“Russian Warship, Go F*ck Yourself”
Year: 2023

The purpose of this chapter is to present and reflect on discursive themes about Ukraine and Russia using data from an archive of posts on social media in English, Russian, and Ukrainian collected since 24 February 2022. The social media posts fall into four main themes: (1) Ukrainian leadership as heroic and Russian leadership as villainous; (2) military and everyday Ukrainian civilians alike as heroic; (3) dispossession of life, health, and basic services; and (4) current and imagined reposses