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He crawled for five days with his throat slit. The russians had thrown him into a pit with the bodies of his fellow soldiers and walked away to smoke.
Vladyslav had heard his torturers gouging out the eyes of his men. Then they slit his throat and left him to die.
He crawled out of the pit filled with garbage, hid from drones twice, and spent five days crawling back to Ukrainian positions. He was half a centimeter away from death. And he survived.
Vladyslav is a platoon commander. In the Donetsk region, his platoon came under heavy fire, and he ordered his men to spread out.
When he lost contact with them, he went searching through nearby houses. That was when he was ambushed by russian convicts.
They took him into a basement. His fellow soldiers were already there, kneeling with their hands tied. There was blood everywhere. The torturers mutilated them in front of Vladyslav.
The first two suffered the worst. Their eyes were gouged out, and their ears, noses, and genitals were cut off.
They screamed in agony. Vladyslav closed his eyes, but the russians forced him to watch.
Then they turned on him. They cut off part of his ear, pulled out a tooth with pliers, and slit his throat.
They threw everyone into the same pit and covered them with garbage.
The russians did not leave immediately. They stood over the pit filled with bodies, smoking. Vladyslav waited until they were gone.
Among the garbage, he found a broken bottle. He used a piece of glass to cut the rope binding his hands. Then he began to crawl.
Drones attacked him. He spent two days hiding in some kind of manhole. He crawled for five days until he finally reached Ukrainian positions.
He held a grenade in his hand. There were moments when he thought about giving up. But the thought of his daughter and wife gave him the strength to keep crawling.
The doctors could hardly believe what they saw.
“He looked like the victim of a maniac. His trachea was completely damaged, along with parts of his neck muscles and esophagus.”
A surgeon added:
“On both sides, he was just half a centimeter away from death. If the carotid artery had been hit, it would all have been over within a minute and a half.”
He underwent rehabilitation, during which he could not speak. He communicated with his wife and brother by writing in a notebook.
Vladyslav wrote to his wife that he wanted to return to the Donetsk region – to avenge at least those seven men who had been executed before his eyes.
Source: text translated from Bairak Oleh
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
Law professor @ewan_mg explains how @andyburnham can remove Thames Water's licence 👇
If not now, when?
Burnham can take on Thatcher's ideological privatisation
Or he can give US hedge funds a licence to pollute and rip off 16 million so-called "customers"
He can't do both
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
Watch this.
I think Trump suffers from ‘small dick’ syndrome. It would explain a lot.
Oh, also that he’s really not that intelligent, stupid in fact.
#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#WankerInTheWhiteHouse
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
AISLING BEA TOOK ONE WORD ON THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW AND REFUSED TO LET THE CONVERSATION SURVIVE.
The confidence was impressive. The commitment to making everyone uncomfortable was even better.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
David Cameron is the last person anyone should take advice from on how to handle the EU.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
A message to all sane Republicans:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.
His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.
He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.
It’s time to start talking.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
Tommy Robinson saying "I should have fucking battered them."
About the people he is accused of harassing.
He will be sentenced on December 16th.
I hope it's a long one.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
She tried to warn everyone in 2001. The men she named were powerful. What followed ruined her life.💔⚠️
Karen Mulder was one of the most famous models in the world. She worked with Versace, Dior, and Chanel, became an original Victoria’s Secret Angel, and was one of the highest paid models of her time. She was everywhere, admired, successful, and trusted inside the fashion industry.
In October 2001, Mulder appeared on a French talk show and spoke about serious wrongdoing in the modeling world, including assault, abuse, and exploitation. She directly named senior figures. The interview never aired. Reports later claimed the footage was destroyed before the public could see it.
Within hours, she disappeared from public view and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Paris, where she stayed for months. Her mental health was questioned. Her credibility was torn apart. Her career collapsed. For years, she was portrayed as unstable and unreliable.
The men she accused kept working.
Years later, one of them, Jean-Luc Brunel, was exposed as a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Court records and testimony linked him to an international exploitation network connected to modeling agencies. Many women later accused him. He was arrested in France in 2020 and died in custody in 2022 while awaiting trial.
Another executive Mulder named, Gérald Marie, was later accused by at least fifteen women of assault and abuse. A BBC investigation had previously raised serious concerns about his behavior, yet he remained influential in fashion for years.
Karen Mulder was not protected. She was silenced.
Two decades later, the men she warned about were being investigated, exposed, or dying in jail cells. The truth did not change her fate, but it changed how her words should be remembered.
She was not crazy. She was early.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
In 2013, a work of art was created on a beach in Normandy as a tribute to the roughly 9000 people who lost their lives there on D-Day.
Designed by the British sand artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, it was made of 9000 human silhouettes raked into the sand at Arromanches, one for every soldier and civilian who died during the landings, and it was completed on 21 September, the International Day of Peace, with the help of hundreds of volunteers.
About 60 volunteers had signed up in advance, far too few for such a huge task, but on the day, people simply started turning up. Locals, tourists and strangers from around the world picked up rakes and stencils and joined in, racing the incoming tide. The artists made one decision that gave the whole work its meaning: there are no flags, no uniforms and no sides. The 9000 figures stand for Allied servicemen, German soldiers and French civilians alike, and in the sand they all look the same.
As the artists put it, they would be known only as "The Fallen."
D-Day remains the largest seaborne invasion in history: on 6 June 1944, after a day’s delay caused by bad weather, American, British, Canadian and other Allied troops landed on five beaches along the heavily fortified coast of Normandy, codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. They stormed ashore under relentless German fire, and Omaha Beach became the deadliest of them all.
The exact number of those who died that day will never be known. The artists explained that 9000 is a conservative, rounded figure: around 3000 French civilians, 2000 German soldiers and 4414 Allied servicemen.
A few hours after the last silhouette was drawn, the tide rolled in and erased them all, exactly as the artists intended: a reminder of how quickly lives can be swept away, and how easily they can be forgotten. In Jamie Wardley’s words, the work was “a sobering reminder of what happens when peace is not present.”
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
I am in Madrid and the demonstration is enormous, despite torrential rain.
People furious at landlordism and cost of living while real wages fall.
But I have never heard such visceral anger from a crowd before. A noise I won't forget.
Desborde gigante en #madrid dónde no paran de venir gente a la convocatoria de manifestación por la helga general por la vivienda digna por Maricarmen
#11NHuelgaGeneral @DRYmadrid @InquilinatoMad
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
Palantir now exposed as having paid for Cressida Dick's time as well as Tom Watson
We have real concerns about the efficacy and ethics of Palantir's tools
We need real safeguards on the revolving door of public servants into corporate lobbying thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
“We will continue fighting against, and defeating, all of those who try to deceive the American People!”
- proven compulsive pathological liar Dinald Trump, by far the biggest deceiver of American people in history. 🤡
In October, a Florida magistrate judge ruled that Trump will have to sit for a deposition conducted by lawyers for the @BBC by 11 December or else he could be hit with sanctions.
That, the world looks forward to.
Lawer up Trump!
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
Kevin Maguire on the latest issue of 'Country Life' being guest edited by Prince William:
"Does it include the complaints from tenants in the Duchy of Cornwall about rents & the poor quality of some of their homes?"
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
I am disgusted and ashamed at Jewish communal leaders and institutions who DENY the Gaza Genocide, despite it being the best evidenced genocide in history, and who, furthermore, say that the lesson of the Holocaust is not, 'Never Again for Anyone' but is 'Never Again for Jews'
1/2catHalfDog #FBNHS retweeted
She is a disgusting individual.
Kemi Badenoch hits a new low at #PMQs.
Kemi Badenoch: “Ed Miliband called Rosebank climate vandalism, but he also thought cosying up to Russell Brand would make him Prime Minister.”
Labour MPs: Shame!!!