Petro Andriushchenko
Head of Center for the Study of the Occupation I Керівник Центру вивчення окупації I Consultant & Analyst
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management Center for the Study of the Occupation I Центр вивчення окупації
Ukraine
April 16, 2025
Sometimes, it’s really hard to explain our Ukrainian “inability to negotiate.”
Why we aren’t flexible when it comes to war.
Why we stubbornly try not just to fight or win — but to dismantle Russia while it’s still possible.
Because for us, it’s deeply personal.
Not just emotionally personal — but lived, experienced.
We tried. From 2014 to 2022, we tried to talk to Russians, to reason with them, to convince them to stop.
And then, in one day, all those hopes collapsed.
Russian bombs and tanks gave us all the proof we needed of how mistaken our peaceful efforts had been.
Now, it’s even more personal.
Because our perspective isn’t theoretical. It doesn’t come from conference rooms or panel discussions.
We’re looking at our destroyed cities.
At looted apartments in occupied towns.
And we understand our enemy’s mindset with absolute clarity — the cruelty, the cynicism, the inhumanity.
Because we’ve paid, and continue to pay, a terrible price for that understanding.
This is my backyard.
My home under occupation.
Burned. Looted.
And now — almost unreachable.
I look at it and I genuinely don’t understand:
How am I — how are any of us — supposed to give this up forever,
just because someone in the White House decided it was time to make a deal with Putin?
For me?
For all of us?
And what right do they even have?
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Not Just Yunarmiya
We continue to investigate how the Russian authorities influence children and teenagers in the occupied territories — and how similar that influence is to what’s happening inside Russia itself.
What we can already say with confidence: the organizations are identical, but the scale and intensity of the “soft” pressure in the occupied territories are significantly higher.
Inside Russia, we are not seeing the same level of mass, systemic involvement.
Read more in our new blog on LB.ua
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Kherson
For air bomb for 500 kg each to the peaceful center of Ukrainian city.
Might be thats mistake too, mr. Trump?
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Comment from :
Every damn day…RUSSIAN terror
Russia only brings death and destruction. Russia commits war crimes, knowingly, day in and day out…effectively and tragically with impunity. Russia should be held to full account and repudiated by the civilized world. Russia’s foreign assets should be confiscated and given to Ukraine for its defense.
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“Proud of the victory” — Russian surrealism in the ruins of occupied Bakhmut.
On the streets of a city they’ve completely destroyed,
Russians are hanging propaganda banners on the remnants of shattered billboards.
It’s worthy of a painting by Salvador Dalí or René Magritte —
but this isn’t art. It’s reality.
And there’s not a drop of irony, humor, or second thought.
Just a pure, raw display of what Russia really is —
and what it’s proud of.
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Comment from :
Russky Mir:
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Military movements toward Mariupol to the Zaporizhzhia region are increasing in intensity.
On Monday and Tuesday, an average of 20 to 30 trucks carrying ammunition and personnel were recorded. The dominant marking remains “V”, though symbols “Z” and a triangle-inside-a-triangle are also present.
We’ve observed the transportation of armored vehicles on military flatbeds—yesterday, for instance, four tanks/IFVs in so-called “grill cage” configurations. However, today at least two haulers carrying damaged tracked vehicles arrived at the Illich Steel Plant from the Zaporizhzhia direction for repairs.
Staging camps in the Mariupol–Berdiansk agglomeration are once again fully occupied.
The only noticeable difference compared to previous weeks: the trucks and equipment moving toward the Zaporizhzhia front are not new—they are being redeployed from other sectors, as evident from their condition, camouflage, and gear.
We can confidently state that Russian forces continue building up in the Zaporizhzhia sector, with one notable expansion: movements are now also being registered toward the Novopavlivka direction (closer to Novosilka), where enemy offensive activity has intensified.
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The Russians are preparing yet another large-scale fake in Mariupol—this time, about the alleged production of a 💥”dirty bomb.”
Not long ago, we would’ve just laughed it off—like we did with the nonsense about biolabs in sanitation facilities or “combat pigeons.”
But given the level of influence they still manage to exert in the U.S.—through Tucker Carlson and other conspiracy-peddling ignoramuses—we believe it’s crucial to expose this disinformation during the stage of information buildup, not after the fact.
Text on photo:
“At School No. 57, elevated radiation levels have been recorded.
During an inspection of the building in School No. 57, located in the Ordzhonikidzevsky district, specialists detected radiation levels exceeding the permissible limit…”
The information here is coming from an expert. There is devilry going on; enormous in scale.
Not all of it from the occupier filth.
Some of it coming from its western helpers, like Tucker Carlson and senior members of the Trump administration.
“Russian bombs and tanks gave us all the proof we needed of how mistaken our peaceful efforts had been.”
And after three years of ruZZian horror and bestiality, kremlin west wants to reward these motherfuckers for it.
Despite his huge mouth, Trump, as a draft dodger and convicted felon, is far too much a coward to visit Ukraine to have a look for himself and try to understand what this is all about. He has been swallowing putin’s excrement for so many years, he has no other thoughts except shitty ones. It’s also questionable if his feeble mind could grasp what he’d be seeing.