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Providing trauma informed yoga in Ukraine to survivors of trauma, conflict & violence, PTSD therapy training & wellbeing training.
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Our yoga program & studio in Ukraine provides free trauma informed psychosocial therapy, support & resilience training for state veteran rehabilitation. Also supporting refugees, children & volunteers & supplying humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
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The Ukranians singing their anthem outside the Russian Embassy in London last night. Goosebumps. Tears. And I'm more motivated than ever to return to Ukraine on Tuesday.
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Just finished 2 days at the largest military rehab centre for amputees in Ukraine & honestly, I don't know what to say. It will take time to process. It has had a huge impact on us & we are determined that somehow, veteran support will be our core focus going forward. The need is…
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Are we getting a nice Christmas present from the Dutch?
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Heroes. Kramatorsk bound train. Bring them home safely 🙏
📷 Olga Malashenko
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Emma was murdered by Russians alongside Canadian volunteer 'Tonka' on Saturday. A photo that shows Emma being Emma, the best of us, like most vols here. Her murder hits hard. One of the first frontline vols I connected with at the start 'cos we both spoke Spanish. Hearing it, a…
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Two of my best friends, volunteers, in Ukraine are in this photo in Kramatorsk. A week ago we were celebrating one of their birthdays in Lviv. She just called me from the hospital, while he has been transferred to Dnipro. She spent hours with concussion pulling people, including…
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Ukrainian Coffee tastes sweeter after a night of sirens & missiles. Theres an old lady appears every morning on the balcony behind me every morning. We have a ritual, a dobroho ranku & a smile every day. After a night of sirens & missiles, a smile & a 'good morning' even sweeter.…
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As a Brit in Ukraine, who's been on the receiving end of Iranian drone attacks almost every night for the past 2 years, I can't help fuming that my country hasn't hesitated to send the RAF to protect Israel from the same drones; while all we got here was Boris fucking Johnson.
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Hey
#Navalny
team. Listen to our 5 year old Ukrainian giggling during an air raid in Lviv. Hasn't laughed like this since Russia killed our neighbours with a missile last week. It distracts him & he thinks his mom fooling around in his shark onesie is hilarious. Does it offend…
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Nine months ago the Lviv military rehab centre psychologist told Nazar he should try our yoga sessions. He told her to F off 🤣. But he came. Now chief ringleader in forcing his brothers & new arrivals to give it a try. He's a ray of light who inspires us & makes us laugh!
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What war does. Our little one is 6. Been in basement since 3am listening to explosions, then corridor to sleep. Still sleeping now, sun is up, but we don't want to disturb him. How's your Sunday morning with kids? Tell me how we shouldn't hate people that do this to children.
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@UN
@UnitedNationsRU
You're celebrating a culture that openly enacts and expresses a genocidal, pathological, colonial objective to eliminate the language and culture of another? You. Are. Beneath. Contempt
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I live close to Lykachiv cemetery Lviv & Field of Mars where our local heroes are being buried and honoured. As I passed on the tram tonight, it took my breath away, lit up for the anniversary. Each of the hundreds of candles a sacrifice, every one, the light of the world 🙏
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I feel like I really let someone down during the air raid alert last night & feel awful. Took a shared cab into Lviv from border. In cab was also a young American guy, first time in Ukraine. We got talking. As we approached Lviv, telegram chats made it clear we faced a missile…
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Someone came to the amputee rehab centre today and held a Japanese kintsugi workshop for the guys. The philosophy, that in the process of repairing things that have broken, we create something more unique, beautiful and resilient, a metaphor not lost on any of our warriors.
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Today. Huge. We were prepared for it to take months for the Ukrainian military amputees to accept us & our methods. We even began a program for their wives, to win their trust. We had a few recent 'successes'. Suddenly ,today, they were queuing up to see us. Hearts are full 💛💙
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@eo_oe_eo_or
@realstewpeters
When you've finished showing him around those cities, I'll take him to Bakhmut.
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Bittersweet day as we said goodbye to Nazar today, who finally leaves our rehab family to go home to Ternopil, to be with his real fam, wife & 6 yr old daughter. We'll bloody miss him. Ukrainian men don't cry? We've all sobbed, laughed, hugged today. Keep shining dear Naz🙏
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We all spent today's session in Lviv crying with laughter! One of our guys showed up with his new bionic arm today & couldn't wait to show Yuliia how he'd mastered gripping. Trouble is, he hasn't figured out how to let go. So him and Yulichka spent 25 minutes like this 🤣
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Just had a British 'peacenik' woman tell our Yuliia that she doesn't support military aid to Ukraine because " I just want peace!" IMO, it's like walking past a woman being assaulted in the street & shouting at her to keep the noise down because it's ruining your afternoon…
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@NileGardiner
@JustinWelby
Flag shagger - "Send 'em back this is a Christian country"
The head of the Christian church in this country - "We should welcome strangers"
Flag shagger - "Shut up it's got nothing to do with you"
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Came back to UK for a 'normal' time, to escape war. In a room full of people on Xmas eve, just received message a friend at front is "confirmed 200". I feel like an alien among people oblivious to war . I dont resent their joy. Wherever u are, make merry with your loved ones ♥️
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@rustyrockets
You surely can't be saying it's justifiable to invade someone if they signal any attempt to defend themselves? I mean, that's like saying if a woman shows signs of resistance, then you'd justify forcing yourself on her. You surely wouldn't think like tha...Oh, hang on.
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Went to Ukrainian folk concert in Lviv a few weeks back & cheekily asked the fab Eteria if they'd come and perform at our military amputee rehab centre. Guess what..they said yes last night they did & gave a private performance for our heroes 💛💙
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"Can we just lay down & you do that breathing thing you do with me?"
It's an honour to be with these guys at the military amputee rehab centre, warriors who've given so much for our freedom. I don't know if I can always help them, but sometimes, just showing up for them is all…
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@nadinbrzezinski
Yes, it's so important we don't forget them once we have victory. Their war is only just beginning.
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Farewell dear Alex💛💙 One of our first patients at amputee rehab in Lviv, finally has prosthetic legs & walking again. A beautiful, kind soul, an amazing artist, became like an uncle to our Yulichka ❤️ He leaves, never to be a paratrooper again, but to serve in mine clearance.
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🇺🇦 Happy Independence Day 🇺🇦
These vyshyvanka are 102 years old. Heirlooms from a family Yuliia & I supported. Mine was destined for a son who paid the ultimate sacrifice. The family insist it never leaves Ukraine, but now passed to me, a non Ukranian, the honor of owning &…
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When you have the privilege of teaching a Ukrainian helicopter pilot how to breathe through high intensity combat, you get to do yoga on his helicopter 😁
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The full extent of my creativity after 20 minutes with a box of Lego and a whiskey.
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I've done yoga in the swankiest studios, festivals & retreats, run programs in refugee camps, airbases in Afghanistan, hospitals. But I wouldn't swap any of it for the honour of practicing with our Ukrainian amputees in Ukraine. Pic from today's session in Lviv 🙏💛💙
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Ready to introduce some mindfulness and coherent breathing to the art therapy sessions at the displaced women's shelter & community hub in Lviv 😊
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Between the rain & the sirens in Lviv, the sun comes out in Ukraine, & out pops the cherry blossom, along with every Ukrainian for a photo. I've never known a people have such a love and appreciation for a flower. Especially now, every sign of life, of new beginnings, embraced
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@EliotHiggins
Almost every western left anti-imperialist I've ever come across isn't anti imperialist at all, they're anti Anti-American and Anti-Israeli, but not anti imperialist.
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Behind every
#Fella
is a real person who believes in
#Ukraine
‘s victory.
@kajakallas
(Two for one here: me with Yuliia our yoga program manager in Ukraine 🙏)
#NAFOExpansionIsNonNegotiable
#NAFOfellas
#NAFO
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Feelgood 🧵 Today was a very good day 😊 Some of you might remember a recent post about our Alex who was been re-admitted to hospital a year after amputation, to have his stomach removed. Well look who surprised us - turned up today at the rehab centre to help us out. And......
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@AliceZhuravel
I've just enjoyed a lovely lunch with a Jewish friend in Shalom, the new restaurant in the centre of Lviv. I kept my eyes peeled for Nazi's walking past outside. Didn't see any. Saw a couple of pigeons though . Do they count?
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Been trolled by this Dutch @ unixoid weirdo after I shared about personal impact of having close friends, fellow aid volunteers, wounded in Kramatorsk. Same person has trolled others, mocking loss of life & deaths of children.
Truth is, I'll never understand mindset of Western…
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@Hebetronic
@saintjavelin
I'm sorry, but you need to do your research and stop spreading dis-info. It's been verified that those are his stables.
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@Navy_Hipple
@WillingWitness
The lizard people. Or was it the space Jews. Or Bill Gates. Or the Rothschilds. Or New Order, or something. Look, it doesn't matter! They have stuff from bio labs in Ukraine and they're here to blow up your dams, make you watch drag shows & ruin free speech. Or something
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At our event night for our community at the rehab centre, one of our guys asked if our photographer would come to the hospital & take some pictures of them. They wanted pics for their friends & families, to have a reason to put a uniform on again & feel seen. Tonight we did 💛💙
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Is it just me or is anyone else finding that, unlike before, when you report an account now, you receive no response? I used to receive a notification, even if it was rejected, nor they're just ignored. (I don't actually report that many, not as many as I should)
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@MargoGontar
Also interesting that in the copy they attribute the shelling to Ukrainian military. Yet this is something denied by UA. Yet they fail to mention that . Contrast with coverage of the Dam, in which they & other outlets bend over backwards to avoid attributing it based on RU…
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To all those who say "We're with Ukraine, whatever it takes", while sitting on stockpiles of missiles while we take terrified children into filthy basements to keep them alive night after night, know that
#UkraineNeedsAirDefense
(Let's get this hashtag trending
#Fellas
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@TheWarMonitor
Respectfully, please mind your language. Calling the deaths and sacrifice of a generation of Ukrainians a 'bargain' is despicable. I understand your point, I don't disagree with the underlying message. But please mind your tone.
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How do we know our sessions at the military amputee rehab centre in Ukraine are successful? Because the ladies from the hospital kitchen have asked if they can come along and join in as well 😊
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@ChrisGPackham
@theresecoffey
@HuntSabs
@RSPCA_official
@GOVUK
@ukwildlifecrime
If this was kids in a council estate doing this, the very people prancing around in fancy dress on horseback would be outraged at the state of the nation. And the kids would be locked up. Instead, a title, inbreeding, wealth and a lot of land means you can do whatever you want.
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Lviv life = leave veteran rehab, collect little one. Go for Pizza. Fab Pizza arrives, Sirens sound. Check phone, MIG-31 missile carrier. Stay put. Finish Pizza. Revenge donate via restaurant bill for drone campaign, because nobody, nobody, gets between Fierce Calm and pizza!
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Our yoga program & studio in Ukraine provides free trauma informed psychosocial support & training to internally displaced people & aid workers, while also the hub for our humanitarian aid supplies we distribute across Ukraine. Please support us.
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@KatyaSedgwick
@AlexKokcharov
@ukr_arthistory
Are you for real? No anthropologist thinks like that. In fact it's counter to the very idea of anthropology. And while we're here. When you say 'we' in the west, who on earth made you the spokesperson? You certainly don't speak for me.
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A challenging but rewarding day teaching nervous system self regulation techniques at new Lviv Habilitation centre for civilians & military who have suffered life changing injuries. For first time we're assisting large numbers of the recently blind & learning all the time 🙏
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"is it challenging to connect with the guys at the rehab centre?" First time Yuliia & I walked in, as 'weird yoga people' facing 300 tough Ukranian men, straight from front, we could never have dreamed of the bonds of love & trust we have now. We now have 300 brothers 💛💙
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The kintsugi plates the patients put together the other day, now taking pride of place on our wall at the new rehabilitation centre in Lviv 💛💙
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@Gerashchenko_en
Don't laugh! I saw this documentary the other day about a guy called Antman and his girlfriend The Wasp.
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Should I feel guilty for enjoying a coffee this much in Ukraine? After a mercifully siren free 8 hours sleep, should we feel shame in taking a moment to be grateful for simply being alive in the morning sun. It's an act of resistance. Guilt is an emotion expressed often amongst…
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When I first got to Ukraine just after the invasion last February, I was awestruck by the phenomenal humanitarian contribution of
@WCKitchen
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@chefjoseandres
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These are the mattresses we're trying to get funded, for a new rehab program we're starting at a new Lviv amputee centre this week. About $80 a piece, they aren't yoga mats (which we have), but padded and can be stacked to help our guys with accessibility issues / pain etc.
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This is for you Fellas. You are all experiencing vicarious trauma to some extent. You do a lot. We need you. Don't let anyone tell you it's not OK to be affected by this. That doesn't mean it's ok to centre yourself in allyship, but it does mean it's ok to look after yourself.
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@evathomass
@oleksiireznikov
Didnt think women in your line of work paid tax, it's not been legalised in most countries.
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As our Yuliia says here, our work with Ukrainian amputee soldiers is the most important we've ever done. And as Nazar here, one of our first patients says, he's "sleeping better, feels better all round and able to live with the pain".
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I spent a silent while at impromptu memorial to Damian Sobol passing thru Przemyśl station last pm; on the very spot, volunteer corner, we fed & helped Ukrainian refugees together 2 years ago. Killed in Gaza working for
@WCKitchen
The best of humanity 🙏
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The new rehab centre in Lviv featured our work for their launch. Here's our Yuliia explaining (in Ukrainian) how we support amputees mental / physical health & living with pain, insomnia, trauma & a new body. (In front of those Kintsugi plates y'all love 💛💙).
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@nedalalamari
It's a tactic they re-used on emergency services in Ukraine, most recently during floods.
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@alphatr0ss
Honestly, over the past 2 years I've worked with displaced people, in shelters, delivered aid to frontline, helped kids, animals, volunteered in kitchens. But both Yuliia & I, in the last 2 days have been so impacted by what we have seen, & realised talking to the veterans &…
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@visegrad24
Can we have an address? Poor woman, it would be lovely if every
#nafo
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@frontlinekit
We were even closer, and can you believe, our little one slept right through it! Maybe the little toy that your Yuliia gave him, made by your babusias, kept him safe 🙏
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@macergifford
@DVATW
And by his own logic, shouldn't he be fighting on the front line for the Russians?
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@61CygnaiSN1987A
@Teoyaomiquu
@HannahDCox
Apparently, resisting rape, genocide, torture, indiscriminate and targeted shelling and missile strikes on civilian homes and infrastructure is entitled.
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Even better news.....he and his lovely wife are having a baby 😍 You have no idea how happy we all were today! New life, new hope, new beginnings 💛💙
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They go to gigs while our kids cower in basements. Rationalise all u want about 'innocent' Russians. As a yoga teacher I teach compassion & empathy. But right now, I have nothing to teach. Zero fucks to give for those fiddling while our world burns. That's what war does to you.
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@Meronym6
Thank you so much. I am sure that I would have, but I still wish I'd done differently. I can't imagine arriving in the middle of that and just being left.
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Morning all from Ukraine 💛💙
A night of sirens, a morning coffee, croissant and... NLAW, before heading to Lviv military rehab for day with psychological support team and hanging with the best people on earth!
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And this is what war does to you. It teaches you to hate. A British friend called yesterday, tried to tell me 'you have to feel sorry for innocent Russians killed in theatre.' Maybe right. But what I felt? Nothing. Zero fucks. They go to gigs while they fire missiles at kids..
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Lviv morning coffee, staring at some graffiti, taking a moment before heading to the rehab centre to work on an art therapy program.
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We also owe him a lot. He's convinced so many to trust us, tells the sceptical how he couldn't leave hospital & go to shop at end of road without panic attacks. Then one day he paused & just breathed, just as we taught him. Now he tells new arrivals, 'just breathe brother'
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@all4bavovna
All in Ukranian, our teachers are Ukrainian, I train them but it's usually them that teaches. I do from time to time with an interpreter...but it's really all about empowerment and creating a Ukrainian program, by and for Ukrainians. That's the goal.
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@jm_stout
Nothing got thru thankfully, sirens at 4am, so the ritual: grab phone & check - missiles or drones? Missiles. Last night circled, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Ivano. We watch & wait in corridor. Then air defense pals msg " to Lviv, take cover!!" 30 minutes later "we did our job. Sleep"
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Keeping my eyes fixed straight ahead on the Kyiv train 'cos I can't cope with the sight of the American volunteer sat next to me who's just started eating a Big Mac. When I asked if he bought it in Kyiv (7 hours ago) he said "No, in Lviv on Friday". I may need to inform guards.
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@Val_Voshchevska
@Unilever
Unilever has a long history associated with colonialism and imperialism. It's no surprise they have no problem trading in blood.
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@T_Krawchenko
People like him sicken me. They masquerade as being anti-war, when really they're just pro-russsian.
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@johnsweeneyroar
Just a few miles up the road from us in Lviv, they took out a few houses in suburbia, killing 5 innocents. And that image of their dog cannot get out of my head after a sleepless night of sirens comforting a frightened 4 y.o.Putin spent 700 million USD on missiles. For what?!
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@frontlinekit
The Lviv mayor and delegation from the city all came out for what was a very powerful tribute in honour of his service. We will remember him
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Hope all are ok. Sheltering with the little one in bathroom, can hear explosions across Lviv right now 🙏
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