Tim Mak
Founder, The Counteroffensive. Based in Kyiv, trying to tell the news of the war through compelling, human interest stories. Read us at https://www.counteroffensive.news/
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Here is what Oleh is listening to today:
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
International Monetary Fund to give #Ukraine $1.1 billion loan, Reuters reports.
#Kyiv is currently spending about 60 percent of its budget on the military, relying heavily on international partners to pay government employees and other social spending programs.
U.S. may lift restrictions on striking deep into #Russian territory.
President #Biden told reporters that he was “working that out now”.
Secretary of State #Blinken and his British counterpart David #Lammy are in #Kyiv now for talks with top #Ukrainian officials, reports the BBC.
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Today’s Cat of Conflict is a cat from one of Kyiv’s neighborhoods that Anastasia saw.
He and a bunch of other cats come out almost every day and sit on the fence like this.
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#LITHUANIA WILL BUY UKRAINIAN #PALIANYTSIA #DRONES: Lithuania will allocate €10 million to purchase Ukrainian-produced missile drones, Ukrainian officials claimed following the #Ramstein meeting.
At least 11 missiles could be bought to hit military targets deep inside #Russia.
#UKRAINE FORCES COUNTERATTACK IN #POKROVSK: After a steady retreat of the Ukrainian army in the #Donetsk region, Kyiv’s forces began to counterattack, Forbes reports.
Even though the counterattacks are small-scale, they help to slow down the offensive and push back the Russians.
NEWS OF THE DAY:
#IRAN SENT #BALLISTIC #MISSILES TO #RUSSIA: Iran has probably supplied Russia with more than 200 short-range ballistic missiles, according to The Times.
They would allow the Russian troops to launch attacks on Ukrainian cities from further distance.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/ballistic-clmpm3d7m
NEWS OF THE DAY:
IRAN SENT BALLISTIC MISSILES TO RUSSIA: Iran has probably supplied Russia with more than 200 short-range ballistic missiles, according to The Times.
They would allow the Russian troops to launch attacks on Ukrainian cities from further distance.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/ballistic-clmpm3d7m
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When the band has sales of albums or other merchandise, they put cards with everything.
There are limited numbers, and they can only be pre-ordered for one day, and then they aren’t available anywhere else.
Rita bought them all.
This is how Rita met Oleksandra.
Meanwhile, Rita Kyruta started getting into K-pop in 2019. That’s when she came across a teaser for the #BTS song “Shadow” in her #YouTube.
#BTS captivated Rita so much that she even got a tattoo of a phrase from one of their songs right above her heart: Love Yourself.
And then she saw a photo of a very handsome guy on a website, who Oleksandra thought was a model.
When she started looking for more information about him, she found out that he was Kai, a member of the Korean band Exo.
Oleksandra Petukhova first tried listening to #K-pop in 2013. It wasn’t popular then. At first she didn’t like it – she thought it was some kind of children’s song.
South Korean culture has taken deep root in #ukraine with thousands of fans embracing not only the music but also dramas, cosmetics, and food.
As Ukraine faces a critical shortage of artillery shells, South Korea has supplying more shells to Ukraine than the entire #EU.
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