🇺🇦✈ Against the backdrop of the vast Ukrainian sky, the pilot and the fighter jet appear as one — powerful and serene. This is how confidence is born that our sky is under reliable protection.

💙💛 There, in the reflection, only the perfect sky, so blue that it rings. And our Opera House! It stands, as proud and majestic as if Neptune himself were holding it in the palm of his hand. It is a ready-made portal to the perfect Odesa, the one we carry in our hearts.

Fire at the orcs! 🔥 In these seconds, he is like the fulcrum of the entire unit, holding back the enemy.

🇺🇦🦾 There are no loud headlines in the everyday lives of our soldiers — only silence between shelling, cold tea, and relentless work.

The Christmas tree has been lit in Odesa! 😍🌲 Oh, that first moment when darkness explodes with color! When lights run through the branches like thoughts of happiness through a wounded mind. A wave of pure, childlike delight can be felt.

🇺🇦🎵 Military musician Moisei Bondarenko plays Radiohead's No Surprises on his violin in the middle of a foggy field on the front line.

The lights aren't fully on yet. We're saving electricity. But you can already tell: they will be. The city will light up. Like it always has. Because light isn't a luxury. It's resistance. It's a message to the future: we were here, we shone. Odesa style! 🇺🇦🎄

🇺🇦 Maybe that's what memory smells like. Maybe the city has remembered a thousand New Year's Eves and is exhaling their scent — a mixture of mandarins, snow that never falls, and hope that always returns in December. Odesa is preparing for the holidays 😍

🇺🇦😺 He settled down on his throne and thought: “Sara Abramovna hung up the laundry, which means dinner will be ready soon. The window on the second floor is open—Izya is cleaning fish. And there's that aunt walking by—I should meow politely, she might be carrying cutlets!”

🫡🇺🇦 Good hunting, guys! God be with you! 🙏

Army humor in action! 💙😻 What do combat cats in the Armed Forces of Ukraine eat from? 1. A creative pet dish. 2. A robot vacuum cleaner. 3. An anti-tank mine.

💙😻 Guys, if you're going into the army, don't buy cats! The army will issue them to you 😉

🇺🇦💞 And in this silence, among the rare passers-by and the unhurried breathing of the port, one can feel the soul of Odesa — the very one in which the sea is always nearby, and love is passed on, like a baton, from hand to hand, from heart to heart.

🫡🇺🇦 Here's to you, brother!

🇺🇦🌳 I leave. I turn around. The tree waves its leaves at me. Or is it the wind? It doesn't matter. I wave back. Mentally. “Grow,” I say to it. “Grow, no matter what.” And I know it will grow. In Odesa, those who love life more than they fear death survive.

🇺🇦🚁 Good luck to you, guardian angels of our Ukrainian sky!

🇺🇦🚜 Hang in there, my brother, and I'll pull you out!

💙🥰 A small reconnaissance drone! And not a single orc will notice it!

🫡🇺🇦 A short break before the next fight!

🇺🇦 Bon appetit, my dear ones. I am with you 🙏

I think about how many people are walking in this fog right now. Close by. A meter or two away. We can't see each other. Each one alone. Each in their own white emptiness. But we are close. All we have to do is reach out our hands. Odesa 🇺🇦

A fiery dot in the sky—the last breath of the enemy Shahed, shot down somewhere above the horizon. Smoke rises upward, like the sky's signature under an act of justice. 🇺🇦 Odesa. A moment between anxiety and relief.

💙💛 Under this blue sky, surrounded by Ukrainian nature, they remind us what we are fighting for. For the right to live in a free country. For the right to smile without fear. For the right to be ourselves.

Autumn morning comes on tiptoe. The light does not burst in — it seeps through the tulle on the windows, soft, milky, as if diluted with fog from the sea. The day begins — with all its worries, fears, uncertainty. But the morning was there. And that cannot be taken away. Odesa 🇺🇦🍂

🇺🇦🐶 He looks somewhere past you, through the rustling leaves and the whisper of autumn. Maybe he is waiting for his owner, or maybe he is just thinking about life, as wise Odesa dogs do, who have seen it all: sunrises by the sea and conversations under grape arches.

😎🤘 A Ukrainian SSO fighter, driving a buggy in the Donetsk region, spots a russian FPV drone “waiting” on the road in ambush and destroys it with small arms fire 🎯

🔥 The crew of a Ukrainian AFU Mi-8 helicopter shoots down a russian “Shahed” drone with machine gun fire to the tail section.

🇺🇦🫶 At this moment, the road becomes a living bridge between the hearts of the nation, where every flag is the pulse of an invincible Ukraine.

☔️ And the lantern burns. Steadfastly, faithfully. Despite the rain, despite the wind, despite the fact that no one looks at its light. It burns because that is its purpose. To shine in the darkness. Like us. To shine while we can. Even in the rain. Especially in the rain. Odesa 🇺🇦

💥 The Shahed was flying toward a high-rise building, but an anti-aircraft missile intercepted the russian weapon a second before it hit.

🇺🇦 Somewhere ahead, a windowsill awaits him, where he will curl up into a ball. Somewhere, a saucer of milk and a hand to stroke his head await him. But now — he is here, on this gray day, in this cold air. And he doesn't complain. He doesn't demand. He just walks.

😼 Training of a four-legged special forces soldier in green terrain 🍀

🙏 We come and go, bursting into bright colors and fading away like these leaves. But what we loved, what we built, what we touched with our hearts—that remains. It stands. It preserves memory. Odesa 🇺🇦

🔥👌 Spectacular footage of three enemy vehicles with electronic warfare equipment being destroyed by State Border Service soldiers in the south!

🇺🇦🦾 In Pokrovsk, soldiers of the 79th Brigade approach a building occupied by Russians and blow it up with a TM-62M mine. In addition, paratroopers capture several occupiers. Ukrainian soldiers demonstrate heroism and courage every day in the battle for Pokrovsk.

🫡🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the command post of the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov,” which is currently operating in the Dobropillia direction.

🇺🇦🤙 Smiling soldiers of the AFU, who even on their way to the front line know how to give the world life, not fear.

🫂🇺🇦 Odesa knows how to be quiet. During the day, it is noisy, bustling, laughing, living life to the fullest. But in the evening, in an empty park, when the lights come on and people go home, it becomes different. It turns into a poem that is read in whispers.

🫡🇺🇦 Two soldiers of the AFU's TRO after leaving their position in the Zaporizhzhia direction, which they held for 165 days!

🦾🇺🇦 Operators of reconnaissance and strike UAVs from the Hart border brigade destroyed two enemy tanks, as well as a car, an antenna, and an electronic warfare device! This was despite the high-quality camouflage of the enemy's armored vehicles.

😻🌷 Someone brought a bouquet, placed it on the bonnet, thinking, ‘She'll come out now, see it, and be delighted.’ Not so fast! The cat saw it first. And decided, ‘Nice flowers, but on my bonnet, they're clearly for me. Thanks, of course, but you could have brought some sour cream.’ Odesa 🇺🇦

And the sun shines through the foliage, and the leaves fall onto the road. They fall quietly, without regret, because they know that spring will return. Everything will return. You just have to wait out the winter, survive the cold, and not lose yourself in the darkness. Odesa 🇺🇦

🇺🇦 The broken wall bears the word “Love” in black letters on the gray scars of concrete.

A russian drone flies right into the back of a Ukrainian soldier and miraculously does not detonate 🫂🇺🇦

Destruction of a russian “ Shahed ” right in the air 🔥 Effective combat work of our Gods of the Sky 🦾

🙏🇺🇦 The shock wave sent the asbestos cement slate flying between two Ukrainian AFU soldiers, but fortunately, it did not hit anyone.

🇺🇦🎵 The AFU Orchestra: “One, two, three” — and your feet start dancing on their own. Even the kitchen is tapping its lid, and the tea in the thermos is boiling to the rhythm. Positivity — officially delivered! 👌

🇺🇦🍂 That's how it is in Odesa. You can be a tough biker with a sidecar, but autumn will still make you slow down. You sit down at a table, order something hot, look at the falling leaves, and think, “Maybe I won't race down the highway today? Maybe today I'll just sit here?”

😎💪 Cheerful music, a smile on your face, your brother in arms by your side, and full speed ahead on a combat mission!

🇺🇦 "Those who want everything at once are poor because they don't know how to wait."