A girl unpacks a Christmas present in the Kyiv metro, waiting out the russian missile threat.

Had a shitty start to my Christmas Eve with horrible loud apartment neighbours waking me up at 4:00 am, and then a dysfunctional family dinner…… this put into perspective that what I find stressful is actually not that big a deal in the grand scheme of life.

Hope this little girl still got to smile today.

Merry Christmas from Canada, history will enshrine these images. Words seem empty but I think of the images from the blitz in ww2. The tenacity of the human spirit. The Ukrainian people are a light for us all ❤️

I hope this girl gets to make it through Putin’s war of aggression unscathed and this becomes nothing but a sad and crazy, but still an incredible story she tells to her friends and family in the future. Obviously it’s terrible now, but I hope she can still have a happy life otherwise and this just becomes a memory.

I was a gymnastics coach and I taught in an area that had a lot of international travelers and people taking job contracts. I coached a bunch of kids, and one was Ukrainian and one was Israeli. They were at most 9 years old.

When the 2022 invasion was happening, my Ukrainian student was depressed during practice and she said she’s worried about her family back home living in a bomb shelter. My Israeli student who spoke very little English came over to comfort her and said, “There’s war in my country too.” And I just got choked up at how fucking sad that is. That two kids can relate due to a terrible happening in their lives.

And I’m not here to debate Israel/Palestine Russia/Ukraine because what I’m talking about is how children get caught up in the nastiness of war whether or not their country was ‘at fault’ for it.

When this eventually ends, and it will end. We can look back at the Russians here just like we look back on the nazis. And I hope the Russians of the future feel the same shame for generations.

Damn. Well-timed photos of kids in war just hit different. 

Profoundly sad image, but profoundly human. I hope life brings her joy.


Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump. Fuck everything about this.

Best wishes to all Ukrine. You are fighting on behalf of the free world with one hand tied on the back. We owe you more than this. Stay safe and keeping fighting. You will have succes at the end of the day. Glory to Ukraine

American here, wish I could send presents instead of missiles and aid. These children do not deserve to live in these conditions. 

Just finished reading Prophet Song by Paul Lynch last night. This photo really brings it home. Can’t begin to imagine having kids and being in this situation. 

Isn’t east ortodox xmas later?

Merry Christmas and Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 ❤️

War is bad, politics is even worse which causes the wars.
People from Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and so many others would have seen similar or worse days.
Just pray for them and elect better leaders.

Ik that it’s sad that she had to do this but if it’s at all possible could you blur the little girls face? It’s extremely important that people don’t try to find her and potentially harm her! If you ever post a picture with a kid in it, and this goes for everyone, please blur out the child’s faces.

Merry Christmas Lebanon and Kyiv 

Aren’t Ukrainians Orthodox? So they don’t celebrate Christmas today but the 7th of January?

Might be a pic from this years Christmas celebration in January?

There are only very few Catholics and Reformists in Ukraine, and orthodox don’t celebrate it the 25th of december.

God be with Ukraine and Palestine

How about russian kids when ukrains bombs flying over their houses?

so funny, because now in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and iraq are having the same shitty thing for whole damn 12 years!

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