Just keeping up posting while still sorting through all the USBs of everything we brought with us. The laptop was fried and the phones were taken away awhile ago by the Russian troops who went through our village and town (we were in eastern part of Ukraine and you had to go through us if coming from Belarus to get to Kiev). We have a new (used one) and it’s excruciatingly slow. We’re honestly debating to just mail the USBs to our friend in US (photographer) and have him post them lol. But we’re persevering!
Haven’t figured out a structure yet to it. But will start posting more as we go along. Give some love to our friend on IG who kept our accounts alive for the last year and prevented them from being deleted. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXygVYOOZF/ he’ll be running the social media part still ad we have issues with getting through IG on our VPN. But either way. Go and like all of the posts on his IG. 🥰🥰
We will be back soon with all of our images from previous releases to be available as PPV for those interested, we'll start posting them soon. We will also start posting some more free pictures as well.
Hi all, my name is Roman, I am a close friend to Alena, Natasha's (Nika) sister and the one who has been taking all the photos, you can see her photos somewhere in here too if you look through them and wanted to write a little update here. I have lost touch with the girls for about 8 days and since logging on here requires an authenticator which is on one of their phones, I couldn't even come on here to write any updates should I had to.
Thankfully I finally got through to them. They also made a short video asking for some help and I'll post that once I can get it dubbed over or something since it's in Ukrainian.
Long story short, they were in Chernihiv, then in a village on the eastern side of Chernihiv. Most of that area was under the invader's control. They didn't have water, electricity or heat, let alone internet service that was stable. But last message I had from Alena before the most recent ones, was that they may be able to leave, they'd have to pay and rent a place once they leave, but Natasha didn't want to leave her husband, who is fighting. So they farthest they'd be able to leave is somewhere towards west, past Kiev, but still in Ukraine.
They managed to do that apparently and now are safer west of Kiev. Cell reception is still very poor and spotty, no water still but at least they have access to a well at some people's house and they're able to use a gas tank for heat, so its a much better situation. I will post a video here soon as I can so you can see it for yourself. The girls are super grateful for anything that you guys have done, they love you for it because right now, that's what's getting them through. The house they're renting for a 4 families (9 people) costs double what's an average monthly salary there and they're almost out of their savings (Thank God they even had them, I guess thanks to OF in the first place). I've attached Alena's last message as proof, in case you need to see it, and I will upload the video here. I cannot change the banking information without their permission and access to their emails, so all I can do is just "cash out" for them and the money gets deposited in their account, should anyone have any fears of that.
Also, they are unable to access most of their services because of how bad the reception is, they literally send the video on a sim card with someone who was going to Poland and they sent the video to me through google drive from once they got to more stable internet.
Translation below. Support us if you can: @phoneticallysilent
Всем привет. Мы все еще держимся. Они могут бомбить нас, они могут стрелять в нас, они могут уморить нас голодом, они не уничтожат нас всех. У нас есть только прерывистый доступ в Интернет, и даже он очень плохой. Это сообщение отправляется другу для публикации, так как мне нужен доступ к VPN, чтобы зайти на онлифанс, и это просто не работает и меня вообще.
Просто знайте, что любой, кто все еще здесь, помогает нам выжить прямо сейчас, и мы ценим каждого из вас.
Мы все еще здесь. Мы Украина. Не верьте пропаганде, которую видите. Никто не встречает этих убийц с цветами. Мы устречаем их з пулями и молотовыми коктейлями. Мы будем сражаться с ними за каждый сантиметр нашей земли, и он будет залит нашей или их кровью. До последней капли.
Слава Украине, Героям Слава!
- Ника
Hello. We are still holding on. They can bomb us, they can shoot at us, they can starve us to death, they won't destroy us all. We only have intermittent internet access and even that is very poor. This message is being sent to a friend for posting as I need VPN access to go online and it just doesn't work for me at all.
Just know that everyone who is still here is helping us survive right now and we appreciate each and every one of you.
We are still here. We are Ukraine. Don't believe the propaganda you see. No one me ets these killers with flowers. We'll take them down with bullets and hammers. We will fight them for every inch of our land, and it will be covered with our or their bl ood. To the last drop.
Glory To Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
- Nika
It was originally set #22, let me know if you can't find it on the page (message me there, it is free and I respond to all messages) and I'll make sure to reupload the entire thing.
The original post is still on the primary page, just have to scroll down through some of the almost 2000 pics to find it.
@phoneticallysilent is the page.
The main paid page has thousands of pics. We will be updating it with a lot more content too. Working on more stuff now that we’re through covid. That sucked btw. A lot.
