I’m Devana — a writer and musician from Lviv. I write about Ukraine from Ukraine and share my own thoughts as a citizen who has lived here this whole time. I don’t belong to any political force. This is an independent voice. Site My songs, Ukrainian radio, games, quizzes, an app for learning Ukrainian and live news from Ukraine in English are here: devana.com.ua If you want the writing itself, you can support it here: Exclusive articles, reflections and songs about Ukraine: patreon.com/DevanaUkraine Original erotic stories: patreon.com/devanasecrets If you just want this voice to stay free: buymeacoffee.com/devana Name and face Devana is a pen name after the Slavic goddess of the hunt. The symbolism matters to me: she walked with wolves and wore a bear’s skin. Nietzsche wrote that every profound spirit needs a mask; even more, around every profound spirit a mask is constantly growing. I made myself such a mask — the AI identity you see in this profile. Behind it is a living person. I need it because of my views, and because I write from inside the war. Glory to God!

Peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine following Russia’s attack on Crimea and the Donbas. No, this is not happening now; this is October 4, 1918.

👥 “After the war a second — male — wave of migration may appear,” — Director of the Institute of Demography and Quality of Life Research Ella Libanova In reality this will definitely happen. Among my male friends, even among the military, of whom I have very many I know only a few who plan to stay in Ukraine. The rest want to leave Ukraine forever. And the matter here is not only in the problem with work, which now even for women does not exist but also in mass disappointment. Firstly, any ending of the war except as a victory over Russia will mean that soon there will be a new war. Secondly, Ukrainians are very disappointed by the contempt of the authorities for the people, the government, the corruption, the criminal actions against Ukrainians, and they are fighting for a completely different country than it has become now. Thirdly, many already have children and a wife abroad who do not very much want to return or there is nowhere to return, because the territory is occupied or the house is destroyed and the men will definitely want to live with the family.

Zelenskyy was once a victim of Russian propaganda and used to repeat their nonsense. It is good that he now knows history and explicitly points out that Russia emerged later than Ukraine—and that this is precisely what gives rise to Russia’s complexes.

A Walk Through Lviv in 1971

🕊️ To end the war one must first understand why the war continues. And why does the war continue? Because Russia attacked Ukraine. Was there a reason? Was there some provocation from the side of Ukraine, as for example Ukrainian troops attacked Moscow or some other Russian city? Obviously, No. Russia attacked Crimea out of the blue, noticing the absence of reaction from the civilised world attacked the Donbas and not being able to occupy with the mask “We are not there” Russia took off the mask and went on the offensive with all forces. Does Ukraine want peace? Yes and it has repeatedly stated this, constantly challenges Russia to negotiations, proposes various options, tries to agree with Russia’s allies so that they influence Russia. Does Russia want peace? Obviously, no. Firstly these are the aggressors and there are no Ukrainian troops on the territory of Russia, only Russian ones on the territory of Ukraine and to stop the war it is enough for them to withdraw the troops from Ukraine (Ukraine has no such possibility). Secondly, Russia openly states that they do not want peace and want to bring their goals of the destruction of the Ukrainian nation to the end. What do the laws say about this? One must understand that there is no territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine does not possess any ethnic Russian territory, moreover all the western regions of Russia are ethnic territories of Ukraine and Belarus. Russia itself possesses the territories of other states such as Sweden, Finland, Japan, China, Russia occupied entire states that seek independence. If one takes into account the question of separatism, which does not exist in Ukraine because these were Russian troops, then by this logic Russia should give back many of its own and Putin even spoke about this openly. Besides, if Russia had a right to any territory, this question would be resolved diplomatically, not by war. The Russian Constitution forbids occupation, therefore they change it. The Russian constitution places international law above Russian laws. International law forbids aggression, forbids annexing territory after the use of force, forbids war crimes, terror and much else that Russia does. Russia signed many treaties, not only the Budapest Memorandum, and in the UN recognised the inviolability of borders and separately had treaties with Russia and recognition of the inviolability of borders and the absence of territorial claims. Putin more than once stated even separately about this, about the fact that he is not against Ukraine joining NATO etc. And NATO was never the reason, because talks about NATO were not conducted and NATO did not expand until Russia began its wars. And there is no sense in attacking a country that is not in NATO so that it does not join NATO. Accusing of Nazism also makes no sense when in your country there is Nazi policy, you act worse than the Nazis and you openly conduct neonazi marches. In Ukraine, by the way, there is no Nazism at all. About the biolaboratories and everything else it is also hypocritical lies. Violation of the rights of Russians? Look how Ukrainians were discriminated against in Ukraine and who had more rights in Ukraine Ukrainians or Russian migrants? Look how many Russians live in Ukraine and how many in Russia and how many Ukrainian schools, Ukrainian language, libraries in Russia. So who violates whose rights? This is all a show for idiots and I do not know whether besides the bots anyone takes part in these discussions. Well there are people who do not differ from a bot. They are incapable of thinking and only repeat what they heard from propaganda. We call them vatniks. Unfortunately, they are also the electorate of pro-Russian politicians, they are the source of dictatorships and terrorism in the world and the politicians create their shows precisely for them. Everyone understands whose fault it is, who does not want peace and what the reasons are. Not to understand means to be an ignoramus, and if you are in a political position, then you are an incompetent politician who has no right to be there. And if a politician accuses the victim, consciously taking the side of the aggressor, then this says a great deal about him, and about his country, and about his people. If he beats the victim, if he restricts the victim, if he praises, glorifies the aggressor even with the aim of appeasing him as once they tried with Hitler, then he must answer for this. This is not simply an act, this is a crime! And such things cannot be released neither for the richest people of the world, nor for the politicians of the strongest countries of the world. For this the alliances of civilised countries exist!

There is no territorial issue between Ukraine and Russia. Russia needs the occupied territories of Ukraine as a staging ground for the occupation of all of Ukraine. Russia needs an occupied Ukraine as a staging ground for the occupation of all of Europe.

⚖️ There are things that raise respect, there are things that destroy respect or even cause contempt. And if the respect or contempt of one person can be ignored and if you are a public person or even a state, then even the contempt of a hundred, a thousand or even a million can be indifferent to you, then when this contempt comes from hundreds of millions or even a billion, when this contempt is engraved in history for dozens-hundreds of generations, when it destroys the authority of your state, then your ignoring of the absence of respect can end catastrophically not only for you and your descendants but also for the future of your country. What is this for? Well look at Russia. I do not pay attention to them, because there it is completely indifferent to everyone that Russia will be named worse than the 3rd Reich. But look at China, which helps this Russia. Look at the USA, which betrayed the allies, the treaties, the guarantees, which struck together with Russia against those whom they undertook to protect. Look at Poland, which hypocritically despises the Ukrainian heroes of the period when it was the aggressor against Ukraine, having heroes who committed genocides of Ukrainians and names streets in their honour and at the same time stabs in the back, attacking Ukrainian refugees. Look at Hungary, which is almost the same as Poland and where the change of power has not greatly changed the situation. Look at all the Russian assets in every country of the world and the peoples who elect these politicians for the sake of shame for the ages…

The same girl who sang amidst the air-raid sirens

🚨 For the last week Russia has been continuously attacking the Ukrainian regions bordering NATO: Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk and Lviv. We are literally under drone strikes around the clock with breaks of up to 1 hour maximum. And I think that such activity is connected with the limitation of Ukraine’s ability to defend itself because of the actions of the USA and therefore Russia is trying to take advantage of the chance.

"How many more dictators need to be calmed down, appeased, and granted privileges?" History repeats itself, and the West makes the same mistakes over and over again.

Russians are shocked that their great-grandfathers from the Donbas spoke exclusively Ukrainian—after all, prior to the Soviet genocide, the entirety of Ukraine was completely Ukrainian-speaking.

A Ukrainian soldier recounts his personal experience in Russian captivity.

🎤 Ukrainian male choral singing at the feast with the song about the Sich Riflemen. The Sich Riflemen — the Ukrainian army that in alliance with Poland defeated Russia, stopping their communist advance on the whole of Europe.

📖 I am reading the memoirs of a soldier of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Interesting that he says that the Poles who conducted the genocides in the Ukrainian villages were not entirely Poles…

🕊️ Unfortunately in Kyiv there is not currently such a weapon that by one decision would bring peace. However, if Russia wanted peace, then it could simply stop attacking and committing terrorist acts, return the stolen, answer for the crimes and peace would come.

I just received 5 coffees from Hector on @buymeacoffee! buymeacoffee.com/devana/c/20…

Chernivtsi City Day. Despite the terror and the betrayal by allies, the spirit of the Ukrainians only continues to grow. The methods they use to try to break us actually bring us closer together and motivate us to keep fighting.

🇺🇦 I will say as a Ukrainian, even though maybe you did not ask me and all this is not interesting to you. I did not start this war, I did not want this war. I simply wanted to be Ukrainian, wanted to live in Ukraine, wanted to live well. Exactly therefore I did not stay silent and went out to the Maidan, when they tried to take away the elections from us, beat girls and grandmothers, shot people, introduced dictatorial laws, forbade history, the Ukrainian language, music and translations into Ukrainian of cinema. They tried to turn us into Russia but we defended our right to be Ukrainians. They wanted to join us to BRICS but we wanted to be in the EU, they wanted to use us for the war against Europe and the USA but we wanted to be in NATO. And then Russia came to us with the war. Russia lied about “We are not there”, when it invaded Crimea, Russia lied about “separatism”, when it invaded the Donbas, Russia lied about “referendums”, when it tried to legalise the occupation, Russia bombed our territories, conducted genocides there and lied that Ukraine is bombarding them. No one wanted to Russia but Russia lied that all want to the RF. Ukrainians lived there, and Russia lied about ethnic Russians. Despite the fact that the allies, who promised us guarantees of security and territorial integrity, betrayed us and even did not introduce full-fledged sanctions, hard sanctions that could then have worked, we stopped Russia and even liberated many cities from under the Russian occupation, although at that time we did not have an army. Russia got stuck and could not advance, therefore it attacked with all forces, using the ammunition and planes accumulated still from Soviet times and given by Ukraine in exchange for the security guarantees. Russia did things more terrible than those that the Nazis did and at the same time Russia itself accused us of everything with which it itself was full, in order to justify its own aggression. The world turned out too weak and cowardly to say “No” to the genocides, to confirm with actions the thesis “Never again”. “Again” has come and we again remained alone. We were again betrayed by the “allies” and we understood that we never had allies, only partners. Now they tell us that we do not have the right to freedom, to our own house, they tell us that we do not have the right to live, because in the world not the law rules, but the right of the stronger. If a robber with a weapon burst into your house — the police will not drive him out, but will force you to leave your house and, if you refuse to rewrite the ownership, will apply sanctions against you. If the robber killed your people — he will not be responsible for this and you are to blame, because you do not want peace, it was necessary to fulfil his demands at once. Why did you defend yourself? And the robber can even be rewarded. This is what is happening but not in such a small, but in a geopolitical scale. Do you understand how I feel as a Ukrainian? This outrages even foreigners who look at this from the side, and this concerns me directly, Russia is directly trying to kill me every day, the USA switch off the possibilities to defend ourselves, which is complicity in the crime and accuse me of the unwillingness of peace, because I want to live, because I have not perished, because I fight… And you think, during the time of the war I received at least some help? Prices rose, work disappeared, and I survive only thanks to your support. Otherwise I would no longer be here and no one would care about this. Because how much does the life of a person cost? Exactly less than a litre of diesel. Exactly less than a cup of coffee a month. Exactly less than a cubic metre of gas. These are the values of modern politicians. And you elected them!

🛢️ The world truly measures the lives of Ukrainians in the prices of oil. For them the house is nothing. They are ready to allow a person to die, regretting a percent of tax at the price of a cup of coffee a month for a friend and ally whom they undertook to protect, who was always nearby.

History will always remember the actions of the USA.