Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
It is time again for an update of my 'Situation in the World' map. This map includes all wars, as well as (geo)political, social, and separatist conflicts. military alliances, border fences & more as of August 2023.
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If you're gonna listen to any speech about
#Ukraine
🇺🇦, let it be this one.
The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.
Dear Americans, while you were busy these past years living your lives people across the world were fighting against the same kind of state violence you're experiencing now and far worse.
Listen to their stories & their advice on how to deal with, survive, & overcome these times
Seriously! What the hell is this?
Whatever you think of
#Catalonia
I think we can all agree that this kind of violence is completely unprovoked and unjustified
Your story is not unique, in fact it has been played out countless times before in countries you probably wouldn't even be able to find on a map.
Learn from other movements in the world. Let their experiences educate you and help you put your own struggle in perspective
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: the Ukrainian mufti Said Ismagilov has taken off his religious clothing and put on a uniform as he has joined the defense forces of Ukraine.
The World Press Photo of the year is this photo by Ronaldo Schemidt of a Venezuelan protestors who caught fire after the fuel tank of a police motorcycle blew up.
In a way it's a metaphor for the whole situation in
#Venezuela
🇻🇪
One of the biggest PR achievements of the Houthis is that they fooled the international left in believing that a religious faction of feudalist warlords is actually part of the global struggle for progressive values.
Very concerning news. Marianna, the pregnant girl from
#Mariupol
, turns out to be one of the refugees that has been taken to
#Russia
in violation of the evacuation agreement.
There they put her in front of a camera and have her say there was no aerial attack on the hospital.
#Iran
: incredible footage from the city of
#Mahabad
where riot police are cheered on by the people as they refuse to crack down on anti-regime protests.
At 0:10 in the video you can see the woman in red drop to the ground as she was trying to take cover from the water cannon.
She is reportedly in critical condition with a bullet in the head.
#Myanmar
Never forget the
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
of 31 years ago. It was a day on which the Chinese military was send in to "restore order" following massive pro-democracy protests.
Bodies and bikes lay crushed in the streets around the square, run over by armoured vehicles
BREAKING:
#Armenia
🇦🇲 and
#Azerbaijan
🇦🇿 have agreed to sign a formal peace deal which includes an official delimitation of the border by the end of the year.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: this missile failed to explode as it was fired at
#Kharkiv
.
What's telling is that this missile is in the middle of a neighborhood, not a single military target around. Shows you the disregard to civilian life by the
#Kremlin
.
The only thing that is probably more despicable than bombing a clininc full of pregnant women is kidnapping a woman together with her newborn at gunpoint, and making her appear in your hostage video.
Probably one of the most interesting pictures of the Russian "elections" comes from the Central African Republic, where Wagner mercenaries line up outside the 🇷🇺 embassy in Bangui, faces covered and everything, to vote.
The total destruction of the
#Beirut
port will have devastating consequences for years to come. 80% of
#Lebanon
's grain supply came through this port into the country. The entire country is depended on this port for import
#Belarus
: unbelievable footage from
#Minsk
tonight. Protesters are fighting back against the police.
Belarusians have had enough of the
#Lukashenko
dictatorship
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 BREAKING: president
#Zelensky
confirms Russian invasion forces try to breach to
#Kyiv
through the
#Chernobyl
Exclusion zone, any indiscriminate shelling in this area could be disastrous for all of
#Europe
.
I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).
During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.
🧵:
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: at least two soldiers belonging to the Russian invasion force have been captured by Ukrainian soldiers around
#Kharkiv
.
It's photos like this that could make Russians back home question the war.
The more I think about it the more it disgusts me. It's no coincidence Marianna was one of the refugees taken to Russia, they had soldiers at the checkpoints scouting for her. She was a target from the moment her pictures went around the world.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: reports that a Russian military convoy was ambushed close to Hlukhiv in the
#Sumy
region. ukrainian soldiers targeted the vehicles with javelin missiles, inflicting some heavy damage.
Situation in
#HongKong
is becoming uglier by the day. Footage from several minutes ago shows a police motorcycle deliberately ramming protesters in the streets
Strong indication from this Fox News report that the IDF is moving guns around in order to "proof" that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital.
IDF video claims that "minutes ago" they found a single gun behind the MRI machine, same spot in the FOX report: two guns were added.
PREVIEW: Inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. We were shown weapons in the radiology building. We were not shown any tunnels. The raid is ongoing at this hour. Hundreds of Palestinians are still inside. I questioned the IDF about criticism over the operation. More airs tomorrow.
I can honestly say that in my ten years of following wars & atrocities on social media, I have never seen as many images of death and mutilated children on a daily bases, as I have these past two weeks.
Gaza is nothing short of a slaughterhouse.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: according to Telegram sources the Ukrainian government has established a Russian volunteer battalion, similar to the Belarusian battalions, made up of Russian nationals wishing to fight the
#Kremlin
.
The battalion has received Ukrainian uniforms with the ⚪🔵⚪ flag
It took nine months of siege, a short war, and the ethnic cleansing of 120K Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.
But the US Senate has finally voted to suspend American military aid to the regime of Azerbaijan.
#Moldova
🇲🇩 BREAKING: an attack took place on
#Chisinau
airport.
A Russian citizen who was denied entry into the country is reported to have grabbed the gun of a border guard and killed two people with it. He is now under arrest.
According to the official exit poll this is only 6,8% of
#Belarus
.
It's fair to say we just witnessed the most shameless case of electoral fraud in the modern history of
#Europe
And for those wondering if she is telling the truth, she is not. Kremlin propaganda is brutal but very inconsistent. They have her touch on all conspiracy theories surrounding thr hospital at ones, making the entire story totally illogical.
It's been six months since protests started in
#HongKong
and today an estimated 800.000 again took to the streets, calling on the government to meet their demands.
The pro-democracy movement of Hong Kong is showing no signs of slowing down
It looks like the Ukrainian military in Kharkiv has set its sight on the strategic railroad town of Kupyansk.
This is how the brave people of Kupyansk resisted the Russian invasion force, when it came to occupy the town in March.
Whoever has done this, the breaking of the Nova Kachovka dam has grave consequences for both 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺.
Over a dozen towns on both sides of the
#Dnipro
, including the city of
#Kherson
will now be flooded.
#Crimea
meanwhile just lost its most important irrigation canal.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: another drone video of the massive flooding as a consequence to the Nova Kachovka dam destruction.
Many towns, including the city of
#Kherson
are located downstream from here.
Look at the bravery of this woman!
She stands there, defiantly, waving the European flag. She will not move as the water cannon hits her again and again. Other join her, and they stand there together. They will not allow
#Georgia
🇬🇪 to turn into a dictatorship.
Anti-government protests are spreading and growing across
#Kazakhstan
🇰🇿 tonight.
Protests initially started in
#Zhanaozen
over a rise in fuel prices but are now taking place in several cities, including the former capital
#Almaty
.
#zhanaozen2022
04/06/1989, 24 years ago the people of China rose up against dictatorship and were massacred because of it.
Never forget the countless victims who paid the ultimate price for a free China, and with it a free Asia, and a democratic world.
-the hospital was used as a base by Ukrainian soldiers
-yet they probably bombed it themselves
-but it's okay, the attack wasn't big, therefore the AP pictures are dramatized propaganda.
She is able to admit there was an explosion om the maternity hospital, but remains very vague on what it could have been, leaving room for the interpretation the Ukrainians bombed it themselves, a lie pro-Kremlin actors have pushed from the very start.
Small update: other sources are stating Marianna is not in Russia but in separatist-occupied Donetsk, which in principal is just as much a violation.
The evacuation deal was for refugees form Mariupol to be allowed to go to Ukrainian-held territory, not to Russia or DNR/LNR.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 BREAKING: president-elect
@Tsihanouskaya
has announced the formation of a transitional government for
#Belarus
, in response to
#Lukashenko
's complicity in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hopefully democratic governments will rush to recognize her administration.
Lukashenka committed treason – he made our country a participant in the invasion of Ukraine. So I declared myself as the national leader of Belarus to protect the sovereignty & independence of our country, represent it in security negotiations & crisis management in the region.
#HongKong
: thousands gathered in Tamar Park in Admiralty tonight to commemorate 22 year old (Alex) Chow Tsz-lok who passed away earlier this week.
Chow died from injuries he got when a fell an entire floor down while reportedly being chased by police
#Ukraine
🇺🇦: Belarusian volunteers are participating in the defense of
#Kyiv
.
#Lukashenko
has made the territory of
#Belarus
complicit in the invasion, but Belarusians are making it clear they oppose the
#Kremlin
.
Iraqis are amazing people that deserve so much better than this, Iraq deserves better than this.
Thoughts are with the Iraqi people who once again face a war completely out of their control.