
Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking-in Tokyo-David Sedaris's sixth collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing. Sedaris proceeds from the bizarre conundrums of daily life-the proper etiquette to follow when a lozenge falls from your mouth into the lap of a fellow airplane passenger or how to use LP covers to soundproof your windows against neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. In the attacks, buildings were hit by missiles in Uman, in the Cherkasy region.įollowing the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Kyiv's allies to provide better air defenses, including fighter jets "to provide security to our cities, our villages, both in the rear and on the front lines.Audiobook Excerpt from WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMESĭavid Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of essays. It comes a day after Russian missiles hit residential areas in Ukraine which authorities said have killed 25 people. "Is this the official start of Ukraine's spring counteroffensive to liberate Crimea from Russian fascists?" tweeted Igor Sushko, a Ukrainian racing car driver. "Nothing brings me more pleasure on the weekend morning than burning accidents at Russian occupiers' bases in temporarily occupied Crimea.


"The Ukrainian nights can be a bit chilly in the Springtime, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine generously helped the Russian invaders get warmed in the occupied Sevastopol," tweeted Operation Starsky, the account of a Ukrainian national guardsman. Ukraine's armed forces, which Newsweek has contacted, have not commented on the latest blaze, but Ukrainian social media users reveled in the reported strike. Ukraine has repeatedly said it intended to recapture the peninsula as part of its aims to fight against Russian aggression.

Over the last six months, there have been regular reports of fires and attacks on the Russian-occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, its largest city and the main naval base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Two more videoa from Russian occupied Sevastopol: the Russian sources claim that an UAV attacked an oil depot in Kozacha Bay /lernAAl6P3- Giorgi Revishvili April 29, 2023
