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‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’: Ukrainians Celebrate Bridge Blast With Memes.


KYIV – Nearly every significant military gain for Ukraine’s interests in the war with Russia is met with jubilation from Ukrainians and their supporters, who flood social media with riots. celebratory memes.

The explosion on Saturday morning that damaged an important bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting the Crimean Peninsula with Russia was no exception.

The bridge is both practical and symbolic resonates because it is not only an important supply line for Russian forces in the south of the country but also a personal passion project for President Vladimir V. Putin.

Within hours of the explosion, several government agencies in Ukraine posted some kind of meme or joke on social media to celebrate it, to tease Mr. stand behind it.

Among them was Ukraine’s national rail service, which posted a photo on Twitter of the railway line of the Kerch Strait Bridge engulfed in flames. “No smoking on board!” the service tweeted, accompanying the message with a winking emoji.

Dozens of edited photos depict President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine grilling a barbecue over flames shooting from the bridge. Others rave about this moment by locate the characters in “Game of Thrones” along with pictures of the damage or by suggesting that traditional Russian birch bark sandals could be used as flippers to swim across the Kerch Strait.

Ukraine’s postal service quickly launched a stamp depicting the bridge in a scene from the movie “Titanic.” A Ukrainian bank – Monobank – has come up with a new image for their virtual mobile banking card, showing the destroyed surface of the Crimean bridge and burning train. By midday, it had been downloaded more than 300,000 times.

Oleksiy Danilov, head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, posted footage of the devastation along with a video of Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday to the President,” a reference to Putin’s birthday one day. days earlier.

The post has been liked and shared by tens of thousands of people.

Social media gleefully filmed other key moments since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February – including when Moscow, flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, was destroyed.

That ship was the main target of the Ukrainian military after it bombarded Snake Island, a Ukrainian territory in the Black Sea, at the start of the war. When the Moskva was sunk, a common joke among enemies of the Kremlin was that the ship had been turned into a submarine.

Social media messages have often provided a rallying point for Ukrainians since the Russian invasion, with tens of thousands of images spilling over Telegram channels and on other forums.

Memes also used to part of a massive fundraising effort for the Ukrainian sidestrengthens and promotes the public image of a country fortunate enough to have managed to fend off a superpower invasion.

Maria Varennikova and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn contribution report.

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