Your Tongue is Wet
Painting by Mariia Prymachenko A recent surge in linkery to some of this site’s more pointed comment on Kyiv’s corporate lapdogs and demagogue paste-up...
A Long-winded Hagiography
Bohdan Nahaylo, the new managing editor of Ukraine’s goat with teeth, wrote more than 1,600 words about himself on Christmas Eve. The longwinded auto-...
The Fiddler on Ukraine's Roof
Pereislav coat of arms (adopted in 1620) Ending Russia’s war against Ukraine is complicated by the inadequacy of formal equality, competing narratives...
Ukraine's Goat With Teeth
We do now feel the need to say something. We feel a need to pile on. Because, for the first time in recent memory, the pile on the new Kyiv Post doesn’t seem...
Oleksandr Hohilashvili Busted
Photograph: Babel.ua Ukraine’s (now former) Deputy Interior Minister Oleksandr Hohilashvili had championed the fight against decriminalizing pot since at...
Fosamax Forever
We all know Fosamax, the prescription medicine invented by Merck & Co. for the treatment or prevention of osteoporosis (thinning of bone) in women after...
Requiem for Ukraine?
Photo: president.gov.ua Just how precious or sacred are you, really, if a bear can suddenly rip off part of your head? If you’re as bored as I am with the...
I Got No Eyelids
Well, heck. The response to a possible Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been truly remarkable, and the reporting quite bizarre. We’re laughing in...
Status Quo Dum Milito
To flirt is divine, but to flirt without regard to your country's security is downright unpatriotic. The member of parliament from the Servant of the People...
Zelensky's New Clothes
Many supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky secretly believe that he is not even remotely qualified for the presidency, but they continue to...
Plan A
Plan A. The Kremlin planned to finish the operation before the Christmas holidays. If this had happened, the response of the United States and European Union...
Riot Division
A scant three days remain before the planned insurrection in Kyiv announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. As of this writing, Ukraine’s law-...
Ukraine Goes Coup Coup
So far, the best part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s (Z) five and a half hour press conference is what journalist Yuriy Butusov said after it...
Death To All Who Blather
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 19, 2021. Improvisational comedy is...
Autumnal Canabalism
Photo by Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos Ukraine’s moron president is in trouble again, this time for using new H225 Super Puma helicopters bought by taxpapers...
Rats on a Journey™
Eared Beast Grasped A Crustacean (1983) The headless drake with the cormorant beak wearing the purple blouse has been removed from the playground in front of...
Ukraine's Headless Drake
Photo by Valeriy Kalnysh Even a stopped clock tells the correct time twice a day. On November 22, the ex-Kyiv Post team filed a report on their all-in-one...
Something Memorable
BBC’s guidance on impartiality is here. Anyway, Luc now hates himself for doing his job, for connecting the dots assigned him in a ground-glass editorial...
Kyiv Post Strikes Again
Rather, just so ick. On November 19, the ex-Kyiv Post team filed a report on their all-in-one Mailchimp marketing platform about an alleged murder plot...
I, An Actor
Kyiv Post columnist killvlogger Serhiy Leshchenko on November 18 devoted almost half of his daily screed to Bellingcat’s report, titled Inside Wagnergate:...
Bezuhla's PMC TIC brief
The [intelligence gathering] *event* was completed and can be considered successful: the Defense Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine...
Bring Back Our Blimp
We all remember the twenty-second and the final episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Simpsons jokes...
Prominvestbank Purgatory
The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs. - Thomas Kuhn If everyone had a their own personal investment...
Ukraine's Spherical Cow
Феникс (Phoenix), formerly called Еврика (Eureka) and Казбек (Kazbek), is a new fusion restaurant on Lesi Ukrainki Boulevard in Kyiv. On Thursday nights...
Servants of Pandora
Dear colleagues, you and I have seen a lot of cynicism, manipulation and distortion in this Parliament. But, really, I don't think we’ve witnessed anything...
Scale-free Wagner PMC
Ukraine’s secret services lured more than two dozen Russian mercenaries to Minsk in a botched attempt to hold them accountable for crimes they confessed to....
Ukraine's Plan "Г"
Member of Parliament Mariana Bezuhla chairs the Rada’s special investigation committee looking into possible screw-ups involving Ukraine’s national security....
A Man in Full
He loves the way his mighty chest rises and falls beneath his freshly pressed shirt. When he breathes deeply, Mykola Tyshchenko imagines that everyone...
Setting the Plate Clear
Handmade paper collage by Annalynn Hammond, titled "The Subject Objects" The essence of political activity is revealed when you define its two basic...
Fortress Ukraine
History will surely note this absurdly ill-timed Instagram selfie. On Wednesday, September 1, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary posed twice for his...
A Republic of Popular Servants
(Illustration by Володимир Цеслар) Very little progress on at least three gigantic fuck-ups. WagnergateSemenchenkogateChausgate Scandals #1 and #2 involve...
One More Big Mistake
There is nothing sensational in the dramatic appearance of Mykola Chaus in a village near Moldova border on July 30, 2021. He isn’t the first Ukrainian...
Playing in the Shadows
The war will end when the shooting stops. The presidential candidate who said that two years ago is today having difficulty answering three simple yes-or-no...
Brilliantly Righteous While Half Baked
Ukrainians have known for years that foreign linguistic experts pick up on much less in conversation than native speakers. However, few expected that the...
Not About Ukraine
We discussed soundtrack ideas for BELLINGCAT’s Wagnergate Netflix docudrama in our last post. Since then, I’ve settled on this score. There has been a lot of...
Drones in My Bones
BELLINGCAT: WAGNERGATE Tx Date: March ? 2021 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 00.00.00...
Wagnergate (update)
Andriy Yermak, Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, is in a lot of trouble. “The truth is that in 1918 I gave authorization to prepare this operation,...
Ukraine is Not a Piano
What links the President of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to protests in Belarus against strongman Aleksander Lukashenko, Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
Possibly Fatal Outdoor Dining
A premium lamb-lard-wrapped-in-whatever roll costs UAH 95 (almost $4). The Мясо & Lavasch stands have popped up everywhere in Kyiv. Unhealthy fare. Donor...
Realities We Don't See
Igor Novikov, a former advisor to Ukraine’s moron president, has apparently leaked the contents of a 40-minute chit chat with Donald Trump’s personal lawyer...
SBU goes Coup Coup
BELLINGCAT sleuths continue to wonder aloud about the key findings of an announced report about a years-long attempt by Ukraine’s special forces to lure...
Countdown to Disaster
Ex President Petro Poroshenko on said on December 30, 2020 said that he had authorized the operation of the country’s special forces to lure Russian...
Clandestine Fuckery
Secret state security services these days are walking a tightrope. Any miscalculation, could result in a hilarious failure, such as the recent botched...
Great Blows of the Overproud
Just read Arkady Babchenko’s latest Facebook post about the futility of demonstrating against bloody dictator Alexander Lukashenko. He delivered the same...
Zelensky's Zoom Bubble
President Volodymyr Zelensky on November 13, 2020 published a 50-second video from his VIP ward at Feofaniya Clinical Hospital, a state-owned medical...
What Biden's Win Means for Zelensky
The immediate result of the U.S. presidential election as of this writing is no longer uncertain, at least not for Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine’s president...
The Daily Death Count
The positive dynamics of morbidity in Ukraine over the last eight months have been driven by pathological bad thinking, wacko algorithms (courtesy of the...
Ukraine's COVID-19 Disaster
Manipulating the environment to test a hypothesis is a bad idea when it could kill you. (Ukraine’s president likely to appear at parliament’s plenary session...
Zelensky's 'Second Wave'
Google search spits out more than 10 million links for a search of “зеленский вторая волна” (zelensky second wave). Ukraine’s president has given a false...
Elect a Clown, Expect a Circus
The head of the President’s Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak wrote a long frantic and obnoxious post on Facebook yesterday urging lawmakers from the Servant...