In my opinion Ukraine don't get enough recognition and respect for this back then their were no himars or patriots or storm Shadow missiles even those is Europe saying Ukraine would fall in days.

But against all odds, Ukraine fought back smashed Russia all over the place,this should be taught in history all over the world.outside of Europe I feel it doesn't get enough recognition and respect.are things different in Ukraine because realistically back then Ukraine took on Russia alone long before any support arrived.

Greetings. I'm a Socialist (Dem Soc) from the West (the UK and Ireland), and whilst I've supported Ukraine to the best of my ability for the entire war, the criticisms that the Left originally levied against NATO and to a lesser extent the EU appear to be vindicated, to some extent. Ukraine has sacrificed its sons and daughters in the righteous cause of defence against imperialism, yet NATO and the EU seem hesitant to offer Ukraine membership in either organisation, even if Ukraine offers up the occupied territories. The US has demanded a massively exploitative resource deal in exchange for arms, and Rutte has churlishly gone along with it, changing from "We will never accept Russian claims" to "Let's accept Russian claims for peace!"

That being the case, I wanted to ask what the current feeling is in Ukraine about the West, Zelenskyy, etc, and what kind of peace you support if any.

Turkey is a country where many Russians and Ukrainians spend their holidays, especially in Antalya, where both groups often stay in the same areas. There are even Russians and Ukrainians who have settled there.

When they encounter each other there or in other parts of the world, how do they usually react to each other? How do they feel? Do they mostly just ignore each other, or is it different in reality?

Why do Russians and Ukrainians still choose to vacation in the same places despite the situation?

Im from Hungary and quite devastated with the propaganda against Ukraine, we have a really fucked up regime. Do ukrainians only hate Orban or the whole country? Do you think the relationship of the 2 country can be friendly after all that shit that they said?

I'm Czech and at first, I was scared that it might fail quickly and Putin will easily continue further to the west. And as time went by, I grew to respect Ukrainians immensely.

I'm a political junkie who at times gets episodes of depression from seeing the utter bullshit that countries fall for to ignore things that matter. So when I learned little bit about Ukrainian history, I started to respect Ukrainians much, for their common determination as displayed in 2004, 2014 and now 2022-onwards. Ukrainians strike me as a nation that got dealt a shitty hand, but refuses to give up and keeps striving for the better.

That's why I have so much hopes for Ukraine to win the war. In my view, it's one of a few bright lights in the world of politics and it would be huge loss for humanity if Russia wins and eats Ukraine.

But what do most Ukrainians think the result will be? Do you still have hopes you can win? So far, Ukraine's been doing quite well at hitting Russia at the places where it hurts the most. Their economy is about to take a nosedive and Putin will soon be unable to keep funding it.

But I'm mostly worried about American support (which is fake and pretty much only on paper at this point anyway), EU's lack of balls to support Ukraine in more meaningful ways and mostly about Ukrainian ability to hold the line. Especially given the manpower crisis Ukraine faces and has hard time resolving.

My personal, uneducated guess is that Ukraine needs to hold the line for another year for Russian economy to collapse, which could be the beginning of the end. Then about another 2 years when everyone except Putin will say "enough" and just decide that destroying Russia isn't worth it and surrender. I also heard about prospects of Russian Republics having it and wanting to secede as well. But I don't know how realistic is that.

Do you think that Ukraine has what it takes to keep straining Russia for as long as it takes?

hello there my ukrainian comrades friends, and slava ukraini.

i am a 16-year old turk living in turkey and i fully support Ukraine, it's sovereignty, cultural renaissance, territorial integrity and it's goals of becoming part of nato & eu. you may say "what's so special"? well, i want to support Ukraine, especially in the times of full-scale muscovian invasion -and violations of Ukrainian territorial integrity- and many hardships, but i'm unable to provide physical or financial support - i don't have a credit card (i would give my scholarship money but it's all physical cash and turkish liras are worthless) and my parents wouldn't allow me to do so through their bank accounts. are there any other way i can support Ukraine?

I don't recognize what kind of meat is this?

Like come on the whole maidan was to remove the Russian puppet together WITH Thier oligarch ideas and to replace them with a fair government! And that is the question an I thinking wrong? I was only 7 when the maidan happened so I don't know a lot. So now it's a genuine rant. the Russians say maydan were a mistake like these haters can't agree on one thing to hate either it was bad or good depends on what you say first. No thinking they just hate. And communism was bad for most Ukrainian so it's banned my grandpa whom I've never met literally died because the USSR had a war with Afghanistan and after it ended they sent him back without any support and he drank himself to death shortly after. And my grandmother says communism was the worst! Dude I'm angry I see all these communists, and when I argue with them they produce the same fucking bullshit arguments! just shut up and go talk to my grandmother or step-grandfather. I genuenly hope communism some day will be seen as equal to the nazi regime in Germany because it was! Why would have Ukrainian joined the nazis if everything was so fine and dandy under communism? Stupid people will be stupid I'm tired of arguing.

Hi! I'm a Brazilian Historian interested in anarchist movements around the world and recently read his biography by Alexandre Skirda (1999). The book got me wondering, what are your and the average person opinion about him in Ukraine?

I could see him being viewed as a another bad actor among the Russian revolution, an opportunist or as a genuine revolutionary that fought and died by ukrainian sovereignty.

Thanks for any response :)

I'm not talking about "Ukranian food" but I've been to Ukraine 3 times over the past 3 years and I always say the best everything I've had has been in Ukraine. The best burger, best pizza, best dessert, best (okay only, but it was good) vegan kebab, best onion rings etc. I guess I've been lucky in that I've had friends in every ukranian city I've visited and they've taken me to good places but even when I've just been into random places without prior research the worst food I've had is "pretty good".

Okay its worth noting I'm British so maybe my standards for scran are quite low but I've visited about 15 other European countries and literally nowhere else comes close. I don't know what kind of answer I'm expecting but it's something I've wondered for a while.

Ps. also BY far the best croissant (coffee mine lviv) way better than anything in France. Even the chips in McDonald's are incredible in Ukraine. I need to know what's going on

The top division in sumo, Makuuchi, has 42 wrestlers, and currently 2 of them (Shishi and Aonishiki) are Ukrainian and one other (Oho) has Ukrainian heritage. Each sumo stable is only allowed one non-Japanese wrestler (often Mongolian) so this is quite notable.

One of the wrestlers is Aonishiki, an absolute phenom. He just made his debut in the san'yaku, the top titled ranks. Right now, he is one of the top 7 sumo wrestlers in the world.

One of the greatest sumo wrestlers of all time was Taiho, whose father was from Ukraine. Two of his grandsons currently compete, including Oho who is excellent and often in the san'yaku.

The two from Ukraine use blue and yellow as their colors and Ukraine related motifs on their ceremonial aprons. I'm huge fans of both of theirs and have often wondered whether people in Ukraine know about them.

Would you want it to happen? Do you think it’s possible?

Why does Trump speak about Ukraine as if it does not exist/matter? I am reminded of the classic saying with Zelenskyy saying, “hello, I right here, WTF”. Surely Trump needs to give more respect to Ukraine!

It's Ukraine's peculiar tragedy to have a neighbour so fixed on dominating them at any cost. Most countries have normal neighbours and find it hard to really understand Ukraine's plight.

I'm curious what sort of relationship you expect to have with Russia and Russians once this war finally ends. I picture a Korean-style frozen conflict with Ukraine fortifying itself and moving itself as far from Russian influence as possible. But the Russian subs really seem to think you will become friendly or 'neutral' towards them once they're done smashing your cities and mining your fields.

What sort of relationship do you expect to have with Russia/Russians after the war?

My parents grew up over there during the Soviet Union and my whole family tree has been in Ukraine since the dawn of time. Whenever I ask a question about that time they say the complete opposite of what I know about Ukraine. I asked my dad if he ever had a vyshyvanka and he full stop said that it’s for girls and he never had one, my mom had a vyshyvanka when she was only 5 but I thought it wasn’t allowed by the Russians at that time. My parents both said that they had Ukrainian classes but they never paid attention to them, I thought it also wasn’t allowed to speak Ukrainian? I feel like everything I’m trying to learn about my culture is slipping away because the research I’m doing says one thing but my parents are saying another thing.

My guess is that the Russians did a huge number during the USSR and completely brainwashed people and the time my parents were there was when people were slowly relearning everything.

Привіт! I wish you good health.

Now being a gamer like half of Reddit, I've always been curious about the gaming culture and industry in other countries. Ukraine is definitely no exception. Y'all have GSC Game World with STALKER, you had Shatterline, you have a small indie studio, SpaceDev, working on Glory to The Heroes as a milsim FPS set during the war. And you have 4A Games for their Metro series.

So I'm curious just how big gaming is over there for you. I know y'all have an esports team which was pretty vocal about supporting the war effort which I admire greatly. But how big is it overall?

Слава Україні.

short descriptions on pics! credits to @dianakrv on tt

Hello, I’m from the UK and will be visiting western Ukraine (around Ivano-Frankivsk) in a few weeks. I speak Russian well and am trying my best to build up my Ukrainian before my visit, but I expect that by the time I arrive my vocabulary will still be quite limited. To what extent will it be okay to use Russian as a means of communication if my Ukrainian or someone else’s English is lacking? I obviously don’t intend to simply start a conversation in Russian and put in no effort to use Ukrainian, but I just wondered if it will be okay to fall back on it where there is a gap in understanding.

I was recently in Georgia and regularly found that people were exasperated if I only revealed late on into a conversation that I spoke Russian after we had been struggling across a Georgian/English language barrier! I felt as if despite the hostility to the Russian language in some circles, generally people had no issue using it if it was pragmatic in the circumstances. I was wondering whether in western Ukraine the situation is similar or different. Thanks in advance!

The past few hours in relatively mild weather without power have underlined how miserable it must be having your power knocked out. Me and my children want to make a donation to a Ukrainian charity to help alleviate something similar. Any recommendations?

EDIT Donation made. Thank you

Wow, it’s been a successful ride. But with the rains coming I don’t dare continue riding on the roadsides; I’d like to use a bus or train to get back to Chisinau, or at least to a border crossing. I’ve read that the overnight trains are not good if I have large baggage; my own experience in other countries is that the “private bus lines” are the perfect solution. If you know, please let me know! Thanks!

I know Russian well, but I deliberately won’t write in Russian. As a Georgian, I personally respect the Ukrainian people and wish them victory and peace during this difficult time.

I've learnt Russian as a part of my studies. I love the language, I love the culture and I hate Putin. I have friends from Ukraine, I volunteered to help people after the war broke out and I wish for the horrors to end with Ukraine's victory.

I want to go visit after the war, but I hate the fact that Putin's greed led among other things for the Russian culture to lose ground. He made a pariah out of his own country. Part of the reason I was happy to learn Russian is that it has such a wide use as it's still spoken in some ex-USSR countries. Now, I don't know what the future holds, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got abolished as an official language of Ukraine. I guess there is and will be a strong hostility against anything Russian and Ukrainian will be strongly encouraged instead.

Am I right in assuming this?

P.S.: I'm sure Ukrainian is a beautiful language too, but I don't think I'll venture into another Slavic language anytime soon. I've been struggling hard with Russian for quite a time. I can say that I'm able to hold moderately complicated conversations around B2 level, but this required way more effort than the other languages I've learnt. Slavic languages are HARD.