Museum Of War In Eastern Ukraine Gets Ready To Open

Curators are putting the finishing touches on exhibits at a new museum in Dnipro devoted to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The first exhibit to open is an outdoor display called "The Roads of Donbas," where streets signs point the way to the sites of major battles, littered with armored vehicles, ambulances, artillery, and other artifacts of war. The indoor part of the museum will open later this year.

 Road signs riddled with bullet holes mark the entrance to the open-air exhibit of the Museum of Civil Heroism. The project is funded by the regional authorities in Dnepro.

 Most of the objects on display have been brought to the museum from the Donbas region, where the conflict continues to smolder between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists

 The exhibit called “The Roads of Donbas” shows the names of major battles in chronological order.

 A damaged ambulance that transported wounded fighters has been turned into an art installation.

 A reconstructed Ukrainian army checkpoint

 A sign points the way to Donetsk.

 A sculpture by Volodymyr Raychenko titled “Gratitude”

 The gun from a tank, donated by the Ukrainian military

 An exhibit dedicated to the battle of Karlivka

 The ground is scattered with spent ammunition.

 A sign from the wartorn city of Pisky

 Shells collected by the military in Donbas

‘We'll Wash Away All The Black!’ -- Another Racist Russian Marketing Ploy Targets Obama

There was the cutting board sold in the central Russian city of Kazan depicting Barack Obama with the ears of a monkey.

There was the laser image projected onto a Moscow apartment building showing Obama eating a banana.

Now, to the growing list of public racism targeting the U.S. president, add this: a car wash located in the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.

The business is called Abama, which is close to the Russian pronunciation of Obama’s name. The banner on its façade over the entrance features a crudely drawn picture of Obama grimacing, along with the promise: “We Will Wash Away All The Black.”

A tweet from the spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow:

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In what appeared to be a reference to the erroneous Russian impression that the United States has provided weaponry to Ukraine in its fight against Russia-backed separatists, another said: “Obama deserves it in my opinion. A thousand of my countrymen have been killed by weapons he has supplied and sold.”

The United States has not provided lethal military equipment to Ukraine.