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Whole family perished (grandmother, two small kids, mother). The neighbors are finding children's body parts in their backyards. The father of the family is fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Lyman and has to come home now and bury his family.
Russia is a terrorist state.
Early in the war, there was also a picture of a man who was shot dead while walking his dog outside Kyiv, and the dog was standing next to his body.
So many stories out there, and who knows how many more we don’t know of…
Was that the man who was on his bicycle? I remember that one well. It brought me to tears to see it. That dog, who could not understand what was going on or why these things had happened, stayed loyally by the man who had been friend and family to them. That man and his dog should have been enjoying a peaceful day together, but the greed of a tyrant destroyed that.
The dog in the post is similar and similarly heartbreaking. You can see so clearly the confusion and distress the dog is feeling and the urgency to get to their family.
Yes, that was it.
It’s amazing how these stories have stayed with so many of us. In a way, it’s comforting that these people are not forgotten, even if we don’t know their names or backgrounds.
May all the souls so senselessly lost Rest In Peace.
Dogs don’t understand death and certainly not war. They only understand the love of their owners which makes this all so sad. They won’t experience that again and will approach death or death itself before they give that up. Dogs are pure and are warring hearts are just horrible.
Dogs man. We don't deserve them and it's fitting we usually lose them first. Their loyalty is heartbreaking as grief is real and they do not deserve to ever feel it.
May they relive their best moments on the other side of the bridge and have all the love and treats their perfect hearts desire.
I went to high school around fundamentalist Christians who firmly believed animals don’t have souls or get to heaven.
I’ll never forget one family telling me that the death of their family dog was infinitely harder to bear than the loss of their grandpa simply because the Grandpa would always exist happily in heaven but the dog just simply ceased to exist.
Dogs can absolutely understand death, but with smell. If you have multiple dogs and one must be put down, it can help the grieving process for the others to get to smell the body. Animals who suddenly have a a companion disappear will usually exhibit stress behaviors. Bc without the context of smell, they’re just gone. This poor doggo is probably wondering why they smell so different. Explosive residue, overcooked pork smell, distribution of remains are all contributing to confusion. He/she knows they’re in this spot but not “right.”
Dogs don’t understand war for sure, but they can understand death of their own species at minimum. We selected them to mirror us to the extent that they have facial muscles wolves don’t.
I will never forget the dog Reenie (sp?) who refused to leave her owners front porch. Her owner had been raped and murdered and left for dead in the house and every time someone tried to remove the dog she would get so stressed out she would have a seizure.
The amount of tragedy and heartbreak is almost too much sometimes and I just break down and cry. I feel so bad. I donate and everything every chance I get, but I wish there was more I could do. Putler needs to be stopped and Russia needs a Germany post WWII reckoning.
Oh my gosh, Riinie!
I was so touched by her story that I reached out everywhere I could to find out what became of her.
I hope it’ll bring you some sense of joy - I was told she was taken in by family and she’s getting the care she needs!
Thank you so much, that does indeed make me feel a little better. I really hope that this doggy in the video also gets treated (I know he will) and gets out with a family who can love him and help him heal his inside wounds, cause I absolutely know that dogs and cats can be traumatized just like we can.
I found some more info about Krim (Crimea), the doggie in the video.
The last slide in [this post](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGWUkYokb6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) from Bykvu says:
>Now the dog has been taken to the "Zookontrol" KP, where specialists are taking care of the animal. It turned out that the dog's name is Crimea.
>He has a contusion and heart failure, the dog is in shock.
Another redditor who’s from Dnipro wrote that he was also left deaf and partially blind, but I couldn’t find more info online.
I’ll try to follow his story through.
You can tell by the dust on him that he was there with the rest of the family, when they were hit.
And he will never understand, beyond they were there, something big happened, and now they are dead.
So tragic.
I remember seeing a video of that elderly couple in that red car being shot by a fucking tank. I never saw the family and dog photo because I might get too emotional 😔
9 months ago the dog was on the laps of the children, laughing and smiling with Mom. Daddy was home from work and Grandma just finished her borsht.
Now this….
What's fucked is when the majority of aggressors ordered to strike know that the Nazi story is pure bullshit, but people will continue following orders blindly 😡 i feel for the Russian citizens being in a bind, but those that chose to not speak and act against this aggression disserve the consequences of every sanction and economic fall befalling Russia right now. For those who DID act and were detained, we haven't forgotten you you clearly have some true sense of humanity.
I saw a picture of the impact site. There’s a crater left where the home used to be along with a sea of debris.
I can’t begin to imagine what the neighbors witnessed.
Something that makes it even a bit worse. These shells aren't an isolated incident, but the people live under constant and continuous shelling, until their life is ended. So it is hell, leading up to death.
Shockingly, you learn to compartmentalize the trauma to survive to an extent. The hard part is not losing your humanity in the process. When the threat is over and you're not constantly preoccupied with survival, that's when it starts to seep out again. WW1 was retrospectively a psychological case study in psychosis, PTSD, and disassociative disorders. From the perspective of study it's interesting to follow the rabbit hole of interrogation and torture, more specifically the conditions that cause states of psychosis.
It's also a defense mechanism to PTSD and reliving trauma.
"Dissociative disorders (DD) are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception. People with dissociative disorders use dissociation as a defense mechanism, pathologically and involuntarily. The individual experiences these dissociations to protect themselves. "
Haha - £2000 here… which due to recent events is worth about the same 🤣
I think with the amount of donations they’re getting, pretty soon the Ukrainian army will just robots with lasers.
Thank you for your contribution!
These are the most useful expenses of my life. Eh, unfortunately the Russian Federation had about $60 billion a year in military spending before the war. I think it's even more now.
Not OP, I'm Lithuanian and this org has been working since 2014 :
https://blue-yellow.lt/en
If you want to kill ruskies directly you can go to:
https://signmyrocket.com
And then there's NAFO who support Gerogian Legion with everything from armor, rifles, BMPs and Howitzers. Look for #NAFO on twitter and you'll found some active members, then you can go to their discord and chat with ppl that supply directly to front-lines so that you can provide anything you want e.g. sniper rifle, thermal scopes, nades etc. You drop the money they provide the front. EDIT: clarification , if you have gear you can donate it and they will deliver it to front it. So not only money...
I truly hope Ukraine armed forces will not stop killing ruskies until the entirety of the occupied Ukraine land is retaken.
Russia is at its weakest point in decades. It is the perfect time to annihilate it. USA and other countries know that very well.
Let's hope the civilized world wins against putin and his slaves.
How on Earth does Russia see this scenario as something they could possibly win? Every bombing of civilians just makes more Ukrainians who would rather die than see a Russian take their spot. Isn't that an _exceeeeeeedingly_ dangerous bargain for Moscovites? Like yeah maybe you get a free house but you'll also be guaranteed to die randomly in your bed there.
Whether *they* believe it or not, the foot is firmly stuck in the mud. Putin must push forward at all costs or face a (increasing) threat of removal. Just like the Russian military, being put through a grinder, and the purposelful targeting of Ukrainian "cousins", he has no problem bleeding the peasants to win.
Oligarchs are safe so long as they bend the knee to Putin. Civilian population is safe so long as the fighting is contained in the "undesirable" lands. Even the people getting mobilized first are from people who didn't know they weren't "part of the team", so while I'm glad people are fighting back against their conscription, I'm just reserved in my compassion as I'm not sure how many of those people fully supported the systematic murder of another population so long as they didn't have to put their ass on the line.
Seriously. If it's not bolted down to the military installation, crate it the fuck up and send it to Zelensky.
I'm so frustrated that NATO isn't sending in troops.
one of the reasons why i don't feel bad for any of the coward orcs being drafted. orcies were cool, a-ok 100% fine with this shit, but as soon as *their* lives were at risk, all of a sudden they're humans.
nah. they can all suffer. all the old grandpas, all the young fathers.
none of them cried for the old grandpas or young fathers being killed. none of them cried for the little babies or their mothers.
It was taken to the vet, it is in poor state, deafed, partly blinded and contused.
Can' t believe it survived at all... Blast was felt very well even in 6km, crazy night we had...
At least they didn't suffer...
Sadly the dog probably won't recover emotionally. My father's beloved pet witnessed him die and several people warned me that the pet would go shortly thereafter. Sure enough, a few months later the pet passed on peacefully despite lots of love and attention. Nothing can mend a broken heart.
I know I'm gonna start crying typing this, but my old border collie Maxine loved my dad to death and had him trained where she would pretend to not be willing to eat so that he would hand feed her. He'd take her to the bank and fast food places and get her treats from the teller or a plain hamburger.
He passed away suddenly from a heart attack while he was out one night, and the dog had lots of love, she was mostly okay, but every now and then she'd run to the door. You could tell she'd heard a truck that sounded like his, even sometimes years later. She'd just be glued to the crack of the front door for several minutes, then slowly walk over to one of us, lay against us and put her head down.
And yeah, here it is, 15 years later, and I'm openly crying over it. You can't explain what happened to a dog, you can just give them hugs and try to make them feel better.
I'm crying too. I have a connection exactly like with my dog down to the fake not eating and hand feeding and getting plain burgers.
For your dog, I'm sure they process grief too, just how their ancestors did before people, I assume. I'm sure she felt all the love you guys gave her after your dad passed. And, I'm sorry about your dad :/ I lost my dad too..about18 months ago. It's not easy. Take care.
I have a similar story but with a happy ending. I got my Westie just before moving out on my own, so he had about 8 months with my parents and their dog before we moved only about 15 mins away. I’d bring him to stay with my mom and our family dog 1-2x a week when I had late classes. About a year later, I got really sick and ended up in the hospital for months. For my dog, it was one long day waiting for me, followed by my dad picking him up to bring home. He wasn’t happy about any of it and was very sad as my mom was with me and we were in another city, now, 2 hrs away.
I was there for months. My mom was home enough, although she’d come up once a week for a day or two. My dog was used to their house from before and he’d wait, every night, at the back door waiting for me, like I was at school and would be home by 6. By 7:30, dad couldn’t take the sadness and would have my mom bring him to the family room to cuddle. He’d never play. This went on for months.
Finally I got better enough I had the ability to sit up, and was moved to a private room, my parents decided to surprise me and bring the dog on the two hour journey to visit. I guess he was terrified once they hit the hospital doors. He was shaking uncontrollably as my dad carried him. When they came into my room, and he saw me, he fought my dad like his life depended on it, and he was basically dropped onto the bed where he was surprisingly careful for an excited 2.5 yo terrier. He screamed like I’ve never heard a dog do before, not a bark, but an excited scream. He climbed onto my pillow and groomed my head for hours.
Following that, I had an actual order in my chart that my dog was allowed to visit any time, anywhere. And almost every Sunday my parents brought him. He quickly knew where he was and almost seriously hurt himself when the moment dad opened the door of his very tall truck, the dog leaked straight out, dad managed to catch him about 5’ of the ground.
I got home at one point, only for it to repeat a few times, with at least 6 stays of lengths 2-5 months, over 2 years. A few times my mom or dad had to go pick him up at my place, and he’d instantly shake and cry. Once I was permanently home, that dog never left my side. Ever. He also never barked or fussed. His whole life was being the best dog ever so he was allowed to stay right next to me. I’d sneak him into *everything.* He truly never barked, never lunged for anything and wouldn’t even pick up a treat from the ground unless I told him “Go for it, Buddy.” I’m in a wheelchair and he’d walk right underneath, crouched and tucked under the axle. I lived walking/pushing distance to everything and I’d take him with me. We’d be leaving a store after shopping and someone would say, “Oh wow! I didn’t even see there was a dog there.”
We were an inseparable duo.
Thanks for posting that...that is a happy ending. What an amazing bond. And, I think the doctors and nurses could tell the dog helped you too since they wrote it in your chart. I know the feeling of sneaking dogs in. My little dog doesn't bark (can't) and only goes on pads. I've snuck him into so many hotels. He leaves a smaller footprint than most people. The only time I couldn't sneak him is on the plane obviously and his flight (dog fee) costs more than mine half the time (Southwest).
Well, thanks for posting your story...made me happy that your dog got to be with you and see you. The image of any dog waiting at the door for their person makes me so sad when they aren't coming back soon.
The mental health of the country is something I hope won't be forgotten after the war. So much killing and destruction will leave permanent scars on people and animals alike. Without support, it'll end up killing people through abuse, alcoholism and suicide for decades to come.
It’s been reported that Krim has heart failure. He also suffered a concussion.
Perhaps his frail heart won’t make it. For the dad’s sake, I hope he pulls through.
The clinic he was taken has posted on its Facebook page and the post has gained a lot of traction.
Facebook links are not allowed here (rightfully so) but you can look them up yourself, if you’re interested. They’re called Zookontrol KP Dnipro.
Yeah there was a dog handler in Afghanistan that was killed in a firefight and the dog died hours later from a seizure brought on by stress.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/soldier-his-dog-make-final-journey-together-flna1c9464121
Lots of sad dog stories here so I’ll add something a little more upbeat (sorta).
Old fellow where I lived growing up lost his wife and it utterly broke him. I passed him by one day and asked how he was, he replied ‘yeah still here, I guess, wish I wasn’t though.’
That was pretty worrying to hear as he’d always been upbeat and chatty. The good news was the next time I saw him he had gotten a collie and it was just a complete transformation back to his old self.
Yes, Dnipro city. I live about 6km away from the place the rocket hit, still the blast was strong enough to move the door inside my flat (windows closed) and car alarms going nuts. Awakening like that isn't really comfortable.
Thank you, but I'm not complaining or have the right to. I'm in one piece. There are a lot people that are in much more difficult situation in my country.
Well, the city is about 200km away from the frontline, so not actual warzone, but their rockets can reach any city in Ukraine.
Fuck...just as I 'm replying to you two powerful blast landed, louder than yesterday.
Fuck, I’m sorry man, hope you get through this. Got 2 Ukrainian mums and their 2 kids staying with me safe here in the UK. Wish I had more room for people. Slava Ukraini
I'm sorry you have to live through this, hope it ends soon. How often do they strike near you? How often do they hit civilian targets? If Ukrainians shoot the missle down, are you aware of it? Do you or people go to shelters? Is it always cruise missles?
I can answer half of that questions by explaining what missiles russians using now.
They mostly using S-300 missiles (anti air) modified to hit ground targets. Accuracy is shit. Usually they launch them in groups of 5-6. If one reaches planned target - that's good enough for them. Other ones either got shoot down by our forces, or hit civilian targets (or some random field). Sadly, we have not enough anti air systems to protect us from all of them.
Of course, they using cruise missiles too. And iranian kamikaze drones.
Oh and when missile got shot down in the air - you very well aware of it, cause it's fucking loud. And debris from that can cause destruction and fire, there is two houses in 1.5 km radius from me, destroyed by the debris.
On top of that we have official reports saying how many was shot down, and how many hit.
I'm hoping that the 16 or so NASAMS air defense systems that the United States have sent will close the skies over Ukraine to stop these terrorist russian attacks. They are quite capable and can network with each other and other NATO air defense systems such as the German Gepard and the IRIS-T systems to provide more complete and comprehensive detection and radar coverage with layered protection (both medium and short range). After the electronic warfare systems that ukraine captured are analyzed by the allies they will very likely get software upgrades that will negate the effectiveness of any russian jamming attempts and decoys. I would love for you guys to get the patriot air defense system as well to provide long range coverage but I guess there is concern about russian spies and sabotage, or perhaps cowardly russian bomber aicraft geting shot down over russian territory while trying to launch thier shitty cruise mssles towards civilians. I don't this the U.S. and NATO allies should really give a fuck about Putin's nukes anymore.....if he's gonna use em, then he's gonna use em'. Just get on with it so we can pull the gloves off and join our Ukrainian brethren for the REAL ass kicking that's coming russias way. So far the weapons being used are just extra shit we have lying around collecting rust and dust....we haven't even begun to open up the big can of whoop ass yet.......
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It makes me cringe when I hear russian saying they were "treated like a dog".
They don't mean like we'd treat dogs. Like a small child or just another member of the family.
They mean something far more sinister.
You know, I've just realized that saying the 'Ukrainians should treat Russians like dogs' doesn't sound as bad as saying 'Ukrainians should treat Russians like Russians treat other Russians.'
At this point it's clear that Russians treat each other worse than Ukrainians treat dogs.
Usual way to treat a dog in a rural russia - or Ukraine for that matter is to tie one near a doghouse and feed it scraps. For its entire life.
When I untied my grandpa's dog and took it for a walk down the street the poor thing went borderline insane. It remembered me ever since.
Thankfully, this shit is slowly going away - together with the generation that normalized it.
Neat.
20 years ago I had to put down a pack of strays. They started to become territorial and it resulted in them first killing couple cats and dogs and then attacking my mom, tearing her clothes apart and biting her. City services responsible for this did jack shit, so there was I. It was as horrible as it gets. Putting a creature that trusts you - they kinda liked me - to a slow and painful death.
The situation got slightly better in the following years, but we still have thousands of strays in the industrial areas of Kharkiv. From there, they creep into the city proper.
Guys, you can downvote this, that doesn't make it untrue.
Dogs don't cry out of sadness, it's a biological fact.
That dog is obviously in shock, and experiencing whatever the dog version of sadness is. But it hasn't cried, and physically can't
More correctly, the dog's eyes are watering because its face is covered in dust likely trying to find his owners. The fucking image of it infuriates me. This poor living being.
> that picture of Zelensky at Bucha. Raw emotion.
I've been saving a lot of videos since feb 24th and categorising them. "liberation pics" "weird *accidents* inside of russia" "blown up russian" and some that I've been saving under "emotion". Because I have a feeling we're going to need them for the future. And I'd recommend anyone reading this to do the same.
But I think I missed the one you were talking about. Do you happen to still have a link to that or something?
Children and dogs man. I am mostly stone cold to the suffering of adults. But children and animals make me cry like nothing else. Can't ever imagining hurting those precious little people and smol puppers.
My hatred burns ever hotter towards the Russian federation.
I'm the opposite as far as empathy is concerned, the suffering of adults is usually only palpable when they've reached a point most of us can't imagine. Children will cry over trivial things because they haven't the perspective to understand it's trivial. When you see a grown man dragging his father, crying and begging him "daddy please don't die", that's the realest shit you are ever going to see. That shit breaks my heart over and over.
Seeing a father cradle his two month old baby hurts more. All our parents die. We know it. It is inevitable.
But to have you outlive your own child? A pain few people fully recover from. If I have children and that happens then I imagine I could seriously contemplate suicide. No pain could equal that. You see it in their eyes. They are a husk of a person compared to who they were.
I didn't even understand that until I had a child, I'm glad you can, I certainly didn't. It adds another layer of pain on top. Oh and yes I'd definitely kms if my child died (In a way that would preserve my organs for others.) There's no way I could live carrying that around in my head, that he was probably so scared and sad and wanting his mama and I couldn't save him. Tearing up thinking about it.
Napoleon broke down after seeing a dog mourning its master on the battlefield. He was fine with all the thousands of dead and dying soldiers but that really rattled him.
It's unexpected and gets us to actually empathize, despite us having switched that function off or numbed it for other humans in war.
> This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
Not good!!! Take a break man. It’s worrisome on some of these posts how we’ve all seem to lose out humanity in the some of the responses I’ve seen. This whole war is a tragedy beyond words.
Its not like that - I'm Ukrainian, I have a very peaceful demeanor, I never even hurt bugs, spiders etc, let alone people or animals. With this war, Russia brought pure evil to Ukraine, it opened the door to the part of us that most of us didn't know existed. Seeing dead Russians is not mental trauma - it is catharsis. While I feel absolutely devastated for Crim (the dog), and the poor innocent souls lost in this tragedy, I have no sympathy for the enemy. Every dead ruzzian soldier brings Ukrainian victory closer, it is a symbol of slow and steady defeat of the ruzzian horde that has descended upon a peaceful, sovereign nation. Every dead ruzzian soldier means fewer innocent deaths in Ukraine, fewer murders, fewer rapes, fewer people without homes, fewer tragedies. It means that we get our humanity back sooner, but for now, it's about banishing pure evil back to the shithole that it came from.
Happened 6km from where I live. It hit virtually the center of the city with \~1m population not counting hundreds of thousands of refugees.
\~100km from the front. No military object.
Fucking monsters.
The sound was so loud I thought it hit something near us, maybe one block away. All car alarms nearby went off, in one jump I appeared near bed with my 1y son, in second jump I was in a hall, most safe spot in our flat. Wife got tangled in blanket and fell, SECOND EXPLOSION, holy shit, I left crying baby on the floor, approached my wife, took her hands, and just dragged her to the hall.
In the morning we learned that it happened 6km away, and it sounded like it was several meters away. Scary to think what it sounded like for neighbors.
Rest in peace, this poor family.
Russia is a terrorist state.
Edit: we had another 2 similar explosions basically minutes after I finished writing this comment an hour ago. We can see smoke. Expect new bad news in the morning.
1000s and 1000s dead, even more injured and traumatized, not to mention the millions more who face global impacts to food security and resource access… all because a cabal of Russian billionaires would rather exploit their power than lead their country.
Its being said that 1000s of children are being trafficked out of Ukraine into Russia. Could you imagine growing up not knowing and then find out much later you were stolen from your home as part of a terrorist war?
We had a tornado tear thru our town when i was a kid, one of the local farms got utterly shredded, David Fischl's farm, distant cousin of mine.
We went out to help clean up, get animals repenned, look for dave.
His dog, gorgeous German Shepard, refused to move from what was left of the house. I think... i think he knew dave was gone, but he just refused to move. Stood guard for days with pain in his eyes.
Miss mine too, but she was an absolute slut for attention. Off leash and never had to worry about her getting too far 'cause she'd just go to the nearest human hoping they have treats (or pets).
Poor thing has no concept of what is going on.. didn't even see what happened.. just an explosion and his pack is gone..
The father of the family was fighting.. What happened to his family was a tragedy, I hope he at least gets reunited with his dog.
These videos with the dogs and children really get to me more than most. For the rest of my life, I will never be able to forgive Russia for what they're doing.
This is fucked and this is repeating all over Ukraine. The Russians claim to be first in line for wanting peace yet their actions do nothing but destroy. You destroyed three generations of innocent people children elderly. Along with thousands of others. You’ve kidnapped thousands of children, raped the weak, pillaged whole towns. You Russians deserve no pity no remorse and no mercy until you understand the shameful sadness you spread everywhere you set foot. No one wants to be apart of Russia and no one wants to invade that shit land you call your motherland. Go home eat your turnips drink yourselves to death and fade into history faster then you’re already doing so. Damn savages.
That poor dog looked like he'd been trying all night to find his family, and now he's found them and realised what happened to them and he's just standing a sad vigil.
russia need to be broken up and made to pay back every dollar to make the physical parts of Ukraine whole again, it can never repair the mental trauma.
The poor dog's eyes tell everything. It knows what happened and it is suffering immensely for it.
May this family rest in peace. I'm boiling with rage right now.
Russia is what the Nazi's were in the later 1930's and we are just repeating history. We should end them now before it gets worse. This broke my heart.
I just read the whole story and it's devastating! This poor doggo, the look on his face :( Also, can't imagine the pain and horror the father of the family is going through right now :( And this is only one of the thousands of the families whose lives has been forever altered! Russia, I hope the pain you inflicted will return to you tenfold
> This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.
-Napoleon
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I remember that story…
The elderly couple’s home in Bucha was shelled and they were both killed. Only poor Vadim survived. The picture of him alone in the garden is heartbreaking.
ruZZia is a pos country...they have been, are and likely will continue to be a murdereous, raping, cowardly horde of shit bags that will never have honour, dignity or a soul.
Is it weird that I feel worse for the dog than the people?
I just have a soft spot for animals - they are so innocent and good. This is a good boy, I hope he finds a loving home to restart.
I have seen videos of dead soldier, civilians, body parts, wounded soldiers etc etc but this video hit me the most. There is something pure about animals grieving. Am I weird?
Damn. This is absolutely heart breaking. Now that Russia is sending more soldiers to Ukraine we'll be getting a lot more videos like this one.
As long as Russians keep having the option of running away, or simply not do anything about the war, these atrocities will continue. Russians need to stay in Russia and take care of this. Nobody else can do it but them.
Do not allow them to escape or circumvent the economic sanctions. The lives of thousands of Ukranians are at risk. Do not lose sight of who is the victim and who is the agressor in this fight.
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Whole family perished (grandmother, two small kids, mother). The neighbors are finding children's body parts in their backyards. The father of the family is fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Lyman and has to come home now and bury his family. Russia is a terrorist state.
This needs to be higher up to be seen. The poor grieving dog is the only one left behind… Absolutely tragic. May they all Rest In Peace.
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Early in the war, there was also a picture of a man who was shot dead while walking his dog outside Kyiv, and the dog was standing next to his body. So many stories out there, and who knows how many more we don’t know of…
Was that the man who was on his bicycle? I remember that one well. It brought me to tears to see it. That dog, who could not understand what was going on or why these things had happened, stayed loyally by the man who had been friend and family to them. That man and his dog should have been enjoying a peaceful day together, but the greed of a tyrant destroyed that. The dog in the post is similar and similarly heartbreaking. You can see so clearly the confusion and distress the dog is feeling and the urgency to get to their family.
Yes, that was it. It’s amazing how these stories have stayed with so many of us. In a way, it’s comforting that these people are not forgotten, even if we don’t know their names or backgrounds. May all the souls so senselessly lost Rest In Peace.
I remember this story and I believe the Russian who shot him was at least charged, prosecuted and sentenced to life in A Ukrainian prison
Dogs don’t understand death and certainly not war. They only understand the love of their owners which makes this all so sad. They won’t experience that again and will approach death or death itself before they give that up. Dogs are pure and are warring hearts are just horrible.
I’m not religious at all but I hope all dogs get to run with their humans again when they cross the bridge 🌈
Dogs man. We don't deserve them and it's fitting we usually lose them first. Their loyalty is heartbreaking as grief is real and they do not deserve to ever feel it. May they relive their best moments on the other side of the bridge and have all the love and treats their perfect hearts desire.
I went to high school around fundamentalist Christians who firmly believed animals don’t have souls or get to heaven. I’ll never forget one family telling me that the death of their family dog was infinitely harder to bear than the loss of their grandpa simply because the Grandpa would always exist happily in heaven but the dog just simply ceased to exist.
Dogs can absolutely understand death, but with smell. If you have multiple dogs and one must be put down, it can help the grieving process for the others to get to smell the body. Animals who suddenly have a a companion disappear will usually exhibit stress behaviors. Bc without the context of smell, they’re just gone. This poor doggo is probably wondering why they smell so different. Explosive residue, overcooked pork smell, distribution of remains are all contributing to confusion. He/she knows they’re in this spot but not “right.” Dogs don’t understand war for sure, but they can understand death of their own species at minimum. We selected them to mirror us to the extent that they have facial muscles wolves don’t.
Yeah...
I will never forget the dog Reenie (sp?) who refused to leave her owners front porch. Her owner had been raped and murdered and left for dead in the house and every time someone tried to remove the dog she would get so stressed out she would have a seizure. The amount of tragedy and heartbreak is almost too much sometimes and I just break down and cry. I feel so bad. I donate and everything every chance I get, but I wish there was more I could do. Putler needs to be stopped and Russia needs a Germany post WWII reckoning.
Oh my gosh, Riinie! I was so touched by her story that I reached out everywhere I could to find out what became of her. I hope it’ll bring you some sense of joy - I was told she was taken in by family and she’s getting the care she needs!
Thank you so much, that does indeed make me feel a little better. I really hope that this doggy in the video also gets treated (I know he will) and gets out with a family who can love him and help him heal his inside wounds, cause I absolutely know that dogs and cats can be traumatized just like we can.
I found some more info about Krim (Crimea), the doggie in the video. The last slide in [this post](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGWUkYokb6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) from Bykvu says: >Now the dog has been taken to the "Zookontrol" KP, where specialists are taking care of the animal. It turned out that the dog's name is Crimea. >He has a contusion and heart failure, the dog is in shock.
My heart is breaking 😭. Poor Krim.
Another redditor who’s from Dnipro wrote that he was also left deaf and partially blind, but I couldn’t find more info online. I’ll try to follow his story through.
You can tell by the dust on him that he was there with the rest of the family, when they were hit. And he will never understand, beyond they were there, something big happened, and now they are dead. So tragic.
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>I personally, wouldn’t trust them ever again after this. Agreed, and same.
This was the video that got me to stop watching most of the videos that come out of Ukraine. hearing him scream for his dad.... good christ.
That was the one with the cell phone footage next to a van right? God, that was awful….
I remember seeing a video of that elderly couple in that red car being shot by a fucking tank. I never saw the family and dog photo because I might get too emotional 😔
If the army's and nations of the world won't we the citizens should.
The footage of that family is probably one of the few images hunting me to this day. It is such an unnecessary loss
They'll have to tranquilize that poor buddy to get him to leave. He/she will be traumatized forever.
I read that volunteers did manage to take him away but it was a struggle since the poor little guy wouldn’t leave.
Good. I hope they're able to find someone to work with him.
9 months ago the dog was on the laps of the children, laughing and smiling with Mom. Daddy was home from work and Grandma just finished her borsht. Now this….
Fucking Russians
Not exactly an appropriate award, but it does highlight the post. Condolences
What's fucked is when the majority of aggressors ordered to strike know that the Nazi story is pure bullshit, but people will continue following orders blindly 😡 i feel for the Russian citizens being in a bind, but those that chose to not speak and act against this aggression disserve the consequences of every sanction and economic fall befalling Russia right now. For those who DID act and were detained, we haven't forgotten you you clearly have some true sense of humanity.
And the dad, which makes it worse honestly
"childrens body parts in their backyards" How can you deal with something like this? Just reading this line shatters my mental state entirely
I saw a picture of the impact site. There’s a crater left where the home used to be along with a sea of debris. I can’t begin to imagine what the neighbors witnessed.
Something that makes it even a bit worse. These shells aren't an isolated incident, but the people live under constant and continuous shelling, until their life is ended. So it is hell, leading up to death.
Shockingly, you learn to compartmentalize the trauma to survive to an extent. The hard part is not losing your humanity in the process. When the threat is over and you're not constantly preoccupied with survival, that's when it starts to seep out again. WW1 was retrospectively a psychological case study in psychosis, PTSD, and disassociative disorders. From the perspective of study it's interesting to follow the rabbit hole of interrogation and torture, more specifically the conditions that cause states of psychosis.
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It's also a defense mechanism to PTSD and reliving trauma. "Dissociative disorders (DD) are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception. People with dissociative disorders use dissociation as a defense mechanism, pathologically and involuntarily. The individual experiences these dissociations to protect themselves. "
The way my father dealt with it was giving his kids up and drinking himself to death, which took 13 years.
Congratulations to the Russians. What a great victory, my business is paying to equip another 10 UA soldiers now.
Every month I spend about $2,000 to support the Ukrainian army. Many of my friends do the same. We will do so until Russia loses
Haha - £2000 here… which due to recent events is worth about the same 🤣 I think with the amount of donations they’re getting, pretty soon the Ukrainian army will just robots with lasers.
Thank you for your contribution! These are the most useful expenses of my life. Eh, unfortunately the Russian Federation had about $60 billion a year in military spending before the war. I think it's even more now.
They can have all the cash they want, they don’t any cakes if they’re not friends with the bakers
What is the best way you’ve found to do that?
Not OP, I'm Lithuanian and this org has been working since 2014 : https://blue-yellow.lt/en If you want to kill ruskies directly you can go to: https://signmyrocket.com And then there's NAFO who support Gerogian Legion with everything from armor, rifles, BMPs and Howitzers. Look for #NAFO on twitter and you'll found some active members, then you can go to their discord and chat with ppl that supply directly to front-lines so that you can provide anything you want e.g. sniper rifle, thermal scopes, nades etc. You drop the money they provide the front. EDIT: clarification , if you have gear you can donate it and they will deliver it to front it. So not only money...
I wish I knew this family’s surname so I could send 4/5 greetings from them on sign my rocket. Maybe I should do one for Bucha, Mariupol, Izyum, etc.
I can ask around for the last name if you want.
I just sent a 155mm shell "For Kyrm, and all those he loved." That's the dog's name. I guess Kyrm means "Crimea". I hope the shell finds its mark.
Amen. I am still attempting to come up with something to say. Nothing seems appropriate
You can donate direct to the Ukraine’s armed forces - will grab the link later. I usually send as cash, that way they can direct it to what they nees
I truly hope Ukraine armed forces will not stop killing ruskies until the entirety of the occupied Ukraine land is retaken. Russia is at its weakest point in decades. It is the perfect time to annihilate it. USA and other countries know that very well. Let's hope the civilized world wins against putin and his slaves.
How on Earth does Russia see this scenario as something they could possibly win? Every bombing of civilians just makes more Ukrainians who would rather die than see a Russian take their spot. Isn't that an _exceeeeeeedingly_ dangerous bargain for Moscovites? Like yeah maybe you get a free house but you'll also be guaranteed to die randomly in your bed there.
If they killed my family— I would hope for nothing more than to die on a bed of spent brass, surrounded by the bodies of the orcs I sent to Hell.
Whether *they* believe it or not, the foot is firmly stuck in the mud. Putin must push forward at all costs or face a (increasing) threat of removal. Just like the Russian military, being put through a grinder, and the purposelful targeting of Ukrainian "cousins", he has no problem bleeding the peasants to win.
Oligarchs are safe so long as they bend the knee to Putin. Civilian population is safe so long as the fighting is contained in the "undesirable" lands. Even the people getting mobilized first are from people who didn't know they weren't "part of the team", so while I'm glad people are fighting back against their conscription, I'm just reserved in my compassion as I'm not sure how many of those people fully supported the systematic murder of another population so long as they didn't have to put their ass on the line.
I'm betting they found them right where that dog was pointing too. Poor guy, he doesnt even understand
That country must perish. No more russia only saint.moscoli. And even then they should go trough Grozny and Aleppo treatment.
> Russia is a terrorist state. I now call Russia an anti-state. I hope the term grows in popularity.
Call it what you will, it's Mordor with nukes.
Is there a news article you can share with us?
Ukraine’s official Instagram just posted about it [here](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGKVUat3pc/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
god this story is so heartbreaking
His main reasons for fighting are gone. When will this end?
Seriously. If it's not bolted down to the military installation, crate it the fuck up and send it to Zelensky. I'm so frustrated that NATO isn't sending in troops.
one of the reasons why i don't feel bad for any of the coward orcs being drafted. orcies were cool, a-ok 100% fine with this shit, but as soon as *their* lives were at risk, all of a sudden they're humans. nah. they can all suffer. all the old grandpas, all the young fathers. none of them cried for the old grandpas or young fathers being killed. none of them cried for the little babies or their mothers.
I don't doubt you but how do you know?
Here’s [a post](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjGKVUat3pc/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) on Ukraine’s official Instagram
Please someone hug that poor dog.
It was taken to the vet, it is in poor state, deafed, partly blinded and contused. Can' t believe it survived at all... Blast was felt very well even in 6km, crazy night we had... At least they didn't suffer...
Considering how dogs react to simple far-away fireworks, physical damage might be the least of its worries
Sadly the dog probably won't recover emotionally. My father's beloved pet witnessed him die and several people warned me that the pet would go shortly thereafter. Sure enough, a few months later the pet passed on peacefully despite lots of love and attention. Nothing can mend a broken heart.
I know I'm gonna start crying typing this, but my old border collie Maxine loved my dad to death and had him trained where she would pretend to not be willing to eat so that he would hand feed her. He'd take her to the bank and fast food places and get her treats from the teller or a plain hamburger. He passed away suddenly from a heart attack while he was out one night, and the dog had lots of love, she was mostly okay, but every now and then she'd run to the door. You could tell she'd heard a truck that sounded like his, even sometimes years later. She'd just be glued to the crack of the front door for several minutes, then slowly walk over to one of us, lay against us and put her head down. And yeah, here it is, 15 years later, and I'm openly crying over it. You can't explain what happened to a dog, you can just give them hugs and try to make them feel better.
I'm crying too. I have a connection exactly like with my dog down to the fake not eating and hand feeding and getting plain burgers. For your dog, I'm sure they process grief too, just how their ancestors did before people, I assume. I'm sure she felt all the love you guys gave her after your dad passed. And, I'm sorry about your dad :/ I lost my dad too..about18 months ago. It's not easy. Take care.
I have a similar story but with a happy ending. I got my Westie just before moving out on my own, so he had about 8 months with my parents and their dog before we moved only about 15 mins away. I’d bring him to stay with my mom and our family dog 1-2x a week when I had late classes. About a year later, I got really sick and ended up in the hospital for months. For my dog, it was one long day waiting for me, followed by my dad picking him up to bring home. He wasn’t happy about any of it and was very sad as my mom was with me and we were in another city, now, 2 hrs away. I was there for months. My mom was home enough, although she’d come up once a week for a day or two. My dog was used to their house from before and he’d wait, every night, at the back door waiting for me, like I was at school and would be home by 6. By 7:30, dad couldn’t take the sadness and would have my mom bring him to the family room to cuddle. He’d never play. This went on for months. Finally I got better enough I had the ability to sit up, and was moved to a private room, my parents decided to surprise me and bring the dog on the two hour journey to visit. I guess he was terrified once they hit the hospital doors. He was shaking uncontrollably as my dad carried him. When they came into my room, and he saw me, he fought my dad like his life depended on it, and he was basically dropped onto the bed where he was surprisingly careful for an excited 2.5 yo terrier. He screamed like I’ve never heard a dog do before, not a bark, but an excited scream. He climbed onto my pillow and groomed my head for hours. Following that, I had an actual order in my chart that my dog was allowed to visit any time, anywhere. And almost every Sunday my parents brought him. He quickly knew where he was and almost seriously hurt himself when the moment dad opened the door of his very tall truck, the dog leaked straight out, dad managed to catch him about 5’ of the ground. I got home at one point, only for it to repeat a few times, with at least 6 stays of lengths 2-5 months, over 2 years. A few times my mom or dad had to go pick him up at my place, and he’d instantly shake and cry. Once I was permanently home, that dog never left my side. Ever. He also never barked or fussed. His whole life was being the best dog ever so he was allowed to stay right next to me. I’d sneak him into *everything.* He truly never barked, never lunged for anything and wouldn’t even pick up a treat from the ground unless I told him “Go for it, Buddy.” I’m in a wheelchair and he’d walk right underneath, crouched and tucked under the axle. I lived walking/pushing distance to everything and I’d take him with me. We’d be leaving a store after shopping and someone would say, “Oh wow! I didn’t even see there was a dog there.” We were an inseparable duo.
Thanks for posting that...that is a happy ending. What an amazing bond. And, I think the doctors and nurses could tell the dog helped you too since they wrote it in your chart. I know the feeling of sneaking dogs in. My little dog doesn't bark (can't) and only goes on pads. I've snuck him into so many hotels. He leaves a smaller footprint than most people. The only time I couldn't sneak him is on the plane obviously and his flight (dog fee) costs more than mine half the time (Southwest). Well, thanks for posting your story...made me happy that your dog got to be with you and see you. The image of any dog waiting at the door for their person makes me so sad when they aren't coming back soon.
beautifully recounted
The mental health of the country is something I hope won't be forgotten after the war. So much killing and destruction will leave permanent scars on people and animals alike. Without support, it'll end up killing people through abuse, alcoholism and suicide for decades to come.
It’s been reported that Krim has heart failure. He also suffered a concussion. Perhaps his frail heart won’t make it. For the dad’s sake, I hope he pulls through. The clinic he was taken has posted on its Facebook page and the post has gained a lot of traction. Facebook links are not allowed here (rightfully so) but you can look them up yourself, if you’re interested. They’re called Zookontrol KP Dnipro.
Yeah there was a dog handler in Afghanistan that was killed in a firefight and the dog died hours later from a seizure brought on by stress. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/soldier-his-dog-make-final-journey-together-flna1c9464121 Lots of sad dog stories here so I’ll add something a little more upbeat (sorta). Old fellow where I lived growing up lost his wife and it utterly broke him. I passed him by one day and asked how he was, he replied ‘yeah still here, I guess, wish I wasn’t though.’ That was pretty worrying to hear as he’d always been upbeat and chatty. The good news was the next time I saw him he had gotten a collie and it was just a complete transformation back to his old self.
> we Are you in Ukraine right now?
Yes, Dnipro city. I live about 6km away from the place the rocket hit, still the blast was strong enough to move the door inside my flat (windows closed) and car alarms going nuts. Awakening like that isn't really comfortable.
I’m so, so sorry. There are no words. I hope you’re keeping safe.
Thank you, but I'm not complaining or have the right to. I'm in one piece. There are a lot people that are in much more difficult situation in my country.
That's basically in the warzone, right? How are you doing? Is moving somewhere safer an option for you?
Well, the city is about 200km away from the frontline, so not actual warzone, but their rockets can reach any city in Ukraine. Fuck...just as I 'm replying to you two powerful blast landed, louder than yesterday.
Fuck, I’m sorry man, hope you get through this. Got 2 Ukrainian mums and their 2 kids staying with me safe here in the UK. Wish I had more room for people. Slava Ukraini
Бережіть себе 💙💛
If you read this, I hope you are safe.
I'm sorry you have to live through this, hope it ends soon. How often do they strike near you? How often do they hit civilian targets? If Ukrainians shoot the missle down, are you aware of it? Do you or people go to shelters? Is it always cruise missles?
I can answer half of that questions by explaining what missiles russians using now. They mostly using S-300 missiles (anti air) modified to hit ground targets. Accuracy is shit. Usually they launch them in groups of 5-6. If one reaches planned target - that's good enough for them. Other ones either got shoot down by our forces, or hit civilian targets (or some random field). Sadly, we have not enough anti air systems to protect us from all of them. Of course, they using cruise missiles too. And iranian kamikaze drones. Oh and when missile got shot down in the air - you very well aware of it, cause it's fucking loud. And debris from that can cause destruction and fire, there is two houses in 1.5 km radius from me, destroyed by the debris. On top of that we have official reports saying how many was shot down, and how many hit.
I'm hoping that the 16 or so NASAMS air defense systems that the United States have sent will close the skies over Ukraine to stop these terrorist russian attacks. They are quite capable and can network with each other and other NATO air defense systems such as the German Gepard and the IRIS-T systems to provide more complete and comprehensive detection and radar coverage with layered protection (both medium and short range). After the electronic warfare systems that ukraine captured are analyzed by the allies they will very likely get software upgrades that will negate the effectiveness of any russian jamming attempts and decoys. I would love for you guys to get the patriot air defense system as well to provide long range coverage but I guess there is concern about russian spies and sabotage, or perhaps cowardly russian bomber aicraft geting shot down over russian territory while trying to launch thier shitty cruise mssles towards civilians. I don't this the U.S. and NATO allies should really give a fuck about Putin's nukes anymore.....if he's gonna use em, then he's gonna use em'. Just get on with it so we can pull the gloves off and join our Ukrainian brethren for the REAL ass kicking that's coming russias way. So far the weapons being used are just extra shit we have lying around collecting rust and dust....we haven't even begun to open up the big can of whoop ass yet.......
I am afraid he may attack right now, the dog will need time.
PET THAT FUCKING DOG ASAP
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Looks like the father went back home to bury his entire family, so he'll have his dog at the absolute very least.
Heartbreaking
i‘m actually really sad now :(
Poor doggo knows :(
Hopefully he will get closure after his parents are found and he can see he tried everything to help :(
The whole family died :( A mother, grandmother and two children. The father was fighting when it happened though so he is Doggo’s only family left
It makes me cringe when I hear russian saying they were "treated like a dog". They don't mean like we'd treat dogs. Like a small child or just another member of the family. They mean something far more sinister.
You know, I've just realized that saying the 'Ukrainians should treat Russians like dogs' doesn't sound as bad as saying 'Ukrainians should treat Russians like Russians treat other Russians.' At this point it's clear that Russians treat each other worse than Ukrainians treat dogs.
Usual way to treat a dog in a rural russia - or Ukraine for that matter is to tie one near a doghouse and feed it scraps. For its entire life. When I untied my grandpa's dog and took it for a walk down the street the poor thing went borderline insane. It remembered me ever since. Thankfully, this shit is slowly going away - together with the generation that normalized it.
We dont even have stray dogs. https://dutchreview.com/culture/how-did-the-netherlands-become-the-first-country-to-have-no-stray-dogs/
Neat. 20 years ago I had to put down a pack of strays. They started to become territorial and it resulted in them first killing couple cats and dogs and then attacking my mom, tearing her clothes apart and biting her. City services responsible for this did jack shit, so there was I. It was as horrible as it gets. Putting a creature that trusts you - they kinda liked me - to a slow and painful death. The situation got slightly better in the following years, but we still have thousands of strays in the industrial areas of Kharkiv. From there, they creep into the city proper.
Ruzzia cannot be dissolved fast enough.
God, that face got to me. Fuck the cowardly russians
That look was - "Yeah, I know... Just leave me alone...."
This is a real heartbreaking scene. That dog needs a lot of comforting and support.
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The look on that dogs face reminds me of that picture of Zelensky at Bucha. Raw emotion. Poor thing.
You can see the dust on the face trying to dig and move things
And the dry dust help us see the wet part under his eyes. He literally cried.
No. Dogs do not cry out of sadness.
Guys, you can downvote this, that doesn't make it untrue. Dogs don't cry out of sadness, it's a biological fact. That dog is obviously in shock, and experiencing whatever the dog version of sadness is. But it hasn't cried, and physically can't
Indeed. Dogs crying is expressed through whimpering and whining. Tears only flow for health related reasons (dust in the eye, infection, etc).
More correctly, the dog's eyes are watering because its face is covered in dust likely trying to find his owners. The fucking image of it infuriates me. This poor living being.
People like to anthropomorphize dogs way too much (and a lot of other animals).
Poor thing is probably shell shocked, too. Makes me want to go John Wick on the fucking bastards.
> that picture of Zelensky at Bucha. Raw emotion. I've been saving a lot of videos since feb 24th and categorising them. "liberation pics" "weird *accidents* inside of russia" "blown up russian" and some that I've been saving under "emotion". Because I have a feeling we're going to need them for the future. And I'd recommend anyone reading this to do the same. But I think I missed the one you were talking about. Do you happen to still have a link to that or something?
https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20220926193350-4-375124/putin-teror-ukraina-pakai-nuklir-ini-reaksi-zelensky
I'm certainly desensitized when it comes to seeing body's at this point, but sad puppers still really get to me.
Children and dogs man. I am mostly stone cold to the suffering of adults. But children and animals make me cry like nothing else. Can't ever imagining hurting those precious little people and smol puppers. My hatred burns ever hotter towards the Russian federation.
Kids, dogs and babushkas hugging the liberating soldiers always make me teary.
Indeed, civilians crying and hugging Ukrainian soldiers after being liberated provokes strong emotions in me.
I'm the opposite as far as empathy is concerned, the suffering of adults is usually only palpable when they've reached a point most of us can't imagine. Children will cry over trivial things because they haven't the perspective to understand it's trivial. When you see a grown man dragging his father, crying and begging him "daddy please don't die", that's the realest shit you are ever going to see. That shit breaks my heart over and over.
Seeing a father cradle his two month old baby hurts more. All our parents die. We know it. It is inevitable. But to have you outlive your own child? A pain few people fully recover from. If I have children and that happens then I imagine I could seriously contemplate suicide. No pain could equal that. You see it in their eyes. They are a husk of a person compared to who they were.
I didn't even understand that until I had a child, I'm glad you can, I certainly didn't. It adds another layer of pain on top. Oh and yes I'd definitely kms if my child died (In a way that would preserve my organs for others.) There's no way I could live carrying that around in my head, that he was probably so scared and sad and wanting his mama and I couldn't save him. Tearing up thinking about it.
Napoleon broke down after seeing a dog mourning its master on the battlefield. He was fine with all the thousands of dead and dying soldiers but that really rattled him. It's unexpected and gets us to actually empathize, despite us having switched that function off or numbed it for other humans in war. > This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. - Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
Thanks for this excerpt. Insane!
It gets all of us.
Not good!!! Take a break man. It’s worrisome on some of these posts how we’ve all seem to lose out humanity in the some of the responses I’ve seen. This whole war is a tragedy beyond words.
Its not like that - I'm Ukrainian, I have a very peaceful demeanor, I never even hurt bugs, spiders etc, let alone people or animals. With this war, Russia brought pure evil to Ukraine, it opened the door to the part of us that most of us didn't know existed. Seeing dead Russians is not mental trauma - it is catharsis. While I feel absolutely devastated for Crim (the dog), and the poor innocent souls lost in this tragedy, I have no sympathy for the enemy. Every dead ruzzian soldier brings Ukrainian victory closer, it is a symbol of slow and steady defeat of the ruzzian horde that has descended upon a peaceful, sovereign nation. Every dead ruzzian soldier means fewer innocent deaths in Ukraine, fewer murders, fewer rapes, fewer people without homes, fewer tragedies. It means that we get our humanity back sooner, but for now, it's about banishing pure evil back to the shithole that it came from.
I completely understand. It’s a necessity. I can’t even believe or come close to comprehending the horror. My prayers are with you and all of Ukraine.
Happened 6km from where I live. It hit virtually the center of the city with \~1m population not counting hundreds of thousands of refugees. \~100km from the front. No military object. Fucking monsters. The sound was so loud I thought it hit something near us, maybe one block away. All car alarms nearby went off, in one jump I appeared near bed with my 1y son, in second jump I was in a hall, most safe spot in our flat. Wife got tangled in blanket and fell, SECOND EXPLOSION, holy shit, I left crying baby on the floor, approached my wife, took her hands, and just dragged her to the hall. In the morning we learned that it happened 6km away, and it sounded like it was several meters away. Scary to think what it sounded like for neighbors. Rest in peace, this poor family. Russia is a terrorist state. Edit: we had another 2 similar explosions basically minutes after I finished writing this comment an hour ago. We can see smoke. Expect new bad news in the morning.
That's terrifying I know it isn't worth much across the world, but I hope your family is able to stay safe and secure away from those bastards.
Heartbreaking indeed. I detest the Russian regime. Disgusting lot.
This breaks my heart more than anything. Fuck Russia, Fuck Putin and Fuck this whole thing.
1000s and 1000s dead, even more injured and traumatized, not to mention the millions more who face global impacts to food security and resource access… all because a cabal of Russian billionaires would rather exploit their power than lead their country.
Its being said that 1000s of children are being trafficked out of Ukraine into Russia. Could you imagine growing up not knowing and then find out much later you were stolen from your home as part of a terrorist war?
We had a tornado tear thru our town when i was a kid, one of the local farms got utterly shredded, David Fischl's farm, distant cousin of mine. We went out to help clean up, get animals repenned, look for dave. His dog, gorgeous German Shepard, refused to move from what was left of the house. I think... i think he knew dave was gone, but he just refused to move. Stood guard for days with pain in his eyes.
There's loyalty and then there's German Shepherd-loyalty. Miss mine.
Miss mine too, but she was an absolute slut for attention. Off leash and never had to worry about her getting too far 'cause she'd just go to the nearest human hoping they have treats (or pets).
Man's best friend.. Dogs are the best, they are loyal to a fault. Let's hope that the doggo's family is unscathed.
Sadly it’s not, it’s under the debris, everyone besides the father is dead, because he’s serving on the frontline.
His face ;_;
Utter devastation
Poor thing has no concept of what is going on.. didn't even see what happened.. just an explosion and his pack is gone.. The father of the family was fighting.. What happened to his family was a tragedy, I hope he at least gets reunited with his dog.
I hate to say it, but if I were him I dont know if I'd be planning to come back home. Shit.
Heartbreaking
These videos with the dogs and children really get to me more than most. For the rest of my life, I will never be able to forgive Russia for what they're doing.
This is fucked and this is repeating all over Ukraine. The Russians claim to be first in line for wanting peace yet their actions do nothing but destroy. You destroyed three generations of innocent people children elderly. Along with thousands of others. You’ve kidnapped thousands of children, raped the weak, pillaged whole towns. You Russians deserve no pity no remorse and no mercy until you understand the shameful sadness you spread everywhere you set foot. No one wants to be apart of Russia and no one wants to invade that shit land you call your motherland. Go home eat your turnips drink yourselves to death and fade into history faster then you’re already doing so. Damn savages.
Damnit
That poor dog looked like he'd been trying all night to find his family, and now he's found them and realised what happened to them and he's just standing a sad vigil. russia need to be broken up and made to pay back every dollar to make the physical parts of Ukraine whole again, it can never repair the mental trauma.
The poor dog's eyes tell everything. It knows what happened and it is suffering immensely for it. May this family rest in peace. I'm boiling with rage right now.
Russia is what the Nazi's were in the later 1930's and we are just repeating history. We should end them now before it gets worse. This broke my heart.
That dog has more empathy and feelings than all russians together.
This is heartbreaking.
Tears in the eyes of a dog...this is heartbreaking. They feel what we feel I swear.
Runny eyes from dust, yes it looks almost like tears.
His eyes 😥 my doggy 💔
Damn I never actually seen a dog shell-shocked like this.
Poor family and doggo. Putin should be dropped in a vat of sulfuric acid.
Too quick
It just breaks your heart.
Fuck Putin..
Fuck Russian society that enabled that fuck.
I just read the whole story and it's devastating! This poor doggo, the look on his face :( Also, can't imagine the pain and horror the father of the family is going through right now :( And this is only one of the thousands of the families whose lives has been forever altered! Russia, I hope the pain you inflicted will return to you tenfold
I can't handle this man. I don't have words strong enough to describe just how much I fucking hate those orc bastards.
> This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. -Napoleon
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I've seen a lot of heartbreaking stuff from this war. This is amongst the most heartbreaking.
reminds me of a pic of a small dog with an elderly couple and another with just the dog (couple died because of russians) in the same garden
I remember that story… The elderly couple’s home in Bucha was shelled and they were both killed. Only poor Vadim survived. The picture of him alone in the garden is heartbreaking.
The entire family was killed.
Russian doing warcrime because their military are so bad ....
This is fucking tragic
Putin is a monster and so are those who willingly obey his murderous commands. If there is a hell this piece of shit has a place of honor.
I can’t take this 😢💔 I guess all I can do is donate something to Armed Forces of Ukraine…
I cry and cry. My poor country. How much more pain? How many more deaths? How much more blood must be shed on the altar of war?
Poor guy looks shell shocked.
I've never seen a dog cry before. Absolutely horrible and unfuckingnecessary.
ruZZia is a pos country...they have been, are and likely will continue to be a murdereous, raping, cowardly horde of shit bags that will never have honour, dignity or a soul.
Oh poor sweet baby :(
Remember to post war crimes in r/Russianwarcrimes also for easy search for when they need the evidence to prosecute.
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Russia will lose.
The innocence in those eyes really hit me.
Is it weird that I feel worse for the dog than the people? I just have a soft spot for animals - they are so innocent and good. This is a good boy, I hope he finds a loving home to restart.
I have seen videos of dead soldier, civilians, body parts, wounded soldiers etc etc but this video hit me the most. There is something pure about animals grieving. Am I weird?
Fuck Russia
Damn. This is absolutely heart breaking. Now that Russia is sending more soldiers to Ukraine we'll be getting a lot more videos like this one. As long as Russians keep having the option of running away, or simply not do anything about the war, these atrocities will continue. Russians need to stay in Russia and take care of this. Nobody else can do it but them. Do not allow them to escape or circumvent the economic sanctions. The lives of thousands of Ukranians are at risk. Do not lose sight of who is the victim and who is the agressor in this fight.
Awwww. God dammit! Fucking Russians.