I don’t know Richard, and I don’t follow the details of the Frontline Kit situation closely enough to have an opinion on that dispute. But I am fucking tired of watching people casually throw accusations at Ukrainian servicewomen. May I bloody remind you @AprilHuggett is an active servicewoman in 93rd brigade!! This woman is actively serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces!! You can disagree with her. You can question her. You can criticise what she says or does! But accusing someone of collaborating with the enemy is a fucking serious allegation, especially in Ukraine, during a war. If you have actual evidence of collaboration, produce it. If you don’t, maybe stop making extraordinarily serious accusations against Ukrainian soldiers for fucking internet points. I’m honestly sick and tired seeing people constantly attack our servicewomen!!! People on here really need to stop talking out of their asses only because they don’t like someone for some reason! These are very loud claims, especially to be thrown around like that at our bloody servicewoman!!! Collaboration is literally a criminal offence in Ukraine!! You’re publicly accusing serving Ukrainian soldier of a crime!! These are not fucking Twitter insults!!

Maybe this needs to be said again because apparently in 2026 people still think going to ruzzia is somehow just “travelling to another country”, and that if you haven’t done anything wrong then nothing will happen to you. It is not. And if you have ever served in the Estonian Defence Forces, Kaitseliit, worked around defence, security, Ukraine, NATO or basically anything else that could make you even slightly interesting to ruzzian intelligence, then going there is an absolutely insane risk to take. The story of Estonian citizen Artur Kirmjõe should be a pretty brutal reminder of that. He is a former professional soldier who served for years in the Scouts Battalion, he went to ruzzia because his ruzzian wife could not live in Estonia and eventually they married there, and according to Delfi his lawyers had actually warned during the earlier court proceedings that because of his military background, travelling to ruzzia could put him in real danger. PPA argued at the time that this danger was not considered credible. Then in April 2026 FSB came to their home and arrested him. A few months later an FSB video appeared where he is “confessing” that he wanted to join the Ukrainian military and fight against ruzzia, and maybe I have spent too much time in Ukraine and seen too much ruzzian propaganda by now, but I cannot look at a detained person sitting in front of an FSB camera, apparently reading a prepared confession, and treat it like some normal voluntary interview when none of us has any idea what happened before that camera was switched on, what was said to him or what he was threatened with. I genuinely feel horrible for him and his family, and I understand that love and family can make people take risks which probably make absolutely no sense to everyone else, but going to ruzzia as a former Estonian professional soldier was still an unbelievably stupid risk, because FSB does not suddenly forget your entire background just because there is now an “ex” in front of soldier. You still served, you still have military training and contacts, and even your phone contains years of messages, photos and connections which FSB can suddenly decide are interesting. This is why “but I haven’t done anything wrong” means very little once you cross that border, because it is no longer you deciding what is innocent or suspicious. I really hope Artur gets home, and Estonia also has some uncomfortable questions to answer considering the exact danger his lawyers warned about eventually became reality, but I hope somebody with a similar background reads this before thinking that one little trip to ruzzia will probably be fine. You can cross that border ten times without a problem and still get arrested on number eleven, and finding out you calculated that risk wrong can mean you simply don’t come home. Original: delfi.ee/artikkel/120612495/…

Sometimes I genuinely think people need to learn the art of just shutting up. Or maybe “being quiet” sounds nicer, but you know what I mean. Not every situation needs our opinion, not every stupid thing we see needs a reaction, not every argument needs another person jumping into it and not every piece of drama happening somewhere around us needs to become our drama too. And yes, I know I am probably not the best person to give advice about this because I am emotional as hell myself, I react fast and I have opinions about almost everything. There have definitely been enough moments in my life where saying absolutely nothing would have been the smarter choice. But I am actually trying to learn it, and lately I notice myself doing it more and more. Almost every day I see something where my first reaction is still “oh for fuck’s sake, I have something to say about this…” Sometimes I even start typing and then somewhere in the middle I stop and think… naaah. Is this actually worth my energy? Do I really need to get involved? Will anything become better because I add my opinion here, or am I just voluntarily inviting somebody else’s chaos into my own day? And surprisingly often the answer is no. You can see something, understand perfectly well what is happening, have a very strong opinion about it and still decide you don’t need to say it out loud. You don’t have to join every argument, explain yourself every time somebody misunderstands you, correct every idiot on the internet or defend yourself against people who have already decided what they want to believe anyway. There is actually something very peaceful about reaching the point where you can look at some situations and just think “yeah… absolutely not my circus today” and continue with your life. I am definitely still learning this because my mouth and emotions sometimes work considerably faster than my brain, but I think I am finally starting to understand that sometimes protecting your peace is really just knowing when to shut up, put the phone down and let whatever noise is happening continue without you.

So my Forgotten Land of Oz book will be available in print on Amazon soon. Which is exciting. Eventually, if I don't die during the war, I'll settle into being an author. I want that life, but not as much as I want Freedom and Peace for Ukraine. So I give up one dream for a nation's dream.