Let’s start with everyone’s favorite Sunflower Babushka, because I can’t possibly post her too many times.
WOMAN: Who are you?
SOLDIER: We have exercises here. Please go this way.
WOMAN: What kind of exercises? Are you Russian?
SOLDIER: Yes.
WOMAN: So what the fuck are you doing here?
SOLDIER: Right now, our discussion will lead to nothing.
WOMAN: You’re occupants, you’re fascists! What the fuck are you doing on our land with these guns? Take these seeds and put them in your pocket, so at least sunflowers [Ukranian national flower] will grow when you all lie down here.
SOLDIER: Right now, our discussion will lead nowhere. Let’s not escalate this situation, please.
WOMAN: What situation? Guys, guys. Put the sunflower seeds in your pockets, please. You will lie down here with the seeds. You came to my land. Do you understand? You are occupiers. You are enemies.
SOLDIER: Yes.
WOMAN: And from this moment, you are cursed. I’m telling you.
SOLDIER: Now listen to me—
WOMAN: I’ve heard you.
SOLDIER: Let’s not escalate the situation. Please go this way.
WOMAN: How can it be further escalated? You fucking came here uninvited. Pieces of shit.
But she’s got company! Meet this cranky Dedushka in Melitopol.
What the fuck are you doing here? I am Russian too, but I live in this state. You have your country, we have ours. Don't you have problems in your country to solve? Are you all rich there, as in the Emirates? You're just puppets"
This guy is just laughing at the poor saps to their face:
Also a reminder of what I’ve been writing about—logistics matter more than guns. Those tanks, dead in the water if a fuel truck never arrives, are future Ukrainian Army tanks.
This is from the first hours of the war, of course, and a much more somber story.
Note that Russia claims they’re alive, having surrendered. Russia has every incentive to demystify this story, as it has become foundational to the resistance. I’m just mentioning because it may turn out that they didn’t die. But still, “Go fuck yourself” stands as a testament to bravery when facing down a barrel of a gun—whether that gun fires or not.
This guy didn’t perform this facing an actual barrel of a gun, but still fun enough to add to this list:
Bayraktars are the Turkish drones that are making mincemeat out of entire Russian armor and supply columns. Indeed, they are one of the reasons Vladimir Putin was so hell-bent on invading Ukraine—Turkey was going to build them at scale in a factory in Ukraine.
Then there’s guy. We can’t hear him tell the Russians to fuck off, but his actions speak volumes, reminding us of the Tianammen Square tank guy.
Godspeed, Ukraine.