Andrew Becraft 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇺🇦

I wrote an article about creating LEGO minifigs for Ukrainian prisoners of war and their families. brothers-brick.com/2023/07/10/eng…

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@Limosa_Var Did you ever think you’d see your nickname in the sky overhead? 🤯

What’s more iconic than a @wsdot Ferry on Puget Sound under the light of the moon and aurora borealis?

Looking straight up from my front yard within Seattle, even with all the city’s light pollution.

Hurtling through the coronal mass ejection… (Aurora borealis over Puget Sound near Seattle, just a moment ago.)

@Dlsblahblahblah To the naked eye it looks like a crazy light show that’s mostly white. These were with my iPhone 13 Pro on a 10-second exposure.

@AndrewBecraft Is this with naked eye?

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The Chechen Battalion custom minifig has returned to restock preorder – proceeds benefit Wingmen for Ukraine! Plus, the Spitfire Mk Vc Trop and A12 Matilda II are now available as digital instruction downloads! #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #Brickmania #StrongerTogether #NAFO

Two years ago, her image became a symbol of the cruelty of Russian aggression. Today, after undergoing four surgeries, Olena still struggles with vision impairment. Yet, with unwavering spirit, she returned to her native Chuhuiv, her resilience mirroring Ukraine's own.

Робіть щось сьогодні. Робіть щось корисне завтра. Інакше дуже скоро ми будемо щиро заздрити мертвим.

We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇬🇧

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 Thank you, USA! #2YearsOfResistance #2yearsOfUnity @DeptofDefense @SecDef Two years ago, russia started an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We are grateful to every country, leader, and person who has stood—and continues to stand—with Ukraine. We will win.

Stand tall, my friends.

This is me 2 years ago. Nothing has changed, and everything has changed. Today, I ask you to display the Ukrainian flag if you have one. To wear blue and yellow. Your support is so important to us. I thank everyone, thanks to whom I am still alive. I despise everyone because of whom my people die every day. Glory to Ukraine! Eternal memory to those who died in the struggle for freedom. Eternal love to those who support us❤️

Today, amidst another air-raid alarm in Kharkiv, I witnessed a man stop in the street, shouting in frustration, "How fcked up is this! How much longer can it go on?" It was a scene that was both sad and tragically humorous.

Two years of full-out war has passed. I feel two lifetimes older. Tonight, I want to remind you that under the many layers of russia's lies hides the true reason why they started this war: because we, Ukraine, made a choice to refuse to give up our freedom. Western societies are now making their own choice between suppoting freedom and bowing to dictatorship. Choose wisely.

Dear great people of a great country, I am immensely proud of each of you. I admire each one of you. I believe in each one of you. Any normal person wants the war to end. But none of us will allow Ukraine to end. That is why when it comes to ending the war, we always add: on our terms. That is why, along with the word peace, there is always another word: just. That is why, in the future, the word independent will always appear alongside the word Ukraine. This is what we fight for. And we will prevail. On the greatest day of our lives. I thank all of our soldiers, our people, and everyone around the world who stands with us and the truth. Glory to Ukraine!

@saintjavelin I contacted my friends in Kharkiv via an old group chat from work. Many of them had just woken up to what they initially thought was a thunderstorm. It was not.

What were your first thoughts when you learned that russia invaded Ukraine? And what was the first thing you did for Ukraine?

Two years. It's been two years since that fucking night of February 24. We knew -- well, we've been told "it's not 100% confirmed yet...but THIS is possibly due at 4 am or 5 am, stay put." A half-glass of single malt whisky with ice poured into a glass, the final hours alone in sweet silence in front of a laptop. Scrolling through the news all the time. And then the morbid face of Putin twisted with sick rage live on TV. And, shortly after, the rolling thunder of missile strikes coming in from all around Kyiv. That was supposed to be the apocalypse of a nation, but, thanks to so many men and women standing up, that night became the beginning of Ukraine's finest hour. The one that old grandpa Winston was once talking about. Oh, it's been an epoch of time ever since that day. The Battle of Kyiv. The heroic resistance of Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. A lone Ukrainian Marine sacrificing his life to blow up a bridge and stop advancing Russian tanks. The tragic debacle in the south. The Russian extermination of Mariupol. The Bucha massacre. The unspeakable meat grinder in Donbas. The Kharkiv operation. The cheering crowds jubilating from the Ukrainian colors getting back to Kherson. The fields of death and gore at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Battles in the sea and the air. So many ups and downs, so many heroes, human-made miracles. The price of survival as a nation is terrible. We're going to mourn and shed tears many decades in the future over what Russia has done. We've seen unbelievable things in this war. Ukraine has done and is doing incredible things in this war in spite of all odds. The Ukrainian military has been making a gargantuan sacrifice against one of the largest and the most brutal war machines in human history. Everyone in this war has revealed their true face, from very ordinary people to the highest-ranking power brokers. Frankly, I don't get it how some could choose to side with the evil, bloodlust, blatant lies, hypocrisy, and imperial savagery over the story of a nation that was supposed to go extinct within weeks but now enters the third year of resistance against the most terrible war of extermination since Adolf Hitler. With everything that has happened over the last few months, we all should be ready for a lot of hard things to happen. A lot of hopes have been broken due to things we have no control over. Yet, we need to keep doing what we should and what is simply right. We've made an extremely long way, and the struggle continues no matter what.

Thank you, NAFO Fellas!