I am from Kyiv, Ukraine. My friends are killed, wounded , left home or have none because of russia. What Elon Musk is keeping saying on twitter is just sad and hurtful for all Ukrainians. I am sad to see people with power and followers decide to use it like that
Russia's Uralvogonzavod shuts down production. It will no longer be able to assemble any of T-72 tank (main RU tank) or newer T-90 & T-14 tanks (Armata). Reason: lack of imported components. It means more saved UA lives, is direct result of Western sanctions which should continue
February 24. Ukrainians are googling how to make Molotov cocktail.
September 21. Russians are googling how to leave the country and how to get out of the army.
That’s the difference.
This fella got into a tent with 26 soldiers, at night, somehow passed the man on a watch duty, climbed into a box with food, ate cheese, cookies, spilled sugar, coffee and fell asleep in that box. And that’s where they found him in the morning 🐕
📸, shared by:
@Fodorpalaezepa
Don’t feel sorry for us.
Fight with us.
Send warm blankets.Xmas presents for children. Or few bucks for gas tanks. go on protest. host a Ukrainian. Spread the news. Or just say a good word to those who need it.
But don’t feel sorry for us. this is your fight too.
So fight.
Russia started mobilization in occupied Crimea. 80% of ppl who received enlistment note are Crimean Tatars, native ppl of Crimean peninsula, journalist Sevgil Musaieva reports. “For 8 years Russia repressed Crimean Tatars, now decided to get rid of us this way”, says Musaieva.
While I was growing up, i sometimes met those who tried to make me feel small, weak, even unlucky(!) to be born as girl.
were times I believed it. Tried to prove myself.
then I grew up.
proud to be a girl❤️Even more proud to be a Ukrainian girl 🇺🇦
Cuz we fckng rock🔥✊
This day 2 yrs ago russians killed Maks Levin - Ukrainian reporter who dreamed to take a photo that’ll stop the war.
His body was found in a forest near Kyiv, with 3 bullets: after shooting him, russians fired 2 more: so much they hate us
Here are his 17 📸 you should see:
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my friends say twitter started restricting content related to Ukraine. Wasn’t paying special attention to it, but now it does feel a bit less. Have you noticed ?Do you see my tweets and of others’ who tweet about Ukraine as usual ? Thanks
This is Oleksandr and his son Yehor from
#Kherson
. They had a coffee place called Hot Cup - it turned 5 years old this October - but were forced to close all their 9 coffee shops in their hometown because of russia and leave for a safe place. Now they opened a cafe in Kyiv ☕️
🔥Ukrainian hackers made sure russia is listening to good music on Ukraine’s Independence Day : hacked cameras in russian cities and played Ukrainian national anthem🇺🇦
"The war is not both parts fault. It's russia invaded free country and wants to take part of its territories and that violates the international law. And we should defend international law. Because now it's Ukraine, tomorrow it could be us. It could be anyone"
President of Chile
My great-grandfather Mykola was tall and handsome man. When Soviets started Holodomor - they were taking food from Ukrainians, were starving us - Mykola got a job at grain warehouse. Every time he went to work, he put on boots with wide lapels and walked around the warehouse.
This day 1 year ago my former VOA colleague from time when I worked in US texted me. She asked me what I can say about Sasha Kuvshynova. I said she is smart and fun to work and be around with. I thought they wanted to offer her a job. Turned out they were writing her obituary
This is Stockholm metro now, central station. It says, in Swedish :
“February 24, 05:07
A year has passed today. I miss you, daddy ❤️
(message not delivered)”
💔
📸, shared by: Svitlana Musienko
When I woke up, Facebook decided to remind me of this photo. It might look like a usual selfie, but it’s not. This is us before russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. You can see it in our eyes. And this girl to my right is Sasha Kuvshynova, killed by russian missile in March.
Bilhorod (the real name of Belgorod ) was a Ukrainian city once - up until russian Bolsheviks army entered it in 1918 and in 1919 made it part of russia
Quick history thread 🧵
my beautiful winter Kyiv today ❄️ ❤️ this is famous spot for photos and selfies and I needed to wait while many people did theirs so I could do this vid. But this view is worth all of it, isn’t it?❤️
“I want to see Ukrainian and European flags over Crimea! I want to see Lenin Square being renamed as Europe square!” my friend from Simferopol says emotionally.
And so we’re drinking to that.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
My tweets are seems to be hidden again, so here is me, saying “Hi” to you from the news studio in Kyiv Mohyla Journalism School , and asking for a little boost 💙💛
just learned that my brother’s unit safely left Avdiivka
Yes, that Avdiivka
listen to this: all of his unit is ok, both Land Rover and van you guys helped us get for them - are intact!
Your help literally saves lives❤️🩹.
“Chassis will need some fixing tho” Misha laughed
❤️🩹
This is Liliya, in Norway, packing warm clothes to send to
#Kherson
villages liberated by UAF(in Norway it's free to send parcels to Ukraine! so cool! right?)So if you're in Norway,have warm clothes you don't need and wanna help,let me know - i'll connect you.Thnx♥️Pls retweet♥️
Fuuuuck
russia just played us all
See how we all talk about it and it’s making breaking news in west media and everyone already forgot russia hit Dnipro hydro power plant today ?
Neat.
🔥So it seems that twitter is hiding my tweets a bit again - so here is me with fire in moscow on background saying pryvit to you and asking for a small boost 🔥✊Diakuiu!
a Kyivan carrying shepherd dog on shoulders for 17 km while evacuating because she was too old to walk by herself such a long distance. her name is Kulia.
March 2022.
📸 via "Kyiv zaraz" Telegram channel
I can’t fckng believe it
This piece is so disrespectful to every Ukrainian I wanna puke.
Stop making victims out of russians. Especially - for god’s sake - russia soldiers. This Alexei is killing Ukrainians and NYT is making his mom a martyr
NYT is a fckng joke
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Ukrainian men: sending their families abroad to make sure they are safe, and staying in Ukraine or even coming back to Ukraine, if they were abroad before that
russian men: fleeing, and many are leaving their loved ones behind in russia
That’s the difference.
Remember I told you smth really good for Ukraine and bad for russia might happen soon? Well, got updates today (not final, so still can’t share details) that it’s moving forward bit by bit(& it’s even more awesome than I thought, so can’t help it, need to share).
Fingers crossed!
🍉Ukrainian farmers from Kherson region area, liberated from russian army, are planning to get 6,000 tons of watermelons for the 2023 harvest🍉
photo, source: MOST Kherson
⚡️BREAKING: 20 days in Mariupol wins BAFTA !
director Mstyslav Chernov after winning :
“Another city [ Avdiivka ] just got occupied by russia so it’s most important than ever to keep talking about this. I hope the world never forgets that.”
“This is for people of Mariupol.”
🔥Ukraine’s Air Force have already destroyed 6 russian air targets today: 2 russian Su-25 attack aircraft, a Ka-52 helicopter, 2 Kh-59 missiles and an Orlan drone
And the day is not even over yet😈
"Russians are stealing from humanitarian convoy heading to Mariupol - at each checkpoint they forcibly seized food, clothing, personal hygiene items"
- Oleksandr Starukh, head of Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration
you might’ve noticed I write russia and russian with small “r” . It is not a mistype but on purpose. capital letter is sign of respect and pride - and russia lost what was left of it when started killing my people .
Vladivostok today. This time it’s confectionery factory burning. Fire covered an area of more than 2000 square meters.
russians screwed up so hard this year that Santa is not only not bringing them candies - he is burning the ones they already had.
This is Kyiv today, after russian attack. People lived here. Drank coffee. Laughed and loved. Before russia came.
"My granddaughter called me and screamed: "Grandma, our house is on fire! There was a missile hit, mom is under rubble, she’s unconscious!”⬇️
so Elon Musk said he refused Ukrain’e request to activate Starlink in Crimea all the way to Sevastopol because it’d make “SpaceX .. complicit in.. military act and escalation”
But he must surely realise this actually makes him what he feared - complicit - since it helped russia?
This is Oleksandra. She is 6. She lost her leg in russian missile attack on Zatoka village, near Odesa. In summer 2022 she went to Austria for rehabilitation, in October she got her prosthesis and began learning to walk again and now is getting back to gymnastics training💪🔥
I want to thank you all for your continued support for Ukraine✊🔥this platform became a tough place to uncover evil russia is doing. Many are shadow banned. it takes team effort to be seen.
But when we are seen, isn’t it feels great to know it’s because of our team effort?❤️🩹🔥
Austria Minister of Defense thinks that greatest danger is if “war spread to Europe”.
I feel nauseous.
greatest danger to me is that more of my people might be killed, that my whole world might be destroyed by russia.
But all ok while “war doesn’t spill over Ukraine”, right?
Hey fellas! my tweets are hidden again so this is me on a photo from a previous life, celebrating my Birthday in New York, saying “Hi” to you all and asking for a small boost ❤️
“We’re not monsters. We’re humans” says russia soldier with Z on his vest -
sign under which russians have been killing, raping, torturing, Ukrainians
Good job ABC. Let’s humanise monsters
Shame you can’t ask Nazi soldiers in WWII the same while they’re packing gas chambers
🔥If you gonna read only one tweet today, let it be this one. This is Evangelina from Kherson. And she has just won the open ring of Muay Thai boxing🥊
It took place in Odesa were russia hit the Trasnfiguration Cathedral just 5 days prior.
because fkcyourussia that's why ✊🔥
This is Lesia Ukrainka - one of the most famous Ukrainians. Known for her poems, her fight for Ukraine and active political and feminist position
“who frees oneself, will be free”
her words became slogan of Maidan protests in Kyiv
Her story is crucial to understand Ukraine
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I’m not used to share so much of my personal life so publicly. But I am doing it for a cause : to show you how it feels to live in Kyiv, Ukraine, during war. How it feels to be a Ukrainian right now, wherever life takes us.
Thank you for reading and listening.
And talks in Ukraine today are all about why there is no reaction in the world
People feel left alone
I don’t mean you my dear readers - we feel your individual support very much
But it does feel on a government level counties just don’t care
This is the center of my beautiful Kyiv today. My gorgeous city center. Red building is famous Shevchenko’s National University founded in 1834, on the left - gorgeous park all Kyivans hang out at, have coffee, drinks, dates. I’m crying when I look at these photos.
And I am angry
I also feel resolve, rage and hate: towards all those who have tried to kill my family then. To those who are trying to kill us now. Out of fear. Out of envy.
Because they knew they’d never be able to put on my grandpa’s boots.
While in Ukraine, we all have a pair like that.
💃Being a Ukrainian woman on twitter be like ⬇️
This is what morning started with. And with your
#NAFOfellas
kind and worried messages. I was so touched to see you sharing and encouraging to report it❤️Thanks to you it’s down now. Thank you for having my back🥹❤️🩹
#NAFOworks
🔥❤️Sharing good news with you all! Another 100 Ukrainian defenders - 80 men and 20 women - came home from russian captivity! They are defenders of Mariupol, Azovstal, Hostomel, Bakhmut and Snake Island.
📸, source: Grnt media, Suspilne, Coordination HQ for the POW Treatment
“Defiance” “pounded by Ukraine”? wtf ffs NYT ?! You forgot who pounds who?
I’ve never been so disappointed in a foreign media which I thought was the one to look up to when I was growing up
This twosidism is killing what is left of journalism
When I write this, I feel warmth and pride.
Grandpa, thank you.
Grandpa, look, we're all here.
We are here. We have something to eat, grandpa.
We are here, thanks to you, grandpa.
I am here, thanks to you.
Thank you, grandpa.
all those who are worried about “dehumanising” russian soldiers while they are killing Ukrainians - this is for you
“A 83-year-old woman described how she was raped by a russian serviceman in front of her physically disabled husband.”⬇️
Sanctions against Russia should stay in place even after de-occupation of Ukraine territories, until russia recognizes independence, sovereignty and internationally recognized territories of Ukraine and pays money for reconstruction.
- head of Latvian MFA Edgars Rinkevičs
Some presents for orcs my brother Misha just sent, with best wishes from Canada 🔥 thnx for your kind donation !
if you want your text on a mine - more ⬇️
moscow was attacked by drones this morning.
Yes, I am not making this up.
Yes, I feel better.
Yes, I don’t care if you think I’m a terrible person - i care only for russia getting out of my home, returning people and kids they kidnapped and paying for all the evil they did
❗️Please don’t share info about Ukraine’s counteroffensive. I know it might be tempting, but please don’t. It might hurt the counter offensive. It might hurt real people. You will be able to share all you want after it starts.
So please wait, like all of us.
Thank you.
I cried when I saw this. I’m still in tears while writing this. This is Slov’iansk after russian attack yesterday.
Just look at this kid on first photo. Just look at the man on that destroyed floor. This is what russia brings.
📸 Anatolii Stepanov, Source: Grnt media, Suspilne
This is me toasting to russian propaganda channel "Russia Today" closing its channel in France. "RT France" stopped its activities due to the freezing of bank assets, it is reported.
Party everybody 💃🏻