The Best Ever Book of Ukrainian Jokes: Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who

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Putin’s greatest achievement during his twenty-three years in office is, undoubtedly, winning World War II. Both sides blame the other for the collapse, although Russia is the likelier culprit. Some locals report hearing an explosion in the morning. Ukraine had long warned that the Russian forces that controlled the dam had mined it. The scale of the damage suggested the dam had been demolished from the inside. Ukraine has already referred the matter to the International Criminal Court as a war crime.

Unless they want an unpleasantly hot summer break, we advise our valued russian guests not to visit Ukrainian Crimea.Because no amount of sunscreen will protect them from the hazardous effects of smoking in unauthorised areas. Moscow has prepared draft legislation that would force foreigners to sign a "loyalty agreement" to Russia, according to state news agency TASS. According to the report, which examined the period of February-September 2022, the Office of Defense Cooperation-Kyiv “was unable to conduct required (end-use monitoring) of military equipment that the United States provided to Ukraine in FY 2022.”

Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. At the other end of the front, in the south, on the Russians’ left flank, the most dramatic development came on June 6th when the Kakhovka dam collapsed, causing massive flooding across Kherson province. It is too early to assess the full damage. Yury Vaskov, Ukraine’s deputy minister for infrastructure, suggested on June 7th to The Economist that more of the dam may be intact than initially thought. Working out how much is left will be clear only once the water level falls. But already more than 150 tonnes of oil have leaked into the Dnieper. “We already know it is the most terrible catastrophe Ukraine has experienced in decades,” Mr Vaskov said. There is definitely an element of privilege and safety behind the impulse to meme instead of staying glued to the news. Part of the meme response is about “not realizing what war really is and what it means,” Alhabash said. “So, dealing with it in a laissez-faire kind of way.” A popular Russian joke goes: “A Ukrainian boy writes a letter to Santa, ‘Dear Santa, I want Russians to shoot you down so that you fall next to my house. The West will sanction them for this, and I will get all the presents!” What’s more, as the memes and their narratives travel and spread, they help shape the larger cultural narrative about the Ukrainian invasion itself — just as all memes, from toxic to wholesome, help create cultural narratives.Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. We believe that’s an important part of building a more equal society. And we can’t do that if we have a paywall.

The memes themselves were utterly predictable. There were the World War III memes. The 2022 memes. The geopolitical memes. The draft memes. The Wordle memes. The accidental memes. The memes referencing other memes. The memes about memeing. You know the score. We’ve been here before. Another military spokesperson, Volodymyr Fitio, said the weather had forced Russia to make "adjustments". People inspect damages inside the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, on Sunday, July 23. Jae C. Hong/AP We are arming ourselves, preparing, destroying the occupiers!" Read more on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:Soon apprehensions about Russian soldiers sharing intel with their tinder Ukrainian matches also became a topic for hot takes on social media Both Ukrainian and Russian are widely spoken in Ukraine. The situation is due to many factors, but the biggest is a history of Soviet restrictions on the Ukrainian language. When my girlfriend and I lived in Western Ukraine, where Ukrainian is favored, it was not uncommon to hear people switching between the two languages or borrowing words from Russian to mix in with their Ukrainian sentences. Some say... Some say that the average Russian soldier is two feet taller than the average Ukrainian solder. Others say that raised arms don't count. We've been reporting this week on extreme weather in Ukraine - and it appears to be slowing down Russia's offensive operations. Speaking last week, Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat explained that the speed and trajectory of the Oniks and Kh-22 missiles make them very hard to intercept.

Even Ukraine’s incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was once head of the Studio 95 comic troupe that ridiculed Putin and top Russian politicians for years. I’m already seeing the scolding tweets about WWIII jokes. We may be irony-poisoned on here, but you can’t stop gallows humor when it’s something this huge and bleak and we’re all individually powerless. It’s a sign we’re still human.— AICN Podcast Day! (@LazlosGhost) February 24, 2022 Such amphibious operations would have been difficult, but not impossible—small-scale raids had already taken place. Our analysis of infrared satellite data shows that Kherson was one of the most heavily bombarded areas on June 6th. A meaningful Ukrainian advance there looks improbable, for now, though falling water levels upstream from the dam, around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, could create other opportunities for Ukraine in the weeks ahead. The irony, satire and outright cynicism help Ukrainians cope with stress, loss, uncertainty and violence around them.

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Ms Hrabovetska said memes and jokes were helping keep Ukrainians' morale high as authorities call for civilians to be part of the resistance. Fighting in other areas of Ukraine: Deadly Russian shelling also continued overnight in Ukraine's Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions. According to regional leaders, at least two people were killed in Kharkiv. Russia also shelled about 20 different civilian settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, a military leader there said. In addition to ridiculing Moscow, the Ukrainian military emphasises its tender care of animals, to stress its soldiers’ humanity. Memes and videos show how they evacuated pets and animals from zoos, juxtaposed with scenes of brutality by Russians. This is a popular meme circulating in Ukraine since the war erupted. ‘Are you one of the Avengers?’ ‘No, I am from the Ukraine Post’ reads this exchange in a popular meme