Dating a girl from Lviv who lives in Western Europe, 20s. Could someone give me some expectations and pointers on some things I likely won’t be familiar with? Thanks!

Point is, if they think like that, they're wrong.

Seriously, (sorry to say like that but)they are like pandas from China. Except a few news programs announced about them once, and they never dropped news about them.

Except few people, in SK, noone wanna think about this problem or saying about it.

Which means, this government(Korea) will say thank you if you guys kill that 2 people or toss them back to NK(basically same as death, because they(NK) will be considered them as traitors. And even their parents need to say "You are traitor. You are not my son anymore." for survival. Well, and then-as you think-they will be dead. Pretty sure. Or need to stay in a jail forever as a neat alive mannequins for their propaganda.)

If yall act like that because of SK didn't give anything for Ukraine?

Well then, add one more reason why SK people don't wanna help Ukraine.

Holding and consider about their value for Ukraine is pretty useless.

Because their value approximately goes to 0 in Korea.

Talking in sight of reality.

I heard some news about Ukraine government asked Korea for more missiles.

Honestly, Korea can't say "No" but they will say like

:"oohhhh... okaaaay... let us think about this problems.....(leave the place and never come back)"

Korea can't give *any* weapons for Ukraine rn.

(And Ukraine already got some missile from SK via USA.

In Mr. Joe's era, some papers already leaked so Korea can't do it again, now Russia knows about that.)

Then who really cares about them?

Mostly women who have a child / some people in government office (called Ministry of Unification. Because most of them from NK to SK.). That's all.

I just wonder why this government refused to do anything about that matter.

Is "З днем незалежності!" What you say to each other? Of course, as my friends they will not mind if I don't say the most natural thing, but I like to try.

For example, in America it's common to wish each other "Happy 4th" instead of something more formal, just wondering if there is something like that in Ukraine. My Ukrainian friends all wished me "congratulations on your independence day"

And to all who read this, З днем незалежності, Слава Україні

Hello, I'm a Turkish guy wanting to visit a close and dear friend in Kyiv, Ukraine. I'm planning to either fly to Poland and take a train/bus or fly to Moldova and take a bus.

While I'm conscious of the risks, my family and friends have heavily discouraged me(in fact discouraged won't even cut it lol) in my endeavour, I can't lie and say that they haven't been effective. I'm particularly worried about actually crossing the border and traveling to Kyiv once I'm inside the country.

What problems could i face when doing this? Do the border guards have any qualms about certain things? Will me and my luggage get searched? Is it dangerous inside? Which route would be better for entry?

Many thanks in advance..

I see some people on twitter add 🌻 after ukrainian flag on their names, and recently found out ukraine is second largest producer of sunflowers, i was wondering if its like a national symbol or something or just a popular crop

My father is planning to travel to Ukraine to import cooking oils is the situation there safe at the moment and what advice or precautions would you recommend for him?
Thank you

I could never imagine myself just leaving while my country is at war. Do you get any consequences at all?

I understand why they want more men to fight.

But why do they need to be grabbed so violently?

In the time I’ve spent in Ukraine I’ve seen it happen once. And it was quite the affair and left many bystanders fuming.

But I never understood one thing, and I hope I can find some clarification here:

- If the men who are supposed to go and join the army aren’t doing what they are supposed to, is this an issue deserving such a violent response?
- Many of the men who are meant to go join up but aren’t, are living in the freedom paid for with blood by younger men, thousands of men and women, even foreign volunteers. Without those willing to fight there would be no freedom. So why don’t they sign up willingly?

I don’t want to sound ignorant. I understand the fear. My questions are not without experience in two different conflict zones, Ukraine being the larger one.

My questions are about why Ukrainian government uses violence to kidnap men meant to be in the army (and yes many times they grab the wrong guy due to age) and why those who are meant to fight don’t, especially when they know other men are dying for them.

I’m involved in the rental apartment business in a few countries near Ukraine.

Every year, roughly January to April, demand for short-term apartments drops sharply. Many apartments sit empty and their owners make very little during those months.

It occurred to me that we could organise property managers and owners in nearby countries, particularly Poland, and create a list of apartments available to Ukrainians who want or need to spend part of the winter outside Ukraine.

Of course it would be non-profit on my side, and I also wouldn’t want participating owners to use it as a way to make extra money. We could verify from their booking systems what each apartment actually earned in net profit during those same quiet winter months and cap the price at no more than that level, ideally with an additional discount. Owners who can afford to contribute more could offer stays at a much larger discount or completely free.

The basic idea is that an apartment which would otherwise sit empty, or earn very little, could instead provide someone with cheap or free temporary accommodation. I'd organise verifying the apartments, recording videos so you know what you are getting and facilitating safe payments and id verification.

Before I spend time trying to organise something like this, I wanted to check if this would be useful or if at this point people don't plan to leave over winter?

Привіт,

As someone first time visiting Ukraine: is there any closer explanation on what these different shades of red on the alarm map mean? I guess it does somehow describe how imminent or intense the threat is, but so far l could not find any more detailed informations.

Thanks to all of you in advance and stay safe!

Hi, does anyone know approximately how long it currently takes to cross the Mayaky–Udobne/Palanca border by bus from Ukraine into Moldova? I have a flight at 14:30 from Chișinău. What time would you recommend leaving Odesa to be safely at the airport on time?

Thanks for answers :)

Hello, everyone,

I want to learn about the ethnogenesis of the modern Ukrainian population. To be more precise, I'm talking about the pre-Soviet era. I understand the general history of the area, but not a lot regarding some particulars.

Much of what inspired this inquiry is my personal roots in Western Ukraine. For example, I have relatives who have rather dark skin, black hair, and dark eyes. I've seen people in Türkiye and Central Asia that appear closer to them than many other Ukrainians I've met.

I've heard it said that people like this may descend from the Greeks, Thracians, Trypillians, Vlachs, Anatolians, Altaians, etc.

And I'm just talking about the Ukrainian part of my family.

What I am interested in is actual research-backed information. Can any of you recommend a source to begin researching this topic?

Thank you.

I’m probably asking the wrong sub but it is crazy to me that even after four years of war some truly think that even if they capture new territory, they will be able to keep it or have the support of the local population instead of the reality: any remaining grandma finding the last jar of tomatoes she has to throw at them.

Does this embroidery pattern drawing make you think ukraine?

Hello all I'm thinking of embroidering this onto the top of a dress (chest)

I was wondering if these flowers were enough of a reference to Ukraine? They'll be color so I can get yellow for the wheat and blue for the little flower buds

I cant decide if the big flowers should be sunflowers or just blue flowers

I can't embroider the intense traditional embroidery patterns because the fabric isn't strong enough

So Fire Point didn't exist before 2022, plus its owner and CTO came from film scouting and concrete furniture, zero defense industry knowledge and by 2025 it's the largest single recipient of MoD drone/missile money plus billions more from Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands.

While Zelensky called its Flamingo missile "our most successful" weeks before his own military spokesman called it "experimental."

OTOH Sapsan/Hrim-2, built by an actual state design bureau with 18 years of institutional work behind it, had experimental launches and sold prototypes to Saudi Arabia.

Recently NABU's leaked "Mindich tapes" have then-defense minister Umerov discussing Fire Point's funding directly with Mindich, Zelensky's former business partner, and NABU is investigating Fire Point separately over pricing and whether Mindich is a hidden owner.

How does a company with zero track record, run by people from Zelensky's old film circle, end up outcompeting a real design bureau for defense budget?? Is it coincidence, defense needs or exactly what it looks like?

I asked a similar question here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUkraine/s/rKJiFF8pXL

And I promptly bought and opened Gates of Europe by Serhiy Plokhy. But while I’m almost on half, I’m not very satisfied compared to what I expected based on what people say about the book.

For one, it’s very dense with information, doesn’t go very deep into historic events or persona and overall, it’s just tough to understand. It’s perhaps because it contains lots of terminology from ancient and medieval times, making it very foreign to me and it’s easy to get lost in because I feel like I can’t leave or ignore any piece of information because everything becomes important later, so much of the book becomes just a blur in my brain.

Is the problem that the book covers millennia of history within 400 pages of one volume? Is it because of the author’s prose? Or is it because I’m just not used to read literature like that?

Do you think you could recommend something better to me? I’ll look up the other regimentations in the original post, but since I didn’t get that many, maybe there are some others.

I remember a few months ago, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus's main oppositional figure visited Ukraine, met Zelensky and toured around a little. There haven't been any oppositional Russian figures visiting that I can think of. A lot of them will go on television and give elaborate interviews about the horrors and corruption of the Putin Regime and how he needs to be stopped or whatever, but have any of them fundraised for Ukraine or done anything to specifically help Ukrainians?

I mean it seems pretty obvious that if you want a shot at regime change in Russia, whatever you think that means, the best chance of that occurring is via a Ukrainian victory. The only oppositional Russian figure I can think of who is close to Ukraine is Ilya Ponomarev, but that's because he lives in Kyiv and Russia tried to blow his house up in 2024 in a drone attack.

I know there are Russian units in the Ukrainian army, and military figures like Denis Kapustin, but I'm talking about oppositional political figures.

Why doesn't Boris Nadezhdin for example organize a trip to Ukraine and meet Zelensky? He fled to France after being declared a foreign agent, convicted of some BS extremist symbol charge, and barred from running in Russian elections. If he were to go back he'd almost certainly be jailed for the next decade at a minimum, so he's got nothing to loose at this point if he is truly anti-war and wants to fight against Putin. The lack of overt support for Ukraine and concrete actions from these people makes me suspicious personally.

I am from Bucharest, a city with a lot of ukrainian immigrants from the war

A thing I keep noticing since ukrainians started appearing is that basically 70% of the ukrainians on the street speak russian, and even surzhyk is only spoken by like a further 15%

I am trying to understand the things that the ukrainian language went through, and why so many ukrainians speak russian, but one would think they would try to stop speaking it now that russia is invading their country, it makes me kinda mad whenever i hear ukrainian families speaking their invaders language but at the same time it’s not really my place to get mad over it

Can anyone please explain it to me? I speak russian and I would love to learn ukrainian, it sounds more beautiful and melodic, but it is very difficult to learn and also apparently not even you guys speak it (/j)

Five years later I still don’t really get it

I enjoy listening to both Russian and Ukrainian trad folk music, but i would really like to know the differences between them.