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On Friday, Putin, without providing any proof, accused Poland of wanting to annex parts of Belarus, saying any aggression would be met with "all the means at our disposal." Dziunko is onstage with two other comedians and a well-known singer. All are seated and holding microphones, gamely trying to find humor in a place and at a moment when the tragic is trouncing the funny by a spectacular margin. By contrast, Ukraine’s defenses failed to intercept any of the five Oniks cruise missiles and three Kh-22 anti-ship missiles fired at the city, in addition to two ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M type.
Ukrainians were often the brunt of Russian jokes – they were ridiculed as greedy, rustic and humourless.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.
The rousing ode to Turkish drones, Bayraktar, has garnered nearly two million views. It shows grinning uniformed men dancing with their guns as they deride the Russians as “sheep” and “orcs”. Russia’s digital messagingThe Ukrainian government is opening up a tourist attraction in Chernobyl. It will be like Disney World, except the six foot tall mouse is real. 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.
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. Meanwhile, fighting has not ceased in the east. In messages published between June 5th and 7th, Ms Maliar, playing down other developments, said that Bakhmut was still the “epicentre of hostilities”. Ukraine was advancing on a “fairly broad front” there, she claimed, as much as 1.1km in places, capturing the commanding heights around the town. There was also fighting towards Soledar, to its north, suggesting that Ukraine might hope to encircle Bakhmut. Recapturing the town would erase Russia’s sole substantial gain of the past year. A bigger push in the surrounding Donbas region would also allow Ukraine to recapture territory it lost in 2014. That would be a humiliation for Russia, and undercut its stated rationale for the war—the “liberation” of the east. Unto the breachHis Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has not fared so well, variously depicted cowering behind his massive marble table, begging China for help or just looking ridiculous in a variety of ways. Maybe I shouldn’t have said it, but I will. The Wagnerites began to stress us. ‘We want to go to the West. Let us,’ they tell us,” Lukashenko told Putin during a meeting in St. Petersburg. We've been reporting this week on extreme weather in Ukraine - and it appears to be slowing down Russia's offensive operations. Two Ukrainians meet in the street. The first one greets the second in Russian, but the second answers in Ukrainian.
Second rabbit: “Haven’t you heard? There’s a rumour going round that all camels are to be castrated.” 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!” Soon apprehensions about Russian soldiers sharing intel with their tinder Ukrainian matches also became a topic for hot takes on social media Ukrainian officials said the conditions had affected Russia's campaign to secure the shattered town of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region. Short ukrainian puns are one of the best ways to have fun with word play in English. The ukrainian humour may include short soviet jokes also.
The YouTube episodes average about 10,000 views each, and their hosts engage with hundreds of viewers’ comments in real time. “We’ve all had our lives changed drastically overnight. But in war, you desperately need this sense of stability and structure. I believe that’s what comedy can provide,” Zagaikevich says. All three comedians have experienced personal tragedies, Dierskaia points out, and those tragedies inform their jokes. “I’d say that humor is mental morphine for wounded people,” adds Lipko. “That’s corny, but comedy really is like a first-aid kit.” Entire genres of underground jokes that made fun of Communist leaders and all walks of Soviet life emerged – and were later compiled into voluminous anthologies.
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