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I know we're not talking about revolutionary tactics here," says Dumais, "but memes in this context are significantly better than adding the Ukrainian flag to your social media profile".
Reznikov downplayed the Biden administration’s refusal to commit to Ukraine getting admitted immediately after the war’s end.This research on how social media is used as a tool of information warfare is worth mentioning here. It describessocial media as a “weapon of words that influence the hearts and minds of a target audience and a weapon of mass disruption that can have effects on targets.” But unlike previous instances when “WWIII” memes took over the internet, this round of social media discourse has been tinged with grim reality. This is no abstract threat. War is already occurring, and that leads the act of meme-making in a time of crisis to feel much, much different. LVIV, Ukraine — Some morsels of news are so grim and absurd that they sound like they were conceived in the warped imagination of bored satirists. Like the headline from Belarus a few weeks ago, reporting that 10th graders there were being taught how to aim rifles — using shovels. russian soldiers trying to match on tinder with women from the country they’re invading and then getting catfished for intel is such a weird “we live in the future” moment— douglas chu 鞠一道 (@douglaschu_) February 26, 2022 They said to God, “What have we done to deserve such bounty? What have we done to deserve such good fortune? Why have you blessed us with such riches?”
Deadly Russian shelling continued overnight, striking targets in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions.The worst-hit areas are those immediately downstream from the dam. Some of them are under Russian control, on the eastern shore of the Dnieper. A Ukrainian military spokesperson suggested Russia had lost many of its own defensive positions, forcing it to retreat to a second line of defence 5-15km away. Both sides blame the other for the collapse, although Russia is the likelier culprit. Some locals report hearing an explosion in the morning. Ukraine had long warned that the Russian forces that controlled the dam had mined it. The scale of the damage suggested the dam had been demolished from the inside. Ukraine has already referred the matter to the International Criminal Court as a war crime. I burst into laughter. So did the people next to me, and everyone else too. For a moment, I forgot about fear. Surrounded by so many young Ukrainians, all of us laughing in spite of all we have seen, all we have gone through, I felt powerful. Vincent Miller of Kent university in the UK, author of "Understanding Digital Culture", sees memes as a kind of conversation that can enable political debate to flourish. A drunk was taking a walk in the zoo. Suddenly he saw a donkey. He elbowed his way up to the enclosure, pulled the donkey’s face up close to his own, kissed it and began to weep: “You poor bunny rabbit, what have the Communists done to you?”
Foreigners would also be barred from "distorting the historical truth about the feat of the Soviet people in the defence of the Fatherland and its contribution to the victory over fascism" - likely a reference to the war in Ukraine. Zagaikevich founded Underground Standup Club in 2015, and Lipko and Dierskaia (who are life partners) have been regulars at the club for most of its seven years. In the months prior to the war, they hosted That’s the News live and in person, and now they produce the YouTube version from various parts of Ukraine. Dierskaia left Kyiv in late February to find a safer place to stay, but Zagaikevich and Lipko remain in Ukraine’s capital, a current target of artillery strikes.
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Kuleba's visit to Equatorial Guinea will be the first in the history of diplomatic relations of the two countries, Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a statement. Taken together these military developments indicate that, after weeks of preparatory missile strikes and other activity, the counter-offensive has entered a new and more aggressive phase. The infrared data, which show the fires that result from shelling and bombing, suggest that June 6th was one of the most intense days of fighting since the war began, with most of the fires occurring in Russian-held areas. The continuing confusion over the disposition of Ukraine’s forces and their primary targets is testimony to Ukraine’s success in keeping its plans under wraps.
Scrolling through stories is even more mind-numbing, in one story an Indian couple is dancing and celebrating their wedding, and in the next story, someone has shared a video of a couple being separated in Ukraine. In the widely circulated video, the mother is taking the daughter along with her while the father bids teary goodbye to his young crying daughter. And then in just the next story, an influencer shares a reel dancing to the song “life goes on and on and on” Fighting in other areas of Ukraine: Deadly Russian shelling also continued overnight in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions. According to regional leaders, at least two people were killed in Kharkiv. Russia also shelled about 20 different civilian settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, a military leader there said. Each RBK-500 ejects between approximately 100 and 350 sub-munitions, depending on the variant, the MoD said.Who knows, maybe it will be very important day for Ukraine,” Reznikov told CNN. “It is just my forecast.” The Ukrainian sense of humor originated from all the troubles that preceded our people for centuries,” Nazar said. The choice, he explained, was to give up and cry, or fight and laugh at the enemy. “We chose the latter!” When, in 2014, NATO published satellite images of invading Russian tanks in Crimea, Russian embassies tweeted a picture of toy tanks, dismissing them as the “most convincing evidence” that NATO could come up with.
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