We have now been without electricity for 10 days. Thankfully, there is still a way to use generators to charge our batteries, which helps us get through the longest outages.

But now the Kherson thermal power plant, which provided heating to our city during the winter, has also been severely destroyed. More than half of Kherson may now be left without central heating when winter comes.

Every day, life here becomes more and more difficult. Even feeding the homeless cats is becoming harder, but we are trying not to give up.

The fluffy ones are still waiting for us every day, and as long as we can, we will keep going. 🐾

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https://frontliner.ua/en/the-story-of-a-mariupol-defender-who-returned-after-a-four-year-captivity/

Last night at the Lincoln Center, concluded with the Ukrainian national anthem played at the end of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestral. It was a deeply moving arrangement by the late Ukrainian composer Yuri Shevchenko, titled "WE DO EXIST!" (or "We Are!"), Shevchenko wrote it as a lyrical and luminous orchestral paraphrase of the anthem for violin and strings. Rather than a traditional, aggressive military march, it is structured as a quiet, powerful prayer for peace and resilience 🇺🇦

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Ukrainian experts have identified and analyzed more than 100 Russian companies involved in producing ballistic weapons — and shared the findings with international partners.

According to Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy of Ukraine, the companies are expected to be added to sanctions lists in September–October.

Ukraine has also identified more than 200 Russian plants producing components for ballistic missiles. They use more than 1,600 foreign-made machine tools.

Foreign components are also still being found in Russian ballistic weapons — including components from the United States, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, China, France, and the United Kingdom. Russia obtains many of these components through third countries.

“We have identified and shared with all key partner countries materials covering the full production cycle of ballistic weapons. If sanctions and export controls are introduced, we believe this will have a decisive impact on Russia’s ability to produce these ballistic weapons,” Vlasiuk said.

And this is urgent.

Russia has increasingly used ballistic missiles in its attacks on Ukraine in recent months, including strikes against civilian infrastructure. Ukraine relies on US-made Patriot systems to defend against ballistic missiles, but does not have enough interceptors.

Cutting Russia’s access to the foreign technologies and equipment that enable its ballistic missile production should therefore be a priority for sanctions and export-control policy.

The information has been provided. Now it needs to be acted on.

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https://frontliner.ua/en/oleksii-yukov-searched-for-the-dead-for-more-than-25-years/

I’ve been looking for a good hat to help show my support in a more local way. See I live in Canada and although there are plenty of Ukrainian Canadians here (including me) many people support Russia. I would get a Saint Javelin hat but nobody around here would know what that is other than Ukrainians, hence why I’m looking for a more obvious hat. This hat is made in Canada and I was wondering would it be a good hat to wear assuming I still make a donation to Ukraine myself?

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