A picture of Caleb with 15 or so miles left. He is being cooled off. Two years ago yesterday, the Prigozhin mutiny distracted me from this race, and last year I was too busy documenting lovers at dawn on the Dnipro embankment.
The reason I was up so early on Sunday this year was because cruise missiles had entered our airspace, along with ballistic bombs and Iranian drones.
Most of the projectiles were aimed at airports in Poltava and Lviv regions. I decided not to go running and visited a small village in Chernihiv, instead.
Very few people. The field in the above vid is the field below, minus the corn.
Read about what’s life is like now for some jailed during the Hong Kong protests1.
Belarusians, many of whom from the 1990s were hung out to dry, can relate.
On the war jacket, Pekhno gives today’s brief.
Lots of problems esp manpower-related.
They Demanded Democracy. Years Later, They Are Still Paying the Price. Thousands of young people lost careers, friends and dreams after taking part in mass antigovernment protests that erupted six years ago in Hong Kong (The New York Times, June 30, 2025)