A Brief History of Ukraine Threads and Memes on Fark, June 16-30 2022

Each image is a link to the thread which it references. The headings that start with 2022-MM-DD are links to that series of posts, in case you want to make bookmarks to a specific day of memes.

Prominent Russian sympathizer jethroe made a bunch of comments in this thread where he said that Ukraine is doomed. All of these comments were deleted.

Citizens of Russia from the Legion 'Free Russia' fighting for Ukraine captured Ukrainian citizens from the formations of the LDNR fighting for Russia

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at Redheads instead of Almost anything else

Ukraine wants tea. Germany says 'I will bring the tea at the end of August, and sugar in October-December. I will not give you a spoon. The chirping may anger Putin.

Zelenskyy looking very awkward, caption 'Your face when you convinced Macron not to call Putin'

pony in Ukraine colors captioned 'This is my land!'

(Translation: This is my land!)

2022-06-17

many awesome news from Kherson direction. -1 Russian helicopter (I will confirm it with a video later) Russian vehicles 50+ at least, and Ukraine was able to break through Russian defense lines and get 'extremely close' The battle of Kherson has began right now!!

Ukraine downed a drone belonging to a Russian agency

Putin put the Taliban to sleep with his speech

Two Russian soldiers talking about all the staffing and morale problems their units are suffering

There were several of these, all claiming that the Russians were having a hard time.

2022-06-20

What Russia says: Roll over for me! Do what I say or I will be mean! What NATO hears: I want you to invoke article 5

Yuri Butusov claims that Ukraine shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft on June 18 near Svitlodarsk with an Igla MANPADS. He claims the captured pilot is Major Andrei Fedorchukov who was flying for Wagner. He also reportedly was using a Garmin GPS.

patch with a troll who is holding two halves of a Russian eagle, captioned 'Good evening, we are from Ukraine'

Translation: Good evening, we are from Ukraine.

happy Ukraine pony riding on annoyed Russian pony

Russian shark menaces small Ukraine fish. Then, Ukraine fish has German, French, Swedish, Czech, American, and Canadian fish behind it.

2022-06-21

What do jewelry, cash, antiques, watches, mansions, and Jennifer Lopez have in common? They've all been sought after by corrupt Russian military officials.

For weeks, Russian state television has been discussing whether Moscow should open a 'corridor' from Belarus through Poland, euractive.com/section/europe ... The idea that the Russian army presently has the wherewithal to do this--i.e., to invade NATO--is laughable.

Rashist. Macronite. Orcs. A useful English-language guide to Ukraine's wartime slang, by @zoyashef

A link to English translations of Ukrainian slang.

orange and white cat McButt sitting on couch with tongue out

Above cat is McButt, who has been a fixture in these threads because he's a photogenic fuzzball.

Death shoots people in 2008 Georgia, 2014 Ukraine, 2015 Syria, and knocks on door of 2022 Ukraine. Soldiers in 2022 Ukraine shoot Death.

A life ring from the Russian cruiser Moskva washed up in Odessa.

somber ponies patrol a field of sunflowers at sunset

2022-06-22

tank rotated 90 degrees so that it looks like it's got an ear to the ground

A Russian tank pauses, ear to the ground, listening for signs of its main predator—the deadly Ukrainian tractor.

night, a pony watches Russian planes being destroyed by MANPADS

2022-06-24

Ukraine can give Putin some land. Exactly this much (shovels dirt into grave marked 'Putin')

foreground: worried EU pony, serious Poland pony, and wounded Ukraine pony are having tea. Poland pony says, 'You have my support, sister. You can stay at my place until that bitch calms down.' Background: serious USA pony takes off sunglasses, other pony steals Russian tank with a tractor

Translation: You have my support, sister. You can stay at my place until that bitch calms down.

birth control effectiveness: condoms 99%, birth control pills 99%, supporting Putin 100%

Borat (Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Georgia, Poland, Ukraine): This is my neighbor, Russia. He's a pain in my assholes.

I think "wait for the critters" is some kind of idiom that machine translation fails at. I put the 2 words into another machine and got "you are waiting for creatures", which is not much better. The words were ЖДИТЕ ТВАРИ or "zhdeete tvaree".

2022-06-26

toilet paper with 'la-la-la-la, Putin is dickhead' and a picture of Putin's face

(la-la-la-la-la, Putin is dickhead)

twitter post from Mick Ryan, This map demonstrates the incremental nature of the Russian gains and the significant resistance offered by Ukrainian defenders over the last 2 weeks

Mick Ryan, AM: Remember, since about day 55 of this war, this region has been the Russian main effort. It is here where the majority of Russian combat power--especially in ground combat, artillery and air power--has been concentrated.

And while this demonstrates some learning by the Russian military, they still have only managed advances on the ground that are in the single digit kilometers per week. It is neither a static WW1 situation nor a maneuvering Gulf War 1`situation.

What we are seeing in the east resembles more the grinding battles around Caen in the immediate wake of the Normandy landings in 1944. The question remains--if the Russians can close off the Luhansk pocket, do they have the reserves and logistic support to maintain their offensive momentum? They, like the Ukrainians, have been slogging it out here for some time--combat exhaustion will start to tell.

There are also other challenges that the Russians will have to address in the short term. The Ukrainians in the east will be defending along a much shorter defensive line. And the Ukrainian advances in the south will pose a dilemma about priorities for the Russians. The Ukrainians have had to make hard decisions about Severodonetsk. They needed to stay long enough to ensure the Russians were decisively committed, and cause enough attrition to Russian 1st echelon forces and reserves.

At the same time, Ukrainians would have had a worst case plan to eventually cede ground to preserve their combat forces. This is a very delicate balancing act at the operational and strategic levels. It demands superior decision making and courage from senior leaders. While the Ukrainians have been fighting in the south, east, and north of Kharkiv, they have also been redeveloping their logistic system around the NATO model, and re-arming with long range fires. This will stand them in good stead for the fighting ahead.

Ukraine ceding ground in the east as a tactical realignment is not the same as "Ukraine is losing the war," as some have cast the events of the last few weeks. It is simply part of war's nature, as humans seek to impose their will on each other. War has many twists and turns.