A Brief History of Ukraine Threads and Memes on Fark, September 1-15 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.

chairman of Russian oil and gas giant Lukoil, which spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported Thursday

48350 troops, 1997 tanks, 4345 APV, 1115 artillery units, you gotta pump ... wait, actually those numbers are pretty good

For those wondering why the Ukrainian advance seems slow, I want to say that it's not. It's unprecedented. The Ukrainians are trying to advance without air supremacy and tactical air support (the prerequisite for almost all successful offensive campaigns since 1939 or even 1918)

The shit-posting, Twitter-trolling, dog-deploying social media army taking Putin on one meme at a time. The North Atlantic Fellas Organization is fighting the Kremlin's propaganda machine and winning.

someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to Moscow. Now there is a huge traffic jam with taxis.

Ponies with a howitzer labeled 'Droppin Beats', telescope, and maps.

Mick Ryan as a fella with a hat, blue track suit, 'On War' book, and lightsabre

2022-09-02

Fella: This man is your friend, he fights for freedom

Putin and Shoigu looming over some fellas, captioned 'Only you can prevent this nonsense'

Contrary to the conventional wisdom in the West, Moscow did not invade Ukraine to conquer it and make it a part of a greater Russia. Right. Everyone from Shoigu to Medvedev saying so is not the kind of reality that suits the narrative of so-called realists.

coloring book page about birds, which are mostly not birds but drones

2022-09-03

2 Bayraktar drones destroyed Russian military equipment worth $26.5 million in 3 days. 8 T-72 tanks, 1 infantry fighting vehicle, and multiple howitzers.

image from Politico about NAFO showing fellas in a combat scene with the caption 'DOGE-PILE!!'

coloring book page about Larry the Cat, the 10 Downing Street cat

Turkey accuses Greece of occupying Greek islands, threatening to launch military action. Erdogan called Turkey's NATO allies US/Greece as enemies.

Better than nothing starter pack: turnstile (bad), armor plate (horrible), UAV (toy), night light device vision (looking through cat butt)

2022-09-04

distracted boyfriend 'Meh: it is the same as WMD/nukes' looks at Yes instead of Yes

Vysokoillya Kherson region is fully under Ukrainian control as of recently

Starship Troopers scene where a solider (Ukraine) touches a Brain Bug (Russia) and says, 'It's afraid'

painting where an artist is making an image of sunflowers amid gray devastation

Grad MLRS rocket with 'We've been trying to reach you about your tank's extended warranty' written on it

Biden: democracy Ukraine: victory Zelenskyy: freedom

(There was a brief trend where people would tweet 1 word.)

fellas saying 'Nonsense detected! Fire at will!' and 'Time to bonk some tankies'

2022-09-05

Russian air defense trying to decide between radar on (HARM target) or radar off (Bayraktar target)

in Donetsk, Russia asked for a 2-hour truce to collect corpses

the Kherson pocket is not a large counteroffensive, but it is interesting

(link to a series of things about the Kherson pocket.)

What does it look like trying to cross the Dnipro River in a barge near the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson? It looks like hell on earth.

Robert Habeck says that Europe will not go back to buying large quantities of Russian gas, and that the only reliable thing from Russia are lies

fella with a GRAD labeled 'Multiple Bonk Rocket System'

Nazi wonder weapons vs. WWII USA atom bomb, then Russian wonder weapons vs. 2020 USA HIMARS. The USA stuff worked, the Nazi/Russian stuff didn't.

Guess those Russian SAM operators are in... HARM's way.

2022-09-06

somewhere in the darkness of Eastern Ukraine it's tonight's HIMARS time

There's now pretty credible reports of Ukrainian advances on the Kharkiv front. Another bad day for the Russian army.

Russia is turning to North Korea to buy millions of artillery shells and rockets. The fun part here is that if they're doing this, you know they asked China and China told them to fuck themselves.

fellas with coffee and rifles stand in foreground, firing missile launcher in background, caption 'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war'

coloring book page about a Russian official lying when he says sanctions are not hurting Russia

frozen hand holding sunflower seeds, captioned 'In winter you boom, in spring may you bloom'

Poland, Ukraine, Sweden, and other ponies are all having fun, while Russia pony is hanging from a tree

fella in tux wishes all Russian supply dumps a very pleasant BOOM

2022-09-07

over the last 48 hours, Ukraine brilliantly executed a relatively small-scale armored attack that will reap gains in Kharkiv Oblast

distracted boyfriend Twitter looks at Kharkiv offensive instead of Kherson offensive

well-connected pro-Russian Telegram channels are incredibly gloomy about the Ukrainian advances in Kharkiv right now

50,000 Russian servicemen could have peacefully lived and worked in their homeland. But they chose war and died in Ukraine.

M142 HIMARS shooting a volley of GMLRS. The threat from Russian aircraft and artillery is so low that they now shoot in broad daylight, from a single firing point.

The Ukrainian military captured 3 KS-19 anti-aircraft guns. They were produced in the late 1940s. Aha! So that's what airdefense doing!

("What airdefense doing?" has been a thing for a while.)

doge saying 'Such fail, much blyat, wow'

coloring book page of a bingo card with many phrases that pro-Russian propagandists use

From 'The Shining' where Jack hits a door with an axe and yells 'Here's Johnny!' except Jack is HIMARS and Wendy is a hapless Russian soldier

hapless Russian soldier says 'I could've had a V8! instead of turning into a Lada!'

a sniper pony and a spotter pony are on the battlefield

distracted boyfriend Everybody looks at Russia's forces having a very bad day instead of almost every other thing

2022-09-08

hapless Russian soldier, captioned 'A Russian realizes he's in the 2nd best army in Ukraine'

Good morning, russkies! Oh, wait... Not so good? Dracarys!

NAFO: You won't see them coming, you'll only know where they've been

Balakliya has been retaken. I think the next main goal is Kupyansk--the key railroad and automobile transportation center between Russia and northern and central Donbas. Sever this GLOC and Russians are in a world of shit.

coloring book page about Queen Elizabeth II dying

Russian ammo dump and logistics trucks captured by Ukraine in Kharkiv. Looks like Russia's entire logistical system was at a breaking point.

distracted boyfriend and two women all looking at a phone and laughing, captioned 'You have reached the UN Security Council. I see you're having problems with your invasion. We are experiencing a high colume of calls. Please hold for a representative.'

This advance is a problem, but for a competent, well-led army with air power it should be containable. For the Russian army, it could be a sign that the wheels are coming off the bus.

Customized MLP toys in Ukraine colors, in front of a tractor towing a tank

2022-09-09

Russian channel: No Ukrainian groups entered Kupyansk. A channel with 450k responts: Stop lying, you fucking cunts. What is happening is all due to dumb lying. In reports, motherfucking slides and other shit, retards.

As of 30 minutes ago, pro-Russian sources admitted that Ukraine controls almost the entire western bank of the Oskil River. Izyum is in artillery range from 3 sides. Supply routes running from Belgorod to Lyman are also in artillery range. The front is collapsing.

hapless Russian soldier captioned 'I've fallen and I can't get up'

cargo ship SEA EAGLE delivered 65000 tons of Ukraine wheat to Sudan. One more bulker loaded with Ukraine wheat arrived in starving countries of Africa. Despite utterly false Russian statements, Ukraine was and remains a guarantor of food security.

They've heard M777s since April getting closer and closer. Now, at night, they can hear Ukrainian tanks in the wood line.

The link to the video of this.

Unbelievable screed from a pro-Kremlin military blogger telling Russian occupation officials to stop denying Ukrainian advances when there's literally photos of their soldiers in liberated towns. Every other word of this post is a curse word.

pony climbing over other pony, caption 'She wants to order'

2022-09-10

coloring book page about Patron the mine-detecting dog

old article where 2 RAND people claim that the West's weapons won't make any difference to Ukraine

Ha ha, oh wow.

Ukraine's offensive was so effective that War Thunder, a Russian company, disabled the in-game chat

Russian general: The offensive is going great. Putin: Our offensive, right? Russian general: .... Putin: Our offensive, right?

Today is the perfect day to make fun of any pro-Russia/anti-Ukraine accounts on this website

Mark Hertling is saying there's too much stuff happening to comment on, trucks are more important than HIMARS, and he's personally very proud of all Ukrainian soldiers and citizens who are fighting for their sovreignty

this bus shelter was painted in Russian colors, Ukrainians re-painted it

This bus shelter was painted in Russian colors, so they re-painted it.

distracted boyfriend Ukraine looks at liberating Lysychansk instead of liberating Izyum

no expert on Ukraine but the 'we are too full of masculine virtue to lose, and they are too feminine to win' reminds me of the South being convinced that the North was too weak to fight and then watching in disbelief se they got their asses kicked by mail clerks and college professors. It turns out that culture war bugaboos are not a smart basis for geopolitical military analysis

Russian troops retreat victoriously, Ukrainian army runs after them in panic

highway sign saying 'Welcome to Moscow' with a Ukrainian flag hung on it

seeing lots of counternarratives claiming this is some sort of elaborate trap the Russians are laying for Ukrainian forces. Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap! Marcia: Sure, Jan.

Hopescrolling is the counterpart to boomscrolling, I think.

jet labeled 'Supercritical Wing', its wing is saying 'We are flying too low, I have too much fuel inside, this blue color is disgusting, you're not going fast enough, where did you learn to fly, idiot?'

Ukrainian forces seem to have seized some 3000 sq km and going in a few days in a rapid mechanized thrust that has left Russia's army disoriented and on the verge of a strategic debacle. There goes the theory that tanks are obsolete in modern warfare.

Russian propaganda channels not only started to call Russian Kharkiv defeat 'a catastrophe' but some also call Putin 'idiot' and regret that Putin was not stopped in 2008. I would not say it is a sign of immediate revolt, but it is tectonic

2022-09-11

hapless Russian soldier, captioned 'Russia's reaction to the past 200 days'

The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Russia) has had his arms and legs cut off by Arthur (Ukraine). Black Knight says 'Our troops decided to regroup'

Putin's genocidal plan to wipe Ukraine off the map has failed.

Mr. President, Kremlin is now liberated! Zelenskyy: Crimea! I said Crimea!

The Russian army is losing so badly that Putin has decided to hire Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell to prove that he actually won the war in Ukraine back in February

Russia might be able to restore 'manpower' but they won't be able to generate capability. Cohesion or effectiveness requires more than just warm bodies.

I believe it was Moshe Dayan who said that every enemy soldier fleeing the battlefield carries with him a deadly germ of infectious panic. If so, a broader process of Russian collapse may be underway.

watercolor and marker of a Ukrainian woman with a missile launcher, her foot is on the neck of a Russian orc.

Illia Ponomarenko: 'Experts' squealing 'This only prolongs the war!' may go smoke bamboo. Phillips P. O'Brien: Is to 'smoke bamboo' an old Ukrainian saying?

(This was never answered, and I don't think so?)

I tried to articulate the Ukrainian strategy in Kherson of build-up, tempt in, and destroy. Next week, how this strategy resulted in the Kharkiv situation we see now. Picture of blue and yellow pegs surrounding a Russian flag

2022-09-12

Z-channels are still trying to find an excuse behind the Kharkiv disaster. American and British generals in charge, 'undoubtedly NATO troops on the ground', Blackwater mercenaries, Eric Prince, invaders from Mars--anything but the Ukrainian military :-)

this video shows a Russian Su-25 heroically demilitarizing itself in a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine

The link to the video of this.

Russia (woman pointing at cat): You need to demilitarize! Ukraine (cat): All your tanks are belong to us

Zelenskyy: Miss Queen, we need help maintaining opsec for the Kharkiv offensive. Queen Elizabeth II: Don't worry my dear, I will pull a pro gamer move.

(No, this did not actually happen.)

extremely short bus, captioned 'Get in Losers, it's time to go losing'

Deputies in 18 districts of Moscow and St. Petersburg have signed a statement demanding that Putin resign

Douglas MacGregor says this entire war may be over soon, right now things are going very, very badly for the Ukrainians and they're desperate, they've losing once again just south of Kharkiv

(Is Douglas MacGregor eating those hallucinogenic newt noses or something? Because that's not what most people are saying.)

coloring book page, making the Ukraine War look kind of like Star Wars

Putin saying 'Everything is FINE. Just FINE. Why do you ask?'

Soldier (Armed Forces) holds kitten (Ukraine)

Someone left a washing machine outside the Russian embassy in Helsinki with a note telling Putin to stop stealing them from Ukrainian grandmothers.

2022-09-13

coloring book page showing a mortar shell

Christopher M. Doughtery talking about Russia's many failures

map showing how Ukraine has captured more territory in the last week than Russia did in the last five months

Not saying Russia's tank situation's getting desperate, but someone's been spotted applying WD-40 to this thing (picture of a strange-looking prototype or one-off)

Russia owns itself with decades of corruption and blames goddamn NAFO

distracted boyfriend Fark looks at Ukraine's Boobies-war instead of liberating Kharkiv and Izyum

(There is a filter that turns "first post" into "Boobies". So when someone tried to write "Ukraine's first post-war Christmas", it became "Ukraine's first Boobies-war Christmas".)