I have one big question. Is it possible (for a grandmother and a 5 years old granddaughter) to leave Kherson? I've heard "no, absolutely not", but also "that's easy, there are even dedicated

Almere :-) I have a Ukrainian cousin-in-law there (not a refugee, he settled down there permanently quite some ears ago). His father was staying in Almere in the beginning of the war, but is back in Kyiv

I was intending to write some posts on a bit of the same topic, but never got to it. In Poland, where the large bulk of immigrants are staying, there is as far as I've understood zero support from the

They have not yet learned to trust the state (we have reasons for this) as institutions, but to literally give their lives for their own state and identity. The Ukrainian state is not (yet) to be trusted,

The main "bad actor" in this situation imo is NATO and implicitly the US. They pocked the bear and the bear bite back... Domestically Kremlin is "selling" the war as a liberation campaign

So this is the reason why there haven't been any really massive bomber attacks on Ukraine? Media reports that the Russian has thousands of military airplanes, but reality is something completely different?

I have some troubles believing they really were stupid enough to try to fill diesel from a full septic truck, but anyway the story made me smile :-)

I put the word "victory" referring to WWII in quotation marks here, because I don't think that in a war, especially with millions of victims, there can be winners I was reflecting a bit on this

It's nice that you are able to reflect on the good things in all the misery and bad luck.

My problem is I live in an old building built in Soviet times. Besides, both my rooms have outer walls and this is another drawback. They are extremely energy inefficient. Yes ... I know about one such

We can probably help with deliveries from Poland if needed. An Ukrainian lady moved in at my place yesterday, her husband is driving almost non-stop between the Polish border and Радомишль with food supplies

Also when living west of Ukraine, I think it's important to keep the temperature low now, to reduce the need for gas imports. Even here in Norway, as we're connected to the European electricity grid.

I also believe that serving hot meals may be one of the better options. It's slightly more social and fun to eat together with other people rather than that each family takes home a box of food. If done

It is said that in many shops in Ukraine now it's only possible to buy Polish food. That begs a question - was this food that is sold in the shops actually come from food donations, that were supposed

Unfortunately too many of them believes in the Russian propaganda. Those people who sincerely believes that the Russian soldiers are on a "peace keeping mission" in Ukraine to rescue Russians

I can't stay completely silent on this one. The actions performed and the attitudes shown are absolutely horrendous - and the evidences are overwhelming. Still, I politely disagree that all Russians are

And it's going to be even worse. I was in St.Petersburg for the first time in 1998, right after the stock market crash. Several times a day I could see some big western car being towed by some small Lada

I don't remember where I read it - but some few days ago I read a report that when it comes to bread, human touch is the most significant contributor of mould spores. Wearing gloves when cutting the bread

Perhaps it's a "super power syndrom". I do remember quite some years ago that the US was going to launch a "shock and awe"-campaign against Iraq. My friend from the US was celebrating

I'm not sure if it's legal to drive like that - but it wasn't going far, and most of the time was probably spent passing the Ukrainian border guards.