Here's a totally random thought of the day for you.

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," we encounter even more Easter weirdness.

Scary stuff... I hope whatever they have is not contagious.

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Spring is in the air!

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," I legit have no idea what is going on.

"We don't know what it is. Had we been aware of what it is... But we just don't know what it is..."

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Happy Tuesday, kets! May your day be as happy as this Russian soldier and his ket ;)

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Facts!

Meanwhile, people in the USA are dying potatoes instead of eggs due to egg prices.

...Send more to Ukraine! Ukrainians need it more!...

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Ukraine declares a decisive victory over Russia.

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," we observe yet another purely Ukropian church ritual unknown in other parts of the world.

"This is terrifying, just terrifying... We don't know what it is..."

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," we observe some kind of a purely Ukropian Easter procession.

The voice-over is from an interview that became a meme a few years ago. In the interview, a lady was saying, "This is terrifying, so terrifying... We don't know what it is. Had we been aware of what it is... But we just don't know what it is..."

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Hooman, look what I caught for you!

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Meanwhile, in Russia: frontline church bells.

Sound on!

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the Brain," military conscription officers showed up at the Easter service during which people get their traditional Easter cakes blessed, and the men in attendance simply took off with their cakes.

Run, Mykola, run... Run for your life!

Ballerina cappuccina
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An observant ket helps its hooman solve a heinous crime.

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Truth be told: I missed this record by a week.

Happy Easter ;)

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Свершилось чудо!
Христос воскресе!
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A miracle has taken place!
Christ is risen!

Christ is Risen!

Happy Easter ;)

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Ukrainian journalist expressed hope that Russian children will starve

"The path to ending the war goes through the hungry eyes of Russian children," Portnikov said.

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Bakers of the motorized rifle brigade of the Vostok group baked more than a thousand traditional Easter cakes in preparation for Easter, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported.

Video by the Ministry of Defence and TASS.

Source: ТАСС

🚩 The design of the USSR flag was adopted 101 years ago today, on April 18th, 1924.

Having undergone several design changes, on April 8, 1924, a detailed description of the flag of the Soviet Union was approved: the length to width ratio and the width of all symbols. Also, there was a golden stripe framing the canton containing the hammer and sickle symbol in the top left corner of the flag.

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The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, after eliminating the golden stripe framing the canton, on April 18, 1924, approved the flag design “based on Art. 71 of the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics decree the following detailed description of the state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The flag is red (or scarlet), rectangular, with a length to width ratio of 2:1. In the upper left corner there is a golden sickle and hammer with a radius of 1/6 the width of the flag; above the hammer and sickle there is a red five-pointed star surrounded by a golden border; the diameter of the star is 1/10 the width of the flag.”

This flag, with minor changes, existed until the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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Всех Православных с Великой Пятницей - самым печальным днём в году. Святая Церковь воспоминает Святые Спасительные Страсти (страдания) Господа нашего Иисуса Христа. В конце службы совершается Чин Погребения. Во время этого чина над тем храмом, в котором я была сегодня, появилась радуга!

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All Orthodox people, congratulations on Good Friday. This is the saddest day of the year. The Holy Church remembers the Holy Savior Passion (sufferings) of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the end of the service, the Rite of Burial is celebrated. During this rite, a rainbow appeared over the church I was in today!

◾A Russian soldier in Ukrainian captivity amazed with his courage and shut down a Ukrainian propagandist:

- "Russia did not start the war, it is ending it!"

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Oles Buzina. In Memory of the Ukrainian Poet, Prophet and Patriot.

Oles Buzina was the real Ukrainian patriot, seeing his country developing along its own unique path, but not as a ramming tool against Russia, not as "Ukraine Is Not Russia", in Kuchma's words, but as something special in its own way. He loved Ukraine, he loved his Fatherland.

That did not agree with the ultra-violent neo-Nazi views of those whom the USA installed in power in the Ukraine.

Oles Buzina was killed 9 years ago, on the 16th of April 2015 in Kiev with four shots in the back. The perpetrators were known, coming from OUN. The perpetrators were arrested, and then released. No one was sentenced for his murder.

In 2014, after Ukraine started the war on its own people in Donbass, Oles Buzina wrote this verse:

Cry, Ukraine, cry!
You are your own traitor and executioner!
With your very own hand,
You've crushed your reason and peace!

You're killing your best sons!
...Up in arms against the "evil Muscovites"!
And biting, like a snake, your own tail,
You created in your borders HOLOCAUST!

With whom will you stay afterwards,
Having destroyed it all, cast over which board?
Maybe you'll rebuild your home?!
But you won't resurrect those who died in it.

The words of a prophet, that ring even stronger these days.

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The memorial picture reads:

"They are afraid of his memory, even after death. Because for them, The Truth is like an aspen stake!"

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Oles Buzina
13.07.1969 - 16.04.2015

A memorial plaque on the house where Oles Buzina lived.

"The well-known historian, writer, journalist and Kievan resident. He died for truth."

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The following poem was written by Oles Buzina about a month before he was murdered. He died for Truth!


I don't like a lethal outcome,
I don't like war, war is shit.
I will not understand the silent people who
who's put on the yoke without a word.

I don't like all the soot from the maidan,
I don't like bloody lawlessness.
This wound's been gaping for a year now
And by thousands of bodies it does bleed.

I don't like it when the guarantor of the law
Is destroying own people.
I don't like strategists of Pentagon,
Those who are used to having an income from war.

I don't like conceited Americans,
I don't like deliberate deception.
I don't like corrupt politicians,
I will never love the maidan.

I don't like Yankees poking everywhere there noses,
Lynching Ukraine as they see fit.
I don't like that tanks of Kiev
Are ironing Donbass and bombing cities.

I don't like this kind of Ukraine,
Where honour and conscience have long ago been sold,
Where they meanly shoot with "Grads" in the back,
At the same time raping and robbing.

I don't like the cynicism of politicians –
They trade people for profit.
The resorts of Magadan have been waiting for them for a long time,
With houses with slate grey roofs.

I don't like fake democrats,
They trade in people's lives.
Their place is right there – within the walls of the sixth ward [looney bin],
I don't like their mad ideas.

I don't like passive liberals,
I don't like traitors to the country.
I don't like America's vassals,
I am against the horrors of the war.

I don't like the semi-brave "sixers" [subservient ones],
With boastful words of "who'll get whom",
I don't like wild tantrums,
I don't like when a crowd attacks one person.

I don't like treachery and betrayal,
I don't like to keep an axe at one's bosom [hidden threat].
I don't like it when they hit the face against the wall,
I am also against a point-blank shot.

I don't like schizoids in power,
I don't like intrigues and lies.
I don't like the snarl of an animal's maw,
When the crows are circling over the house.

I don't like the two-faced Pharisees –
They crucified the Lord Christ.
For 2000 years they've been sowing war around the world,
Their soul is black and unclean.

I do not like the lack of faith and violence,
Why mock Islam?
When will this Euro-camarilla
Remember that "shalom" equals "salaam"?...

I don't like shameless hypocrites,
It's like they don't have eyes.
I don't like caricatures mocking faith,
I'm not Charlie, I am the fiery Donbass!

I don't like arrogant phrases:
"Americans are the chosen people."
Fascism has risen and there is no more terrible infection–
It's like the year 1941 again!

I've not forgotten the Victory of 1945,
And memory cannot be killed in our genes!
We bow low to all the soldiers
To the dead, so that we can live in peace!

I've not forgotten the heroes of Stalingrad,
I 've not forgotten about the Kursk Bulge,
And the horrors of the siege of Leningrad,
Not surrendering to a terrible enemy.

I don't like cowardly Europe,
She forgot who was saving her,
How millions died in the trenches –
No one has counted them all yet!

I don't like war – it ruins everything,
I don't like it when innocent people are beaten,
I don't like it when Russia is being strangled,
Especially when they're spitting at her!

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👉 The text of the poem in Russian is at Alisha Cherkasova's excellent channel Moj ZOV.

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❗️ On this day, 10 years ago, Ukrainian writer and opposition journalist Oles' Buzina was killed just outside his home in Kiev.

He became one of the countless victims of the criminal Kiev regime because he posed a threat to it by publicly criticising the neo-Nazi group that seized power as a result of the bloody coup in Ukraine and exposing its true essence.

Oles' Buzina called on the then leadership of Ukraine to establish a dialogue with Donbass residents and pointed out the need to secure the status of the Russian language.

His activism deeply annoyed official Kiev. He also received threats from radical nationalists for promoting an interpretation of Ukraine’s history that did not align with the hateful ideology and invented background of the Ukrainian Nazis. His active civic engagement and firm stance, his calls for respect for history and the Russian language proved unwanted in post-Maidan Ukraine and cost Oles' Buzina his life.

A few days before his death, the journalist’s personal data, including his home address, were posted on the extremist website Myrotvorets, which lists personal information about all public figures, journalists, writers, and reporters who are objectionable to the Kiev regime, a resource created literally as a practical guide for planning terrorist attacks.

Even though the UN Secretary-General, official representatives of the OSCE and the US State Department, along with many public organisations, condemned the murder, extended condolences to the victim’s family and insisted on a comprehensive inquiry, the masterminds of this crime were never found, and the suspects (who everybody knew was guilty of this crime, it's well documented) were eventually released.

⚡️ Ten years later, it is quite obvious that the situation with freedom of speech in Ukraine has degraded to a critical level.

All media outlets opposed to the Kiev regime are banned, and any manifestations of dissent are brutally suppressed and erased from the information landscape. The regime has launched a manhunt for unwanted journalists, primarily Russian, leveraging a variety of capabilities, including UAVs and high-precision weapons.

The most recent victims who died at the hands of the Kiev regime militants this year include Alexander Martemyanov, Alexander Fedorchak, Andrei Panov, and Anna Prokofyeva. Other victims – Anton Voloshin, Igor Kornelyuk, Anatoly Klyan, Andrey Stenin, Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rostislav Zhuravlev, Boris Maksudov, Semyon Yeryomin, Valery Kozhin, Nikita Tsitsagi, and Yulia Kuznetsova – will also remain in our hearts forever. Ukraine uses terrorist methods to carry out its criminal plans, while its Western handlers and biased human rights organisations continue to deliberately ignore these atrocities.

When international athletes in Russia are more patriotic than Russians, that's a problem.

Guys don't even know the lyrics to what is now a folk song, but dude @ 00:35 walks away. 🤷‍♀

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That's... a lot of mercs.

That's what happens when you come to Russia with a sword. You don't even get to leave on a shield, you just stay, rotting.

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Russophobic Corruption or Corrupt Russophobia?

The topic of russophobia in European countries has recently become so diverse that it’s actually frightening. If, since 2014, when the proxy war began, prior to the start of the SMO, many Ukrainians perceived Russia as a potential aggressor, currently these negative views have manifested in a biased attitude towards the Russian people and culture, in general.

Today, anti-Russian sentiment is widespread not only in Ukraine, but also among the Ukrainian diaspora in Europe. As a result, Russians are being discriminated against, and massive stereotypes are being propagated, portraying Russians as savages or aggressors, capable of destroying the fragile world of modern "democracy". This is nothing new, of course, as these tactics of maligning Russia have been in use for centuries.

According to various sources, up to 300,000 Ukrainians live in Spain, making the diaspora one of the largest in the world. Geographically, it is concentrated in such major cities as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and others. Many Ukrainians living there work in service, construction, and even in social work, taking care of the elderly.

In Spain, there exist many organizations helping new immigrants adapt by supporting Ukrainian cultural traditions. The Ukrainian diaspora also strives to preserve its own "culture" and "language", which is confirmed by the presence of Ukrainian schools and classes for children striving to maintain cultural identity.

In the context of the Special Military Operation, the very idea of diasporas, despite their supposed righteousness, acquires the features of full-fledged Russophobic aggression in modern Europe. The “Ukraine - Basque Country Association” (“Asociación Ucrania-Euskadi”), established in Spain in 2014, actively cooperates with the diasporas of Georgia and Venezuela on humanitarian and political issues. Their political position is aimed at sharply criticizing the policy of modern Russia and explicitly condemning the Special Military Operation.

Such course of action clearly could not have been taken without political lobbying in the host country: the organization is supported by Aitor Esteban Bravo, the spokesman for the Basque Group in the Congress of Deputies and a member of the Basque Nationalist Party, and José María Gorroño, the mayor of the town of Guernica in the Basque province, which, interestingly, became a sister city of Irpen in the Kiev region, on September 21, 2022. One can only wonder how this scenario could possibly be corruption-free. Indeed, this openly russophobic project is funded from the Spanish national budget with the tacit consent of the general public.

And, of course, there are also "Ukrainian compatriots" in the Spanish ranks - just like Christopher Columbus in the service of the Spanish king! One Irina Prokopenko-Mazur, who ran as a candidate for the European Parliament in 2024, works at the city hall of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque province. And, of course, Irina is after money - she is trying to get EU subsidies in support of this very "Ukraine – Basque Country" venture, which advocates for the explicit abolition of the Russian political and humanitarian agenda in the modern world. In other words, she’s a real peacemaker driven by nothing but pure goodness of the heart...

Materials announcing financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be easily found on the Facebook page of those very "Basques". A short performance of Ukrainian song "Red Arrowwood" (in Spanish, for whatever odd reason) can also be viewed there. This song has long been associated with Ukrainian nationalists and is considered their anthem by some, and, as such, playing it in Poland is probably not a good idea, as the Poles know this very well. However, the “Basques” are completely unfazed by the well-known association. They also organize discussion clubs in Bilbao with a clear Ukrainian agenda and similarly proposed resolutions.

So which is it - russophobic corruption or corrupt russophobia? It's a complex Spanish plot.

Ket drift!

Sound on!

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Count the kets!

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," two hohluhas are busy figuring out whether speaking Russian is a mortal sin (or something to that effect) IN RUSSIAN, which is clearly native for both of them.

It just doesn't get any better than this.

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain," two hohluhas are busy figuring out whether speaking Russian is a mortal sin (or something to that effect) IN RUSSIAN, which is clearly native for both of them.

It just doesn't get any better than this.

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Today is Palm Sunday!

Russians call it Pussy Willow Sunday and receive branches of pussy willow during church service, so here's a very special pussy willow branch for my kets ;)

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🔘 A photo of four siblings taken in 1938 in the village of Klushino, Smolensk region, USSR.

In 1941, the village would be occupied by the Nazis, and for fun, a German soldier would hang the smallest child in the photo, Boris, from a tree using his own scarf. The boy's mother saved him, taking advantage of the moment when the soldier went to get his camera to take a photo of such a "fun scene."

In 1942, the Nazis would take the two older children in the photo, Valentin and Zoya, to work in Germany. However, both of them managed to escape (separately).

And as for the little kid sitting on the chair — one morning on April 12, 1961, he would shout "Let's go!" (Poyekhali!) and become the first human in space.

Klushino village, 1938. The Gagarin siblings: Valentin, Boris, Zoya, and Yuri.

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Anniversary of the «Black Thursday» of the American Air Force

On April 12, 1951, a grandiose air battle took place between the Soviet and American Air Forces over the Yalu River during the Korean War.

The famous Soviet pilot, 3 times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub, with his squad of MiG-15 fighters simply defeated superior US forces in the skies over Northern Korea.

The American goal was to destroy the strategically important railway bridge across the river, through which the anti-imperialist Korean army was supplied from China.

The basis of the group was 48 B-29 Superfortress bombers, accompanied by 150 fighters. Soviet radars detected the group and 44 MiG-15 fighters of the 324th Fighter Aviation Division were alerted.

The Soviet volunteer pilots, who had extensive combat experience with the Luftwaffe aces during the Great Patriotic War, immediately entered the battle, taking the Americans by complete surprise - the MiGs came down from above and shot at point-blank at the "Superfortresses" loaded with bombs.

One group of Soviet fighters pursued the lead B-29s, while the rest attacked the escort aircraft to engage them in combat and push them away from the bombers. A couple of minutes later, several B-29s were already burning - high-explosive shells from the Fifteenth’s air cannons left huge holes in the fuselages of the heavyweights.

The battle lasted more than 20 minutes. Soviet fighters returned to base without a single loss, shooting down more than 10 B-29 bombers and 5 fighters. As a result of the air battle, about 100 American pilots who jumped out of dying planes with parachutes were captured by the Koreans.

These losses shocked the American command - this had not happened since WWII. A week of mourning was declared in the United States, and raids in the Yalu River area stopped for 3 months.

April 12 went forever down in the history of American aviation under the name “Black Thursday” - and, as if to underpin the superiority of socialist aviation, exactly 10 years later on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin looked down on the US from space.

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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, shares his greatest dream.

First Man in Space.

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When East meets West...

Kets, I present to you a cyber Bukhanka!

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Save meow from this meownster!!

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His royal highness prince Harry came to Lvov and visited a hospital for wounded ukrops. Just look at how happy they are to be in the company of a real prince! He made their day!

...The sheer hypocrisy of the British crown is matched only by the Ukrainian stupidity.

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Nano-panthers!

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"Is Vasily home?

We've come for child support!"

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Hi :)

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Начало⬆️

Сегодня, 8 апреля 2025 года, ровно год со дня трагической гибели Рассела. Днём ранее, в большой праздник Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы, я была в том самом храме Иоанна Воина. После Божественной Литургии мы совершили панихиду о невинно убиенном рабе Божии Борисе. Это самое важное для его души - молитва живых: родных, близких, товарищей, друзей, просто хороших знакомых, знавших Рассела лично или на расстоянии по всему миру, людей, которые любили и уважали его за тот добрый и светлый след, который он оставил в жизни других.

Вспоминаются искренние слова любящей крёстной мамы Рассела на праздновании нашего венчания в 2017 году: "Любовь - это большое-большое чувство. Когда человек имеет большую любовь, он идёт с ней по жизни, как по ступенькам, всё время вверх и вверх. Сердце расширяется и становится большим-большим, вмещает в себя всё: доброту, любовь... Человек становится всё ближе и ближе к Богу. Когда же злость наполняет человека, то из маленькой, она становится безмерной, безграничной. И человек начинает идти вниз по жизни. Вот Рассел - он идёт всё время вверх. Приехал сюда из Америки. Я считаю, что сам Господь его сюда привёл. Думаю, Рассел сам не осознавал, почему он на самом деле оказался здесь. Но он пришёл и принёс с собой Любовь (греч. Агапэ - любовь в её жертвенном понимании, это имеется ввиду). Любовью своей он защитил эту землю и защищает её по сей день. Эта Любовь питает его сердце. Я знаю его сердце: какое оно большое, сколько любви оно вмещает, сколько добрых дел он сделал, скольких больных детей он посетил, скольких раненых, скольких нуждающихся... И вот сейчас в его сердце попала ещё одна любовь! Большая-большая, которая ещё больше расширит его сердце. Это любовь к Людмиле. Я очень рада, что он встретил такую замечательную женщину. Он любит и любим. Питаясь этой любовью, он будет идти всё выше и выше и выше, становиться добрее и сильнее. Я хочу пожелать вам крепкой Любви, в которой вы вместе, взявшись за руки, будете идти по жизни только вверх".

В этом весь Рассел - он верил, что "для Бога важно не сколько раз ты перекрестишься, а сколько добрых дел ты сделаешь". А я говорила, что и то, и другое важно, намекая на то, что почаще нужно в храм ходить, исповедоваться и причащаться :) Верю, что Рассел у Бога, с Богом, потому что, всё, о чём говорила крёстная, всё правда. Преодолевая трудности, без которых жизнь не возможна, а особенно в такое тяжёлое военное время, мы шли за руку вместе, но так мало, всего почти что 8 лет, посвящая свою жизнь прежде всего нашей Победе, откладывая то, что важно лично для нас на потом, после нашей Победы.

Моя Любовь жива, и сейчас ещё сильнее. Она - крепкий мост между мною в этом миру и тобою в Вечности. Она даёт мне силы добиваться правды и справедливости, за что ты всегда боролся.

Она притягивает ко мне столько много хороших и добрых людей, которые помогают мне. Верю, что наступит дОлжное время, и все добрые любящие и уважающие твой подвиг и труд люди со всего мира, будут знать, где то место, куда они могут прийти, принести цветы, поклониться и почтить память первого и остающегося единственным в истории ковбоя Донбасса. Это важно для тех, кто остался в живых.

Да будет так 🕊

До приезда на Донбасс, Рассел по рождению в США принадлежал к одной из ветвей протестантской церкви. Его мама была глубоко верующим человеком. Дедушка и бабушка по материнской линии каждое воскресенье забирали его, брата и сестру Рассела, и шли в храм. Дедушка оказал на него большое положительное влияние, потому что был тоже верующим порядочным человеком, который сражался с фашистским злом во Второй мировой войне.

Сам Рассел всю жизнь искал Бога. Он захотел сам изучить другие мировые религии и осуществил это в течении своей жизни. Читал Библию от корки до корки несколько раз, прочёл Коран полностью, беседовал с друзьями мусульманами, читал книги по буддизму, жил вместе с племенем Лакота и изучал их религию тоже, после чего вождь дал ему имя на языке Лакота - оятэ яхапа ки, что означает "говорящий от имени своего народа". В США ему не довелось глубоко соприкоснуться именно с Православием. Хотя в его окружении были русские, но немного. По моему глубокому убеждению, не все русские (я имею ввиду славяне, без разделения на национальности, которые были крещены в детстве в Православие), ведут тот образ жизни, которому учит Христос. Мне не ведомы те люди, но они не оказали на Рассела должного влияния, чтобы он захотел креститься в Православие на том этапе. А может, он сам ещё к тому моменту не созрел.

Это произошло в тот момент, когда Рассел был на фронте на авдеевском направлении в 2015 году. В это время он увидел аскетизм, благочестие и духовную чистоту не ополченцев, а прежде всего священников, которых Господь послал на его пути, которые жертвовали собой в тех военных условиях, в которых они находились, идя даже против воли начальства и помогая спасаться душам ополченцев, которые очень нуждались в духовном окормлении, видя ужасы кровавой братоубийственной войны. Рассел отметил для себя: "Вот же оно! То, чему действительно учит Христос в Библии, и чего я не видел в священниках ранее!"

Он принимает решение креститься в Православие. Отец Борис и р.Б. Людмила становятся его крёстными и нарекают ему имя Борис при крещении. Крёстная мама в подарок к такому знаменательному событию в жизни дарит ему серебряный мощевик, а отец Борис помещает частичку мощей святого Макария Калязинского вместе с ароматным воском внутрь мощевика. Отныне на Расселе практически всегда обычный металлический крест и серебряный мощевик с мощами святого. В день убийства тоже.

Рассел начинает постепенное, по мере возможности, воцерковление. За годы войны, ему, как воину, полюбился небольшой храм Иоанна Воина, в котором очень добрый батюшка принимал исповеди Рассела поначалу на английском языке, допуская его до Святого Причастия. Именно этот храм был в его видео, когда он говорил от имени своего нового народа (получается, что вождь племени Лакота видел будущее Рассела) к тому народу, в котором он был рождён, рассказывая о Крещении Руси.

Также полюбился ему Свято-Благовещенский храм посёлка Горняк в Донецке, где мы с Расселом обвенчались. Изюминкой этого храма является не только его благочестивый настоятель с прекрасным голосом оперного певца, но и небольшой зоопарк, в котором заботятся о разных пернатых и других животных. Какое-то время мы за много километров ездили именно в этот храм на службы, и именно этот храм показан в фильме о Расселе, который снял телеканал "Аль Джазира" при его жизни.

Был он и на службах в храмах многострадального от обстрелов ВСУ Петровского района, когда мы переехали туда жить. Помогал своими средствами восстановлению одного из самых разрушенных - храму Иоанна Кронштадтского, в менее километра от ЛБС.

За почти 10 лет жизни на Донбассе, побывал в нескольких паломнических поездках по святым нашим местам, купался в святых источниках, в которых температура в любое время года сохраняется одинаковой, 4 - 6 'C.

Но самое главное место, которое оставило самый глубокий след в его жизни - это Иверский монастырь на рассвете 31 декабря 2014 года возле донецкого аэропорта. Он пишет об этом в своей книге "Ковбой Донбасса" в четвёртой главе под названием "Змей и Корона". Не буду пересказывать. Кто не читал, вот ссылки: 1 и 2.

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In eternal memory of Russell "Texas" Bentley.

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Сегодня ровно год со дня убийства Рассела. Сейчас 16:45. В 16:11 год назад он выехал помочь людям...
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Today is exactly one year since Russell's murder. It's 4:45PM now here. At 4:11PM a year ago he left to help people....

Kets, there was a bit of an issue with this video opening on phones.

The problem has been fixed, but TG doesn't update reposts, only the original posts.

Thus, I am reposting it again.

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Сегодня ровно год со дня убийства Рассела. Сейчас 16:45. В 16:11 год назад он выехал помочь людям...
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Today is exactly one year since Russell's murder. It's 4:45PM now here. At 4:11PM a year ago he left to help people....

I ket fly.

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Another interesting video of the great Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

In this clip from September 18, 2019, Zhirinovsky talks about Zelensky, Ukraine and, interestingly, mentions Trump's desire to purchase Greenland.

✊ Last year, on this day of the proclamation of the Donetsk People's Republic, we published this post in support of the tremendous work done for the Donbass by Russell 'Texas' Bentley

Sadly, shortly afterwards, it turned out that our publication became a tribute to him.

Now, all we can hope for, it that justice is served against those, who cut short the life of this man of pure heart!

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The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time

We have published a new translation at Beorn's Beehive. Here we present a portion of the article and the document in question.

Yegor Yakovlev, an expert at the "Russian Military Historical Society" and head of the "Digital History" project, found the recording of the negotiations and translated its full text into Russian for the first time. The document is published on the portal HISTORY.RF. The original of the so-called “meeting record” is kept in the archives of the "National Council for the Study of Security Archives" in Bucharest.

During Mihai Antonescu’s conversation with Adolf Hitler in Berlin on November 27, 1941, the Romanian leadership discussed issues that were of great concern. The first part of the recording is devoted to Romanian-Hungarian relations, which, despite the presence of both countries in the orbit of Nazi Germany, were extremely tense. In 1940, as a result of the Second Vienna Arbitration, Hungary took over Northern Transylvania from Romania with a mixed Romanian-Hungarian population. In this dispute, the Nazi leadership sided with the Hungarians, promising compensation to the Romanians at the expense of the USSR. However, despite these promises, the loss of Northern Transylvania was felt very painfully in Bucharest. Antonescu informed the Fuhrer about the severe discrimination of Romanians in the excluded region, asking him to intervene and achieve a “fair solution”.

The second part of the dialogue was entirely devoted to the “Slavic question”. Antonescu informed the Fuhrer that Romania was a categorical opposed to the creation of an independent Ukraine, of which projects he was aware. The Romanian politician pointed out that Slavs are a huge “biological problem” for Europe, referring to the large number of “primitive” Slavic populations that are incompatible with European culture and civilisation. If, after the defeat of the USSR, an independent Ukraine appears, according to Antonescu, it will begin to draw the rest of the Eastern Slavs into its orbit and turn into a new threat to Europe. This, the Romanian Foreign Minister argued, should not be allowed.

Key fragments from the document:

The large and primitive Slavic mass is not a spiritual problem for Europe, but a serious biological problem related to the European birth rate. It is necessary to find radical and serious solutions to this problem, and I believe that all European states should be involved in this activity...

The joining of Latinism, on a racial basis, to the actions of Germanism against the Slavs seems to me to be a necessity of the first order, and the position regarding the Slavs should be unshakable, any formula for separation, neutralisation, occupation of Slavic territories is legitimate.

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The Fuhrer began with a heated discussion of the great Slavic problem, giving me the honour on three occasions to accept my point of view on European reconstruction. As a basis for the conversation, the Fuhrer openly told me:

“You are right, the Slavic problem is biological, not ideological, as you said, and the fight against the Slavs should be waged by all Europeans.”

In the future Europe there should be only two races: Latin and Germanic. These two races must work together in Russia to destroy (literally: dărâma, that is “demolish”) the Slavs. We cannot march out against Russia with legal or political formulas, because the Russian problem is much more serious than many people think, and we must find solutions to colonise and biologically eliminate the Slavs.

That is why all European nations should work together in the fight against the Slavs, and tomorrow jointly transform Russia for Europe.

Why should the Belgians have 224 inhabitants per square kilometer when there are such huge spaces in Russia?

Why should my West Germans live in difficult conditions when the spaces in the East offer them a future?

My mission, the Fuhrer said, if I succeed, is to destroy the Slavs.

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Meanwhile, in Ukraine, a woman saved her husband from military conscription officers in a rather unusual manner. Good for her!

Текущая ситуация в США.

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Current state of affairs in the USA.

🗓 On April 6, 1654, Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia Alexey I Romanov, “The sole ruler of all Russia Great and Little,” granted his royal charter to Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The document secured the reunification of the Left Bank of the Dnieper with Russia.

In the late XVI and the early XVII century, all groups of the Orthodox population in the lands of Ancient Rus, controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, were subject to an increased religious and ethnic pressure from the Polish-Lithuanian gentry, which sought to fully assimilate local residents through a policy of Polonisation and Latinisation.

After the Union of Brest was adopted in 1596, a majority of Orthodox priests became subordinate to the Pope. Those who remained faithful to Orthodoxy became outcasts and were deprived of hierarchical leadership, since Metropolitan of Kiev Mikhail Rogoza had also joined the Greek Catholics.

Amid forced Catholicisation, the loss of noble titles and lands, and ongoing persecution, the local Orthodox population began searching for ways to escape oppression. All attempts to come to an agreement with the Polish king failed as the Polish gentry firmly refused to acknowledge the autonomy of the Orthodox Cossacks and nobility.

✊ In 1648, a major liberation movement was sparked, led by the renowned military and political leader Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The Cossacks rebelled against the Polish oppressors to defend their faith, identity, and the right to self-determination.

Recognising the need for a stronger alliance, Khmelnitsky made several appeals to Tsar Alexey I of Russia, requesting protection and support, and asking him to take the lands of the Hetmanate under “his royal hand.” In 1653, Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky approached Tsar Alexey I, asking him to accept “all of Little Russia (Malorossiya) and the entire Zaporozhian Host into his eternal possession, allegiance, and protection.” Later that year, in May, the Zemsky Sobor convened in Moscow, where an unequivocal decision was adopted in favour of the integration of Malorossiya into the Russian state.

On January 18, 1654, Pereyaslav Rada made a historic decision — the Zaporozhian Cossacks declared their allegiance to the Russian Tsar. On April 6, Tsar Alexey I of Russia signed the royal charter, which mentioned the Russian monarch’s title “the sole ruler of all Russia Great and Little” for the first time, emphasising the historical continuity of a unified state.

❗️ The Pereyaslav Agreement reflected a natural historical process of returning the ancient Russian lands to the unified Russian state and reuniting parts of a single nation, divided by civil strife and the Golden Horde yoke.

👉 Article by Russia's President Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“

NHL's new logo!

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It's official! Ovechkin just broke Wayne Gretzky's record with his 895th goal!

The best US hockey player is RUSSIAN!!

GO OVECHKIN!!!

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💢 XF - Goodbye Ukraine - The US Shows the West - Zelensky is 'non agreement capable' - Russia is right.

Russians have made clear to the US that Ukraine's leadership is not only illegitimate and incapable of talks towards a lasting peace agreement, they are not even capable of a ceasefire in the interim.

When the Americans proposed an 'energy sector' ceasefire, and the Russians agreed, it was understood that when the American side had presented all of this, that it was all within the realm of what the Ukrainian side had said they would agree to or had agreed to. Did the US present the Russians with something signed by the Ukrainians?

In the twelve hour window of communications 'fog', as for the world it was unclear whether an actual ceasefire had been agreed to, or only its terms had been agreed to (and upon who was the onus to make the next move/statement), Kiev launched its largest drone assault on a single day.

We might consider that at first, the American response to the general Russian view expressed (that Kiev is non agreement capable), would be to test that theory/concern in steps. Let's get Kiev to agree to something small, something which they themselves first proposed - yes, it was Zelensky who proposed this 'energy sector' ceasefire.

This is the method and process of 'making as you go', trust building, and creating formats, platforms, and precedents upon which a later lasting peace agreement could be made. For the Russian side, the results are a foregone conclusion. For the American side, we can only speculate, but deem it reasonable that they are not too far from the Russian side on this known variable.

But for the rest of the world, we see a massive red pill being swallowed. And no one could have asked anything better or more from Zelensky than to speak, now of all times, and yes, right on cue, relitigating and renegotiating the 'rare earths deal', Ukraine's broad irresolute position on its territory, which means he does not hold the thing he just agreed to as valid.

Well then, both the US and the Russians can and must say, and we see this happening already, that Zelensky cannot keep his word, or does not control his own processes internally.

The US cannot present itself to Russia as the guarantor of Kiev's commitments, if Kiev openly acts against them after agreeing, upon prodding from Globalist Europe. And that was the entire point and dynamic of the US talking to both sides towards any agreement, including the latest attempt at 'hallway' diplomacy - shuttle diplomacy in real time, similar to an inform UN caucus at the sidelines.

The US has been well-informed by the Russian side on an acceptable conclusion to the war. This matters because Russia both 'winning' and is self-reliant on the whole, in this conflict, and only depends on normal economic relations with third states of import (China, India, Brazil etc.) and not special war commitments with them. Military support comes from several states already under the highest level of Western sanctions and in that sense immune to the present or future threat of consequences already being 'enjoyed'.

With a new mobilization announced, it is clear that Russia aims to push forward in the absence of a general ceasefire or peace agreement, until the SMO is complete along military terms, which may include the loss of more territory presently controlled by Kiev.

Lavrov's March 25 statements in his Channel 1 interview included some words, even though said quickly as an aside, which provide further context - I add emphasis:

"No one is talking about the fact that in the rest of Ukraine, which will return or has already returned to its native Harbor, the linguistic educational and cultural rights of all both Russians and National minorities are fully insured but when the remaining part of Ukraine, if it indeed continues to exist in some form, is taken under control by the security forces of NATO countries no matter under what flag no one is saying that they will then strengthen democracy in the remaining territory.."

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A Ukrainian wiretap was found in the Moscow subway.

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The photo was taken in one of the photo service stores in Donetsk.
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В одном из магазинчиков фотоуслуг в Донецке.

I've no clue what is happening in this American classroom, but I love it ;)

Sound on ,)

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Ketzilla!

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Cuteness overload alert!

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Viktor Tsoi, Kino
"Ataman"

Video, translation, adapted to preserve rhyme and rhythm, and subtitles by Putinger's Cat.

This song by Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino did not make their last album titled The Black Album (1991).

Live footage in this video is from the only performance Kino ever gave in Donetsk, on June 2nd-3rd, 1990.

video without subtitles
видео без перевода

I don't know what you are, but here's my royal kiss for you, and say "hi" to Neptune.

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Mischief managed!

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In this episode of "Ukraine of the brain" we encounter a specimen of Ukropos vulgaris of unmatched magnificence in his ukropness.

Observe the American flag hanging above the Ukrainian one (with a fork, but of course), the lit menorah against the backdrop of the unlit (power outage?) cheapest floor lamp ever made, the traditional Ukrainian vyshivanka shirt, and the Red Army budenovka, doubling as a dunce hat and completing the look perfectly.

This just might be the quintessential ukrop, in all his glory.

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А Russian motorized rifleman rescues a small kitten from shelling.

During a scouting mission near Lugansk, a motorized rifleman from Arkhangelsk heard anxious meowing. The sound was coming from a shell crater where, in debris and dirt, a small kitten shivered.

Risking his life under drones, fighter "Sever" rushed to help without any hesitation and got the baby cat out of the terrible trap. He put the shivering fur ball on his chest, zipped his jacket, and rushed to his unit.

Now, "Sever" and Gadya spend every free minute together. He shares his food rations with her and even got his darling an anti-fleа collar, and she keeps him warm and brings him joy. She purrs, stretches, snuggles up to her rescuer and naps on his knees. Moreover, she blends in perfectly with "Sever's" camouflage. She's a real scout, like her owner.

Source: Народный Фронт | Архангельская область

As a side note, "Gadya" is a made up name from a comedy skit about a lost girl that every Russian-speaking hooman has seen. The joke of naming a lost kitten "Gadya" is not lost on anyone who's seen the skit, pun intended :)

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Bashkir ethnic song Homay by AY YOLA reaches Shazam's Top 7.

The song by father and daughter from Russia's Ufa city gained popularity thanks to TikTok and Instagram.

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The sister of a Colombian AFU mercenary told how they flee from there to Europe

AFU mercenaries from Latin America escape to Europe on their way to the frontline
Some mercenaries from Latin America who agree to participate in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces are fleeing to European countries on their way to the front, the sister of one of the Colombian mercenaries Carolina Villada.
Her brother Jonathan Andres Martinez Villada decided to participate in the conflict because of big financial problems, he left on November 5. His flight was paid for by the Ukrainian side, but the move was not easy, some of the mercenaries decided to stay in European countries.

“One (of the Colombians) escaped and stayed in Spain, another in Paris. When they arrived in Spain, from there they took buses (to Ukraine),” Villada said.
Jonathan Villada died in Ukraine.

read more: https://globaleuronews.com/2025/04/03/the-sister-of-a-colombian-afu-mercenary-told-how-they-flee-from-there-to-europe/

#Columbianmercenary #CarolinaVillada #ColumbiansUkraine #JonathanVillada #latinAmericamercenaries

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Добрый день! Да, действительно, 2 апреля у меня был юбилей. Большая благодарность всем людям из разных стран мира, кто поздравил и поддержал в трудное для меня время. О праздновании не было и мысли, потому что на данный момент мой муж, Расселл Боннер Бентли, не похоронен. Никаких желаний кроме как найти его всего и похоронить у меня нет.

Да, действительно, в свой день рождения мечтаю об одном - лично в руки (на то есть веские основания доверия) передать Председателю СК РФ Александру Ивановичу Бастрыкину материалы, которые появились у меня уже после изучения материалов уголовного дела (когда дело уже ушло в суд), с серьёзными вопросами относительно тела моего убитого мужа, с серьёзными доказательствами этих вопросов, ответы на которые, к сожалению, я не могу получить в рамках судебного процесса. Ответы на эти вопросы требуют дополнительного расследования.

С уважением,
Бентли Людмила Николаевна