soldiers of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade have trained 9K38 ‘Igla’ AA missile operators.
The simulator was purchased by one of our closest partners, the "Come Back Alive" foundation for $1.5 Mil.
Way to go
@BackAndAlive
, very proud to know y'all!!
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Dude... you all rock!
@jmvasquez1974
Proud to know ya. ✊👊💪Never had my doubts.
🇺🇲🇺🇦🇪🇺🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷🇵🇱 and millions of supporters say
#SlavaUkraini
brother!
#Ukraine
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Appearantly Sandra got her chocolates.
There's a store that reopened for a few hours.
Someone was asking earlier which of the dozen had the sweet tooth, now you know!!
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So, on a lighter note, our sniper lost the unit's cat, "Snipurr," on the last objective. BUT he's now found a momma dog who has become a surrogate mom to two puppies.
Don't ask me why he keeps adopting. There are a lot of poor strays and left behinds in Ukraine.
Want pix?
-TiR
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"To stop this evil"
#SlavaUkraini
"Life's amazing while you are still alive. It's true."
Roman Trokhymets, a Ukrainian soldier on the frontline, shares the thoughts he has while being under enemy fire
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Good Morning Everyone!
And Slava Ukraini!!
(today's pic thanks to
@Cristinamarie62
)
#SlavaUkraini
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Wow, thank you all, here is our PayPal. 100% of the proceeds go to equipping "the Dirty Dozen"
(this is Rip, btw, the guys are hella busy today)
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Hello everyone, and 🇺🇲Slava Ukraini🇺🇦.
⚕️Meet Dr. Elizabeth!🩺
Ripley's Heroes scouts & funds talent to
#Ukraine
and in partnership with
@BackAndAlive
we are very proud to announce our sponsorship of Dr. Elizabeth to the Kyiv Military Hospital surgery dept.
Welcome aboard Doc!
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I know I'm a perpetual glass is half-full guy.
But I was paying attention to some of you alls conversations and here's something important you said: 'I feel helpless about Ukraine. I can't do much but listen to news and tweet support.'
You all-that's PLENTY!
Here are my thoughts
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Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!
Need a reasoned opinion piece that doesn't suck?
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Wow!
The country still stands because of him and a lot of other's courage all the way down to the Private foot soldier.
#SlavaUkraini
Our good friend, 🇺🇦LTG Sergiy Nayev, has been awarded the Hero of Ukraine title.
He’s our Joint Chiefs commander.
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These are some pics from the grunt Company. More from the other units later. They are dirty, smelly, and in the schizzle every day... right where grunts should be. In the 2nd pic, they just overran a Russian unit. We took out the gory stuff, but they captured all the Russian gear
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We have some good news!
Ambulance checked out.
Some paperwork and it's ours.
Slava Ukraini and...
"Stay thirsty my friends."
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I wish I could force some of our Legionnaires to eat a damn sandwich. Kids... they don't eat healthy in combat. Same as my Marines in Ramadi/Iraq. Everyone is getting skinny. Still, how could you not be massively proud of what the Ukrainian forces are doing!🇺🇦💪👊
#SlavaUkraini
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Close call.
Ukrainian soldier’s phone stopped what appears to be a 7.62 round.
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Update on our wounded man:
He is up and about and requesting to rejoin the Dozen. Motivator! The Docs did a full work up on him and found him fit for duty. No shrapnel entered his cranium, but they ordered 24 hours observation.
#Ukraine
#UkraineInvasion
#GFYPutin
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Hmmm... okay. How about no jokes and just a picture of our sniper.
He lost the cat btw...
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Yes Kevin, 🙄 we fake all our pics in Ukraine. Costs us billion$. We also paid to fly in the whole
#KalushOrchestra
yesterday to our fake Lviv village in Langley VA, but tots worth it.
Same for our fake of the moon landing, btw...
Free tinfoil hat on our website waiting for you
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So let me make something perfectly clear
@PayPal
, the Ukrainian Legion are NOT mercenaries! We are not buying ammo or guns, the Legion supplies all that. We are buying protect/support equipment: a dedicated ambulance vehicle, gas, food, plane tix for guys to Poland,etc
@AskPayPal
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Good Morning Everyone and Slava Ukraini!
Interesting turn of events. Read below. Ukraine is managing to rebuild it's air forces every day.
#SlavaUkraini
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Russia lost its EIGHTH general yesterday...
and 34th colonel.
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Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!
You all remember our Squad Leader who came home for some R&R, and you helped him with his kennel fees?
He sent this pic and is immensely thankful to you all for the support and is getting some time to relax with his puppy.
#SlavaUkraini
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Hey All,
One of our U.S. vet Legion SF troops is headed home. He's been fighting here for 3 months. His dog has been kenneled and he's short a few $. Please consider a bit of help for this warrior.
I know him personally and can vouch for his honesty.
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There's nothing that says "we're losing" more than this.
I wouldn't believe it if there weren't pictures.
Maybe
#russia
is setting up a cold war museum🤔...
#SlavaUkraini
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One of the Dozen's snipers trained his Legion comrades today on "shooting from elevated and concealed positions."
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Good Morning Everyone!!
And Slava Ukraini!!
#SlavaUkraini
(thanks to
@Lisa40393817
for today's pic)
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Good morning!!
in spite of Russia's ineffective all night air raids:
Slava Ukraini!!
#SlavaUkraini
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@jmvasquez1974
We don't care.
We just want you to continue to bash bad guys and get back home in one piece to tell your grandkids one day how you kicked orc asses.
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Hey everyone, Slava Ukraini!
and Happy Orthodox Easter to those who celebrate.
It's also the day for the famous Ukrainian Pysanky eggs.
#SlavaUkraini
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Hey all,
We are very excited to announce our partnered fundraiser with
@serhiyprytula
to support comms requrements for the troops of
#Ukraine
!
Please see and to donate. We VERY much appreciate your kind support!!
#SlavaUkraini
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Amazing news!!
I actually didn't have any doubts.
The reports have all been that they are really kicking some
@ss
.
#SlavaUkraini
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Ukraine has pushed Russian forces 40 kilometres east of Kharkiv, Pentagon says.
via
@TheNationalNews
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I think we're taking more fire tonight than ever before. Reports are 70 missiles across the country of
#Ukraine
.
Time for more bunker chess.
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Ok, serious question for you: I've known tankers from 5 armies, but none would have done this. Ever. When/how did these russian guys smash their moral compasses? Did they never have one? Crap schools? Bad parents? Or is it total absence of officers/leadership? Or just wtf?
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Yes,
@jmvasquez1974
is fine.
A few of you asking about his status.
Just spoke to him. He's on the Twitter-net when he can be. Just follow him and he'll keep tweeting when he has the time.
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Good morning everyone and Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦
Kyiv Independent sent a response to NYT calling them out on their recent BS to: just let Russia keep some pieces of Ukraine.
Because, ya, you'd do it if it was your country and appeasement strategies have worked so well in history...
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Good Morning Everyone and Slava Ukraini!
#SlavaUkraini
U.S. Congressmen submitted a bill on training Ukrainian pilots and crew on the F-15 and F-16 jet fighters and other aircraft.
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Good morning everyone
and Slava Ukraini!
Ordinary lives gone in a flash for no reason but Putin's quest to steal another country's lands and rob them of their liberties... senseless and barbaric.
#SlavaUkraini
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@jmvasquez1974
No, we're still screwed. We're working on other means to try to get the gear and equipment we need. Funny thing, there is a GoFundMe for a guy who just wants people to buy him a Tesla, but buying safety equip, drones and flak jackets for warriors has gotten
@Paypal
to freeze us.
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Roll 'em on in boys!!
#SlavaUkraini
.
@USMC
M777 towed 155 mm howitzers bound for Ukraine are loaded onto a
@USAirForce
C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at
@March_ARB
.
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Good Morning Everyone!
And a big Slava Ukraini to you all!!!
#SlavaUkraini
(thanks to
@I_am_The_Jen
for today's image)
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Now we're dealing with the same crap
@jmvasquez1974
did with
@PayPal
. Thought we'd ironed it all out ahead. Read/heard James's lessons learned. Sent
#PayPal
every form of ID/government issued document we have, included the damn kitchen sink and they're STIlL sitting on the funds.
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In downtown Kyiv for the morning.
Walking to Easter services.
The fighters will have no such luxuries today.
I will say prayers for them and a speedy end to this senseless war.
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Quick follow-up, everyone said I missed the mine detectors and the mag pouches.
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Long column of U.S. SP howitzers spotted heading toward the Polish border.
Interesting... 🧐
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I watched CNN do like 20 takes of: "And THIS is CNN live."
Each time some dude told him to alter his pitch and he did it again.
I yelled down to him, "it's not live if you're taping it Phil!!"
He laughed, but his producer gave us a look.
Whatever... go powder your nose, dude.
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I don't like airing grievances in public: just never worth it. But when people who poke at us then try to go sell equipment bought for them by your own generous donations, licensed to the Ukr Army, in the middle of a war, for their own profit... I draw the line.
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Well... I'm awake, and it looks like you are too.
So,
Good morning y'all !!!
And
#SlavaUkraini
!!!
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