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Amid Russia’s invasion, many Ukrainians are turning to an unlikely source for comfort – tarot readings.
During a recent livestream, popular Ukrainian tarot reader Tetya Fanya started by pulling cards to answer a burning question in Kyiv — will Ukraine ever get coveted Tomahawk missiles from the US.
“Will Ukraine receive the Tomahawks?” she asks the 59,000 viewers who tuned into her YouTube livestream. “Let’s take a look … let’s see why Ukraine didn’t receive the famous Tomahawks.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made repeated pleas for the long-range missiles, arguing it’s the only thing that will scare Russian President Vladimir Putin into coming to the negotiating table and bring an end to his three-and-a-half-year invasion.
The Ukrainian leader went as far as saying he will nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he sends over the sought-after weapons.
They’re seen as a game-changer because they can reach targets as far as 1,500 miles away with precision, putting even Moscow easily within reach — and would “scare the s–t out of the Russians more than almost anything else we could do,” according to a senior US congressional aide.
In the video, Fanya pulls the knight of pentacles — a tarot card symbolizing achieving goals through slow and persistent work.
Ukraine has been asking for Tomahawks since the Biden administration, but his requests were repeatedly rebuffed. Zelensky started laying the groundwork with Trump during his presidential reelection campaign, his administration recently told reporters in Kyiv.
“It’s a long game,” says Fanya in the broadcast.
She then pulls two more cards — the page of pentacles and the five of pentacles — a good and a not so good card, as she hints the Tomahawks could be in a more distant future than Zelensky and some of his countrymen would like.
“The proponents of this weapon believe it is some kind of promising missile that can deter the enemy. There is an expectation that in the future — that is not now — it will be useful,” says Fanya.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, cleared selling Tomahawks to Ukraine, according to a report by CNN Friday — leaving the final decision to Trump.
Trump previously expressed concern about the potential for the weapons to escalate the war and said he wanted to “find out what they’re doing with them.”
Fanya’s videos have increasingly focused on questions about the war. Many have been from Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories.
“People really want to return home,” she told the Kyiv Independent.
