Shamanicnoise

Try to feel what Ukrainians are going through by imagining a hypothetical situation.

Imagine that you have to leave your home. Not to go on vacation or travel. Not because you are uncomfortable in this house and not because you have found a better place for yourself.

You leave your home because you can already hear gunfire on the front line and you know that the front is rapidly approaching, that any day now the enemy army will enter your city or village and begin to kill and torture civilians and animals, loot houses, destroy everything they see.

All the memories you have, all your stuff, your clothes, furniture, flowers, toys, books, posters. You will have to leave it all behind. You will only have the memories you created during the years of peaceful life.

You won't be able to take everything you own from your home. You'll have to take only the bare essentials. Important documents, medicine, some clothes. And it's good if you have your own transport that can fit a little more. But what if all you have is a suitcase?

You will have to fit your entire life into one suitcase.

And it's scary to admit but I'm afraid that one day I'll have to flee too. I look at all my collectibles of my favorite characters from movies and TV shows. At accessories and toys. At the miniature Christmas tree that stands on the table decorated. At the Christmas lights, comfortable and cozy bed with a soft blanket. At my dog's little bed. At every detail that I personally chose to make this place my home. And something inside me breaks.

For many Ukrainians, this situation is a harsh reality. Today many Ukrainians are already packing their lives into suitcases, while the Christmas tree still shines with lights in the corner of the living room, reminding of the safe times. And somewhere far away the world celebrates Christmas and awaits the New Year, because life goes on.

At this moment their homes are not filled with celebration. There is fear and doom and confusion, life there is divided into "before" and "after". And very soon this life will freeze. Dishes in drawers, clothes that didn't have enough space during the evacuation. All the little things that once gave comfort, remain on shelves and boxes.

Cafes and restaurants where people once gathered, coffee shops where people had their first dates, parks where people once went for walks with their pets... all of these are turning into ghosts. Post offices and shops are gradually closing. The electricity is gradually turning off.

When they leave their homes, they know that russians will enter and destroy everything. For fun. And because of hatred. They will burn furniture, clothes, books and toys. They will destroy gardens and flowerbeds, rob, take away household appliances and expensive things, send them to russia as a gift to their families and friends. They will tear the soul out of every house they enter.

And these Ukrainians will not be able to return because there will be nowhere to go. They will have to seek shelter elsewhere, they will have to start life from a new, damaged page, experiencing all the stages of grief at the same time.

The situation would be different if the partners, who promised Ukraine protection and support, helped not only in words, acting at minimum. If they gave the weapons they promised and in the same quantity as promised. And as often as promised. If they imposed sanctions on russia and didn't continue cooperation with russians. If they didn't allow russia to speak in international arenas and head the UN (like how tf is this even possible). If they treated russia as the terrorist state that it is. If they helped fight against tyranny and Nazism as a real democratic united world that we often see in movies.

I still have faith that the world will wake up and help Ukrainians stop russia. But with every news about Ukrainian civilians and soldiers tortured by russians, with every news about Ukrainians who leave their homes without hope, with every news about shelled children's hospitals, residential buildings and playgrounds my faith weakens. I don't see the world's reaction, russia feels impunity and I feel like everyone doesn't care, like no one understands the scale of this threat to the entire world.

please do not stop supporting Ukraine.

今年最初の満月

House in Horenka, Ukraine after russian missile hit it.

❗The Russians hit the central city hospital of Myrnograd.

An apartment building was also damaged. Fortunately, no one was injured.

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

💔 This is what Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, destroyed by the Russians looks like in 2025

"WELCOME HOME"

House destroyed by russians in Borodianka, Ukraine.

the russians are deliberately killing civilians. again.

today they struck Zaporizhzhia. so far, 13 people have been killed and 33 injured.

absolutely horrible. another day of mourning. human lives ended in one moment. the leaders of the democratic world still cannot pull themselves together and help Ukraine defeat the russian terrorist machine once and for all.

Many westerners (especially Americans) seem to think defending yourself against genocide and Russian terror is equivalent to being a warmonger. Wild.

If you are one of these people, I urge you to be consistent and never practice self-defense for the rest of your life. If someone is trying to murder you, just let them. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Otherwise, you might anger your murderer and that would be maniacally violent and irresponsible of you. It’s also no one’s responsibility to help you. You have to protect yourself (but never actually do that because that’s evil and would make you a bloodthirsty criminal).

It's like those schoolteachers that always caught the nerd defending themselves against the bully and somehow they only ever punished the nerd because it's easier while the bully got off scot-free.

If I had known that defending myself from bullies would have warranted the same retaliation regardless of the outcome, I'd have given the bully a pavement facial. I would endure the disciplinary action knowing I would never be fucked with again.

You have to beat the bully brutally and decisively so that if they're ballsy enough to even try again, they'll think twice knowing what had happened the last time.

And that applies to the russian invasion of Ukraine. It is not hyperbole to suggest this is on par with the Nazis attempting to conquer Europe. Hitler would have tried again if given any breathing room. He had to suffer total defeat.

If you are not with the victim, you are with the bully. And if you are not with Ukraine, you are with russia. End of story.

This is what it looks like when russia strikes a large city with a guided bomb in the middle of the day. But because the city is in Ukraine it's nothing new, it's "normal" now.

13 people killed as of now

‼️The Russians have struck the industrial infrastructure of Zaporizhzhia, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Fedorov, said. One person was killed and three others were injured in the attack.

❗The number of people injured due to the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia increased to six, — Regional Military Administration

The attack continues.

‼️30 people injured in the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia have been taken to the hospital in the regional center.

7 medical teams, police and emergency workers are working at the scene of the attack.

‼️The number of people killed in Zaporizhzhia has increased to 13 people, — Regional Military Administration

‼️The Russians have struck the industrial infrastructure of Zaporizhzhia, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Fedorov, said. One person was killed and three others were injured in the attack.

❗The number of people injured due to the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia increased to six, — Regional Military Administration

The attack continues.

Some of y'all like communism a little too much and act too much like it's communism or else you're a big ol' conservative republican who loves capitalism and 'Merica. (P.S. not everything is about the United States of America. No, not even if you dig. Misery can be brought by more than the US of A.)

It's concerning as someone who spends half their time trying to tell children about communist atrocities and wondering how many of them go home and rant about how evil I am for being against communism. Even after knowing/learning communism has killed far more millions than we will ever really fully know because they figured out how to do it a little too well in an age when you just have to toss everything into a fire to get rid of the evidence.

How much generational trauma is still going along the bloodline because of communism. How many victims feel like they have to be silent or else they get dogpiled by children. Telling them they're wrong.

Do you even know who the Khmer Rouge killed? Why?

Do you even know what the Holodomor is?

How many millions of Ukrainians and Cambodians are gone because of communists? Because their ideology literally says to murder en masse? I'm sorry that isn't what you took out of your little commie manual.

How much bigger, fuller, wonderful would life be in dozens of places if not for communism? Communism does not encourage art. It does not encourage writing (except for the machine of communism). It does not care if you are disabled, it will kill you for being useless as a worker. If you think it cares a fucking whit about people like me, you're sadly mistaken.

Queer people are an abomination. They will not/can not produce future workers. They are things to be killed and dumped into pits because they are not proper members of the Party. Some even got forced sterilization just for that extra bit of misery and humiliation.

It is not the amazing, wonderful, loving, caring ideology you take it for.

It cares not for true science. If a scientist disagrees with the Party Scientists, they have to go. Communist Science looks like putting hundreds into the freezing cold. Forcing them to have children. For the sole purpose of making the children immune to the cold. That's not how that works. So many dead for science that isn't real science. Where is your concern for ethics? For humanity? It does not exist in communism.

Communism is not what you think it is. Communism has murdered millions. Communism has hurt the families of people you claim the glory of communism in front of.

Better dead than red? Dead because of Red.

Communism is not 'people of color winning' in South America, in Cuba. In Cambodia. In China. It's people of color dying because of an ideology that should have been stopped in the 1800s.

‼️As a result of Russian shelling of the Kherson region, two people were killed and 19 were injured during the day, including three police officers.

Russian military personnel hit a police vehicle near Komyshany with an FPV drone. As a result of the attack, two Kherson police officers received concussions. The vehicle suffered significant damage.

A 35-year-old Kherson police officer was injured near Naddnipryanske when an explosive device was dropped from a drone.

The enemy attacked settlements in the Kherson, Beryslav and Kakhovka districts with artillery, mortars, multiple launch missile systems and UAVs.

💔 This is what Toretsk of the Donetsk region looks like now

The city is on fire, the Russians are stepping up their assaults.