Hundreds of videos and declarations on social media are flooding out of Ukraine as its citizens fight for its continued freedom. One viral video allegedly shows a Ukrainian man stopping to mock Russian troops who ran out of gas stopped on the side of the road.
Translated into English, the conversation goes as follows:
“Are you guys broken? Broken down?” the man asks the soldiers.
“Out of fuel,” one responds.
“Can I tow you back… to Russia? [laughs]”
“Do you know where you’re going” the driver then asks the soldiers.
“No, no..[inaudible]” they respond before saying “to Kyiv, damn it, f**k off…what do they say on the news?” a soldier asks.
“Well, while everything is on our side, yours and prisoners surrender well. Because the boys also do not know where they are going…
“And I asked the whole column, people like you: no one knows where they are and where they are going” the driver finished before he drove off, coming up on another Russian tank just seconds down the road.
One of Ukraine’s beauty queens and former 2015 Miss Grand Ukraine Anastasia Lenna posted photographs of herself, armed and beautiful, on her Instagram page. She says she has joined the Ukrainian military to fight for freedom.
“Everyone who crosses the Ukrainian border with the intent to invade will be killed” she wrote, accompanied by a photo of armed soldiers blocking a roadway. She also shared a photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walking with soldiers, calling him a “true and strong leader.”
Russian police have detained thousands of individuals who are involved in anti-war demonstrations. Demonstrations in solidarity with Ukraine, against the Russian government’s unprovoked invasion, have occurred around the world.
In Russia alone, demonstrators in more than 50 cities were detained. Organized protests occurred in some of Russia’s largest cities, including Moscow and Saint Petersburg, despite dire warnings and threats of arrest from the government.
Axios reports “the anti-war demonstrations are the largest organized protests against eh Russian government since the Kremlin arrested Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny last year.”