Professor Roman Sheremeta
Nov 15, 2026
She recorded a video of her great-grandson taking off his hat. An hour later, all three of them were dead. Today marks the second anniversary.
On November 7, 2024, a single russian strike killed three generations of one family in Zaporizhzhia: one-and-a-half-year-old Adam, his 27-year-old mother Sofia, and his 68-year-old great-grandmother Tetiana.
That morning, Tetiana was taking Adam for a walk. The little boy, wearing a red jacket and a Mickey Mouse hat, kept taking off his hat, while his great-grandmother gently said:
“Why are you taking off your hat? You’ll get cold.”
She recorded the moment on video and sent it to the family.
At 2:22 p.m., she sent her last message. An hour later, all three were at home when a russian guided aerial bomb struck their apartment building.
Sofia’s father, Serhii, was at work. He saw a message in a group chat: “Who is still trapped under the rubble?”
He rushed home, praying the entire way.
“When I arrived, all I saw were ruins. I wandered around trying to find where my balcony had been. And I realized there was no hope of anyone surviving.”
Sofia’s mother, Yuliia, was away on a business trip. She had called her daughter and asked her to be careful.
Sofia replied: “Thank you, Mom. Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.”
They never spoke again.
Sofia was a translator. She had moved to Britain, where she worked with Ukrainian soldiers, but she could not bear living far from home. She returned to Ukraine, got married, and gave birth to Adam.
She was studying psychology because she knew that so many people in Ukraine needed help.
Sofia was the first to be pulled from the rubble. At first, she was mistakenly identified as someone else because her body had been so badly mutilated.
All that remained of their apartment were some photographs, a cup, and a card from the maternity hospital bearing Adam’s tiny footprints.
They were buried on November 9.
“We buried my daughter and grandson in the same grave because they were inseparable. We buried Grandma next to them,” Serhii recalled.
Toy teddy bears lie on Adam’s grave.
Yuliia says: “He had just started learning to talk and was always smiling. He and my daughter made us happy every single day.”
She wants the world to know their names.
Adam Buhaiov, Sofia Buhaiova, and Tetiana Tarasevych.
Source: text translated from Bairak Oleh
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Dear Christians, before praising Jim Caviezel, please take a moment to learn who you are actually celebrating.
Recently, I have seen many Ukrainian Christians sharing a post about Jim Caviezel, the actor who portrayed Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ. He is presented almost as a spiritual hero, courageously exposing hypocrisy among modern church leaders.
But there is a problem. Caviezel by any standards is not a moral authority.
This is a man who has spoken at events associated with QAnon, a movement known for spreading hate and conspiracies. He has repeatedly appeared alongside Steve Bannon, one of the most divisive figures in America’s far-right political movement.
And what particularly troubles me as a Ukrainian is that Caviezel has also spread hate and conspiracies about Ukraine.
For example, during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s show, he promoted claims about supposed Ukrainian biological laboratories connected to the harvesting of children’s organs and blood. These are not simply unusual personal beliefs. These are baseless lies that echo russian propaganda and contribute to the demonization of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
In addition, Caviezel called Ukrainian warriors ‘Nazis.’ Yes, the same people who are defending their land from real Nazis. And of course, he said that ‘Putin is just defending himself.’
And yet, Ukrainian Christians are now celebrating this man as an example of Christian courage and moral leadership.
I find this deeply disturbing.
As a Christian, I agree that modern churches sometimes compromise their principles, avoid uncomfortable truths, and try too hard to please society.
But it hypocritical to lecture others about speaking the truth while spreading misinformation yourself.
Is Christian courage really about associating with political propagandists and promoting conspiracy theories?
Portraying Jesus Christ in a movie does not mean living according to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
We Christians should be especially careful about turning actors, politicians, and celebrities into spiritual authorities simply because they speak loudly about God.
Not everyone who quotes the Bible is an example of Christian character. Not everyone who talks about spiritual warfare stands on the side of truth.
So before sharing another glowing tribute to Jim Caviezel, I encourage you to spend a few minutes examining his public record.
Christianity does not need more celebrity idols. It needs people who love truth, even when that truth challenges their own political or religious loyalties.
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In late October, during an interview with This Week on Capitol Hill, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the following statement: “russians have killed around 120 members of the clergy. Deliberately, not accidentally. […] Around 800 religious buildings have been destroyed or damaged. Some of them were a thousand years old.”
We rarely talk about the religious dimension of russia’s war against Ukraine. I hope a new book, Religion at War, by Oleksiy Hordieiev, recently published in Kyiv, will help fill at least part of this gap, both in Ukraine and abroad.
The book examines how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) used its influence during the occupation of Crimea and throughout 2014–2022. It documents how this organization blessed russian soldiers and cooperated with russia’s intelligence services. Its “mother church,” the russian Orthodox Church, went even further, declaring the war “holy” and provoking outrage around the world.
Fortunately, Religion at War is not only a story of betrayal and manipulation. The book also tells the stories of Ukrainian military chaplains who bring hope to soldiers in the most difficult circumstances.
For Ukraine’s Armed Forces, faith has been a genuine source of strength. For russia, it has become a weapon.
Religion at War is expected to be translated into English and German. I look forward to the day when the world learns more about this often-overlooked dimension of the war.
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Imagine a CEO who blames his predecessor for poor results, his employees for failures, and his competitors for lost customers. How long would that CEO survive?
Now consider Donald Trump.
According to Reuters, Trump mentioned Joe Biden at least 890 times between January and September 2026. When things go wrong, he repeatedly points to someone else.
But leadership comes with accountability. You cannot take credit for every success while blaming others for every failure.
In this new article for The Economics of Power, bestselling author Steven Mark Kahan examines Trump’s leadership through the lens of business management and asks a simple question: If we wouldn’t accept this behavior from a corporate CEO, why should we accept it from the president of the United States?
Read the full article here: https://economicsofpower.substack.com/p/the-ceo-who-blames-everyone-but-himself
Caviezel has a toxic heritage ; Romansh, Irish, fundamentalist Roman Catholicism.
Now he’s added virulent putlerism to his identity.
A US Official Just Joined Russia’s Special Forces. He Still Holds Office in Vermont
https://united24media.com/world/a-us-official-just-joined-russias-special-forces-he-still-holds-office-in-vermont-24191
Ha…he’s from Vermont the land of Bernie Sanders and equivalent nuts
I’m no fan of socialism, but most of them actually support Ukraine.
In the U.K. the ruling Labour Party is very pro-Ukraine, even though it does have a small lunatic fringe that lobbies for putler.
I don’t think it would be very fair to bracket this nazi scrote with Bernie. If you enter “Bernie Sanders : Ukraine” into AI, it shows consistent support for Ukraine in terms of voting record and statements. Tiny extract :
“Sanders consistently characterizes the conflict in Ukraine as an unprovoked war of aggression launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin against a democratic nation. Across his Senate floor speeches and public interviews, Sanders emphasizes defending Ukrainian sovereignty, upholding international law, and maintaining U.S. support for democratic allies.”
Marijn Markus :
☝ If Russia had been peaceful over the last few decades instead of fighting pointless wars, NATO wouldn’t exist by now. Russia is literally the driving force in keeping the alliance united.
Which is kind of hilarious, when you how much the Kremlin complains about ‘NATO warmongers’ on a daily basis…
Darth Putin KGB :
The further Putinisation of America. Airplanes cannot fly because an idiot President is surrounded by incompetent yes-men.
Illia Ponomarenko :
My favorite Kremlin “demand” for a “settlement” of its war against Ukraine (apart from, out of fucking nowhere, demanding that Moldova be federalized, lol) is that the West must pledge not to use their nuclear weapons to defend other European countries in the event of an attack.
Yep, this is the kind of clown show these people in expensive suits and with pompous looks on their faces are busy putting on.
Mykhailo Rohoza :
Putin apparently believes he owns not only Ukraine, but all of Europe.
Moscow’s demands are becoming increasingly outrageous:
🇺🇦 Ukraine must surrender territory and abandon NATO membership.
🇫🇮 Finland must leave NATO.
🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 The Baltic states must be left without allied military bases.
🇲🇩 Moldova must accept federalization on Russia’s terms.
This is not a peace plan. It is an attempt to force Europe’s entire security system into submission.
And Washington needs to answer one question: Why should an aggressor be allowed to dictate the future of sovereign nations he has failed to conquer?
Europe must stop waiting for the White House to recognize the true nature of Putin’s regime.
Ukraine does not need Moscow’s permission to defend itself. Europe does not need Washington’s permission to protect itself.
Future negotiations should not determine how much territory Russia receives as a reward for aggression. They should determine how to prevent Russia from threatening Europe again.
Russia must learn to live in a world where other nations’ borders, sovereignty, and freedom are not decided in the Kremlin.
Shaun Pinner :
Putin chose to send hundreds of thousands of his own people to their deaths.
That responsibility lies squarely with him.
Illia Ponomarenko :
The most interesting thing is that nobody seems capable of actually explaining what exactly those famous “Russian security concerns” are that must be “addressed” in order to “eliminate the root causes of the conflict” and at least secure a ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Especially if you actually listen to what Putin himself and his minions, like Lavrov, have been saying all these years, rather than the feverish fantasies of assorted Putinverstehers and “independent Ukraine skeptics.”
What exactly do they want in order to stop a war they have been unable to bring to a successful conclusion for almost five years (or twelve years, in the broader sense)? For Ukraine to simply surrender the rest of Donbas without a fight? The famous “fortress belt,” the country’s largest defensive stronghold, which all of mighty, invincible Russia has failed to capture by military force for YEARS?
Well, Putin himself and his minions, speaking as though from their future seats in the dock at an international war crimes tribunal for Ukraine, have openly said for years that the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbas is merely a “precondition” for beginning “real negotiations” on peace. In other words, you hand over your main defensive lines to us, and only THEN will we consider what comes next.
And what comes next? Well, it will “suddenly” turn out that Russia has also written Kherson and Zaporizhia into its so-called “constitution” as “inalienable parts of Russian territory.” Russia lost the former after a defeat back in November 2022, while it has still failed to capture the latter and won’t manage to do so in any remotely foreseeable future.
Putin has been openly talking about “four regions,” not merely “just Donbas,” all these years. So Putin will finally calm down and leave Ukraine alone only after he is handed Ukraine’s main defensive line in Donbas for free, along with a bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnipro, an open route for an offensive into the heart of Ukraine that he lost on the battlefield years ago?
And he will most certainly, absolutely, GUARANTEED not take advantage of this magnificent invitation to launch another offensive, but will instead give his word that Russia’s “security interests” have been satisfied?
And what about that supposed “buffer zone” along the Russian-Ukrainian border, from Sumy to the outskirts of Kharkiv, which Putin also declared absolutely vital to Russia’s very survival years ago, and which he has likewise failed to conquer all this time? Is that included in the grand package of appeasement for the aggressor, or not?
And what about all the renewed empty chatter about a “new European security architecture”? Is that also something Putin absolutely must have before he can stop raining missiles down on apartment buildings in Kyiv every night, full of sleeping people?
And what exactly does “rolling NATO back to its 1997 borders” mean? Is that another thing we must hand to Putin, who practically orgasms on live television over (false) reports that his forces have captured some single street in the Ukrainian town of Druzhkivka after five years of fighting, and behaves as though his victorious space marines are feasting in Reykjavík?
Does it mean that, to secure a “ceasefire,” he must be allowed to kick every country from Finland to Czechia out of NATO and be handed his very own, personal, brand-new Warsaw Pact? Or does it mean NATO must pledge not to defend those countries in the event of a Russian invasion, because doing otherwise would constitute an intolerable threat to Russia’s security and one of the “root causes of the crisis in Ukraine,” where Putin has already put half a million of his own soldiers into the ground trying to seize what remains of the ruins of Ukrainian Donbas?
And the most outrageous thing is that all this idiocy is being fueled by people who couldn’t care less about the consequences, or about the fact that they’re trying to sell something they neither own nor control.
All they need is to create, for two minutes of television airtime, the illusion of a spectacular diplomatic triumph and the “achievement of peace in Europe,” and then line their own pockets with the “economic opportunities” promised by the Kremlin.
“She wants the world to know their names.
Adam Buhaiov, Sofia Buhaiova, and Tetiana Tarasevych.”
Amen.
So sorry.
For this enormous tragedy and all the other agonies inflicted upon Ukraine, the response must be savage, epic and biblical in scope.