We were worried about taking our veterans out of the rehabilitation centre and onto the open seas. Would they cope? Would we? Well, they're Ukrainian. So now they're just showing off 💛💙 www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

It was very important to us that Eddy led our team on the latest Ukrainian veterans amputee rehabilitation trip: as an experienced sailor, his ability to point at things is of critical nautical importance.

At Galychyna rehabilitation centre Lviv we witness the very worst kinds of pain & loss. But sometimes, when the team can save a limb and a life, the little moments of tenderness when the feeling & hope returns to what had once been written off, the care and the love makes it all worthwhile

A couple of months ago, at Galychyna rehabilitation centre Lviv, Ruslan was really struggling & having a particularly bad day. Yuliya told him we were going to take him sailing in the canary islands in the new year & swore she'd hike a mountain with him to watch a sunset. He said she was crazy 😉

Our friends @fierce-calm.bsky.social are doing incredible things for wounded Ukrainian soldiers. Give them a donation through the link below if you can, but either way, please repost and amplify!

Pavlo went from this...to this with us💛💙 In January, we took Pavlo, after 991 days in the nightmare of Russian captivity, sailing in canary islands, open seas, broad horizons & mountain tops. Next week, with your help, we'll do it again with more of our heroes goodhub.com/go/healing-und…

This has made our day @robdale.bsky.social! Thank you so much and дякуємо for buying our jersey, and donating to give therapy to Ukrainian soldiers with @fierce-calm.bsky.social! Everyone give Rob a follow immediately... 🇺🇦🏏

A gigantic thank you and dyakuyemo to @paulframe85.bsky.social for buying our jersey – and in doing so donating to give therapy to Ukrainian soldiers with @fierce-calm.bsky.social! Looking great Paul. Everyone give him a follow immediately... 🇺🇦🏏

Four from the day our lives changed forever, keep love in your hearts. Because if I've learned one thing in the last 4 years in Ukraine, from all those we've tried to heal, helped & failed to heal, from those we've loved & lost: love passes on to the living.( in the words of veteran Artur Dron)

Today is the very last day to buy a Ukraine Cricket jersey, with a built-in donation of £5 to our friends @fierce-calm.bsky.social ⬇️

In case you're in need of a little Ukrainian joy, hope and love ❤️Give yourselves a minute to watch the video of our patient, veteran,Taras' wedding to Viktoriya on Sunday 💛💙

Fourteen supporters have bought Ukraine Cricket jerseys so far – meaning a guaranteed £70 donation to @fierce-calm.bsky.social! Orders are open until 24 February. Join our team, look brilliant, and support an amazing Ukrainian cause. Six more to raise £100 🇺🇦🏏 (You could also buy our book too...)

Cricket family, orders for the Ukraine cricket jersey are open until 24 February. Look brilliant at nets and workouts, with a £5 donation to @fierce-calm.bsky.social built in. Please share the post below 🇺🇦🏏 ⬇️

Just walked home and it's so unbelievably, indescribably cold , I don't have the words. Luckily have heat in the apartment at last. And all I can think of are our defenders holding the line out East & what they must be going through, and I don't have the words. Love and respect them more than ever.

We all have our own way of keeping warm: Ukrainian Veteran & European para Jiu Jitsu champion Miykhailo Drobotenko 🇺🇦

Russian agent Steve Witkoff writes: “Russia is working towards securing peace in Ukraine.” This is how the Russians "secure peace" united24media.com/latest-news/...

I know many things are happening but please take a minute to read this: we are in full blackout in Kyiv, metro stopped, for the 1st time like this, power outages for the whole Ukraine and even in neighbouring Moldova now too. all because of Russia bombing our power stations , while it’s -19 outside

Not the most insightful post you'll ever read, but has to be said....ITS BLOODY COLD HERE! 🇺🇦

Ladies & Gentlemen: this is what a Russian ceasefire looks like.

Tom Daley who? Whatever you can do, our Ukrainian veterans can do better! Help us give this opportunity to more of our Ukrainian amputee veterans , from a warzone hospital to the ocean www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

THE UKRAINE CRICKET JERSEY IS HERE! Ambition Sport will donate £5 from each shirt to our friends @fierce-calm.bsky.social, who provide therapies to Ukrainian soldiers 🇺🇦 Designed by our book's author @jonathancampion.com, and worn at last year's Euro T20 Cup! www.ambitionsport.com/product-cate...

Can you imagine what this feels like for Ukrainian veterans after two years in captivity or a year in a miserable hospital and rehabilitation? We're so grateful to everyone who has helped us give this experience to our defenders. If we can cover the costs, we'll repeat! goodhub.com/go/healing-und…

Thank you Thank you to everyone who has donated & supported our veterans rehabilitation sailing trip to the Canaries 💛💙 You see what you've made possible this time and hopefully again this summer? goodhub.com/go/healing-und…

Yuliya decided the lads had hiked enough mountains. So, today = Tenerife Beach veteran rehabilitation 🇺🇦 Playatherapy

Brothers in arms. Teamwork. Freedom. Joy. If you're wondering why we took a group of veteran amputees & patients recently released from captivity all the way to the canary islands. WATCH THIS 🇺🇦

Halfway up the Ukrainian veterans mountain hike in La Gomera, we told the lads they could have a breather and have five minutes to put their feet up.

A couple of months ago, at Galychyna rehabilitation centre Lviv, Ruslan was really struggling & having a particularly bad day. Yuliya told him we were going to take him sailing in the canary islands in the new year & swore she'd hike a mountain with him to watch a sunset. He said she was crazy 😉

Yuliya & our veterans crew setting off from a freezing Lviv on their way to board HMS Fierce Calm in Tenerife for a week long sailing Rehabilitation project 🇺🇦☀️⛵ www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

The message is clear: America IS NOT willing to fight a war IN Europe to prevent European territory from being seized by Russia. But, IS willing to fight a war WITH Europe in order to seize European territory in order to prevent it from being seized by Russia. And we still call them Allies?

Completely unexpectedly, on my way to meet Sir Terry Waite: invited due to our work providing trauma therapy to Ukrainians released from captivity. Honoured and excited to share stories and vision of hope and resilience 🙏

FUNDRAISER £977/3000 🎯 Help a week-long sailing expedition where veterans work as a crew, learn to handle catamaran & rediscover confidence far from hospital walls. Our target is £3,000 to cover the charter hire for Fierce Calm's boat. If you can, please donate /boost www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

You can join online at our 2 seminars on Friday at Odesa Medical University with our advisor Professor Walter Busuttil (King’s College London, Combat Stress clinical director, 5 eyes med research) on combat veteran mental health, PTSD & POW treatment pathways. Online in Eng & UA. DM for link

We’re working a week-long sailing expedition with Titans Under Sails where Ukrainian veterans work as a crew, learn new skills & rediscover confidence far from hospital walls. Our target is £3,000 to cover the charter hire for our boat If u can, please donate / share www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

As I said to @mrjamesob.bsky.social APPEASEMENT is (misguided altruistic) act of giving an opposing side in war an advantage they demand, in order to prevent further harm. That's very different to Trump's ALIGNMENT with ambitions of the aggressor for his own personal gain. Zero altruism here.

"A graveyard in my mind" Spent two hours last night with a stabilisation point army surgeon who told me the visitors to the cemetery in his head filled with those he could not save keeps him awake at night. Those words kept me awake last night as well.

There used to be a time, in a past life, when we'd be teaching yoga and trip over trendy water bottles full of green smoothies that people left at the end of their mat in a trendy studio. Now we're sent arse over tit by totally different paraphernalia.

The prosthetic toy trend here taken to an extreme by these eejits 🙄

Introducing our jersey for next month's Euro Cup in Warsaw! Made by Ambition Sport, it has the logos of our charity partners @fierce-calm.bsky.social and Ukraine Charity, and our federation's pre-war crest. Poland, @icelandcricket.bsky.social, Latvia and Lithuania – get ready! What do you think?

We're thrilled to introduce our first charity partners for next month's Euro Cup – @fierce-calm.bsky.social! In Warsaw we'll be raising money & awareness for Fierce Calm, a Lviv-based provider of therapies for wounded Ukrainians. See their website ⬇️, and follow them here... 🇺🇦🏏 www.fierce-calm.com

Ain't no stoppin' him now! Our Eddy at Superhumans 🙏💛💙

A prediction: The very same MAGA characters demanding Ukraine hold elections during a war will, in the not too distant future, be demanding or defending the suspension of elections in the USA because of civil unrest.

It's international #childrensday today & the Fierce Calm team are hosting cookie making and children's yoga for UNBROKEN KIDS at St Nicholas children's hospital Lviv (2pm all welcome!)

❗Fundraiser ❗We face unprecedented demand supporting veterans and released Ukrainian POWs at the mental health clinic in the National Rehabilitation Centre 💛💙 We need your help to buy 4 additional FLOW devices @£399 each 🎯 £1596 paypal.com/donate?campaig… UK Gift aid goodhub.com/go/fierce-calm���

Oleksandr: Separate Special Forces Battalion of the Presidential Brigade. "Without exaggeration, Fierce Calm's Yulia and these practices saved me from depression after the injury and limb loss"

Our Bandura player and therapist Anastasiya, has arrived in Kramatorsk to begin our two week project collaborating with AFU to bring music, Ukrainian culture & therapy to our defenders at the front. In true Fierce Calm style, she hears a siren, she makes music 💛💙

The now infamous Prawn Cocktail Crisps (thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social) have been handed over to Eddy at the Superhumans Rehabilitation centre in Lviv, despite Yuliya's concerns.

Yes, the work can be mentally tough. But who else gets to poke their head out of their office to see what the commotion is, only to see a guy who sat crying with you a couple of months ago because he thought he would never even stand, let's alone walk again, doing this! UNBROKEN Lviv

We're a fairly small community of volunteers out here in Ukraine, and few were as brave, dedicated, selfless and popular as Chris Garrett. He saved countless lives doing real heroes work de-mining, instructing & aupplying meds. We are all in shock & deeply saddened. RIP Swampy

It's one thing to read about the experiences of Ukrainians in Russian captivity or see the photos as they are released, but quite another to sit with them, look into their eyes & listen to the horrors inflicted upon them by the Russian state. Nothing could prepare us for this.

So, the strikes aren't 'evil' or even 'terrible'. Just "unnecessary", you know, like 'uncalled for'. And "bad timing", because, murdering civilians on a Thursday when Trump's looking forward to golf at the weekend is really bad timing. Maybe Tuesdays would be better Vladimir?