Professor Roman Sheremeta
Oct 3, 2026
Natalia Bukalo was killed in Kyiv as a result of a Russian strike. She worked as an assistant to Volodymyr Horbulin, Vice President of the Academy.
Her colleague Oleksandra Liashenko confirmed her death.
Natalia leaves behind her husband and daughter.
According to her colleague, Natalia was someone who valued order above all else. It permeated every aspect of her life—from working with documents to keeping records of phone conversations and schedules.
At the same time, her sense of order always had a special touch: everything had to be not only in its proper place, but also look elegant.
Natalia was also able to work incredibly quickly and had a remarkable talent for organizing processes efficiently.
Source: translated from Oleh Bairak.
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He chose to stay at Azovstal when everyone else was leaving to surrender. Then he spent seven days underground in darkness — and came out.
Two hundred kilometers on foot through occupied territory. Alone. Alive.
His call sign is “Skhid” — “East.” He was born in Luhansk, took part in pro-Ukrainian rallies, fought against pro-Russian forces, and in 2014 he was told: “They’re asking about you. You’d better leave the city.”
He left the city. And joined Azov.
When he boarded a helicopter bound for Mariupol, he didn’t even have a military uniform. The shortage of equipment was terrible.
And when the helicopter approached Azovstal from the sea, everyone shouted and cheered. They had made it. They hadn’t been shot down. They were still alive.
“Skhid” understood that he would most likely die in the battle for Mariupol. But he was happy that if it happened, it would happen alongside his brothers.
He could have died on the very first day. His group was sent into a building that was already occupied by the enemy. Their commander was killed, and the group was left without a radio or a map.
During the day, they hid in the ruins. At night, they moved. No one knew they were alive. No one was coming to help them.
The nights were the most terrifying, when they would stop and listen to the silence. They would move a hundred meters, drop to their knees, and listen. Another hundred meters — stop again. That was how they moved, kilometer after kilometer.
They reached a canning factory, hoping to find their own troops. But the positions had already been abandoned.
Then they heard enemy armored vehicles entering the compound. Behind them were the river and the sea. There was nowhere to go.
It was the end of March, and the water was freezing. They found a small inflatable life raft and paddled across the river.
When they finally reached the plant, they raised their hands and surrendered to the first Ukrainian border guard post they encountered — so their own men wouldn’t shoot them. They were taken to headquarters.
Then came the order to surrender.
“Skhid” decided to carry out that order in his own way. He approached his platoon commander and asked not to be included on the lists. He was reported as missing in action.
He stayed behind at Azovstal.
Together with a friend, he prepared a hiding place. They found a sewer manhole, dismantled the entrance, and discovered a tunnel-like underground space.
They brought mattresses, blankets, water, canned food, and sugar. They planned to stay there together. But at the last moment, his friend decided to surrender.
“Skhid” was left alone.
He stayed there for seven days.
In complete darkness, he thought through different escape scenarios and created a cover story for himself in case he was captured.
He tried to sleep as much as possible — because the more you sleep, the faster time passes.
On the seventh day, he realized that if he didn’t leave now, he might die of hunger and exhaustion.
He changed into civilian clothes, dismantled his weapon, and discarded its parts in different places. Then he went out at night.
He listened to the silence, stopped, waited. He moved through the darkness until dawn — and made it into the city.
For seven days, he had not seen the sun.
When it rose, he felt that he had won. Green trees, fresh air, birds. He thought the worst was behind him.
He was wrong.
Next came two hundred kilometers on foot through occupied territory. Feet rubbed raw and bleeding. Hunger. Thirst. Constant fear.
But he made it.
He won his freedom.
Today, “Skhid” remains an active-duty serviceman. He serves with the Third Assault Brigade, in the Wings Company, as part of a crew called “Nachtigall.”
He carries out aerial reconnaissance missions — identifying, directing fire on, and destroying enemy targets.
He has lived through something that not even one percent of the people on this planet will ever experience.
And he is not resting.
He picked up a weapon again.
Source: translated from Oleh Bairak.
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This is an extraordinary story of extortion and hypocrisy.
The U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle — a close Trump ally and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. — admitted that the United States helped bring down governments that stood in its way.
During a private dinner in Athens, while discussing the collapse of Romania’s government, Guilfoyle said: “We can do this to any country we want. We can do it here too.”
The Greek energy minister pushed back, saying the United States cannot simply replace a government elected by the people.
Guilfoyle insisted that they have already done this in Romania.
On March 31, Guilfoyle met privately in Bucharest with senior Romanian Social Democratic officials. The discussion included the Vertical Gas Corridor and energy cooperation.
Weeks later, the Social Democrats joined the pro-russian AUR party in a no-confidence vote that brought down Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s government. Bolojan had resisted a proposed arrangement involving expensive U.S. gas imports.
So, according to Guilfoyle, Trump administration engineered the collapse of Romania’s government in a clear extortion attempt. And to do so, they have collaborated with a far left party – the communists as MAGA calls them.
Anyone who still has any illusion that MAGA is a “conservative movement” needs a serious reality check.
That freakishly evil abomination Krasnov Jr and his bride have a beloved friend named Umar Kremlev. His real name is Lutfulloev, but he changed it in 2010 because:
“At 28 years old, with reported convictions for extortion and battery under his belt, and his hope of building a boxing career extinguished by ill discipline, Lutfulloev wanted to turn over a new leaf and climb the rungs of Russian society.
There was no better surname than Kremlev – “The Kremlin’s man”.
Like Donald Trump Jr, it was a name that would inevitably generate fame, fortune and controversy.
The two men are forever intertwined after it was revealed that Kremlev had poured at least $170,000 (£127,000) into a private island and firework show to celebrate Mr Trump Jr’s nuptials to Bettina Anderson.
Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the US House oversight committee, asked: “What did he get in return? We need answers.”
In response, the couple said: “Friendship doesn’t require a political motive. Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift …..”
Source :
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/30/russian-oligarch-donald-trump-jr-wedding/
So, the Krasnov regime is joined at the hip to a child kidnapper.
That is why Ukrainians need social media. It is one of the ways they can combat the evil pro-putler propaganda that comes out of the WH; aka Kremlin West.
That is why I will post only Soshul Meejah. It will come exclusively from published authors who are Ukrainian, of Ukrainian descent, or from non-Ukrainians who are intimately connected to Ukraine’s struggle for freedom from vermin.
Historian Sarah Payne: “The Russians have driven the Ukrainians into a death trap, and they are not giving up”
American military historian Sarah Payne, who taught strategy at the U.S. Naval War College until 2025, explained the resilience of Ukrainians in a lecture on why wars are so difficult to end, drawing on the teachings of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu. According to her, people who have been left with no alternative by the enemy tend to fight to the death, and Ukraine is precisely such a case.
Payne draws on a distinction introduced by Clausewitz: wars can be limited or unlimited, and an unlimited objective means a change of power in the enemy’s government. Russia’s objective regarding Ukraine is precisely unlimited, whereas Ukraine’s objective regarding Russia is limited, and the historian sees this asymmetry as the key to the Ukrainians’ tenacity. On the eve of the invasion, few believed in such tenacity: in February 2022, according to Fox News, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told members of Congress that it would last 72 hours…
An unlimited war, according to Payne, is easy to understand but very difficult to see through to the end: people on the ground are fighting with incredible desperation. Moreover, in her assessment, the outcome of the war is far more important to Ukrainians than to Russians, since Ukrainians actually live there. And even now, as Zelenskyy discussed an energy truce with Trump in New York on September 22, the Kremlin is stalling the negotiations, calling the Ukrainian president illegitimate and clinging to maximalist demands.
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PP OBrien :
Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets–hospitals, universities, markets–knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.
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Garry Kasparov :
Ukraine must be doing even better on the battlefield because the Russian propaganda and bots over on Twitter are 10 times worse this week. And/or Twitter is just letting them through completely. Most amusing is how many of these repetitive attack posts are in Russian, and so “patriotic”! But Twitter has been banned in Russia since March 2022, so these patriotic bots must post from Nigeria!
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PP OBrien :
Well it’s been approximately two weeks since Trump signed the Lindsey Graham tariff bill, which all those Trump supporters were saying was going to allow him to hammer Russia.
Any sign of the new 100% tariffs on China and India—the largest purchasers of Russian oil?
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Darth Putin KGB :
OTD in 2015 Russia began bombing Syria.
-we denied we’d do it
-we then did it
-we bombed lots of hospitals, shopping centers & schools to create refugees
-we said it would be WW3 if NATO got involved
-when NATO helped throw us out we just ran away
Sound familiar?
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💬 The Atlantic: Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done – by @Anne Applebaum
“Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.”
“He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply liєs about whatever he said or did before.”
☝️ Nowhere has this been clearer than with China. In 2018 he lashed out at their economy; they spent the next seven years getting ready for his nonsense in 2025.
A sound long term strategy.
Meanwhile, the US President decides on daily policy based on how his breakfast went down in the morning.
No strategy at all.
And average Americans (and the world at large) will pay the price for it, no matter how many times this individual claims to be “winning”
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Shaun Pinner :
Former Russian FSB officer Igor Girkin took part in Russia’s seizure of Crimea and led the armed force that captured Sloviansk in 2014 who later became the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s “defence minister.”
On Putin’s threats against Europe:
“Russia cannot attack Europe. It cannot even defeat Ukraine after four and a half years. Attack Europe with these forces, this army, this remarkable Supreme Commander? Of course not.”
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Finally some good news :
Belgium to transfer 3 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by end of 2026, Zelensky says
https://kyivindependent.com/tag/war/