The words war, occupation, and genocide are often thrown around as abstract concepts, but they always mean people - human suffering, not just statistics or numbers, but humans with names, stories, and loved ones. This is why we do what we do to help 🫂⛑️🇺🇦 As always, a huge thank you to @vitalik.eth and @endaoment donors for supporting @crystalhearts and helping us make things happen. Because of your donations, we can continue supporting and supplying our medics (who do everything in their power to keep people alive), our defenders (who keep fighting back and resisting despite being extremely outnumbered and outpowered), assist local NGOs with evacuating civilians and helping them during the most vulnerable time, when they make the hard decision to leave their homes and everything behind just to have a chance to survive, and support independent journalists on the ground who aren’t afraid to report from places where no major media is willing to send people anymore 🙏

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today, a russian missile landed in my hometown but didn’t explode, as its warhead failed to detonate. and now russians are sending a barrage of Shahed drones, with our Air Force helicopters intercepting and shooting them down with machine guns, all visible from my mom’s house, and she is casually updating me on what she sees flying around as we speak. just a regular day in Ukraine 😤🥵🫂

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it’s easy to predict that in the future, international tourists will be coming to museums to learn about the horrors of this war and russian occupation, looking at exhibits that will include remnants of, for example, torture chambers for children in occupied cities. they will shake their heads in disbelief and disgust, and maybe even tear up, conveniently forgetting that while all of this was happening, everyone, most likely even including themselves, closed their eyes, ignored this war, and maybe even blamed Ukraine for resisting and fighting back. anyway, please read about the torture chambers for children documented by both Ukrainian and international human rights organizations in the de-occupied Kherson region.

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this was my neighborhood where I lived in Kyiv before moving to the US, and I have so many beautiful memories from living there. this is what it looks like after Sunday’s russian attack (the building where I lived was actually destroyed during previous attacks. I walked around there back in the fall and saw all the damage) photos by Serhiy Gimiush

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Important reporting on Kostiantynivka from The New York Times. You won’t see much on-the-ground reporting from there from major international media, only from local journalists and a few independent foreign photographers who are based in Ukraine, because almost no one is willing to go. Journalists and aid workers are being hunted by russian drones, and the chances of not coming out alive are incredibly high. So when I saw this reporting, I immediately knew who the visuals were taken by. Tyler Hicks is one of the handful of international reporters still willing to take the risk. I personally know many international war reporters with extensive experience in so many places around the world who say they won’t do it. So any major media coverage like this is incredibly important!!! I’ve seen propagandists saying Ukraine is not letting media there lol, but the truth is, no one wants to go!!! Every aid worker I know is willing to take press with them. The military can take press with them too. But there are rarely any takers because russians will hunt them with drones in their sick human safari. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/europe/a-city-in-the-kill-zone.html

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THANK YOU! ✊🫂

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wow! @newtp, thank you so much for supporting @crystalhearts 🥹🌻❤️‍🩹

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I’ve been looking for the words but can’t seem to find them. and then I saw this share by Mariam Naiem, and she truly said it best. please read 🙏

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russia attacked Kyiv with more than 12 ballistic missiles. so far, it’s known that 24 people have been injured and 1 person has been killed. as many of you know, during ballistic attacks, many people in Kyiv shelter underground in metro stations. well, today the shockwaves were so huge that the ceiling in one of the stations started to crumble, 69 meters underground, in one of the deepest stations in the city. just so you understand the level of what the city is experiencing. https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attack-may-24-2026/

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the work continues 💙💛🙏

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We are slowly but surely moving down the long list of requests and providing support for our medics and defenders 🌻🇺🇦🙏 Another Starlink Mini was purchased and delivered to provide connectivity for defenders in the Sumy region, which is being attacked consistently. Thank you, @vitalik.eth 🫂📡

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my whole Threads feed is now full of russians crying about Ukrainian drones over Moscow and complaining that heartless Ukrainians have no empathy for them while they are so scared of being bombed 🤦🏻‍♀️ I know many people had hopes that if the war returned to where it came from, and if Ukraine finally had the ability to defend itself at full capacity and fight back on russian territory, hitting their own major cities and scaring them shitless, there would be some reckoning and rethinking. And that many russians would magically understand what the fuck they have been supporting for so many years, or, in their majority, simply ignoring and closing their eyes to the war because hey, it’s happening somewhere else, not in our home, so who the fuck cares (and yes, this part feels out of the playbook of so many Americans, who are incredibly proficient at ignoring all the horror this country is causing as long as it’s not on U.S. soil) But at this point, I truly don’t believe that’s going to happen. You’d think there would be some glimpse of logical thinking, like, “oh yeah, we have been doing these horrible things and now it’s coming back to us.” And you’d think there would be hope for some major awakening, but the complete brain rot feels so widespread and beyond reasoning with.

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how old is the city you are from? 👀 coincidentally, both the city I was born in and the town I grew up in are considered 1080 years old this year. and, of course, they are most likely much older, but the first documented mentions of both were in 946 ❤️ (cast inspired by seeing the 1080th anniversary celebration posts from my hometown :)

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this story has made me cry before, but I was bawling when I learned he is free now 🥹 Oleksandr had been held in russian captivity since 2022, and over the years, those who were held captive with him and later exchanged shared that inside the prison cells, he would retell the Harry Potter books from memory, recreating entire stories for other prisoners of war to help them endure the endless days of torture and isolation, and escape from reality into the magical world 🫂🙏

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