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Last week, I shared an essay about Russian colonialism. The entire night after I hit publish, I couldn’t sleep, and by the morning, I wrote this poem: How it feels to talk about Russian colonialism. Link to the essay is in the tweet below.

I recommend reading Darya's article. Western perspectives on UKR and Belarus still are often dominated by russian colonialist perspectives.

Happy Vyshyvanka Day! ❤️ Below are vyshyvankas embroidered by Lesia Ukrainka, the legendary 🇺🇦 writer. The 1st and 2nd photos show the very same vyshyvanka from 1888. The 3rd shows a vyshyvanka Ukrainka embroidered for her sister’s newborn son. Learn more about Lesia Ukrainka ↓

Vyshyvanka Day in Kharkiv ❤️🇺🇦

Did you know that Kyiv is called the city of chestnuts? Today, I shared how chestnuts became the symbol of the Ukrainian capital and rare historical and modern photos of Kyiv in bloom. Below is the photo of Kyiv in 1959. Learn more in the post below 👇

Ukraine’s nightly reality: More than half of the country on alert due to a wave of Russian/Iranian Shahed flying bomb drones sweeping across the country. This happens practically every night now - but it doesn’t hit the headlines unless there’s a particularly horrific atrocity.

One of my favorite photos of Kyiv’s chestnuts ❤️ It was taken in 1981, the year my husband’s parents started to date in Kyiv. They walked the streets under the blooming chestnuts, and we would like to think that this is a photo of them. See more photos in the post below ↓

20DaysInMariupol translator Darya Zorka has a new column published - with a powerful birthday poem (May 27, soon after Oleg Veretskiy 🇺🇦 and хмаринка 🌩️🧝‍♀️🍲! Let's how her some love at substack.com/@daryazorka. She lays it all out there.