Illia Ponomarenko

Ukrainian soldier Taras Stolyar recently won Metallica's endorsement for playing Nothing Else Matters on the bandura, a traditional Ukrainian folk instrument.

Now have a look at who sings to him as he plays Shape of My Heart.

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There's always a good side in almost anything.

For instance, we're having cold blackouts again because of Russians. It's the 3rd winter that they have tried to strip us of electricity and heating.

But.

It's just the time to unwrap the telescope and fly across the universe all night long.

Historians of the future will be laughing their asses out writing essays on how insanely braindead was the end of the West.

St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

The full-scale invasion day 1,000th.

We owe everything we have to a Ukrainan soldier - who’s tired, unwilling, outnumbered, and outgunned, sensing grief and injustice - yet who keeps doing the terrible job every single day to save the world.

Good.

Really.

And no, it's not a "liberal echo chamber."

Many people just got tired of Elmo's never-ending delirium pushed down their throats on a daily basis. Enough is enough.

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#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X

Bluesky is currently adding nearly 1 million users per day.

Yep, after all what they are saying is true: in the West and beyond, Putin has got only two very fundamental allies -- corruption and profound human stupidity.

There's absolutely infernal mayhem on former Twitter right now, even by the "X" standards.

58 missiles and 194 drones fired on Ukraine last night.

That's how Russia "wants peace" while Trump keeps twisting Ukraine's arms.

The main Christmas tree of Kyiv is about to kick-start the holiday season tomorrow.

The third Christmas of the full-scale war when we have rather humble trees and no celebrations in the historical part of Kyiv.

It seems a bit strange to me that Putin has once again disappeared from the public space and that yesterday, March 18, he didn’t even stage his usual propaganda spectacle around his “Crimea speech” and the official Anschluss of Crimea in 2014. It does feel a little unusual.

Don't you forget that we're having the biggest Christmas party of our lives in Kyiv when the war is over, and everyone's invited.

We drink, roam the streets of Kyiv, and have snowball fights until we just can't.

Kyiv is the kind of city where one can get megatons of fun, so that will be epic.

Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.

Merry Christmas, dear world.

Come to Kyiv for the winter holidays at some point; you will not regret it.

The defining face of the first day of the full-scale invasion is Ukrainian marine Vitalii Skakun.

He heroically sacrificed his life by blowing up a bridge in Henichesk to slow the advancing Russian columns.

Oh my god, Ukraine dipped the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet into the world of shit with $270,000 naval drones and sank its fucking flagship with two obsolete missiles -- and the largest naval power of all time that has 11 carrier strike groups says it's not prepared to face Russia at sea?

Love this - trolls on Elmo’s little toy call me a “Nazi” and call on cutting my head off with a blunt knife - reported out of pure interest and, of course, no violations detected by moderators.

Why would several million users want to leave “X” for blue sky, it’s such a mystery.

God, I can't describe how passionately I dream about working at an old-school rock music radio station and writing about whales and Antarctic exploration without having a single thought about war and global politics.

Yes, this is definitely the first case in human history that a nation bleeding out under attack has a knife by its throat from yesterday’s biggest friend in need that went bonkers and switched to Al Capone-style racketeering amid war.

Oh god,

I was just driving by our city cemetery in Bucha, and I saw this.

The loved ones of this fallen soldier installed a small Christmas tree with electric lights by his grave.

God I hate this war, it is just physically painful to see such sad things.

Not. A. Single. Freaking. Time. Have. They. Trashed. Russia. For. Exterminating. Ukraine. Instead. Of. Blaming. Ukrainians. For. Resisting.

I feel the greatest pride in my country and my people since the history-defining days of the Battle of Kyiv in 2022.
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I think it's the first case in human history where a nation fighting for its survival against a major aggressor is being forced—by a non-combatant partner—into paying Versailles-style reparations over military aid that had earlier been provided purposefully at no cost.