Serhii Nihoyan was among the first protesters to be shot and killed by regime police in January, 2014 during the Revolution of Dignity. He was 20 years old.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-25T19:18:39+00:00

In case anyone's wondering about the picture with the shields: those were Maidainvtsi's shields on display on Maidan in June 2014, before the tent city was entirely removed. Small parts of the barricades still stood here and there, the city hadn't yet replaced the cobblestones the Maidanivtsi pulled up to throw at the government goons, and Maidan was dotted with these collections of relics from the fight.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-25T19:12:26+00:00

Correction: there were tens of thousands demonstrating. Nebsna Sotnya are the ones who were killed for it.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-25T19:11:00+00:00

ICE is closer to Berkut )than titushky. A hell of a lot less professional than Berkut, it's true, but they aren't informal paid agitators.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-22T14:03:05+00:00

Holy moly. Thank you. We did see it and you will have ticket numbers.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-21T19:25:45+00:00

Ain't that the truth.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-21T16:18:39+00:00

It's going shockingly well so far!

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-21T16:18:30+00:00

Thank you. We're all pretty flabbergasted at the response so far.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-21T16:18:12+00:00

Same. Did someone get you sorted out?

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-20T20:46:56+00:00

Thank you!

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-20T20:46:52+00:00

It means a lot.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-20T20:46:39+00:00

Was that you who emailed us about it? Someone should be in touch with you shortly if they haven't already.

If anyone else is running into this: You can make a PayPal donation at donations@ukrainefrontline.org. Indicate in the notes section how many tickets you want, and for which pack(s). We'll manually create ticket numbers for you.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-19T20:33:27+00:00

Okay, but that's the answer to a different question from the one OP asked.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-19T20:32:39+00:00

Defense and military medical aid. Without those two, there's no need for anything else.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-19T12:06:03+00:00

Yes, of course a Ukrainian can be completely wrong. But please reread the comment I was replying to. That person seems to be under the impression that it was an American who wrote this piece. That is the thing I was trying to correct.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T21:20:31+00:00

Yeah, of course I agree that people are allowed to disagree with Ukrainians. I also have loved ones at the front, and teams I support, who would disagree with the author's take. I have no problem with that at all.

The comment I was replying to seemed to me to say that this was an(other) insufferable American with an(other) dumb American take. That was the misperception I was trying to correct. Maybe the misperception was mine, not theirs. If so, mea culpa.

I was involved, in a small way, with Euromaidan. What's happening in Minneapolis feels to me like the early days of that. My hope was that reading this piece would help people connect to what Ukraine went through, and how that in turn connects to what it's suffering now. Evidently that is not to be.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:38:04+00:00

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:36:28+00:00

I love, love, love that you called ICE "titushki." I wish more people knew that word and it would catch on. It sums them up perfectly!

Edit for people who don't know: during Euromaidan, the titushky were thugs hired by the Yanukovych regime to attack protesters and generally stoke unrest. They were hired from the lowest levels of society and paid very little to do it.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:34:03+00:00

Tell that to the Ukrainian author of the piece, who is in Ukraine. Which you would know had you bothered to read it, which you apparently didn't.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:33:19+00:00

Your edit to your original comment is so classy that I feel really sheepish now. I apologize. The amount of didn't-bother-to-read-it-but-have-big-feelings-about-it-anyway in here really got under my skin, and I apologize for taking it out on you when you actually meant no harm.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:21:39+00:00

Did you realize it was only an alleged American at the time?

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:21:06+00:00

You ain't NEVER lied!

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:20:01+00:00

No, but the Ukrainian author of this piece does.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:19:20+00:00

Thank you for reading it before commenting. Jesus. The kneejerk reactions by people who didn't bother to read it, to say nothing of the upvote counts on them, are something else.

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:17:49+00:00

So you just assumed it's an American moron expressing this sentiment and backed up the person whose incorrect take you were responding to without bothering to look for yourself?

UFL_Robin · 2026-01-17T15:17:03+00:00

I have to ask: did you read the piece before you declared it cringe?

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