Kyiv Of Mine

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Today is my birthday, but more interestingly, it is also the day we are finishing the post production work on our Ukraine film project, which is now called Kyiv Of Mine.

Check out the teaser trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJUcE1rxY0&t=15s

This intense labour of love started in 2018 and this weekend it will go live on YouTube. Our motivation is this: Ukraine deserves a better conversation in the world.

We hope that our work here stimulates some new interest and support for Ukraine.

If anyone of you reading this wants to do something nice for my birthday then please share this trailer link with all your friends, family, and people you work with. It all helps.

Fake post

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These days you don’t need Netflix or any other kind of entertainment service. The news is more than enough. Hollywood doesn’t write scripts this out there.

Since Trump entered politics the term “fake news” is now commonplace. We used to trust certain things in life. I trust the doctor. The pilot flying the plane. The news company reporting on current events. I trust the chef at the restaurant. I trust the teachers looking after the Bunster at kindergarten. We used to trust a lot of people. But in today’s world of crazy conspiracy theories and deranged politicians, we have all become less trusting.

Imagine if I did not like what the doctor told me and started shouting “Fake doctor”. This is what is happening with the media. Yes, the media is often way too opinionated. Their purpose is to report the news. And so many journalists have become famous with big online followings, that they seem to be bigger than the actual news. But that does not mean they are making up facts and figures.

‘War is very funny for the first couple of years’: how Russia’s invasion transformed Ukraine’s comedy scene

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“After three years in Kyiv, Tymoshenko says his parents have recently returned to their home village outside Nikopol, another frontline city under regular artillery and drone fire. He grew up there in the countryside “playing with sticks”, before moving to Kyiv to study political science.

The authors he read – Plato and Aristotle – do not reflect the non-ideal world today, a place of ‘brute power and money’. He believes there will not be much to laugh about when the war finally ends: “I’m sure Ukraine will win and Russia will burn. But we’ve lost so many people. You can’t imagine Victory Day as ‘Wow!’.”

In the meantime, he suggests things are looking up for Ukrainian female comedians. ‘We will only have female ones because we men will all have died,’ he says blackly.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/ukraine-war-comedy-anton-tymoshenko-russian-invasion-aoe

Modern warfare

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At the leading international LANDEURO conference on European land forces, held in Wiesbaden, Germany, Robert “Madiar” Brovdi, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said:

“I lead 12 units of drone pilots. Ninety-five percent of them were civilians before the war began. They were businessmen, athletes, lawyers, singers – anyone you can imagine, but not military. Altogether, we make up 2% of Ukraine’s entire army. Yet we destroy one in every three enemy personnel and one in every three enemy targets.

Putin, who promised to take us in three days, has – in three and a half years – only taught us how to defend our homeland, our children, and our land.”