Irina Liakh 🎩

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There’s a lot I want to share about our aid deliveries, but while I’m still gathering my thoughts, I just want to say thank you to @vitalik.eth, the /degen community, and @endaoment donors ⛑️ Because of your support for @crystalhearts, we are able to work on the ground in both Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, delivering much-needed supplies 🇺🇦 The conditions in the pre-frontline areas were as bad as I expected, maybe even worse. The reality of unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones sets in once you’re there, and it becomes painfully clear why so many aid workers and medics are wounded or killed every week, and why getting into certain towns these days is so hard without being hit. At this point, the only way we can get supplies in is with the army’s help. This war has changed so much, even in just the past few months… and now I have even more clarity on what’s actually necessary and what can really help both medics and defenders 🫂

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road-tripping with the best humans ever, in the best country, with the best playlists. just a tiny caveat: drones & artillery 😅⛑️ @crystalhearts

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This was our “office” a year ago ❤️‍🔥 Such an incredible time in Venezia. @brightmoments

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Working in an active war zone 🤝 breathwork & meditation Doing my best to keep up with my practice with Open, and I can’t wait to get back to IRL classes when I’m back in Venice. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-breathwork-meditation/id1482725254

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I hope more people get to visit Ukraine after the war is over 🫂 In the meantime, check out the /travel-ukraine channel for some inspiration 🤍 Here’s a beautiful view from the bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk region. It’s currently about 18 miles from the frontline. I took this photo a few days ago when we drove through the city on the way to one of our aid drop-offs.

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Just an observation: I’m seeing quite a few people (including some I genuinely enjoyed reading) pivot from the content they used to share to just offloading their entire camera roll into “quote cast your capture” type of casts or sharing photos from Pinterest, because it performs better for the leaderboard and makes it easier to crank out 20 casts a day. And honestly, that makes total sense, since it really feels like quantity over quality is what’s being rewarded. But I’m not sure how we’re supposed to onboard anyone if that’s what the algorithm favors and actually rewards. I completely understand why people pivot, stop writing their thoughts and sharing what they used to, and why so many just get discouraged from casting altogether.

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Friends, today I want to ask for your support in amplifying my recent casts. I know this war is probably not a topic many want to engage with. But while I’m here working on the ground, I want to show pieces of the reality of what’s happening. So if you see this, please click on /crystal-hearts and recast any of my latest casts, if you can 🫂🤍⛑️

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The attack started at 12:50pm. Part of our crew was inside a building, and the rest of us were outside. We waited a few minutes until it got quiet, then gathered everyone and got in the cars. By 1pm we started driving, and within a few minutes we reached the first civilian casualties - a woman walking down the street was killed instantly by shrapnel; a man, also dead, in front of his house; and another woman in distress from the shock wave of the explosions, who was taken away by medics. There was also a car that was hit by multiple fragments, but no one was inside at the time. That’s when we learned that russians hit the village by a Smerch cluster munition rocket launcher. The cluster bombs it carried sprayed shrapnel throughout the area. The pieces of shrapnel released from these munitions leave barely visible entry wounds but cause massive internal damage - so you can be walking down the street, get hit by one of these tiny fragments, and die instantly.

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I always say: if you’re a civilian (aid worker, journalist, medic) anywhere near the pre-frontline areas, there’s a very high chance you’ll either witness a russian war crime or become a victim of one. What happened that day, and what you hear in the previous video, is undoubtedly a war crime. Targeting civilians is a war crime on its own. On top of that, the sound you hear is from cluster munitions - their use in areas where civilians are present is inherently indiscriminate, which violates international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime. In the previous video, you can’t see what’s happening from the angle where I was standing, so I’ll share a video with you from someone who was on the other side a few min drive from us.

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Please play this video with sound 📢 This is the beginning of the attack on the village (technically, an urban-type settlement) we were in, that I filmed from where I was standing. Listen to this first, and I’ll share the story afterwards.

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The city of Izium. Back in 2022, it was occupied by russia in the first weeks of the war and liberated after six months. Since then, they’ve been attacking it consistently - even in the past few days, the city and nearby villages were hit with missiles and guided bombs almost daily, injuring civilians ❤️‍🩹

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🥹🙏⛑️🤍

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https://warpcast.com/brightmoments/0x460d8fc9

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https://warpcast.com/crystalhearts/0xaa88f581

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For anyone wondering why we’re so worried about drones these days, even though we’ve done many aid deliveries before, it’s because this war is evolving and so are the dangers. In the past, it was possible to use drone jammers to take down russian drones by disrupting their signal. Some of you might remember me sharing, during our last frontline delivery, how we used the jammer we were bringing to the medics on our way there before handing it over. But that’s no longer as effective in many places, because now they’re using FPV drones controlled via fiber-optic cable, which creates an uninterruptible link between the drone and its operator, eliminating the risk of signal jamming. So in this case we have no tools to stop them from blowing up our vehicle… While Ukrainians use them on the battlefield, russians use them to commit war crimes against civilians. That’s why you’re seeing more and more successful drone attacks on medics, journalists & aid workers - often resulting in injury or death.

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The city of Kharkiv. Someone’s apartment. Remnants of what once was, before the invaders came to take it all. We usually spend the night in the city before continuing our drive toward the frontlines. The attacks on Kharkiv are constant - drones, guided aerial bombs, missiles. My heart hurts for everything people are going through ❤️‍🩹🇺🇦🫂

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We are all good and safe so far, thank you to everyone who checked in. I’ll share everything once we get some rest 🫂⛑️

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Yesterday, russians hit an ambulance with medics inside using an FPV drone in one of the places we’re supposed to be heading to this morning. The vehicle was clearly marked and labeled “Emergency Medical Assistance,” yet they went ahead with another war crime. We’re brainstorming what to do, as there seem to be no safe entry points into that place anymore. So we’ll head to another location shortly and drop off supplies there first, then figure out what to do about this one and the nearby one. 😵‍💫⛑️

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One of our stops will be in this area. I don’t see international press talking much about the Kharkiv region and what’s happening there. Our army is holding off russian assaults and their attempts to occupy more cities and villages, while they prepare for major attacks and constantly bomb everything nearby with guided aerial bombs, killing people with drones. We need to deliver supplies there and power up our medics with power stations, generators, and Starlink terminals so they don’t lose connection. Then we’ll keep heading down towards the Donetsk region.

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32 people were killed and 84 wounded by a russian strike with two ballistic missiles in the city of Sumy this morning. The attack occurred on Palm Sunday, as people were on their way to church. https://kyivindependent.com/russia-kills-over-20-in-sumy-on-palm-sunday/

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