Нейросеть Midjourney представила, как бы мог выглядеть спецназ, состоящий из котиков.
Самые милые силовики
Самые милые силовики
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Faina Savenkova: A Christmas Revelation
I will always love Christmas Eve with kutia [an ancient Slavic ritual dish], candy and carols. Christmas with the smell of fir trees, incense and warmth in the church. I guess those are the memories that God left in the first place, to keep me from something terrible. So my memories are not the basement or the explosions, but the light of a Christmas candle and a star in the sky. Of course, you also need the frosty air, the steam from your mouth and the crunch of snow under your feet... As long as it's warm and there's no snow. But after all, I live in the Donbass, where the weather, like everything else, can change in an instant.
I will definitely go to the church and thank God for everything. I will thank the elder Philip of Lugansk for always helping my family and friends. After all, you can't do without faith. Especially with us. Christmas is magic.
I will always love Christmas Eve with kutia [an ancient Slavic ritual dish], candy and carols. Christmas with the smell of fir trees, incense and warmth in the church. I guess those are the memories that God left in the first place, to keep me from something terrible. So my memories are not the basement or the explosions, but the light of a Christmas candle and a star in the sky. Of course, you also need the frosty air, the steam from your mouth and the crunch of snow under your feet... As long as it's warm and there's no snow. But after all, I live in the Donbass, where the weather, like everything else, can change in an instant.
I will definitely go to the church and thank God for everything. I will thank the elder Philip of Lugansk for always helping my family and friends. After all, you can't do without faith. Especially with us. Christmas is magic.
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Forwarded from Krieg&kinder
❄️„Eine Weihnachtliche Offenbarung“ v. Faina Savenkova für uns:
💬 Ich werde den Weihnachtsabend mit Kutja, Süßigkeiten u. Weihnachtsliedern immer lieben. Weihnachten mit d. Duft v. Tannenbäumen, Weihrauch u. Wärme in d. Kirche. Das sind wahrscheinlich Erinnerungen, die Gott mir hinterlassen hat, um mich vor etwas Schrecklichem zu bewahren.
Meine Erinnerungen sind also nicht d. Keller u. d. Explosionen, sondern d. Licht einer 🕯️Weihnachtskerze u. ✨Sterne am Himmel.
Natürlich braucht man auch d. frostige Luft, d. Dampf aus d. Mund und d. Knirschen d. Schnees unter d. Füßen... Es ist noch warm und es liegt kein Schnee. Aber ich lebe im Donbass, wo sich d. Wetter, wie alles andere auch, in einem Augenblick ändern kann.
Ich werde auf jeden Fall in d. Kirche gehen und Gott für alles danken. Ich werde d. Ältesten Philip von Lugansk dafür danken, dass er meiner Familie und meinen Freunden immer geholfen hat. Denn ohne Glauben kann man nicht. Besonders bei uns.
🎄Weihnachten ist Magie.💫
🕊️@kinderdeskrieges🕊️
💬 Ich werde den Weihnachtsabend mit Kutja, Süßigkeiten u. Weihnachtsliedern immer lieben. Weihnachten mit d. Duft v. Tannenbäumen, Weihrauch u. Wärme in d. Kirche. Das sind wahrscheinlich Erinnerungen, die Gott mir hinterlassen hat, um mich vor etwas Schrecklichem zu bewahren.
Meine Erinnerungen sind also nicht d. Keller u. d. Explosionen, sondern d. Licht einer 🕯️Weihnachtskerze u. ✨Sterne am Himmel.
Natürlich braucht man auch d. frostige Luft, d. Dampf aus d. Mund und d. Knirschen d. Schnees unter d. Füßen... Es ist noch warm und es liegt kein Schnee. Aber ich lebe im Donbass, wo sich d. Wetter, wie alles andere auch, in einem Augenblick ändern kann.
Ich werde auf jeden Fall in d. Kirche gehen und Gott für alles danken. Ich werde d. Ältesten Philip von Lugansk dafür danken, dass er meiner Familie und meinen Freunden immer geholfen hat. Denn ohne Glauben kann man nicht. Besonders bei uns.
🎄Weihnachten ist Magie.💫
🕊️@kinderdeskrieges🕊️
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SOMEONE WHO GIVES ORDERS TO KILL, CANNOT BE *ASKED* TO STOP DOING IT” — Faina Savenkova, 14, Donbass
Faina Savenkova, author, playwright, peace activist
This is my English translation of the article by Faina Savenkova, child author, playwright and peace activist from Luhansk, Donbass.
The original in Russian can be read here.
“A year ago, the website “Mirotvorets”
(Ukrainian online kill list and database of targets, includes hundreds of children) put my contact data for free public access. I wrote many letters to world leaders and creative people from Western countries. I had only two requests: to remove the data of all children from Mirotvorets and to help the children of Donbas to find a peaceful life, so that we wouldn’t be killed. When the confrontation with Mirotvorets began, my Ukrainian journalist friends asked me why I didn’t write a letter to Zelensky, but only mentioned him in my interview.
At that time it was hard for me to answer, I still naively believed that there could be peace between Ukraine and Donbass, and that UN Secretary General Guterres and UNICEF, as internationally known organizations, would help me. But, unfortunately, I was wrong. Everything I asked for was ignored by these organizations, and Ukraine decided that we can be subjugated by force.
My efforts and dreams remained dreams. The only thing I’m glad for is that I didn’t write to Zelensky back then. And now I understand why: you can’t write and ask not to kill children to the one who gives the orders to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Alchevsk, and other cities. One cannot write to the president who sends thousands of his soldiers to their deaths without sparing them, gives orders for terrorist acts and murders of children. One cannot write to the president who started this massacre and lost half of his country. You can’t write to a loser. Every day children are dying in Donbass. And it’s all his fault. A president who will lose everything…
Well, what about UNICEF, the UN, Amnesty International? Have they said anything about the children killed by the Ukrainian army? No, of course not. Just like in the Mirotvorets story. They know. But they remain silent or express concern. They are silent always and everywhere. Silent when the children of Yugoslavia, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were and are being killed. And if such respected organizations turn a blind eye to the brutal killing of children, do they have anything to say about the Mirotvorets story? I guess not. After all, we are the wrong children, born and living in the wrong place, according to UNICEF and Amnesty International. One of my essays says that war children are quiet because adults can’t hear them. They are. Unfortunately, we — the children — are not interested in them. We are not like them. They seem to think it’s okay to kill us, just to do it quietly, so as not to disturb others with our cries for help. I’m sorry that this is happening. I’m sorry that the country I was born in, is shelling and trying to destroy everything I care about and love, under the approving smile of those who can but won’t stop this war. Unfortunately, all those who help Ukraine do not realize that THE WAR IS COMING TO THEM.
Ordinary people in the U.S. and Europe are mostly unaware of the atrocities of the Ukrainian army, the brutal shelling and killing of civilians. People are told that we are shelling ourselves or that the Russian army has been shooting at us for eight years. Apparently, that’s why we’ve been waiting for Russia to come in 2022, yep. Alternative reality.”
Faina Savenkova, Lugansk
Faina Savenkova, author, playwright, peace activist
This is my English translation of the article by Faina Savenkova, child author, playwright and peace activist from Luhansk, Donbass.
The original in Russian can be read here.
“A year ago, the website “Mirotvorets”
(Ukrainian online kill list and database of targets, includes hundreds of children) put my contact data for free public access. I wrote many letters to world leaders and creative people from Western countries. I had only two requests: to remove the data of all children from Mirotvorets and to help the children of Donbas to find a peaceful life, so that we wouldn’t be killed. When the confrontation with Mirotvorets began, my Ukrainian journalist friends asked me why I didn’t write a letter to Zelensky, but only mentioned him in my interview.
At that time it was hard for me to answer, I still naively believed that there could be peace between Ukraine and Donbass, and that UN Secretary General Guterres and UNICEF, as internationally known organizations, would help me. But, unfortunately, I was wrong. Everything I asked for was ignored by these organizations, and Ukraine decided that we can be subjugated by force.
My efforts and dreams remained dreams. The only thing I’m glad for is that I didn’t write to Zelensky back then. And now I understand why: you can’t write and ask not to kill children to the one who gives the orders to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Alchevsk, and other cities. One cannot write to the president who sends thousands of his soldiers to their deaths without sparing them, gives orders for terrorist acts and murders of children. One cannot write to the president who started this massacre and lost half of his country. You can’t write to a loser. Every day children are dying in Donbass. And it’s all his fault. A president who will lose everything…
Well, what about UNICEF, the UN, Amnesty International? Have they said anything about the children killed by the Ukrainian army? No, of course not. Just like in the Mirotvorets story. They know. But they remain silent or express concern. They are silent always and everywhere. Silent when the children of Yugoslavia, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were and are being killed. And if such respected organizations turn a blind eye to the brutal killing of children, do they have anything to say about the Mirotvorets story? I guess not. After all, we are the wrong children, born and living in the wrong place, according to UNICEF and Amnesty International. One of my essays says that war children are quiet because adults can’t hear them. They are. Unfortunately, we — the children — are not interested in them. We are not like them. They seem to think it’s okay to kill us, just to do it quietly, so as not to disturb others with our cries for help. I’m sorry that this is happening. I’m sorry that the country I was born in, is shelling and trying to destroy everything I care about and love, under the approving smile of those who can but won’t stop this war. Unfortunately, all those who help Ukraine do not realize that THE WAR IS COMING TO THEM.
Ordinary people in the U.S. and Europe are mostly unaware of the atrocities of the Ukrainian army, the brutal shelling and killing of civilians. People are told that we are shelling ourselves or that the Russian army has been shooting at us for eight years. Apparently, that’s why we’ve been waiting for Russia to come in 2022, yep. Alternative reality.”
Faina Savenkova, Lugansk
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Forwarded from International Reporters
La dernière réunion de l’année à Moscou est passée et nous rentrons à toute vitesse à la maison. Le réveillon du Nouvel An et Noël approchent, et ils doivent être célébrés en famille. Chez soi, c’est chez soi, même s’il y a une guerre sur votre terre.
https://www.donbass-insider.com/fr/2022/12/28/faina-savenkova-le-sapin-de-lespoir/
https://www.donbass-insider.com/fr/2022/12/28/faina-savenkova-le-sapin-de-lespoir/
Donbass Insider
Faina Savenkova - Le sapin de l'espoir - Donbass Insider
La dernière réunion de l'année à Moscou est passée et nous rentrons à la maison. Le réveillon du Nouvel An et Noël approchent.
https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/dmitry-medvedev-meets-with-child-diplomat-from-lugansk-3b1ee2653c22https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/dmitry-medvedev-meets-with-child-diplomat-from-lugansk- Dmitry Medvedev Meets with Child Diplomat from Lugansk
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council met with Faina Savenkova yesterday
Third from left, Dmitry Medvedev. Second from right, Faina Savenkova.
Faina Savenkova, just two months into her 14th year, has already met with, or received letters from, several world dignitaries.
The teenager from Lugansk, who is also an accomplished writer and author, met with Russia’s former President, Dmitry Medvedev, in Moscow Tuesday, December 27. They greeted one another, exchanged books, and, Faina says, Medvedev indicated that he would help her with some of her upcoming projects.
Faina’s main goal is drawing attention to the plight of children in war-torn regions such as the Donbass, where she lives, which has been under attack by Ukrainian ultranationalists since 2014. To this end, she has reached out to many world leaders and celebrities.
On December 6, she visited the Syrian Embassy in Moscow where she was presented with a letter from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The letter was Assad’s response to a letter Faina had written to him, in which she expressed solidarity with Syria’s children, who have also grown up surrounded by war.
You can read about her visit to the Embassy and my translation of Assad’s letter here.
Letter from President Assad to Faina Savenkova. Photo: Faina Savenkova.
Faina Savenkova and co-author Alexander Kontorovich talk with diplomatic officials at the Syrian Embassy in Moscow. Photo: Faina Savenkova.
In March of this year, Faina received a letter from the Vatican, after she wrote to Pope Francis on behalf of the children in Donbass, imploring him to bring awareness to their suffering. The letter was authored by Luigi Roberto Cona, a Vatican diplomat and the Assessor for General Affairs of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
The letter said, “Pope Francis is not indifferent to the plight of people, especially those who suffer and are going through hard times,” and invited Faina to join the Pope in prayer for peace in the world.
Letter from the Vatican to Faina Savenkova.
In September of this year, Faina also met with Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Faina Savenkova (left), Maria Zakharova (right). Photo: Faina Savenkova
Faina said she can’t tell me everything she discussed with Medvedev, but that she is hopeful the Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council will help her with future projects.
The young writer has already published two compilations of her essays about the war and has co-authored two novels. But her efforts to bring awareness to the world about the plight of Donbass have also not gone unnoticed by the nationalists in Kiev, who added her to the Ukrainian kill list known as Mirotvorets when she was just 12, after she spoke at a UN Security Council meeting.
Since Mirotvorets published Faina’s home address and other personal information, at least one complete stranger has shown up at her house, and he said that he got her address from the hit list.
Since she was just five years old, Faina’s life has been under constant threat.
“The Donbass is my Love, the Donbass is my Suffering,” by Faina Savenkova, to be soon released in French.
Yet, despite the horrors of growing up in a warzone and the nightmare of being added to a hit list, Faina holds on to optimism and hope for the future of Donbass, and she waits for a time when the skies will no longer be filled with artillery shells, or with paper lanterns launched by grieving families whose children have already been killed.
I leave you with Faina’s latest essay, which I have translated.
Christmas Tree of Hope
By Faina Savenkova
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council met with Faina Savenkova yesterday
Third from left, Dmitry Medvedev. Second from right, Faina Savenkova.
Faina Savenkova, just two months into her 14th year, has already met with, or received letters from, several world dignitaries.
The teenager from Lugansk, who is also an accomplished writer and author, met with Russia’s former President, Dmitry Medvedev, in Moscow Tuesday, December 27. They greeted one another, exchanged books, and, Faina says, Medvedev indicated that he would help her with some of her upcoming projects.
Faina’s main goal is drawing attention to the plight of children in war-torn regions such as the Donbass, where she lives, which has been under attack by Ukrainian ultranationalists since 2014. To this end, she has reached out to many world leaders and celebrities.
On December 6, she visited the Syrian Embassy in Moscow where she was presented with a letter from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The letter was Assad’s response to a letter Faina had written to him, in which she expressed solidarity with Syria’s children, who have also grown up surrounded by war.
You can read about her visit to the Embassy and my translation of Assad’s letter here.
Letter from President Assad to Faina Savenkova. Photo: Faina Savenkova.
Faina Savenkova and co-author Alexander Kontorovich talk with diplomatic officials at the Syrian Embassy in Moscow. Photo: Faina Savenkova.
In March of this year, Faina received a letter from the Vatican, after she wrote to Pope Francis on behalf of the children in Donbass, imploring him to bring awareness to their suffering. The letter was authored by Luigi Roberto Cona, a Vatican diplomat and the Assessor for General Affairs of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
The letter said, “Pope Francis is not indifferent to the plight of people, especially those who suffer and are going through hard times,” and invited Faina to join the Pope in prayer for peace in the world.
Letter from the Vatican to Faina Savenkova.
In September of this year, Faina also met with Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Faina Savenkova (left), Maria Zakharova (right). Photo: Faina Savenkova
Faina said she can’t tell me everything she discussed with Medvedev, but that she is hopeful the Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council will help her with future projects.
The young writer has already published two compilations of her essays about the war and has co-authored two novels. But her efforts to bring awareness to the world about the plight of Donbass have also not gone unnoticed by the nationalists in Kiev, who added her to the Ukrainian kill list known as Mirotvorets when she was just 12, after she spoke at a UN Security Council meeting.
Since Mirotvorets published Faina’s home address and other personal information, at least one complete stranger has shown up at her house, and he said that he got her address from the hit list.
Since she was just five years old, Faina’s life has been under constant threat.
“The Donbass is my Love, the Donbass is my Suffering,” by Faina Savenkova, to be soon released in French.
Yet, despite the horrors of growing up in a warzone and the nightmare of being added to a hit list, Faina holds on to optimism and hope for the future of Donbass, and she waits for a time when the skies will no longer be filled with artillery shells, or with paper lanterns launched by grieving families whose children have already been killed.
I leave you with Faina’s latest essay, which I have translated.
Christmas Tree of Hope
By Faina Savenkova
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Well, this year’s last meeting in Moscow has passed, and now we are rushing home. The New Year and Christmas are coming up, and you have to celebrate them with your family. Home is home, even if there is a war on your land.
It’s hard for me to say what kind of wish I would make. And I don’t think Santa Claus will grant it. Unfortunately, it’s not in his power. He cannot end the war, help the wounded and the families of the dead, give them comfort, he cannot warm those who are now trapped under shelling in Donetsk and Gorlovka, who are without light and heat in the cities where the fighting is going on. He cannot, but he will not forget the wishes of children who need a miracle.
The year is ending. And I think the next one will be much harder. The further our army advances and liberates the Donbass, Kherson and other Russian cities, the angrier and more ruthless the enemy will be. But victory will surely remain with us.
Well, this year I did what I could. God helped me all this time. I have my family, home, light and warmth. But I tried to make sure that the world does not forget about the fact that our people are dying, by writing many appeals to presidents, politicians and creative people. I met with Maria Zakharova, the Syrian Ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari, wrote to Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. Unlike President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz, he answered. And he even invited me to a meeting. Now I hope that he will help me in my projects. And that is the most important thing.
Faina Savenkova outside the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/dmitry-medvedev..
It’s hard for me to say what kind of wish I would make. And I don’t think Santa Claus will grant it. Unfortunately, it’s not in his power. He cannot end the war, help the wounded and the families of the dead, give them comfort, he cannot warm those who are now trapped under shelling in Donetsk and Gorlovka, who are without light and heat in the cities where the fighting is going on. He cannot, but he will not forget the wishes of children who need a miracle.
The year is ending. And I think the next one will be much harder. The further our army advances and liberates the Donbass, Kherson and other Russian cities, the angrier and more ruthless the enemy will be. But victory will surely remain with us.
Well, this year I did what I could. God helped me all this time. I have my family, home, light and warmth. But I tried to make sure that the world does not forget about the fact that our people are dying, by writing many appeals to presidents, politicians and creative people. I met with Maria Zakharova, the Syrian Ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari, wrote to Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. Unlike President Macron and German Chancellor Scholz, he answered. And he even invited me to a meeting. Now I hope that he will help me in my projects. And that is the most important thing.
Faina Savenkova outside the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/dmitry-medvedev..
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