this is very beautiful it would make a wicked tattooQuote:
Originally Posted by Natalka
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this is very beautiful it would make a wicked tattooQuote:
Originally Posted by Natalka
There are amazing and talented artists who have really been springing up since Euromaidan started - lots of times they are featured on the FB pages. Lots of cartoons, too (mostly about Putin), which I've resisted the urge to post, lol!
Speaking of artists....
Young artists collected five hundred dollars in support of Ukrainian Army.
A young artists' initiative “The Voice of Peace” has been going on in Zhytomyr for the last two weeks. The children created postcards, posters and other artworks.
At the end of the program the artwork items were sold to adults. The children raised $500, which were used to buy radios, stationery and other items for the army.
The children were happy with the results - they believe that their help is important for the army which defends them.
Source - Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
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A few closeup
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Prayer for Ukraine
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Pro-Russian protesters set up barricades outside Sloviansk police station
12 April 2014
Armed men have seized a police station and a security services building in eastern Ukraine, officials say.
Police said the men fired shots and used stun grenades to seize the offices in Sloviansk, near the Russian border.
The interior minister called the gunmen "terrorists" and said special forces would repel the attack.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27000700
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine -- In what looks like a special Russian military operation that resembles the Kremlin's Crimean invasion, masked men in army fatigues and bulletproof vests, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, seized the police station and district Security Service of Ukraine headquarters in Sloviansk, a Donetsk Oblast city of 125,000 people.
Gunmen also set up two checkpoints outside the city, on the roads leading to Artemivsk and Konstantinovka.
Pro-Russian extremists also reportedly tried to take the police station in Shakhtarsk, another Donetsk city. of 75,000 people. Dmytro Tkachenko of the Committee of Voters nongovernmental organization in Donetsk said that the attempt failed.
Militants also failed in their attempt to storm the general prosecutor's office in Donetsk. There are also indications that the attempts to seize more public buildings, including regional police stations, will escalate this weekend.
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ce-343195.html
^videos and more info at last link. (I didn't imbed videos because I have no sound on my computer so I can't listen to them.)
She's done - it's called "Revival", by French artist Julien Mallan and Alexei Kislov, an artist from Ukraine
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A school in Kherson held a patriotic event yesterday "Unity For Peace":
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Portugal sends their love! Yesterday at the Russian embassy in Lisbon:
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Ukrainians in Spain held a pro-Ukrainian rally at Vicente Calderon stadium prior to the Atlético Madrid - Barcelona match on April 9. They protested the sponsor of the championship - Russian Gazprom:
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The Brave People of Donetsk.
Around 300 people of Donetsk create “Unity chain”. They came to central street with national symbolic, sang the anthem, proclaimed: “Ukraine is united!”, “Donetsk is Ukraine!”, “Glory to Ukraine!”. The people were not even scared by a column of cars with pro-Russian activists, who tried to threaten and embarrass the meeting participants.
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This was at the famous stairs of Odessa earlier today. Support for a European Ukraine
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Today, activists in Zaporizhzhya connected the two banks of the Dnipro river in a live chain.
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Today, on April 12 the Russian Federation, in fact, invaded continental Ukraine.
This was recognized by the Interior Minister of Ukraine, military experts and numerous witnesses of the latest events in Eastern Ukraine. National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine was urgently convened.
“The Government of Ukraine is considering the facts of today as display external Russian aggression,” Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arseniy Avakov wrote on his page.
The reason for such a statement is that the weapons used by militants in Krasny Liman (Donetsk Oblast) special series of Kalashnikov guns with grenade launchers – is owned only by armed forces of Russian Federation. Some activists in Sloviansk (Donetsk Oblast) managed to capture the photo of a “green man” with weapon whose uniform looks just the same as we’ve seen in Crimea. In Sloviansk also the towers of mobile connection were destroyed, police station and Security Bureau office are blocked. Two journalists were caught by armed people, but later they were released. And the most worrying fact: the weapon storage room in Sloviansk was raided and, as a result, a large number of firearms were handed over to random people.
http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/13/s...ental-ukraine/
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Armed pro-Russian activists occupying the police station in the eastern Ukraine town of Slovyansk
April 12, 2014
The Canadian government has imposed more travel bans and sanctions in response to growing pro-Russia uprisings in eastern Ukraine.
On Saturday, Ottawa announced travel bans on the chair of the Sevastopol Electoral Commission, Valery Medvedev, and chair of the Crimean Electoral Commission Mikhail Malyshev.
Canada is also imposing economic sanctions on Crimean oil and gas company Chornomornaftogaz.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said that Canada "cannot sit by while Russia illegally occupies Ukraine."
"Russia's continued provocative actions in Crimea and elsewhere are completely unacceptable," Baird said in a statement released Saturday. "Canada and its allies are prepared to take additional steps that will further isolate Russia economically and politically."
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In Kharkiv today, 5,000 attended a Ukrainian unity rally. A pro-Russian rally was held at the statue to Lenin, attracting only 200.
A chain of unity in Zhytomyr today
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Luhansk rallied for Ukraine today
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Chain of unity in Chernihiv today
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A chain of unity in Izmail today
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A chain of unity in the town of Khorol, Poltava
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April 12, 2014. Poltava. Football fans of Shakhtar (Donetsk) and Vorskla (Poltava) held a joint rally for Ukraine:
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Luhansk right now! Anti-separatist rally going on.
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One member of the Ukrainian security forces has been killed and five others have been wounded in clashes in Sloviansk, Ukraine's interior minister has said. Arsen Avakov said there had been an "unidentifiable number" of pro-Russian casualties during the "anti-terror" operation.
"This happened at one of the roadblocks set up by the separatists. They opened direct fire at security forces as they were approaching the roadbclock," an unnamed security source told a Ukrainian news agency.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...4#TWEET1099401
(posted an hour ago)
Slovyansk partially cleared of occupiers
Ukrainian police officers have cleared most of Slovyansk in the Donetsk oblast.
Radio communications among the armed "separatists" in Slovyansk are being drowned out by Ukraine's national anthem. Law enforcement has succeeded in freeing most of the city, reports TSN, citing News of Donbas.
According to News of Donbas, "most of Slovyansk has been freed from Russian special services."
At the same time, in Chervonyy Lyman (Red Lyman) local residents have succeeded in driving away occupiers with St. George Ribbons (Russian military symbol) on their sleeves.
As previously reported, during the anti-terrorist operation in Slovyansk one security force member was killed. There were also casualties among the occupiers.
13 April 2014 20:07 ET
(note - the Kremlin denies involvement in events in eastern Ukraine)
Ukraine's president says a full-scale operation involving the army will be launched in the east after pro-Russian militants seized government buildings.
Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said he would not allow a repetition of what happened in Crimea which was annexed by Russia last month.
His live televised address from parliament came after pro-Russian forces targeted half a dozen cities.
An urgent meeting of the UN Security Council is under way in New York.
Early on Sunday Ukrainian authorities said they launched an "anti-terror operation" after armed men took over the city of Sloviansk.
A Ukrainian officer was killed in a gun battle in the city, and there are reports the Ukrainian operation has been halted.
But both sides suffered a number of casualties, interim Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.
He later said Ukrainian forces had been attacked at a checkpoint on the way to Sloviansk, and at least one officer had been killed and five others wounded. An unknown number of militants were also wounded.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27011605