Kyiv on fire

Kyiv on fire, by Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Missile hits

Ukrainian ops

Ukrainian grandmother with AK-47

Ukrainian grandmother in kherson area has an AK-47, don't mess with her

Banksy in Borodyanka

The Russians bomb and Destroy and the Ukrainian girl does walkovers, Banksy in Borodyanka

only Banksy knows for sure

The Russians nearly destroyed Borodyanka, but did Putin just flip out?.... only Banksy knows for sure

Kherson is ours

Kherson is ours, President Zelenskiy

Ukrainian tank trenches

Ukrainian tank trenches run for hundreds of kilometres

Ukrainian humanitarian aid flows in within 24-hours

The murderous Soviet path & Ukrainian humanitarian aid flows in within 24-hours

hundreds of km of trenches

Ukraine hundreds of km of trenches, tank traps, verdant countryside, animals abound

couple walks calmly down the street

Bakhmut inbound artillery booming automatic weapons fire and a couple walks calmly down the street together

BAKHMUT

BAKHMUT, artillery constant today, a perfect day for Depends

aid to the bombed Ukrainian villagers

kamikaze (the driver) delivers aid to the bombed Ukrainian villagers

home destroyed by Russian artillery

tour a beautiful home destroyed by Russian artillery in Osokorivka

The Dog Lady of Ukraine

The Dog Lady of Ukraine, Tania from Zaporizhzhia, war dogs (and cats) run stray throughout the war zones, bombed cities. But, everyone is feeding them too....

A good day to fly a Kite in Kherson Oblast

A good day to fly a Kite in Kherson Oblast or launch UA missiles..... WAR

Grenade Meat Pounder and Ukrainian Chicken Recipe from the field

Ukrainian boy waving flag at passing cars

Kids these days, Ukrainian boy waving flag at passing cars.... Kazanka

Heaven in Mykolaiv is a warm yellow salt water shower

salt water piped to all Residents

Mykolaiv, all drinkable water is distributed by bottles or cans or water trucks. The city has kept salt water piped through to all the Residents so they can wash dishes or bathe. At night the city is very dark with all the lights off but the stars shine very bright, like Ukraine's future

Putin's missile successfully takes out a local school

Putin's missile successfully takes out a local school in lovely seaside Mykolaiv, founded 1789 though the Greeks were here in the 5th Century BC/earlier

still tense 1.5 kilometers from Russian border

Ukrainians pushed the Russians back to the border all along northern Kharkiv, still tense 1.5 kilometers from Russian border

The Music guys at Golden Gate

The Music guys at Golden Gate (13th century) again.....bring a little joy.....to Kyiv

when your muffler falls off in Kyiv

when your muffler falls off in Kyiv before a 3000 KM war zone trip you may only need a carabiner...

Father Yaroslav

Father Yaroslav who says you cannot scooter to work

October 17 - Kyiv turns DARK

October 17, 2022 a lovely blue sky day in Kyiv turns DARK The day cranked up quick and early in Kyiv with a loud harrumph and the shake of two explosions. Hopping from bed slipping quickly into clothes I grabbed the macchiato and ran to the trusty 1973 Lada. I heard automatic weapons fire and thought; shit the Russians are inside the city again? That was a definite drop in morale. I hopped in the tank (Lada) and tooled south down Khreshchatyk Street swiveling my head back and forth back and forth searching for smoke or an ambulance. It's a not a great thing; when you're an outerwear maker and a film distributor, and you should be relaxing during your final 40 “sunset” years but now you have to admit you've become an ambulance chaser. I drove 5k down to Ocean Plaza constantly scouting for smoke or ambulances with the windows down so I could hear and smell as well. Back up towards the Olympic Stadium I sped and finally spied an ambulance and chased it to the scene of the bombing close onto the once busy train station. Mayhem prevailed. Swarming with police, soldiers in combat gear, National police with balaclavas pulled up, Special Forces warriors, firefighters, rescue squad fire trucks, ambulances and a mix of early morning humanity as well as that sub-level of humanity: journalists. Apparently the first two Russian drones hit a tall building at about 6:30 a.m. setting the roof on fire. The firefighters were quickly on top of the roof examining and working to put the fire out. We were restricted to an area about a block away. A pile of journalists at the police tape were taking photos and videos and exchanging greetings for the ones they've known from the war zones, suddenly returned to historic European Kyiv. Shocking hundreds of the gathered another horrendous explosion 100 meters away lit up the left side of the road. A Kamikaze drone had hit a historic three-story building and brought the entire front down. Debris was scattered across the road. Smoke was billowing out like a giant smoke machine puffing out dark smoke into an ironically beautiful blue sky day, old Mr. Sun had creeped up while we were working. The police blocked all journalists. I walked uphill to a parallel street and came back through an alleyway to get closer to the third strike. When I slipped out of the dark ancient alley I was next to the bombed historic building surrounded by rescue workers, debris and billowing smoke. There was debris blown all over the street, sirens keening, people running, civilians panicked, folks looking up in the air frightened by more drones. As I took more footage of the damage and hoped there was nobody caught in the rubble of the building, the brave firefighters were scrambling up the large concrete precarious pieces of debris and crawling inside to take the hose up closer to the fire…. maybe looking or hoping for survivors. There was one Brave fireman that crawled in underneath some heavy room size concrete blocks and another firefighter up high on the debris helping him when suddenly one of the policemen started yelling drone drone quick quick and everybody scampered fast to the nearest garage including the soldiers. The fireman stayed on the building even knowing a drone attack was imminent. It felt good to look at the Clear Blue Sky from the darkness of a garage with four or five Ukrainian soldiers standing in front of us. Somehow, it’s reassuring to be near the soldiers and their weapons these days as well to see Ukrainian tanks and heavy equipment. I noticed a tall young man standing against the wall bleakly sobbing. I was standing next to him and hadn't seen/heard him. I guessed he lost somebody in the old historic building bombing. What do you say to somebody who just lost a loved one? I just rubbed his shoulder for a minute… try to show him some human sympathy and kindness, it felt too little. Soon we were able to emerge from the dark garage back into the rubble overseen by the clear Blue Sky. The damaged Street, the destroyed home and the smoke blowing across the street while you knew you should be warily looking blue skyward for drones. I was again taking videos and photos of the Brave fireman searching for survivors in this huge pile of rubble when suddenly the entire top half of the building cracked and crumbled slowly at first like a giant avalanche just getting started. What once started harmlessly in slow motion the weight of the building gained speed and quickly slide down onto the fireman burying one or two of them …. hopelessly I was wishing one of them could emerge alive. After witnessing that tragedy I left the scene shaken, sad, angry. I thought about their families imagined they were young guys with decades ahead. Who will miss them who is weeping now? They took no care for their safety. When first I watched them I thought they take such large risk climbing up a crumbling building when only a falling brick could kill you. But without hesitation into the debris and house sized precariously tilting slabs of concrete had slipped the fireman. I went back up the alley and back to the other side of the street where I originally stood and tried to stay close to humans and unwind. I focused on regular day people. I took photos of civilians walking past the Carnage as they strolled or ran back and forth to work or to get their kids everyone anxious everyone glancing Towards the Sky wondering what Putin will rain down on them knowing it's ineffectual and worthless and he's defeated but knowing he can still hurt us…..another day in Kyiv Слава Україні Мені потрібні боєприпаси, а не їзда

Cameraman don't hide

Drone alert Kyiv, but the cameraman don't hide..

Take me to the River to Pray

Take me to the River to Pray, Ukraine.....lovely but damaged

Kyiv is Putin's Playground

Kyiv, Putin's Playground, missile hit

 

The human face of War on Zhylianska Street by the train station