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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A russian drone struck the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. People are still trapped inside. Some are climbing out through the windows to escape the fire and avoid being burned alive.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why does it feel like the war in Ukraine is almost over? Not necessarily because the facts point that way. When people watch a catastrophe for years and cannot influence it, helplessness becomes exhausting. The mind starts looking for signs that someone has control.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Ukrainian Armed Forces delivered food by drones to residents of the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region. Around 4 tonnes of humanitarian aid were dropped overnight at 100 locations across the city, according to local channels.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ukraine recently recovered a relatively intact Russian Geran-4 drone after an emergency landing. What investigators found inside is striking: beyond the airframe and final assembly, many of its key components appear to come from abroad.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since the beginning of September, the russians have been striking Kyiv almost nonstop. People are being killed every day. Last night, another man was killed.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In Zaporizhzhia this morning, russians struck a residential building, killing the mother and grandmother of a 3-year-old child. russians also hit the centre of Sumy with three guided aerial bombs. Two people are known to have been killed and six others injured.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As of now, 5 deaths and 43 injuries have been reported in Kyiv following today's Russian attack

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A 14-year-old boy was killed and three other people were injured in a russian strike on an apartment building in Kyiv

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A maternity hospital in Kyiv was damaged after fragments of a russian missile fell nearby, damaging its windows and facade. One person was killed in the parking lot near the medical facility. A clinical diagnostic center nearby was also damaged.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

45 people were injured and 2 were killed in Kyiv as a result of the enemy attack on the city over the past 24 hours. Eighteen of the injured remain in Kyiv hospitals. Two of them are in serious condition.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They’re likely trying to prevent defections, but I understand why everyone thinks this is ominous - there’s a lot of intel out there that Putin is planning a major escalation, likely in the Baltic States. Which would be an absolutely moronic thing for him to do, but here we are.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Three tips for better communication with Ukrainians living in Ukraine. 1. Talking about “good Russians” or saying that “everyone suffers equally from the war” does not go over well during a war. Even if this is something you genuinely believe, you may want to share that belief with someone other.⬇️

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A child wounded in a Russian attack on Kyiv has died in the hospital. This brings the death toll in the Kyiv region to four three children and a woman.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Foreigners often ask whether theatres in Ukraine are still operating during the war at all. Meanwhile, not only are our theatres still working, but theatres in Sumy and Kharkiv continue to operate close to the front line. It is extraordinary. I wish more people around the world knew about them.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the aftermath of a Russian guided aerial bomb strike in Sumy. The Russians are directly targeting civilians

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Michael Andersen and I talked about my work in social services, my experience as a combat medic, writing, and how all these very different parts of my life somehow coexist. Read: twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.com/p/blitz-inte...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We presented my new book, SCAM, in Helsinki. I spoke to the Finnish audience about how the Ukrainian army is largely made up of civilians who volunteered after the full-scale invasion, and about how Ukrainians fight out of love for their families and their country.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We raised some money for tactical medical supplies.🎉 On 11 September, CU Theater presented readings of two Ukrainian plays at Trinity College Dublin. 65 people attended, and €650 was raised for Leleka.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just take a moment to think: right in the heart of Europe, in one of the largest European countries, people in a small town are dying from hunger, from the cold, from being unable to flee anywhere, while under fire. www.radiosvoboda.org/amp/golod-v-...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My essay for The Guardian is about the humanity that keeps people going when everything around them is trying to break them. About war, fear, closeness, love, and the ways we keep living through it all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Svyatoshyn Station Limit War in Kyiv is boring and mundane. I can’t seem to document the war. Instead, the things that end up getting documented are all sorts of dumb nonsense. www.index-ukraine.org/en/essays/sv...

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The Svyatoshyn Station Limit

This is a hauntingly typical story of a Ukrainian woman living a full life amidst constant shelling, nightly descents into the underground, and the grim calculations of exactly what, and how many, mis...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Russia has once again changed its deadline for fully occupying Donetsk region. The new deadline has been pushed back to the end of March 2027. Previously, Russia had aimed to seize the entire Donetsk region by the end of 2026.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Two people have been killed and ten others injured in Kyiv as a result of Russia’s overnight attack

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m a mentor in the literary project Bridging the Distance: Ukrainian and Irish Literary Voices 🇺🇦🇮🇪 Next week, we’ll spend three days in Dublin, learning and getting to know Irish cultural institutions.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Russia has failed to break Ukraine on the battlefield or through terror against civilians. Now it is increasingly targeting our economy and Europe’s political will to support us. Europe should understand: this is already its security problem.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Trump’s envoys, Witkoff and Kushner, have arrived in Ukraine for talks on the peace negotiations

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ukrainian border guard Nataliia Riabichenko, 50, was killed while carrying out a combat mission in the Kharkiv region. In 2014, russia’s war forced her family to leave their native Donetsk. She later devoted nine years of her life to defending Ukraine.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We did it! Today at the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki, the Finnish translations of my play Menstruation, Dmytro Ilyin’s Perezhyvaka, and Oleh Lystopad’s Dolphins were presented. Huge thanks to the incredible Elli Salo for the translations, and to Riikka Oksanen for directing.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Media reports say a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine came into effect at midnight. It has now been in place for almost an hour, Kyiv time. Just moments ago, a russian drone hit a residential high-rise near Kyiv

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Eight people, including a child, were injured in Odesa as a result of a Russian overnight attack. Two educational institutions were also damaged.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dublin, you’re invited! 🇮🇪 On 11 September at Trinity College Dublin, there will be a staged reading of my play Victoria’s Little Secrets, together with Marta Shyiko’s The Woman with the Fridge. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the Leleka Foundation.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Russian attacks have already destroyed up to 40% of Ukraine's annual book circulation An estimated 15 million copies of books were destroyed in Ukraine over the summer as a result of Russian attacks

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Russians destroyed the “Good Home” nursing home. Around 20 elderly people were burned to death there

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The consequences of the attacks on Kyiv over the past few days have been devastating. At least 40 people have already been killed. Russia has been attacking the city almost nonstop for three days

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In Kyiv, at GOGOLfest there will be naked people and beautiful dances in a production based on my book about queer soldiers. I invite you to come on September 18th

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The photo shows the number of air raid alerts in Kyiv over just half a day

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m on my way to sign a contract with an agency that will represent my plays in theatres across Northern Europe 🥳🎉

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the Mother-Defender statue in Kyiv today

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve been translated into a sixth language. Two of my plays now exist in Finnish (Suomi), and they will be read on the stage of the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki. So now my work can be read in English, German, Polish, Swedish, French, and Finnish 🤩

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In broad daylight, russia launched a ballistic missile attack on the Ukrainian capital and the Kyiv region. According to preliminary reports, up to four ballistic missiles struck Boryspil.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fourteen people were killed in Kryvyi Rih after a russian attack on the city’s largest shopping mall in broad daylight. Another 121 people were injured, including 22 children

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Keith Kellogg, former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine, has arrived in Kyiv. Everyone I know in Kyiv is happy because he’s basically the best air defense system the city could ask for. We’re seriously asking Trump to let us keep him here permanently

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

russia attacked Kyiv and the surrounding region with ballistic missiles overnight, killing 12 people and injuring 23 others. Tomorrow has been declared a Day of Mourning in the capital.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

12 people were injured in Kyiv as a result of the russian attack. Tomorrow will be a day of mourning in Kyiv.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In this article, I examined the movement of sex workers fighting for their own rights in Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states, and their participation in democratic law-making processes

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My mother-in-law writes, “The explosions are so terrifying that my hands are shaking.” It is already known that one woman has been killed in the attack on the capital. A massive attack on Ukraine is ongoing.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In this article, I examined the movement of sex workers fighting for their own rights in Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states, and their participation in democratic law-making processes visegradinsight.eu/sex-workers-...

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Russians are spending billions to make us all turn on each other, but it’s not working. Why? Because we have a secret weapon that keeps us united. Real estate agents. Real estate agents are the people everyone hates equally ❤️

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A new Russian offensive on Kyiv from the north will depend on whether the Kremlin announces another wave of mobilization. This will become clear only after the State Duma elections, scheduled for September 20, explained the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence

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