Day 455
Burial of the dead
Kyiv remains the birthplace of inspiration and dubious celebrity, failed ambition, creepy sexuality, war-adjacent content milling and other really rather funny stories, including the liberation of Belgorod region (population: 1.5 million, 27,100 square kilometers, flat as a pancake).
It’s also home to zillions of one of the world’s liveliest flowers — lilacs.
Stefan has provided a run-down of military developments here, and Illia launched War Notes, a weekly newsletter for his 1.2 million buddies on Elon’s far-right social network. Isabel for the ultra-liberal The Washington Post also attempts to make sense of the mess, which you should not think too hard about or attempt to understand1.
It all boils down to trolling Belarus and Russia. The gist of this post is no one knows what the fuck is actually happening, except maybe for the kids wearing cammies posting uplifting video clips to TikTok. Looking on the bright side, it might be a dress rehersal for the party being planned for wester…
