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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Five children were killed in an instant by a Russian strike on the city of Pryluky today. Ukraine.

Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump said at a press conference: “We have a call scheduled for today. It’s Putin’s birthday. I’m sure you’ll be celebrating it too.”

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As of 8:25 p.m., 20 people, including 5 children, have been killed as a result of a Russian missile strike on Pryluky. Another 55 people were injured.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), citing counterintelligence data. The dissemination of these materials is expected in October and early November.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Russia is preparing a new wave of propaganda about the situation in occupied Oleshky. Russian forces plan to record videos featuring local residents who are expected to accuse the Ukrainian Armed Forces of shelling the city, criticize the Ukrainian authorities.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Twelve people, including three children, are currently known to have died in Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine. Search operations for missing persons are ongoing in Pryluky.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The response is straightforward: preserve social trust, distinguish evidence-based criticism from organised amplification of distrust, recognise the people keeping the country functioning, and continue supporting the Defence Forces. Social cohesion is part of Ukraine’s defence capacity.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This fits a familiar objective of Russian information warfare: demoralisation. The message is not simply that individual institutions are failing, but that Ukraine as a state and society is incapable of continuing the war and that further resistance is pointless.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In recent weeks, the pattern of hostile online messaging appears to have shifted. There seem to be fewer mass attacks on Ukrainian institutions and NGOs, and more content arguing that Ukraine can no longer sustain resistance (and should accept capitulation and destruction)

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For more than a year, Russian information operations have focused heavily on undermining Ukrainians’ trust in state institutions, civil society, public figures and one another. The broader target is social cohesion: trust, horizontal networks and confidence in the state’s capacity to function.

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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russia continues its relentless terror against Kyiv’s residents. In recent days, schools, hospitals, and bridges have been hit.

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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

And after years of war, people desperately need a story with an ending. So every negotiation can start to feel like peace approaching. Sometimes what feels like the beginning of the end is simply the moment when the observer can no longer tolerate uncertainty.

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

There is another mechanism: borrowed control. When you cannot stop a war yourself, it is psychologically comforting to believe that governments, diplomats or powerful leaders can. “They are talking.” “They have a plan.” “They will work something out.” That belief reduces helplessness.

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

This is partly action bias. A summit happens. Negotiations begin. A new initiative is announced. Someone says they have a “plan.” Our brains easily turn “something is being done” into “the problem is being solved.” But an action is not the same thing as an outcome.

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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

Global sanctions are no longer working. After these drone technologies are tested in Ukraine, they will be used to strike targets around the world.

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

That is the broader problem. Modern weapons do not require a fully self-sufficient military industry. If dual-use electronics, engines and communications equipment can still reach Russia through re-export and grey markets, the production line keeps running.

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

Investigators also reportedly found US-made Texas Instruments components on the flight-control board. In other words, Russia can assemble a sophisticated strike weapon using imported civilian and dual-use technology, despite years of sanctions.

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

Its surveillance and communications systems are also built around commercial technology: an electro-optical camera, GSM modules with SIM cards, and a Chinese mesh-network module allowing drones to relay signals across hundreds of kilometres.

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

The Geran-4 is a major upgrade over earlier Shahed/Geran models: a Chinese-made micro-turbojet engine reportedly gives it far greater speed and altitude (roughly 450–500 km/h and up to 8,000 metres) making interception much harder.

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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

⬆️ There is no need to invent a new vocabulary for communicating with Ukrainians, or even to know a great deal about the war. Ordinary human decency is enough.

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

⬆️ 2. It is best to avoid conversations along the lines of: “What our group plans to do when you are killed.” 3. Do not accuse parents of being irresponsible simply because they continue to live in Ukraine. ⬇️

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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

And thank you for the opportunity to work in Finland this summer: Artists at Risk (AR), Creative Europe, the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency, the City of Helsinki, and its Culture and Leisure Division.

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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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