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Ukrainian killjoy ▪️ @ukrlondonreview editor ▪️ @PenUkraine member ▪️ words in @nytimes , @cnn , @guardian et al ▪️ @index_ukraine enthusiast ▪️ views all mine

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My @nytimes essay on high-stakes storytelling acrobatics Ukrainians must perform to keep the world invested in their existential fight now comes with a 5-star recommendation from a friend defending us all from Russia’s genocidal onslaught in Avdiivka.
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My parents have been driving to Lviv from the east since 6 am. The roads are jammed. My father is 63. They have a 4-yo child in the car. Pray for them if you can.
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Crossed the border with a girl with the Mariupol tattoo. She spent 21 days in the city under siege, cooking food over an open fire and under the Russian bombs. A jazz singer, a fitness instructor, and another absolute hero. I wish Ukrainians never had to show this much heroism.
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Defender of Ukraine, activist, person with a cosmic sense of humour and integrity, hopefully a future president o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶n̶e̶t̶ @OlehSymoroz has been @twitter -banned for not liking the invaders of his homeland much. Restore his account, make this platform make sense!
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Everyone in Ukraine is exhausted: physically, mentally, financially. Nobody is prepared to give up. It’s high time for us in the safety of the west to double our efforts, our support, our advocacy. It’s darkest before the dawn, and it’s still our job to end this nightmare.
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My mum is in Berlin, protesting Germany’s moral bankruptcy for which Ukraine is expected to pay with human lives. #FreeTheLeopards
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8 yrs ago I witnessed the shooting of protesters in central Kyiv by the police in broad daylight. At night I helped youngsters with burns from Maidan in the hospital. We really pissed off Putin by refusing to give up. Ukrainians’ve stood their ground then & will continue doing so
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This kitchen is making 18k hot meals per day for the army, hospitals, IDPs. Ukraine is love.
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Europeans prefer to give sandwiches to refugees rather than weapons to the Ukrainian army. But it’s not sandwiches, hygiene products, or words of support that Ukraine needs to defend its people from being slaughtered & raped by Russians. Give us jets & tanks.Write to your MP now.
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Ukrainian flags *are* at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin. Все буде Україна.
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A Ukrainian war surgeon (& a friend’s friend) performing 60 lifesaving surgeries weekly on wounded soldiers is currently in the UK for a few-days course at Sussex Uni. Could Brighton folks please host him for one night tomorrow (Tuesday)? He needs somewhere to crash.
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85 years ago the Soviets executed Ukrainian cultural renaissance at the Sandarmokh killing site. Among those shot was the pioneering theatre maker Les Kurbas. There's an expression of wonder in many of his photos, including the last one. How much beauty and talent we've lost.
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Losing count of IDPs I’m sheltering in Lviv. My cousin & aunt are in a bomb shelter in Zaporizhzhia. I’m drinking my morning coffee to the sound of sirens. All I feel is pride in this country. From soldiers to radio hosts & young mothers, Ukrainians, you are heroes & I love you.
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A village after village in eastern Ukraine is erased by the Russian invasion. Houses are burnt with phosphorus. Fertile black soil fields are mined. Pine forests are covered in mass graves of murdered civilians. A generation of Ukrainians won’t rest until justice is served.
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Maksym Kryvtsov was a wonderful poet and Ukrainian defender. He was killed today defending us from erasure. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. And we will never forget.
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10+ escapees from Mariupol in my phone: those who've just got to Lviv sound upbeat, can't stop talking, the adrenaline still keeps them afloat; those who've been here longer are destroyed. All of them need to believe that the evil will be punished. We keep collecting testimonies.
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Being represented by these halfwits is peak academia. I cancelled my @ucu membership and call on fellow academics to do the same in solidarity with Ukraine. Do better. I hear there are other unions across the road, maybe they would even object to Russia's slaughter of my people.
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A hideous scene from UCU Congress earlier today. A Ukrainian victory would mean "subjugation and oppression" by "American imperialism". "The main enemy is at home!" The UCU backs the "Stop the War Coalition". It wants Ukraine to be left defenceless. Foul.
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2 years
Give Zelensky’s speechwriters a Pulitzer.
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“Freedom must be armed better than tyranny.” Zelenskyy #SlavaUkraini
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Bomb shelter standup is a burgeoning entertainment genre in Ukraine. You’d never believe how hard we laugh. In bomb shelters.
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Russians hit Lviv, one of the safest places in Ukraine, with a rocket tonight. I was 2 km away from the site. The walls in the bathroom where I was hiding shook from the explosion. 4 dead, the death toll will probably rise. Meanwhile Russians on the www worry about cancel culture
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By killing our poets, ru are removing potent witnesses of their crimes. Poets don’t rely on specific material resources to produce their testimony. Their words are their tools. Their effect is immediate. We can’t let the horror Maksym Kryvtsov captured in his poetry go unpunished
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Maksym Kryvtsov was a wonderful poet and Ukrainian defender. He was killed today defending us from erasure. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. And we will never forget.
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A shameful truth is that I don’t care about things I used to care about a great deal. What matters is people and landscapes that russians are taking away from me every day. Fields around Zaporizhzhia are burning and my city is full of Mariupol kids whose parents are dead.
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In Lviv, you try to brush off some sand from your phone screen and realise the sand comes from the mass graves in the pine forest of Izium where the occupying Russian army buried your fellow Ukrainians, civilians and POWs, in 450 graves. On my phone, on my teeth, under my skin.
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Zaporizhzhia, my hometown, is bombed by Russians almost every day now. Tonight they hit civilian housing and infrastructure at least 5 times. The roof of our family friends’ house was blown off by the shock wave from the explosion. Russia as we know it must cease to exist.
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Russians are digging trenches and mining the area around Kamyana Mohyla, an archaeological site with Stone Age petroglyphs. Glad I visited last summer. Take that moody pic in your favourite spot when you can, you never know when an invading army will come to destroy it.
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On Ukraine’s Day of Unity, two names are on my mind. Serhiy Nihoyan, the first killed participant of the Revolution of Dignity. It’s his death day. Maksym Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet and defender killed 2 weeks ago. It’s his birthday. The price Ukraine pays for the right to exist.
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Claim to fame: we interviewed the hard-working and courageous @RabbiUkraine yesterday. “We, Jewish people, survived the tragedy of the Holocaust not in order to sit still while another genocide is being perpetrated by Russians in Ukraine”.
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2 years
In the occupied Kherson region, Russians make Ukrainian convicts dig trenches and shoot them in case of insubordination; the occupiers casually through grenades into cellars where Ukrainians hide: things you learn in trains from Ukrainian refugees, in Europe, in 2022.
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Only one of my grandparents was Ukrainian. I come from a Russian-speaking family in a Russian-speaking region. I'm pretty much a Ukrainian by choice. And I am so proud to have made this choice. Слава Україні.💙💛
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9 months
If you are a paid subscriber, please consider unsubscribing from @NewStatesman . This paper’s struggle to accommodate the basic idea that Ukrainians are human is not to be commended.
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“Russian is my mother tongue and liberation means ripping it out of my throat”. Thank you @newlinesmag for publishing my new piece “Mother Tongue”.
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2 years
Could someone connect me to German volunteers who deliver medical supplies to Ukraine? Driving from Berlin to Lviv on Thursday, unwilling to run a half-empty car. Can collect stuff in Berlin/Potsdam today. Haven’t done these logistics yet, will be grateful for pointers.
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On our knees, we said goodbye to Victoria Amelina. What can we do but make those who killed her crumble under the weight of her coffin. Photo by @Maksym_Sytnikov
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Orthodox Ukrainians would normally celebrate Easter today but most of them are too busy hiding from bombs, delivering aid, and fighting for their right to breathe. If Easter celebrates the triumph of life over death, Ukrainians are too busy living the concept. Слава Україні.
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1 year
I’m done teaching in the UK and off to teach in Ukraine! Can’t wait for my 40-hr journey home! Like this news? Help 30 brigade fighting near Bakhmut buy a car. Don’t like this news? Help 30 brigade buy a car. Don’t care? Buy a car! Thank you!
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My cousin is a restoration artist at the Museum of Zaporizhzhia Cossack History. She’s refused to leave her hometown. Yesterday she sent me a pic of herself holding a gun. I wish I could stand between her and anyone who would make her use it. I can’t. But you can. #ClosetheSky
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I’ll remember Victoria Amelina wearing a t-shirt “book is my superpower” in front of quiet children in Sloviansk and trying to make them smile. She managed to, of course. Her life was a gift. Russians killed a writer, a war crimes researcher, a great soul
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On Maidan, I mostly felt confused, angry, and scared. But it was the turning point of my life. I became a citizen, I met my fellow citizens, we acted against tyranny, and we found freedom. In 10 years that followed, Ukrainians paid the highest price for guarding this treasure.
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As a queer person, just putting it out there: ru queers and ru straights are both responsible for the ru genocide of Ukrainians. Thanks bye. 🧚🏻
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Happy anniversary month of the Revolution of Dignity which started as EuroMaidan in November 2013. Ukrainian corrupt president betrayed the country’s European aspirations and turned to Moscow. We protested. We were shot at. But we won. We’ll win again.
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Despite the ongoing war, Ukraine demonstrated resolve in making substantial progress in creating a powerful reform dynamic. We recommend that the @EUCouncil opens accession negotiations with Ukraine.
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Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station and dam in Zaporizhzhia mean more to me than half of the world combined. Tonight ru bombed it,also destroying 7 residential buildings and damaging 35. If you are a US citizen, call your legal representative and argue for military aid for Ukraine
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1 year
Our intervention at the pro-genocide STW rally went well. We stole the publicity and stated loud and clear that #RussiaIsATerroristState Arm Ukraine to Stop Russia’s Imperialist War! @PeterTatchell @BlackerUilleam @an_oliinyk @YPYurchenko @UkraineSol @ukraine_hub
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10 months
I’ve found this contract at the bottom of my suitcase, dated 24 Feb 2022. On the 1st day of the full-scale invasion, I rented a flat in Lviv from a serviceman to house people who were fleeing from the ru army in the south and east of Ukraine. He gave me the keys and went to war.
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"Western intellectuals are looking for good Russians to ‘save’ from bad Russia – perhaps because ‘saving’ Ukrainian artists is much more difficult". I want you to remember the words of Victoria Amelina every time you consider platforming Russians.
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Cancel culture vs. execute culture: Why Russian manuscripts don’t burn, but Ukrainian manuscripts...

Rather than debating what to do with Russian culture, western intellectuals need to talk about how to prevent another Executed Renaissance. For Ukrainians, the Soviet-Russian purge of their national...

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I wrote about Ukrainian libraries after a trip to the Donetsk region in April. There I met Victoria Amelina. Since then, she has been killed by a ru missile, 200 more objects of 🇺🇦 cultural infrastructure have been damaged by ru, & my piece is still unpublished because who cares.
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2 years
Have just arrived in Germany. My mother is growing onions on her windowsill in a dormitory. You can kick a woman out of Ukraine but you can't kick Ukraine out of a woman.
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1 year
This is the last war of Russia. Carthago delenda est. Thank you everyone who came to the Kyiv Road in London tonight to stand with Ukraine. @ukraine_hub 💙💛
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On the day of the Ukrainian Air Force, listening to the classical choir in the 11c St Sophia Cathedral, with the Virgin Orans of Kyiv extending her arms over us, all I can think of is, “thank you for holding the sky”.
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When you talk for 3,5 hours without exhausting the list of things to talk about and with some plans to keep talking - but in public. ✨ 💫 Finally met the glorious @terrelljstarr in person in Lviv!
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A Ukrainian writer donates all of his prestigious national award money to Ukrainian defence charities while Ukrainian IT community raises 30,000,000 (that’s 30 mln) for a multipurpose drone in 1 day. It’s an OK behaviour when your people are fighting against a genocidal invasion.
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Iryna Slavinska
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Wow! Mykola Raibchuk gave all 400.000 UAH of his Shevchenko Prize 2022 for charity. Bigger part goes to @BackAndAlive !!!
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It’s particularly heartwarming to see my favourite road sign from the Lviv region today. We said, ‘russian war ship, go fuck yourself’, and it obliged. 💙💛
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Russian propaganda belongs i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶i̶n̶ on a Russian propaganda shelf. Excited to clear the Ukrainian library section of this trash.
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#otd 2014 putin announced a 'humanitarian corridor for trapped Ukrainian soldiers' to leave the besieged 🇺🇦 city of Ilovaisk. Then ru troops opened fire at the column, killing 366, wounding 429, capturing 300 🇺🇦 fighters. I wonder why 🇺🇦 aren't into deals with ru since then.
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The State Emergency Service of Ukraine - who have been putting out the fires of the Russian aggression every day of this war - have an inscription on their building in Kyiv: “When the Kremlin burns, call us. We wanna watch”. And it’s beautiful.
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My native Zaporizhzhia signs the national anthem of Ukraine from the balconies in total darkness this New Year’s Eve as Ukrainian air defence downs 45 Iranian drones sent by Russia to terrorise my country. Stand with Ukraine in 2023. Send guns. Have courage.
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1 year
Having muted hordes of guilt-tripping/genocide-denying/west-splaining dudes, I’m again able to calmly use this platform as god intended: to unobtrusively check if Ukrainians I follow here have survived the most recent Russian air raid. Kudos!
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The testimony of one #Hostomel survivor translated and read by @daisy_gibbons_ at 10 Downing Street, London. “In our time in the basement we grew fewer and fewer. One woman died. We buried her in the yard whilst under fire…” The chronicles of a European war. #StopRussiaNow
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Seasonal greetings from Lviv! Let us all wake up in a better world bez rusni. 💙 🌟
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Why am I supposed to care what Snyder ate while explaining the FT journalist that the war against Ukraine is waged by hordes of Russians who are not called V. Putin? Middle-class fixations will forever remain a mystery for me.
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Historian Tim Snyder: ‘Our misreading of Russia is deep. Very deep’

The Yale professor on why the west got Putin wrong — and what the past tells us about the war in Ukraine

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1 year
The sky over Kyiv at night is full of diamonds. I’ve not seen so many stars since childhood on the Sea of Azov. Thanks to the russian-terrorism-sponsored blackouts for bringing us closer to eternity.
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10 months
Thanks for bringing us this intimate exploration of how to love your country as it commits a genocide @penguinpress 💖 something was missing from my reading experience as I mourned whole Ukrainian cities erased by the author’s beloved homeland, and you put your finger on it! 💫✨
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An intimate portrait of Russia, and a passionate cri de cœur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn. I Love Russia by @mirrorsbreath , coming October 17th.⁠ ⁠ “Sharp-edged . . . a vivid and poignant account.” — @PublishersWkly (starred)
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The use of chemical weapon was the question of time, during which civilians kept dying under the russian occupation, Ukrainian defenders weren't getting things they asked for, the west kept congratulating itself on sending more soap to Ukraine while paying for russian oil & gas.
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There’s a problem with our reporting: when Ukrainians are doing something on their own without our help, we don’t write about it (eg: clearing the ru blockade in the Black Sea which means millions of people won’t starve in 2024). @TimothyDSnyder at @IWM_Vienna .
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I couldn’t imagine that living through a war in the 21 century would mean being notified of the enemy’s strategic bombers taking off, calculating that the missiles would reach you at ~3 am, and going to bed in order to catch a few hours of sleep before the bombing. Good night!
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2 years
To Russian citizens who are “ashamed” of their government: your shame is not enough. You have to be in the ready-to-throw-yourself-at-the-tanks state of despair.
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Blowing up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant would put the rich black soil of southern Ukraine which feeds the world in a new exclusion zone. If people don’t care about Ukrainian lives, perhaps they should think about world hunger idk. #RussiaIsATerroristState
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ArianaGic/Аріянॳць
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1 year
"Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, imperilling drinking water, agricultural production & safety at Europe's largest nuclear plant. Satellite data shows that the water level at the reservoir has plummeted to its lowest point in 3 decades."
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
1 year
The road to Dnipro. The store where we used to buy groceries. The houses where athletes my father used to train live Zaporizhzhia is hit by Russians today We can’t let Russians participate in the Olympics or any international events for that matter #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
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“Not that of the people of Ukraine – they had no choice but to be brave. It was the leaders of what is known as the free world who needed to be braver to put an end to this war. A real end”. A must read by @OKhromeychuk for @guardian :
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‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us

The long read: Everyone likes to support an underdog, especially if it’s winning. But it’s one thing to win a battle, it’s quite another to win the war. And Ukraine cannot win without international...

www.theguardian.com
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
1 year
Victoria Amelina is at the heart of our community. This is a personal hit for many of us. As @PenUkraine statement reads, victims await justice; prisoners await war criminals. And Russia must cease to exist.
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Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina critically injured in Kramatorsk strike

Novelist confirmed to be among at least 60 injured in Russian attack on restaurant that killed 12

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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
The car queue to enter Ukraine from Poland is 6,5 km long.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
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1 year
You are currently a western spectator cheering on the Russian genocide of Ukrainians, Yanis. The only honourable thing to do is arming Ukraine so that we bring an end to the slaughter of our people sooner and use long-range weapons as deterrent against Russia’s next invasion.
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There is no doubt that Ukraine has the right to fight off an invading army. What I find sickening is Western spectators cheering on an endless bloodbath along slowly moving trenches out of which only death, devastation and losers will emerge. When will civilised people stand up
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2 children books by 2 Ukrainian writers killed by Russia, Victoria Amelina and Volodymyr Vakulenko. Russians are driven by the wish to deprive us of the future. But we are destined to have one thanks to all the things that drive us: love, pain, memory, responsibility, justice.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
An Englishman who thought Lviv was near Chornobyl explained Ukraine to me yesterday. Meanwhile, my friend in Kyiv is shopping for a sapper shovel in case she has to dig herself out of a bomb shelter. Can't help but feel that this is a curious summary of my 8 years in London.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
1 year
Like a human body, the body of a land can hurt. And for its agony, justice must be served. My new piece on Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine is out in @CNNOpinion . Witnessed during @PenUkraine trip to the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. 📷 Maksym Sytnikov
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
Listening to the Guardian’s ‘in focus’ podcast on the Russian escalation and asking: why is it so difficult to achieve a baseline understanding that this is not a “conflict that’s about to kick off” but a war that’s been going on for 8 years and taken thousands of lives?
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
This academic year @UCLSSEES has embarked on an adventure and hired me as Associate Lecturer in Ukrainian. I can't wait to read delicious 🇺🇦texts and discuss them with students as a collective effort to decolonise our knowledge of eastern Europe. Godspeed to everyone involved!
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
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Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! My only holy day. Here is the new @ukrlondonreview to mark it. It is our tribute to Victoria Amelina, featuring her work and new Ukrainian war literature in English. Read, share, and let these voices ring globally. Editing LUR has been an honour.
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@Ukr_Institute
Ukrainian Institute London
@Ukr_Institute
10 months
On Ukraine’s Independence Day, we bring you a special issue of @ukrlondonreview , dedicated to Victoria Amelina. We urge you to read exclusive pieces and tributes and remember @vamelina , who fought for justice and Ukraine’s future. We inherit her fight.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
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Friends, I’ve opened a fundraiser for a dear friend now fighting near Kupiansk. He was the reason I missed many classes in the final year of school. 🙃 Now his infantry unit is one of the reasons we still have our Ukraine. 📷 me in high school. Thank you.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
3 months
This morning our windows were shattered by a blast in Zaporizhzhia. Yesterday the house of my friend's sister was damaged by a missile in Kyiv. Over the past 2 years, Russians have erased dozens of towns in Ukraine. If you want to keep this reality at a distance, help Ukraine win
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
If we fall, you are next. You know this. Mothers raped in front of their children, evacuees pushed to mined roads, peaceful cities erased: wanna try this in your country? If not, go to the streets, protest, write to your MP, and campaign to send WEAPONS NOT SANDWICHES to Ukraine.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
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I very carefully watched the recordings from CCTV cameras in Kharkiv DIY superstore which ru blew up with aerial bombs on Sat 25 May.I debated whether to share them with you: people walking down the aisles one minute, thrown in all directions next, replaced with red-brown silence
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
From the comfort of London, I text friends in the trenches and they charge my batteries “No light? We’re fighting by candlelight. No heating? The entire country will be in sleeping bags. We don’t give a fuck. We fight” Morning all. Get up, do what needs to be done today, for 🇺🇦
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
7 months
Today we are launching the @PenUkraine and @the_ukrainians commemorative project with a dual aim: to preserve the memory of people of Ukrainian culture Russia took from us and to provide evidence of Russia’s genocidal intent. Read my curatorial piece:
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
4 months
“We resist by editing the manuscripts which will not be finished by their authors and opening exhibitions of artists who will never produce another work”. My essay on the ru genocide of Ukrainians and our cultural resistance for @ispionline :
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
1 year
“Do you know a Ukrainian night? No, you do not know a night in Ukraine”. It has lasted 9 years since the first protester was shot in Kyiv on 22 Jan 2014. Rest in glory, Serhiy Nigoyan. Rest in glory, all fallen Ukrainian defenders. Ukraine fights on. It’s darkest before the dawn.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
Ukrainians telling the world that #UkraineWillResist Russian invasion is one thing. The world cheering the Ukrainians’ resolve and anticipating the would-be guerrilla fighting in the bombed-out urban wasteland, instead of deterring the invasion, is pornographic.
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1 year
“When Ukrainians are asked what would be the main disappointment after the victory, for 65% it’s the impunity of Russian war criminals. We have to satisfy the demand for justice so that it doesn’t grow into a demand for revenge”. — listening to @avalaina is a blessing.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
I’d normally say something like “this makes me want to die” but russians have robbed me even of this phrase. I will live to see them pay for this.
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UkraineWorld
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2 years
According to Ihor Lutsenko, the Russians are burning Ukraine's wheat crop on purpose. Since the stalks are now dry, the whole field is on fire in a matter of minutes.
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2 years
A Russian rocket landed in the yard of our house in Zaporizhzhia but didn’t explode. That’s where my aunt and sister live. My aunt is having a mojito. #RussiaIsaTerroristState Where to donate ⬇️
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
Spoke to Channel 5 just now. My message is don’t you dare to bury Ukraine already & proceed with business as usual. We’re fighting for our freedom and yours too. Switch off SWIFT. Cut energy trade with Russia. Help us with air defence. Have courage. #StandWithUkraine ¡No pasarán!
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
11 months
I’m just a g̶i̶r̶l̶ Ukrainian writer writing about a Ukrainian writer killed by a ru missile who’d written about a Ukrainian writer buried in a mass grave by ru. I’m standing in front of media outlets & asking how long will obituary be the one Ukrainian form they happily publish.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
The locals of Kyrylivka, a working class resort in the Zaporizhzhia region, report that russians are putting missile systems next to holiday cottages. Kyrylivka is my summers with parents from age 3 to 33, my nights on the beach under the studded sky, my shallow Azov sea, my ❤️
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2 years
31 years of independence, 6 months of standing defiant against Russia's full-scale invasion: it's an honour to celebrate Ukraine today by publishing this special issue of @ukrlondonreview dedicated to the country's great writer and prophet Lesia Ukrainka.
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@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
I’m crying and laughing because the Ukrainians’ gallows humour is incomparable. Ukraine will win.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
2 years
Western Europe has been importing weaponised Russian energy which has turned out to be a major security problem. Now they consider importing Russian men which will of course play out absolutely fine in the long term.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
10 months
Friends! I’m looking for 1) a job 2) a place to live in London/UK starting mid-autumn. Writing residencies combine the two so do let me know if you hear of anything. Otherwise, I’m keen on projects that advance the cause of Ukrainian victory.
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
5 months
I’m so proud and honoured to become a member of @PenUkraine and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the community which supports dozens of cultural and human rights initiatives amidst ru full-scale invasion, volunteers in frontline territories, strengthens our narratives in the world
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
10 months
@penguinpress @mirrorsbreath @PublishersWkly Thanks for bringing us this intimate exploration of how to love your country as it commits a genocide 💖 I felt something was missing from my reading experience as I mourned whole Ukrainian cities erased by the author’s beloved homeland and you put your finger on it! 💫 ✨
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk
@sasha_weirdsley
7 months
Watch my interview with @biannagolodryga for @CNN @amanpour programme on why maintaining and increasing support for Ukraine as it fights against ru invasion is crucial. Grateful for the opportunity to spread awareness of our existential battle.
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