From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (524th day):
Four air raids so far in Kyiv today, though the day is not quite over yet.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv today, August 1, the Soviet symbol — hammer and sickle — was removed from the shield of the Motherland Monument. Ukraine continues to shed communist symbols, taking down monuments, renaming streets. The heros and the symbols are important part of the culture.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, yet 22 years later we still have a lot to dismantle and rename. We made the greatest leap in that over the last few months. In the past, there were always some people who opposed those processes saying that it’s part of our history. But ruzzian invasion “cured” all those “sick” with soviet nostalgia. It’s enough that our books will keep the records of communist and ruzzian crimes against Ukraine. We don’t need any of their symbols on our streets!
PS. An interesting fact about this monument to Motherland was built in 1981 amid the cold war when the West was supposed to be the enemy. Yet it’s facing in the direction of ruzzia. Those who put up this monument knew well where the true enemy was even then!
Voice of Ukraine 
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As in our Ukraine
The small river flows,
Through the mountains, through the forests.
Early in the morning, the sky calls:
Rise-up sun -rise up!
Wake everything around up.
Let’s hear the native land.
The good song, the sweet heart,
Sing with good people!
As in our Ukraine –
All the fields are blossoming,
As in our Ukraine –
All the people are singing.
May happiness last long,
And may there be a lot of songs,
For their can’t be celebrations in Ukraine
Without songs.
As in our Ukraine –
All the fields are blossoming,
As in our Ukraine –
All the people are singing.
May happiness last long,
And may there be a lot of songs,
For their can’t be celebrations in Ukraine
Without songs.
sung by Kateryna Buzhynska
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J.R.R.Tolkien, veteran of WWI and WWII, wrote about a long war in “Lord of the Rings”, and put these words in the mouth of a soldier who, for years, had served to protect his home and the lands beyond it: “War must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
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