A small love song to the chalk fortress of Izyum and the way local are addressing the wounds of occupation. open.substack.com/pub/vika4goo...

Hot take: "Why do we understand that..." You don't. The first "man this crazy with nuclear weapons" was Putin. And everybody treated him like somewhat eccentric yet sane partner. "Reload of relationship" half a year after Georgia war (Obama/Hillary). Meek response in 2014 (Obama). And all the rest.

Yuri Solomko Territorial Defense Forces / AFU Seven poems translated by me from Ukrainian for #7uapoems project. 7uapoems.substack.com/p/seven-ukra...

if only there were citizens of post-soviet countries who vividly remember actual implementation of said "progressive values"

#UkrainianView I remember the news abt this Ukrainians: Mariupol Drama Theater hit. People under the rubble. russians: WE HIT AZOV NAZIS... oh shi. (delete post) Ukronazis hit Theater with civillians!!! global media: Mariupol Drama Theater is destroyed. Both sides blame each other.

Да Майже Справжнє Інтерв’ю своєму міському медіа! nakypilo.ua/teksty/vikto...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

The U.S. administration did not send a single representative to the official commemoration events marking the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nor did it issue a single word through its embassy in Kyiv -- not even a standard diplomatic boilerplate.

Tomorrow everyone will be asking: when will the Russo-Ukrainian war end? The right question is: what can we do to make the Russian invasion fail?

Today, 12 years ago , Russia invaded Ukraine. The famous ‘green men’, occupying Crimean peninsula. 12 long years of my life being deformed by war with Russia. 12 years of Russia being so unable to just finally let us the fck go so much they’d rather kill my people than allow Ukrainians to just be

I’ll save you five minutes of your time today so you don’t have to read the news about yet another round of “negotiations” in Geneva:

Do you think they’d ban someone honouring people died in a natural disaster or an accident or because of an illness? I doubt it. Meanwhile, Russia can kill you and be sure institutions like that will look away coz Russia made your death “political” and “we don’t talk politics here. It’s a bad taste”

The worst part about all of this is that Vladyslav Heraskevych didn’t break any rules, and everyone knows that, even those, who disqualified him. This isn’t even a discussion. Fuck IOC.

The churches in the Krakow region have collected a total of 5.74 mln zł (1.36 mln €) for Kyiv last Sunday, which were used to buy & ship 200+ power generators and ~1000 heaters there to set up heating stations around the city, more still coming 💙❤️ diecezja.pl/aktualnosci/...

No one likes when I say this, but the Obama admin really is responsible for a lot of what is happening now with Ukraine, and even Trump, since weakness towards russia enabled them to manipulate the 2016 elections. If their economy had been smashed via sanctions or military force, we may not be here.

“I called putin. He agreed. No rockets on Kyiv or other cities for a week.” — Trump. Reality: last night russia launched a record number of ballistic missiles. Right now, they are firing their most dangerous and least accurate missiles near Kyiv.

The people of Ukraine continue to endure ongoing Russian aggression. From February 2 to 9, we’ll donate 100% of the proceeds from our games and DLC on all platforms to People In Need in support of humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Bsky's "Discover" feed is the most baffling "discovery" experience I've seen in any social network. It doesn't seem related to my subscriptions or stated "interests", it doesn't seem random either, but I can't for the life of me, guess what it does and why.

Is it smoke in our yard? No, not us. A school was hit on another street. This time.

The new archbishop of Krakow announced yesterday that next Sunday, all the money collected during the mass in the churches of the Krakow diocese will be used to buy power generators for Kyiv to help them survive the cold without heating 🩵💛

As a result of a nighttime russian attack, power transmission lines supplying all Ukrainian nuclear power plants were damaged, the IAEA reports. The goal is to freeze millions of Ukrainians to death and force them to flee to Europe as refugees.

My favorite (no) genre of blog posts: "Why haven't I written anything for a while": zverok.space/blog/2026-01... Also, some personal updates, thoughts on AI and whatnot.

My favorite (no) genre of blog posts: "Why haven't I written anything for a while": zverok.space/blog/2026-01... Also, some personal updates, thoughts on AI and whatnot.

The resilience of Ukrainian civilians isn’t about being “extraordinary” or heroic. It’s a massive tragedy in the heart of Europe that forces people to adapt. Children are growing up thinking that someone trying to kill them with missiles every night is just normal life.

On 1 January the russian military threw two guided bombs on the enclosures of birds and tigers of the Kharkiv eco park. Many birds killed, injured tigers are hiding in the destroyed enclosure.

Every time you pay for russian goods, hire their artists, or boost and platform them - this is where their tax money goes: depriving people they haven’t yet killed of basic human necessities in the middle of winter.

Just published this year's version of my "Ruby Changes" project: a full annotated changelog for Ruby 4.0: rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/... Goals: Full, comprehensive, concise, well-structured. Examples, explanations of reasons, links to docs, all of it.

On the darkest days, I always write the most optimistic texts. This one is called “What Ukraine Should Do with Russia”. open.substack.com/pub/vika4goo...

#7uapoems, Christmas edition. Poems by seven Ukrainian authors who currently serve in the military, translated by yours truly. All -- about Christmas, or how you write about it during the war. 7uapoems.substack.com/p/seven-ukra...

And Merry Christmas to the Ukrainian defenders! 🇺🇦🫡

Language is important. When a war of aggression is called “[victim’s name] + conflict”, the focus on the aggressor is lost. Make sure to always remember and pronounce the name of the aggressor. It should not be “they-who-not-be-named”. Justice starts with small steps.

This is so unitentionally funny. Nebula Awards adjusted their rules to become stricter on gen. AI: www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p... (which is fine) But the way they put it into rules, omg. Both the wording and intention of 11.2 is... peculiar.

I’ve had this thought brewing for a while now. I think Ukrainians are treated very similarly to women who survive abuse by famous men and dare to speak up - forced to watch their abuser be celebrated every day while their pain is dismissed, again and again. It’s soul-crushing.

YOU CAN TAKE THIS TO THE BANK Kupyansk liberated in 2 days: western media hardly mentions it. But when/if the Pokrovsk area falls after 2 years: Western media will use it to forecast doom, again 🤦‍♂️

youtube.com/watch?v=sR2fp0zXQoo о, "Ти космос" дісталося іноземних ютубів (7 номер)

After suffering complete and utter humiliation on the Kupiansk front line, russians decided to demonstrate their might by bombing civilians in Odesa in what may be the largest aerial attack in this region since the start of the full-scale war. Wow. Truly valorous warriors.😑

Issue 11 of #7uapoems project (translations of modern Ukrainian poetry, written by poets currently serving in the army). 7uapoems.substack.com/p/seven-ukra...

motherfucker are you for real??? here is rusian MFA citing your fucking work!

He can write it with piss on Trump’s face, for those who do not believe.

Щороку цього дня я пощу вірш, який моя дружина, Ірина Скачко, написала у 2021-му.

We are back to Americans threatening and blackmailing us into accepting capitulation, again. I just hope to still be alive next spring. I hate you all.

The eu all of a sudden

So the total amount of drones they launched in 2023 is equivalent to one night in 2025

<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on 1/3

Avoiding escalation was not essential. It only encouraged Russia to escalate more. The entire war could have been avoided had the US or Nato signalled Putin that they were ready to intervene.

So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again

I wrote a couple of articles juxtaposing my experiences as a Ruby developer with my life as a Ukrainian surviving the war (still trying to find insights for development practices in it). Got a fair bunch of "why politics again :roll-eye-emoji:" comments (not all of them, thankfully).

Hi Americans your president is siding with a war criminal and threatening Ukrainians with annihilation if they fight back, just fyi, if that even bothers someone

I think no movie shows better the harsh and brutal reality of the war in Ukraine than "2000 Meters to Andriivka". I saw it earlier this evening and it left me pretty shaken. I hope it will reach many people, as it seems that these days the world has mostly forgotten about the war and Ukraine.

Tonight I got to see another great documentary - "My Dear Theo" (www.imdb.com/title/tt3589...). It tells the story of the director and her unit on the front lines in Ukraine in 2022. Very powerful and touching movie! It was also really great to meet Alisa in person and discuss the movie with her.