Most of the Izismile team members live and work in Kyiv, Ukraine. As you know now we have a war in our country started by the Russian Federation. They attacked us six days ago. Every day our cities are shelled, children and adults are killed, cities and houses are bombed. When the air raid sirens are silent, we update the site as usual. When the sirens go off, we we hode in the basement. We will update Izismile, so you could get distracted from what is happening in the world of horror. We don't know what will happen next. We believe in victory and in the end of this war. This is the only post about the war on our positive entertainment site. But we can't remain silent.
Next you can read a post by our close friend on FB and see with your own eyes what we see.
I haven't posted for a while here, always busy...work, kids, life offline, you know. Coffee with friends, kids to the dentist, editing an article before publishing, giving a lecture. Now I have plenty of time...
Four days of war seem like four months. We are all tired emotionally, overwhelmed with news (can't read them anymore and cannot stop reading), sleeping, dressed to run to the basement quickly, trained to eat quickly, turn off the lights when the sun goes down. I remembered a movie I watched being a kid. A patriotic movie about brave soviet teenagers tortured by the Nazis...The only sort of teenage movies we had at that time. And I told my Mom: oh, I would have told them all the secrets... I’m not brave at all. And she said: that’s cause you sit in a warm place, eating sweets, you have everything you need. But if you have things to fight for, if you have people you can’t fail, you will be brave. Only then you’ll know what you’re made of. And my Mom was right. Now I know this for sure. It's madness, it's surreal, it's exhausting...but I’m not scared, I’m calm.
I have messages from my retired friends:
-hon, don’t make Bandera smoothies (molotov cocktails) in advance, they need to be fresh;
from my older friends:
- hey, went to the recruitment office, but there is a huge queue of volunteers;
- well, tried to donate blood but too many volunteers...
And I know these days we are tired, we feel bit nervous, we are overwhelmed with news... But we stay calm, we stay strong, we believe in our armed forces, we believe in ourselves. If our men have to shoot to protect our city, we will pass them the ammunition. We got used to checking in the mornings if our friends and family were alive. But I still can not believe this is happening.
We. Have. Actual. War.
We didn't start this war, Russia did. Eight years ago. Today Russian soldiers use banned missiles; Russia doesn’t give a shit about international agreements. Russia. Has. Started. Self-destruction. This is a point of no return. No way back. I guess we have another tough couple of nights in Kyiv. Iskander missiles over residential areas in my Kyiv and abouts.
But we are prepared. We are calm. We gonna fight. Fight hard. Fight back. We didn’t start the fire. But God forbid you come with war.
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Same. I live in EU country and NONE of EU has started it.
i live in the US and we always hear from you folks how everything's our fault
welcome to the club of "everyone hate's us"
your courage and your determination are an example for the whole world. And the whole world is on your side.
You have created something that helps many people. If there is anything we can do for you directly, please share!
Please let us readers know about your personal situation and if we can support you and your families personally.
True that there is a lot of propaganda, just disagree in calling it news.
Go away, Tucker.
how do they pay you since russian banks are cut off from SWIFT, Visa and Mastercard? In rubles? xd
Ukraine, the EU or the USA don't have troops in Russia neither are they shelling Russian cities. If you honestly think Russia is not the aggressor and not 100% responsible for this war you are delusional and do not believe what your eyes tell you.
This is why it's important to vote and voice your concerns in your own country because a potential Putin is trying to get elected in everyone's homeland. Usually at the head of right-wing nationalist parties.
Most of the world supports Ukraine.
God bless you. God bless Ukraine.
Costa Rican fan of Izismile.
I check your site everyday and enjoying to start the day with it and hope to do so for a long time.
Be safe!
Slava Ukraini!
NL
The Ukraine is a free country. They can choose their allies as they wish. They wanted to join the nato after 2014, after Russia took the Krim.
And yes, stop the f@#king war. There is exactly one person who can do this.
There have not been and were not forces amassing to threaten Russia, it was quite the other way around. So I guess I would say please also make sure your propaganda has not affected you as for sure we are effected too, luckily we have history, satellite images, multiple sources which provides enough evidence to amas this perspective from the west.
Settle down, Putin.
russian propaganda works very well -- what if the britain wanna have back all the historic borders and recreate the british empire? or mongolian empire?
As far as you know???
The fact is that this was office space (belonging to a company called Yara) was hit by a missile, how could firearms do this? And where do you think the missiles came from?
By the way Ukraina, stay strong. Hope the war ends soon.
u should stop watching russian tv....there is no genocide!
The world is crazy. I am ashamed that the EU doesn't help.
Ican't watch anymore news on t.v. and i'm not even in danger.
It is disgusting.
Stay save, the netherlands love you!
I hope, Putler will either stop this war or someone will stop him.
Germany ist at your side, as far as this is possible against russian aggression. I hope for peace and freedom for all people (russians included).
Love!
German citizens collecting stuff und sending it to the polen/Ukrainian border!
We help you. Your welcome in Germany
We had 25 y of financial problems due to war, moved from flat to flat more than 10 times.
Luckily we are not in that situation anymore.
But as long as you are with your family, and I do hope that very soon this madness will end and that you are all going to be together once again.
Best Regards from Croatia, Dražen
Do you want to leave the country? If yes, can you reach the polish border? I would try to organize a passage to Germany. Google Maps says it's 12 hours from my home to Przemysl in Poland near the Ukrainian border. Maybe I can drive by myself.
Two days ago my neigborhood started a small privately organized trip to the border to rescue friends. I bet we can do it again, only small groups of course. We don't have large busses. Yet.
My support from Bulgaria
And if you and loved ones need to run. Come to us, we have safe place, food, clothes.
https://twitter.com/sorryabernein/status/1497660614126321667
By the way... The truth is always the first victim of war.
Yes. The truth will always be obscured by dictators like Putin and the idiots like you that support him.
I hope something critical happens that ends this horrific war before more blood is spilled.
Fingers crossed that you survive (being an atheist, it was the best thing i could come up with).
Long live Ukraine!
Hope Putin rot in hell.
Long live Ukraine
If you're looking for peace, join a trade agreement or something, not a war allience. Respect your fellow man, his race and culture, be kind, loving and considerate, and maybe we'll have a world to live out our lives in. That's my 2 cents
i do all the things you said and despite there's still wars... Russia _decided_ to invate the Ukraine because they want a buffer between them and Nato, it's that simple. From the east of Ukraine it's 8 hours by car to Moscow, _of course_ they don't like that. And now Russia's in a war they propably won't win in months or years costing them money. If they further kill civillians Nato might well react a little bit pissed, Putin f@#ked up in a way he doesn't seem to understand yet! This is gonna end ugly one way or the other. I'd prefer not ending as radioactive dust but i'd prefer no war at all either, and look where we are now.
Croatia is with you!
Stay strong!
I am speechless.
you ukrainians are so awesome and brave!
thank you for your work!
greetings from germany!
p.s.: maybe you should do another post about how to support you directly to the community, you know best what helps you know!
Can you explain me why exactly Ukraine killed 14 000 ukrainians since 2014 ? Not just because they are russian speaking ? Not just because de Donbas had declare independence ?
Why the nazi Azov Bataillon is part of the National Guard of Ukrain ? Why this group has a summer camp to train children in the use of weapons?
-wiki, Azov Bataillon
Peace for ALL the earth.
I really would understand !
We from Germany stand with you.
I'm standing with you.
Slava Ukraini!
It is just like in a street fight, most beated becomes someone who isn't even fault for anything
Here in France, we all support Ukrainian people, stay safe and strong.
Courage les gars!
GO UKRAINE!!
Hang in there!
Yeah, we stand strong
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