Dane Partridge, an Idaho father and U.S. Army veteran, died this week while "fighting for freedom in Ukraine," his family announced. His father, Dennis Partridge, wrote on Facebook on Saturday that his son was in a coma after being critically injured by a Russian tank blast. Dane Partridge died while fighting in Ukraine when he was struck by a Russian tank round, his family said. (Facebook/Honoring Dane Partridge) Partridge was being treated at Kyiv military hospital and was taken off life support on Tuesday, his family announced. "He was a fine soldier who fought with valor and bravery on the battlefield," his family wrote on Facebook.
‘Luxembourg, Luxembourg’ Review: A Fast-Paced, Funny Ukrainian Dramedy About Frayed Family Ties
08.10.2022 - 07:35 / variety.com
Jessica Kiang In a time of war, laughter — even of the wryest kind — can feel like an unpardonable luxury. And if Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich’s delightfully droll “Luxembourg Luxembourg” were even a little more flippant, and didn’t cut its comedic antics with an equal dose of melancholic wisdom, perhaps there would be some guilt attached to enjoying it so much. But with his second feature, an expansion of ambition after his wonkily wistful debut, “My Thoughts Are Silent,” Lukich hasn’t just made a slice of much-needed escapism. In the sincerity of its sentimentality and its humane, universal observations around absent fathers, errant sons and estranged brothers, the movie not only earns us the right to laugh during a period of suffering and conflict, it makes sharing in the warmth of its sweet-natured humor seem like a vital, revivifying act of resistance.
There’s a scuzzy-Scorsese vibe to the film’s propulsive, boisterous ’90s-set opening as Kolya and Vasya (Adrian and Damian Suleiman), identical twin boys getting into trouble the way boys do, scramble around the train yards of Lubny, the central Ukrainian city they call home. As nostalgically narrated by an older if little wiser Kolya, the events of this particular day are instructive as to the boys’ relationship. When the freight train they’re kicking about in unexpectedly begins to move, Vasya jumps off just in time, while the more fearful Kolya clings to the boxcar helplessly, watching his brother recede to a forlorn far-off figure on the tracks. Kolya will be rescued in amusingly OTT style by his gangster father stopping the train at gunpoint while Boney M’s “Daddy Cool” blasts over the soundtrack. But the differences in the boys’ natures is set. Vasya is
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‘Shark Tank’ EP Phil Gurin Strikes International Partnership With Ukrainian Producer FILM.UA Group
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10.10.2022 / 11:35
BBC Reporter Seen Ducking From Missile Live On Air As Ukrainian Conflict Worsens
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msn.com
08.10.2022 / 22:57
Dad who ran off with Ukrainian refugee reunites with family after ending his affair
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nme.com
04.10.2022 / 22:27
Roger Waters claims to be on Ukrainian “kill list”
Roger Waters has shared his belief that he is on a “kill list” of enemies of Ukraine, as well as dismissing evidence of Russian forces’ alleged war crimes in the country as “propaganda”.Speaking to Rolling Stone in an interview published today (October 4), the former Pink Floyd frontman and co-founder said that, “as a taxpayer in the United States,” America was “the most evil of all [countries] by a factor of at least 10 times”, adding: “We kill more people. We interfere in more people’s elections.
nypost.com
04.10.2022 / 20:13
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters claims he’s on Ukrainian government ‘kill list’
Russo-Ukraine war. The 79-year-old English rocker dropped the bombshell conspiracy theory during a recent interview with Rolling Stone.“Don’t forget, I’m on a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government,” declared Waters, who has repeatedly blamed Ukraine and the West for instigating the conflict.
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04.10.2022 / 18:25
Roger Waters Claims He’s On Ukrainian ‘Kill List’ After Comments On Russian Invasion
Pink Floyd’s co-founder is afraid of Ukraine.
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03.10.2022 / 23:31
Ukrainian Ambassador Tells Elon Musk to ‘F– Off’ After CEO Offers Unsolicited Advice for Peace With Russia
@elonmuskIn a follow-up tweet to his original post, Musk wrote that everything he wrote is “highly likely to be the outcome in the end – just a question of how many die before then.” And once again, Melnyk had a response.“The only outcome ist [sic] that now no Ukrainian will EVER buy your f…ing tesla crap,” he wrote. “So good luck to you.”The only outcome ist that now no Ukrainian will EVER buy your f…ing tesla crap.