Instead of a thousand words.

Mykhailo Yurchuk was wounded in the first weeks of the war, losing his arm and leg. A medic held his hand for an hour while Mykhailo was being carried to safety - for fear that Mykhailo would kill himself.

In the hospital, Mykhailo met his future wife. They have a baby daughter. He works with soldiers in the hospital who have lost limbs, too - to help them get through that and share how to live in the new circumstances.

📷: Yevgeny Maloletka/Instagram

Ukrainian kids raised money for two infrared thermal imaging cameras for a Ukrainian Defender Yaroslav.

Then they got to meet Yaroslav in person! Watch how they greet each other. These kids know Yaroslav fights so they can live. Yaroslav knows who he's fighting for.

📹: rusi4ka.33/TikTok

Russian propagandist Solovyev is furious about rising gas prices in Russia. He wants to make lists of people responsible and present them to the public. Public executions on town squares next?

A Russian woman says no water or gas in America. She is probably addressing Ukrainian refugees in the US, saying that "Ukraine was and will be ours."

Data from 2022 shows that about 70% of Russians have never been abroad. Only about 2% have gone abroad less than a year ago by then.

"I really wanted to live": the story of a special forces officer of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine who fell out of a boat and swam for 14 hours in the open sea.

In mid-August, a fighter with the call sign "Konan" from the Artan battalion of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine was carrying out a special operation in the Black Sea. When the Defenders were returning back, an enemy Su-24 came on their trail. Trying to evade fire, their boat began maneuvering. That's how "Konan" ended up overboard.

Shortly before that, the special forces officer decided to put on a life jacket and remove all his equipment, leaving only a diving thermal suit. In 20 minutes he was already 130 kilometers from the shore.

The fighter admits that at first he panicked, but decided to swim. The landmark for him was one of the gas rigs, which was located about 20 kilometers away from him.

"Konan" swam despite dehydration and fatigue. Only thoughts of his family added to his strength. At one point he saw a boat approaching. There were his brothers-in-arms who had tracked him down with the help of the Bayraktar.

"The first thing I did when I felt the solid ground under my feet, I wrote a message to my wife, but I still haven't told her about what happened" - said the Defender in an interview with UP.

📸 &✒️: Ukrainska Pravda

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1707330852500172853?t=ZRgmW35OTN3Na15Q_newEA&s=19

Pro-Kremlin media publish a video of Putin ("Putin"?) meeting with Kadyrov ("Kadyrov"?).

It is unclear when this meeting took place.

"We exist as long as we oppress others" - a Russian person explains how Russia works.

According to him, Russia's entire history consists of three recurring phases - preparation for war, war and reconstruction after the war. The empire cannot allow anyone to live better, so every country with a higher standard of living is an enemy.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov commented on inflation in Russia:
"If you don't buy, prices are fine."

In her regular installment of "European horrors", Russian propagandist Skabeyeva is worried that the French don't have enough money for personal hygiene products.

She never shows the same level of care about her own country.

"If NATO comes, we'll make nuclear ashes of them," - Pavlo Hubarev, terrorist, Russian army soldier, Ukrainian collaborator with Russia, separatist, political and public figure of the so-called "DPR", who participated in pro-Russian protests in Ukraine in 2014.

"San Sanych," "Ahronom" and "Vivtorok" met when they were mobilized in 2014, became friends after service, and stood up to defend Ukraine together in the first days of the full-scale war.

They were killed together near Vuhledar in Donetsk region, where they fought as part of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

Eternal memory and eternal glory to Heroes.

📹: suspilne

Dmitry, a resident of Russian Perm region, received a pardon after participating in the war as a member of the Wagner PMC.

He was sentenced to 11 years for killing his 27-year-old girlfriend Tatyana in 2018, putting her through a meat grinder, collecting the bones in three bags and throwing them into the river. During trial, the killer accused Melekhina of "scandalizing" and "going out at night."

Then he was let out of prison to join Wagner PMC and go to the frontlines.

"The son went for many reasons to the PMC: he wanted to atone for what he had done, besides that, he had six years left to serve in the colony," said his mother. She believes that the pardon of the son was deserved as he is "sorry for what he's done and repents".

Now the killer lives in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region but is going to move to Anapa, Russia.

Heroes of modern Russia...

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1707464176929546736?t=9DreXhh0e-8caKVWkz9NkA&s=19

Crimean Telegram channels post this photo, reportedly from Kerch in the area of the Crimean bridge.

Air raid siren sounded on the occupied peninsula.

Reportedly, the bridge has been closed for crossing until 6 a.m on Friday.

Russia will hold massive staff exercises on civil defense throughout the country."

Reportedly, the staff exercises will be held for the first time in history on the territory of the entire country on the same day - October 3, 2023.

Based on the operational assignment, according to the plan, the training will be held in conditions when the country is under martial law and the destruction of housing has reached 70%.

It is also worth noting that the exercise plan includes the model of events when general mobilization has ended and martial law has been imposed in certain regions of the country.

The "special military operation" is going strictly according to plan.

📷: Soviet schoolchildren in gas masks during civil defense exercises in 1938.

This is what we're fighting for.

📹: natalyaparishkyra/TikTok

Instead of a thousand words.

Oleh visits what used to be his village in Mykolaiv region.
It was the frontlines and was destroyed by the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

📷: David Guttenfelder

Reportedly, this is a video of last night's attack on an electrical substation in Kursk region of Russia. There was a blackout in nearby settlements after that.

It is reported that important military objects were connected to that substation, as well.

"We will destroy a million, two, three, five million Ukrainians, we will destroy [them], but we will win." - Pavlo Gubarev, terrorist, Russian army soldier, Ukrainian collaborator with Russia, separatist, political and public figure of the so-called "DPR", who participated in pro-Russian protests in Ukraine in 2014.

He openly calls for genocide. Otherwise, says Gubarev, Russia will fall apart.

Russian physicist Kovalchuk proposes to test nuclear weapons at least once to scare the West.

President of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute and president of the Polytechnic Museum Mikhail Kovalchuk suggested testing nuclear weapons on Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. In his opinion, nuclear tests could frighten Western countries.

In February of this year, Putin instructed to prepare a test site on Novaya Zemlya for possible tests of Russian nuclear weapons, if the US is the first to conduct such tests.

Mikhail Kovalchuk is the brother of Putin's "wallet" Yuri Kovalchuk. They are both members of the Russian president's inner circle.