In the video above, Irina Maniukhina, a professional pianist in Bila Tserkva, a town 80 km (50 miles) south of Kyiv, said goodbye to her home by playing her piano before fleeing from further attacks.
I can’t blame her — if it were me, I’d also play it one last time, too. Her playing is quite good, and she’s not playing easy pieces, either.
A bomb had landed about 10 meters (about 30 feet) from the house, which was still standing but strewn with debris. With the notable exception of one of its “G” keys, the piano seems undamaged and only a little scuffed.
(It should be noted that Chopin fled Poland shortly before the November Uprising, a rebellion against the Imperial Russia.)
Her daughter Karina recorded the video and shared it on TikTok, where she captioned it with “Do not judge, my mother is a professional pianist and decided to play to let go of this case.”
As her mother played, Karina walked through the house to record the destruction. Here are some stills from that portion of the video:
Today is March 14th, which is referred to in the North American sector of the internet as “Pi Day”, since the date can be expressed as 3/14 in U.S. calendar notation. Since the Greek letter π is pronounced like “pie” in English, it’s become an informal tradition to celebrate the day by eating pie.
Note the terrible slices taken from the pies in this post’s photos. There’s a lesson in them, as shown below:
Here’s the text from the second photo:
This should be easy to understand how freedoms work
This person took his part, but it affected others negatively. He exercise his freedom, but with an injustice to others. Freedoms can’t be exercised as every individual wants without looking at injustices to others. Justice disappears when you harm others. An example of bad exercise of individual freedom.
Мы живы! Люди, остановите войну! Российская армия продолжает бомбить мирное население Украины! #stopwar #ukraine#uaразом#kharkov мой город
Translation (courtesy of Google Translate):
We are alive! People, stop the war! The Russian army continues to bomb the civilian population of Ukraine! #stopwar
#ukraine # uarazom #kharkov my city
I’ll close with a couple more photos. Click them to see the originals:
For your edification, here’s a selection of links that illustrate Trump’s being a Putin fanboy, the Republican Party’s and alt-right’s fandom of Russia, and of course, how it all relates to the current situation in Ukraine.
“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine…I do care about the fact that in my community right now the leading cause of death among 18-45 year olds is Mexican fentanyl that’s coming across the southern border.” – @JDVance1#OHSenpic.twitter.com/nf6MUzdWM5
Люди, остановите войну! Российская армия продолжает бомбить мирное население Украины! 
