question : what do you think about all the articles saying that the war in ukraine is the fault of NATO ? or older ones that frame ukraine's history based on the russian state?

0:00 - how are eastern european countries reacting in ways that n.a.t.o. doesn’t want them to? 3:50 - what do you think when americans say that russia isn’t an imperialist empire? 5:58 - do you think most russians also believe this? 7:07 - why do you think people in western eu countries aren’t registering the scale of the war there right now?

0:00 - how is war impacting the economy there? 7:01 - what do you think about russian people’s reactions to social media channels getting shut down by their government?

0:00 - have you heard people telling ukrainians not to feel anger towards russia, or other emotions? 6:00 - what do you think about people saying that this war isn’t imperialist? 6:50 - do you feel safe without a gun right now? are you seeing more people buying guns for self-defense?

3/10 0:00 - what do you think about nato saying that if they help defend ukraine, it will escalate things into a world war? 2:38 - do you think ukrainian people will back down in the occupied cities? 3:43 - what do you think about people saying ukraine will be rebuilt? 4:50 - do you think russia expected ukrainians to resist so strongly? 5:33 - do you think many ukrainians were in denial leading up to this?

march 6 - Q&a 5:48 - do you think it’s true that russian propagandists are manipulating stories of racism at the borders, as a way to turn people away from supporting ukraine? 8:31 - do you think racism is worse in poland than in ukraine ?

march 16 - on child injured by russian soldiers, waiting longer in lviv for the border to open, living in a crowded hostel 3/21 - news about mariupol, rhetoric about russophobia

mom seeing missiles, gay dating during war zone, palace turned into refugee center, friendship during war, dnipro getting bombed

uncertainty about the future, ukraine in media after being ignored, russian army in syria

0:00 - street music 1:25 - planning evacuation with family 5:55 - job loss 6:45 - air sirens

0:00 - on heavenly hundred in revolution of dignity 1:27 - on russian censorship 6:11 - on money and russian soldiers 7:47 - on russian propaganda 8:57 - on russian agents in ukraine gov

0:01 - question : what should we be fighting for here, to support ukraine? 7:45 - question : what would you recommend saying to people holding "no war with russia" peace protests? note : similar question asked in interview with david chichkan, available at http://bit.ly/fagshaterussia

Transcripts : https://bit.ly/queeringthefog One day before the big escalation (2.24.22). Response to the question: My friend said, “I think maybe your friends in Ukraine don’t know that the U.S. government has completely abandoned everyone regarding Covid, healthcare, housing, etc… and yet they can rustle up money to send weapons to Ukraine… but we’re also afraid of a nuclear war with Russia. It’s not like Vietnam, because Russia isn’t communist or good, but just… U.S. playing World Cop.” What are your thoughts on them saying that?

February 22nd, 2022 - Response to the question : Жаво : I got into a conversation with a communist guy who is in the same eviction defense group as me. Ukraine came up, and I was shocked by how misinformed he was. He said: “I don’t know what Russia’s intentions are with Ukraine, but something I stick to is to never trust America and what it wants. America’s intentions are always the worst. The U.S. wants war to sell weapons, build more military bases, and benefit from sanctions imposed on Russia. The West doesn’t want to be seen as conceding to any of Russia’s demands to stop sending arms to Ukraine, or to not expand NATO to include Ukraine. And the U.S. benefits from being as provocative as possible in the Donbass. And there, it is the Ukrainian army that is bombing the people that willingly broke away. And people from that region are self-evacuating or fleeing as refugees to Russia for safety. From what I’ve seen, the Crimean Tatars are only about 12-15% of the Crimean population, and while a number of them did not vote in the referendum, still a majority of them voted to reunify with Russia. There have been hundreds of Tatars who left and got Russian citizens or passports, because of anti-Russian propaganda returning to the Crimea. Russia has been investing billions of dollars into the Crimea, and even the Washington Post, a pro-U.S. source, confirms this. I don’t want imperialism either, but I do think that the people in Ukraine are more equipped to deal with their problems on their own on their own terms, without the U.S. coming and bringing new ones. And it does seem like Russia supports the independence of DPR and LDR rather than trying to incorporate them into Russia like they did with Crimea. And did Russia really “invade Ukraine”? Or did they send troops and military aid to their own border, and to the sovereign nations of Donetsk and Luhansk, after those nations requested that Russia send troops to protect them from being shelled by Ukraine? Russia recognized the sovereignty of those republics after they broke away, in the U.S./Western-backed coup of 2014.” (Note: This same question was also asked in an interview with Anatoliy Dubobik, available at : http://bit.ly/fagshaterussia )

(shared with the public by request) : grieving, bombing of tv stations, missing home, hiding in a bomb shelter, resilience of being a queer ukrainian, unemployment

russian imperialism, and western countries ignoring it for so long, and talking to family who lives in russia.

excerpts from audio correspondance, four days after escalation : reflections on international solidarity, news, russian soldiers

excerpts from audio correspondance, three days after the escalation: train ride to lviv, border crossing, thoughts about sanctions

excerpts from audio correspondance, the day after the escalation : support from foreign friends, saying goodbyes, basement hideouts, ukrainian resilience, lies about "language wars", homosexual intuition, recording of babushkas singing in a bomb shelter

excerpts from audio correspondance, one day before the escalation : ukrainian journalists... speech from zelensky... ukrainian sterotypes...