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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 6d

You all laugh at how Putin, like an idiot, slipped up at his press conference and called himself the “CIA director,” but meanwhile the other three Putin clones are beating the shit out of that king of comedy right now in some Kremlin backroom for such Freudian slips.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 15d

Odesa.

The sea, the fun, expensive restaurants full of people, air raid sirens and booms all night long, every night.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 16d

Odesa is really a very special place on Earth, in war and peace alike

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 16d

Quite a view.

Scarred Odesa port keeps holding on.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24d

But when European countries even theoretically consider the possibility of helping Ukraine shoot down Russian drones over Ukrainian territory - so that Russia cannot use them to attack European countries - that suddenly becomes “a war between NATO and Russia.”

Don't get it confused!

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24d

So, listen up, kids:

When Russia deliberately launches dozens of drones against Poland and Romania, that is NOT warmongering and NOT a threat of war between Russia and NATO.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24d

Which means this is exactly what the Kremlin greatly fears, and that it would be both effective and very painful for Russia’s war effort to exterminate Ukraine.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24d

Oh, and now drunk Dimon is howling with threats over proposals for European forces to help Ukraine shoot down Russian drones and missiles at least over western Ukraine.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24d

Good old Kyiv tonight

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 26d

Now I really, really understand why so many foreigners love living in Ukraine even despite war

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27d

Look who's coming to town now with our glorious Ukrzaliznytsia

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27d

Anyone got any more questions about whether Donald Trump would do anything if the worst happens and Russia turns against NATO allies in Europe?

Ukraine is Europe’s greatest ally now, and we need each other as dearly as never before.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27d

The true plague of the 21st century is the reckless and deranged bellowing before millions, spouting off about things it knows nothing of, lulling the mind into sleep — the sleep that produces monsters.

It has happened in history, both on the left and right, and will end badly again.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 27d

Yet another young Ukrainan Air Force pilot has been killed in action today.

Major Oleksandr Borovyk of the 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade had a mission with his Sukhoi Su-27 at the Zaporizhia sector.

He was just 30.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

...rolling out red carpets and applauding the aggressor, while the dictatorial axis openly mocks its deranged master.

Such is the age we live in.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

Now he wants even more “action,” already against NATO countries, because it’s so exciting — and the situation couldn’t be more convenient: the White House is in a complete coma, and with its insane “policy” it is ceding global leadership to China in giant strides...

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

War thrills his nerves, allowing him to imagine himself as Stalin and Peter the Great rolled into one — a man deciding the fate of the world, before whom nations tremble.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

Well, what did you expect — Putin is already bored with simply having a daily bloodbath on the front line in Ukraine and burying Ukrainians under the rubble of their homes every night.

He revels in the war, in the mass killing of people, in the terror of war he projects onto the entire West.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

— should finally be seen as either utterly incompetent and incapable of making the necessary decisions, or as a direct agent of influence for the Russian aggressor.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

On the other hand, every crisis is always an opportunity.

Therefore, anyone who now starts screeching that Russian Shaheds attacking Poland are a “mistake,” an “accident,” that “Ukrainians are to blame,” or that “Putin must be offered concessions with so there will be no war in Europe”...

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 28d

Just wait for this:

“We stand in solidarity with Poland under attack with Russian drones — so once again, Ukraine must finally surrender so that this all could end.”

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29d

Now that’s what I call intrigue.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29d

What do you even know about intrigue?

Real intrigue is when you’re in bed at night suddenly hearing the rising roar of jet engines — and there are two options.

Either it’s our fighter circling high above taking down Shaheds or it’s a Russian missile heading just this way.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29d

If you think you will sit this war out and nothing is going to happen to you of what Russia is doing to Ukraine every day, you are profoundly mistaken.

And if Ukraine falls and you get to be the next on Russia’s way, it will be too late to scratch your heads about how it ended up this way.

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bidding the last farewell to Daria “Delta” Lopatina.

There’s an hour-long queue to say goodbye at the St. Michael’s right now.

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