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Richard Coombes
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Ukrainian and Russian speaker, translator of verse, lyrics and literary prose. Out now: Disbelief, Dislocation, Someone Else’s Life, The Food Block. https://richardcoombeslanguageservices.com
Another great speech from Mr “If I become Chancellor I will send Taurus to Ukraine” Merz.
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’ll admit that I’d never heard a crowd chanting Путін - хуйло until I was at an Okean Elzy concert in Manchester and the audience was generating its own entertainment waiting for the band to come out, shouting stuff, and my friend was suddenly like “Listen! Listen! Do you know what they’re saying?”
December 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
😀
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I’ve worried for over two years that “peace” will be made just as Russia is about to collapse. We desperately need Russia to collapse, brutal though it is for Ukrainians before the collapse comes.
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If only they were the decision makers
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We’re still listening to the snowflake cornflake? The war doesn’t end with territorial concessions. It takes a five minute break.
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yes so make sacrifices now to defeat Russia in ACTION. Putin laughs at words.
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Require”? Is it the view of the Kyiv Post that the US has the authority and ability to “require” Ukraine to capitulate to Russia?
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s good of you not to blame the uk but I don’t rate our contribution as highly as our government does …
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Most interesting for me here is “it’s not even desirable that Russia should lose”. This attitude has spiked the western response throughout. I don’t know just how unbombed you have to be to be more concerned by a possible evil you can’t actually predict than by the evil that IS Russia today.
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Surely made by a Ukrainian
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“the alliance is reassessing its traditionally reactive posture as Europe faces a surge in hybrid incidents linked to Russia” … ie changing its reactive policy by considering reacting
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Latvia won that war
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Я з вами назавжди
November 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“My Lord and master, we are suffering horribly from Ukraine’s foolish defensive war against you. Please come to Budapest, where we will conveniently forget your own war crimes and those of your army, and seek a just resolution to this war exclusively on your oh so reasonable terms.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Trump chose Vance to make his own position safer. Who’ll impeach Trump if this is what’s up next?
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM