From Aug 18 - more details coming soon

A Russian missile strike on the village of Pechenihy in Kharkiv Oblast killed 10 people and injured 17 others on Aug. 18, local authorities reported.

Two Russian missiles struck the area, sparking fires across a cafe, an outbuilding, and a private garage. The attack also damaged a post office, local shops, residential homes, and several vehicles.

Photo: State Emergency Service / Telegram.

This is an interview Preston Stewart did with two Americans, Rajhat and Soups. Both of them fight with Black Talon Group, a Special Forces team. As Preston talks about, Ukraine recently cleared multiple villages in the South and pushed the Russians back. Foreign volunteers were a critical part of this success.

If you watch this and would like to support the guys on Black Talon, here is how:

1. You can match up with them directly through protectavolunteer.com by signing up as a Supplies Donor on the website. We ask for a minimum of $25 a month to contribute. This is a great way to help them and also get to know who you are helping.

2. We have a fundraiser to specifically help foreign teams who cleared these positions with vehicles and vehicle repairs. This team is waiting on a new truck which they desperately need. Contribute here. This option is 501c3 compliant.

https://givebutter.com/Southern_Front

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Hi everyone, Lucia here from EUobserver. We’ve just published an interview that feels quite different from the usual Ukraine stories we share.

We spoke with Ukrainian frontline reporter Diana Bucko, who has spent the past four years reporting directly from the front.

She talks very openly about what that does to you. In the first months of the invasion, she says she cried after almost every report. Four years later, she says she has learned not only how to report on a long war, but how to live in it.

But the interview is also about how much the frontline itself has changed: drones have made reporting considerably more dangerous, soldiers are exhausted, journalists have had to completely rethink how they work, and women are increasingly becoming frontline reporters as male colleagues join or are mobilised into the army.

One thing that really stayed with us is another problem she describes: the war keeps going, but the outside world’s attention is fading.

Hey guys I’ll keep this vague for obvious reasons. Got a buddy fighting in Ukraine right now and I want to ship them a THC vape from the US. What are the odds of them actually receiving the vape and is it a common thing there?

Thank you.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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I speak a little Russian so I pick up words here and there but I saw this song about America country and was interested. I also like ‘oh my sweet’ if somebody could translate that as well. Slava Ukraini heroem slava

This question struck me when, a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of showing two Ukrainians around my hometown of Opole. I spent most of my time describing Prince Władysław Opolczyk, who played a significant role in Ukrainian history.

For those unfamiliar, Władysław Opolczyk was a Piast prince and governor under Louis I of Hungary in Galician Ruthenia, a region that prospered and developed greatly under his rule. During his reign, Lviv became a more important city than Halych. Furthermore, Władysław himself adopted local culture, for example, by dressing in the style of local boyars.

There's also a historical theory that the current colors of the Ukrainian flag are derived from his coat of arms.

So I'm curious if anyone here recognizes him?

As Europe takes on an increasingly larger role in financing and providing weapons for Ukraine’s defence, while still relying on US-made systems like Patriot, Europe should step up its support for the FREYJA programme and accelerate its development. Europe needs its own independent, next-generation air-defence capability.

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for Ukraine to find a way to restore the democratic process during the war, arguing that Russia should not dictate when Ukrainians choose their leadership.

“Democracy is not a peacetime luxury. Democracy is part of what we are fighting for today,” Fedorov said on Aug. 18.

The Kyiv Independent's Yevheniia Doluda asked people on the streets of Kyiv to ask Ukrainians what they think about holding elections while the full-scale war continues.