the comrades of the anarchist black cross dresden support us to the best of their ability since the beginning of the war – they wrote an actual statement about their position:
the anarkistikdk friends have been mirroring our blogpost almost daily on instagram for a long time and are now taking a little break. thank you very much for all your work & hope to see you again very soon.
first of all, we would like to share here two reports about our civil and humanitarian work.
Operation Solidarity took humanitarian aid to Chernihiv while gasoline was still available*. The city has suffered severe destruction and is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, so almost everything is needed there. We have handed over food and clothes to the people, and are preparing for more trips as soon as possible.
* – Ukraine has an acute fuel shortage because of a Russian missile hitting the Kremenchuk oil refinery plant and destroying oil depots.
https://t.me/solidarnistinua
We donated food to the Lipa cafe, which will turn into free lunchesfor those who need them.
From the first day of the war, the Lipa cafe in Kyiv become a shelter for the teams of two cafes and their friends who decided to stay in the city. Soon the kitchen started working again – the cafe workers began preparing and delivering lunches for the old people, hospitals and the military. Today it’s 500 servings per day!
and we also had a visit from a left-wing newspaper from germany:
Serhii Movchan und Yuri Chernata gehören der Organisation Operation Solidarity an. Das Freiwilligenprojekt wurde von Anarchist*innen und antiautoritären Linken in der Ukraine gegründet und leistet praktische Unterstützung. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/h7SmCN57w7
— analyse & kritik @analysekritik@chaos.social (@analysekritik) May 10, 2022
This has been the name of today’s [09.05.] holiday in Ukraine since 2016, replacing Soviet Victory Day. The photo shows our comrade in equipment given by Operation Solidarity posing with a downed Russian APC at the backdrop.
in addition, the victory over nazi germany was also commemorated in berlin on may 9. at the invitation of the post-east migrantifa berlin, a speech by us was read out there. the memorial of the concentration camp neuengamme had already kicked out all official representatives of belarus and russia to commemorate the day of the liberation of the camp in april. in warsaw, the russian ambassador wanted to take part in a commemorative event, but was greeted appropriately. and there were subversive actions in russia as well – before the parade, the city was covered with anti-war stickers along the route and a brave anarchist commemorated Ihor “Crimean” Volokhov during the parade. here are some pictures:
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we were also happy to see this soli action from italy – an anarchist collective sells homemade pasta and cultivated artichokes at a market and donates the proceeds to us. the action also includes a different perspective on economy and cultivation structures, so it also includes something of the utopia of tomorrow.
we were able to deliver more important equipment – thanks to your donations.
Operation Solidarity bought some of the most needed devices – two SPECTRA TI 35 thermal imaging cameras and handed them over to our comrades on the frontline. This thermal imager has a range of up to 1.3 km, 12 display modes, 8x zoom, built-in rangefinder, IP67 protection and can work for up to 4.5 hours. Soldiers also received binoculars and six artillery compasses.
https://t.me/solidarnistinua
at pramen an anarchist explained his motivation to participate in the armed resistance against putin’s invasion in an interview, we would like to recommend it to you here.
we also have some media teams visiting us at the moment – you can be curious. here is a little spin off where alexis interviewed jake haran from popular front in our office:
there are more and more reports of direct sabotage and attacks on putin’s war infrastructure in russia. this is a good sign – together against war, imperialism and fascism!
comrade alexis is currently working on the third part of his reportage (the first two parts are highly recommended) – and here is a little spoiler, together with the mysterious anarchist driver:
