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Ukrainian writer, Joseph Conrad Prize Awardee, founder of a literary festival in the Donetsk region, war crimes researcher at Truth Hounds in #Ukraine

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It's me in this picture. I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why? #StopRussiaNow

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I want to thank again every American who voted for Biden. When you were celebrating Trump is no longer a threat to humanity, I was drinking champagne for the historical moment too. But little did I know that moment would save soo many lives in #Ukraine ️. You & your @POTUS are 😎

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I just realized that not everyone on Twitter knows that the USSR invaded Poland in 1939, acting in collaboration with Nazi Germany. Hitler and Stalin started WWII as allies. During the Soviet occupation of my hometown Lviv in 1939-1941 thousands were arrested and murdered.

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When I hear "I give you Leopards only if they give you Abrams", I get scared. Not because I'm Ukrainian, but because sometimes it seems Ukrainians are the only adults in the room. And to be honest, we're not ready to save the world both from Russia and this kindergarten politics.

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Ukrainians care about #IranRevolution

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This letter “Z” on the dog’s nose brought tears into my eyes today. The dog’s name is Zhulik; he licked my hand. He was scared after occupation, but he trusts people again. But why, Russians? Because you can? When Russian leaders will be in jail, it will be for Zhulik’s pain too.

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I wish you all could understand Ukrainian and so appreciate this unique tenderness, hardly translatable to any other language I know, when the local women call Ukrainian soldiers "our boys", "khlopchyky" and ask permission to hug them. #Kherson region is so very #Ukraine .

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Some spontaneous singing and dancing at the main square of Kyiv, #Ukraine . Burnt Russian tanks are such an inspiration for the people who have just survived the most horrible 6 months of their lives. Please stay with us through the winter. #UkraineWillWin

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DNA test confirmed: Ukrainian children's writer and poet Volodymyr Vakulenko was murdered during the occupation of Izyum and buried there. As you know, I researched the war crime and uncovered Volodymyr's war diary he hid in his garden. The diary might be published soon. R.I.P.

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Your face when you're already busy with the war in your country 🇺🇦 but also find out your sisters' rights are in danger in 🇺🇲 #WomensRightsAreHumanRights Dear American sisters, we stand with you.

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This year was the worst year for me and #Ukraine . Jan 1st is my birthday, and all I want are weapons for #UkrainianArmy and the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression. So we can win and see Russian leadership behind bars already in 2023. Happy New Year!

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Many more Ukrainians will die because Elon Musk's SpaceX suddenly decided to prevent #Ukraine from using the Starlink satellite internet for controlling drones. Did they think that amidst existential war we bought all those Starlinks to tweet kittens?

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My friend lost her son. Roman Ratushnyi died a hero protecting #Ukraine near #Kharkiv . Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukrainians keep fighting for freedom in the middle of Europe. #StopRussianAggression

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Let's hope you'll never have to hide the flag of you country to survive. But just in case, here is a how-to guide from Kherson.

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Russians injured 6 kids yesterday near Kyiv. The youngest one is a 5-year-old girl. How is it to see our kids dead, injured, without limbs, without parents, stolen & "adopted" by 🇷🇺 in front of TV cameras? I'm numb by now & the worst thing is: as I hug my son, I'm now frozen too.

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My collegues and me in what used to be a university in the center of Kharkiv. Russian imperialism is deadly. Or wait... any imperialism is deadly. But why the Russian one is still so widely tolerated? #StopRussia

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Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov became one of the first victims of the Russian war against Ukraine. On March 3, 2014 at 7:30 he left home to protest peacefully against occupation of his native Crimea in Simferopol. He was then found dead; his eyes were gouged out. Crimea is Ukraine.

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This is Ukrainian singer-turned-soldier Anastasia, known as Stasik. Her most popular song is Lullaby for the Enemy. It's full of pain & fury and goes like this: "As you wanted my land Into it, you will blend." Anastasia is in Kherson now. Her song is on YT; the link in 🧵

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Today I covered my fellow writer with #Ukraine 's flag and consoled another writer who cannot stand funerals after losing her son near Izyum. If you ask us, Ukrainian writers, why we aren't ready to share a stage with writers representing #Russia , we know empathy isn't your thing

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Just strawberries in Kyiv, I thought you should see. Summer is here despite everything.

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The Russians, their artillery, and snipers are just across the Dnipro river. But I'm not only a war crimes researcher; I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have a right to be in the Kherson Public Library and not be afraid, even if it's ruined and targeted by #Russia . #Ukraine is freedom.

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Ukrainian artist Serge Zakharov just suggested that the Vogue cover could also look like that. This is 21-year-old Kateryna from Ternopil. She's also known as Bird, one of the defenders of Mariupol. I hope the world remembers her singing from the sieged #Azovstal #Ukraine does.

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I have almost 25k followers, so it's about time you should see my real face and character :-) Thank you for being here for me. Since I've been active on Twitter (since May 2022?), the reality is easier to endure. Thanks for your solidarity with #Ukraine .

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I asked you to stand with Ukraine thru the winter so many times, friends. So, the winter is here 😏

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I promised my kid to stay with him in Poland till New Year's eve. Yet somehow, I just got a ticket to Kherson🤦 I love him so much, perhaps a bit more than Ukraine even. But he is safe now, and #Ukraine isn't. I already told him; he understood.

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People save animals on the outskirts of Kherson, but most of them will die. Blowing up the Kakhovka dam is a crime. In fact, we should start saying it loudly: Russia is committing #ecocide .

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When you're tweeting about Ukrainian accounts having low visibility on Twitter now, and no one sees your tweets because you're Ukrainian :-)

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When #Ukraine defeats Russia, and the war is over, I'll be tweeting smiles of my dog instead of the war news and finally get really popular on Twitter :-)

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I'd tweet paintings from Kherson Art Museum. But this mirror is all you can see on its walls now. We talked to brave employee who tried to prevent the theft. But #Russians stole the collection including my favorite artists Burliuk & Yablonska. #UkraineWillWin and get them back.

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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. Merry Christmas!🎄 Let the free world be a strong pack in 2023. And #Ukraine will win. 📸 from 2021 when we were young :-)

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Yesterday I've been to a funeral of a teacher turned soldier from the #Kherson region. He died hero defending #Donetsk region. His name was Oleksandr. Today his brothers in arms liberated Oleksandr's native village in the Kherson oblast. But he will never learn that. #Ukraine

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People think WWIII would only start due to Article 5. But WWIII is here. Moscow-Minsk-Tehran Axis is formed. If your country hasn't been hit, this isn't because you're not an enemy in the eyes of Russia/Iran. If you're a democracy, you are. 1/

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Would you tell me what city/country are you reading me from? I'm on the night train rolling through #Ukraine . Connection could be better, so I'll see your replies (if any) in the morning.

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Ukrainian mother with her child and a dog sleeping in a bathtub in their apartment during today's massive Russian attack on #Ukraine . 📷 is shared from Maria Genkin's Facebook, with her permission. The woman in the picture is her family.

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Thank you, everyone, who isn't using tragedy in #Poland as a chance to abandon #Ukraine . We're still facing genocidal war. #Russia fired 100 missiles at us, not at those using #ZelenskyWarCriminal tag. It's my community in danger. We're sorry for Poland's loss. Sorry, not guilty.

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I just argued with my kid. He wants to call Russians bad words, from orcs to putinists. But I'm sure people who identify as Russians should be called Russians. We should be polite and state facts calmly: Russians kill, ruin, loot, and lie. No name-calling. Am I a bad mom? 🤔

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Ukrainian twitter may seem too intense for an outsider: "Workers from St Petersburg now settled in my apartment in Mariupol," one Ukrainian tweeted angrily. "Such a joy that mine was just f*ing burnt," the other retweets with bitter irony. #Ukraine ️ is in pain, so we tweet pain.

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Ukrainians evacuated this road sign from the #Donetsk region. Germans founded the town in XIX century calling it New York. Russians renamed it to Novgorodskoe in 1951. Local 🇺🇦 community fought for getting the real name back and succeeded in 2021. This New York is #Ukraine ️

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Just one of the villages in the #Kherson region. Here I met a farmer who asked me if I know where to get American watermelon seeds. The farmer is dreaming of growing watermelons again. But his fields are still mined. I promised to look for the American watermelon seeds anyway 1/2

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If you have never seen Kinburn Spit in the south of #Ukraine , it's time to start dreaming of seeing it. #UkraineWillWin

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Donetsk region is Ukraine and my ❤️

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Our best armor is remembering who we are.

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Recently young Iranian apologised to me for Iranian drones hitting #Ukraine ️. Not a single Russian ever apologised to me. Feeling responsible for your country makes you capable of freeing it from cruel regime. I believe in #IranRevoIution & free Iran. Russia has to be defeated.

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Famous Colombian writer Hector Abad Faciolince and Ukrainian librarian Yulia in the liberated village of Kapytolivka, where Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was abducted by the occupiers. It feels like a solidarity hug from America Latina for Ukraine 💛💙 #aguantaUcrania

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An image from occupied #Kherson where Ukrainian resistance is active and waiting for the #UkrainianArmy : "Occupier, go home or HIMARS will show you the way"

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Winter is here but so are we. #NewProfilePic from Carpathian mountains, #Ukraine . The dress was knitted for me by Ukrainian poet Marianna Kijanovska.

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St Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral in Kyiv, #Ukraine My neighborhood 😎

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The Ukrainian Antarctic Station, Vernadsky research base, is becoming popular with penguins. I'm very much not an antarctic scientist, so I choose to believe that even the penguins come to express their support for #Ukraine :-)

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The palace belongs to the KGB agent Vladimir Gundyaev otherwise known as Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church Unit of KGB also known as Russian Orthodox Church. I'm tweeting it because those who don't care about lives in #Ukraine might care about acres of forest logged here.

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Every Ukrainian needs a hug tonight. Numbers don't matter, and yet it's hard not to imagine that from now on, we're more than a year apart from our normal lives.

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This man with "No one is illegal" on his t-shirt is Maksym Butkevych, Ukrainian human rights activist. In 2022 he joined the army as it is a way to defend human rights in 🇺🇦 He is now POW. 🇷🇺 tortured him and illegally sentenced to 13 years. Can we talk about him, not Navalny?

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Today is the birthday of the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. He has all the love and gratitude of Ukrainian people. But I'm sure Valerii's only birthday wish is a victory for #Ukraine and no more deaths. #ArmUkraineNow , so he could fulfill it.

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Besides, now everyone sees on the news how beautiful our cathedrals are, so I anticipate tourists flooding Kyiv asap. I cannot guarantee everyone will be met by Zelensky, but still worth coming :-)

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A year ago, on Mar 24 2022, Russian occupiers came for my colleague, Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko. In September 2022, after Kharkiv counteroffensive his body was found in one of the Izium graves. On the anniversary of the abduction, we came together in the local library.

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Yesterday in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine people found and saved a racoon. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? That must be that famous racoon from Kherson kidnapped by Russians. I bet he ran away from them and tried to reach Bakhmut to join the Ukrainian army :-) #UkrainianRacoonSaga

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I love the beauty of this visual transformation on the walls of buildings: aggressive "Z" symbol is easily turned into a 🇺🇦 sandglass telling Russian occupation time in Crimea is up. Crimea is Ukraine. Crimean Tatars and all Crimea natives will be home again.

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My son and I. He's shortsighted; he reads a lot. The photo is from Ukraine's Independence Day in 2021. Now he's safe in Poland, and I'm... I'm in 🇺🇦. His birthday is soon. Can we please get more #MLRSforUkraineNow for Andrew's birthday pls? He doesn't want anything but home 🇺🇦

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I don't remember how many missiles Russia fired at us yesterday, but I'm at poetry & music evening in Kyiv now ❤️

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There are 33.3K people following me here on my quest for justice in Ukraine and through the hard times for the Ukrainian literary community. Thank you for being with me through all these struggles 🤝

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Typical Ukrainian by now 😅 We just keep going. Video from Реальная Война | Украина channel.

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1 year

This Ukrainian documentary about kids on the frontline didn’t win Oscar. But please watch it rather than Navalny (or watch both and don’t forget to compare). The movies had very different budgets. But the world should see people’s true stories, not big promotion budgets.

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Nine years ago Revolution of Dignity aka Euromaidan started. It was peaceful and joyful until pro-Russian regime turned the main square of Kyiv into a place of massacre. Still, Ukrainians won their freedom. And as you can tell, we do not regret being free or having dignity. 1/2

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Wearing a hoodie that says "feminism" in Ukrainian instead of a body armor vest isn't always wise. But it's suitable for making a point about being a Ukrainian feminist, perhaps :-) And there are Kherson fields of gold in the background.

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A classroom in #Zaporizhzhia after Russian shelling. Russian kids are going back to school after having vacations in EU. Ukrainian kids are just the kids from a war zone, so who cares? Sorry, this is my mood for today.

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I am a founder of a literary festival that took place in this cultural center in New York, Donetsk region. Today Russians dropped FAB-250 on our main festival building. It was empty, and no military objects nearby. They have destroyed the cultural center to kill our culture.

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#Zaporizhzhia What kind of military objective did Russians have here? Killing more civilians in a brave and beautiful city that has symbolic meaning for all Ukrainians with its cossack history doesn't count as a military objective, you know.

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This is how many book titles my Ukrainian publisher managed to publish in 2022 despite the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine.

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I love Ukrainian air defense guys so much, even though I don't know their names and faces. I hope someday soon, they can step into the spotlight and #Ukraine can give them a standing ovation they deserve.

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Dear friends, I'm back from Kherson. I'll be tweeting more stories from there, but please stop worrying for me. 📷 from the train of the best railway company in the world (no, @AKamyshin doesn't pay me for promoting Ukrainian Railways—it's pure love) Sorry for background mess.

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My 10 yo son chanting 'thank you' to the Ukrainian Army veterans on #Ukraine Independence Day in 2021. Today these veterans are on the frontline. Some died heroes in the past horrible 6 months. #Kyiv feels empty without them today. But let's say "thank you" as if they all hear.

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I ordered Chinese food in Kyiv, #Ukraine , and here is my biscuit prophecy: "Do not postpone until after the victory what you can do just after the air raid ends."

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I didn't tweet much lately. I work as a war crimes researcher, write a book about 🇺🇦 researchers, human rights defenders, and lawyers at war, and survive the war too. My war-life balance sucks—ask my son 😞 But I get to see beautiful places in Ukraine, like the one in the 📷

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I just found a place with wi-fi, coffee, exquisite sweets, and pleasant music. They keep the lights off to save power. There's still no electricity just across the street... Ok, now I make a promise to close Twitter and write till I meet all the deadlines🤞

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I didn't vote for Zelensky. I'm a writer, and a writer should be critical of the government. But now we, #Ukrainians , are all as one. These two are doing a great job communicating what the world needs to know: Ukrainians never give up, David always crashes Goliath, Love prevails.

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Dear Swedish friends, this is so heartbreaking. Please spread the word that Ukrainians will be forever grateful to Niko. #Ukraine remembers heroes. R.I.P. 🇸🇪🇺🇦

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Niko was Swedish volunteer medic in Hospitaliers in Ukraine. He came to Ukraine to save lives. He was killed today in Donbas. RIP Niko. You are a hero to me.

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Zelensky will bring this 🇺🇦 flag from Bakhmut to the US. We can talk about his bravery. To me, it is just doing everything to get all the weapons needed to win this existential war. I wish it wasn't a matter of our survival. The brave soldiers on the pic are still in Bakhmut 💔

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Passing my hometown on the way to finally see my kid, I feel like a tourist taking photos from a car. Lviv is relatively safe. The food is great, and the prices low. A train from Przemysl, Poland can take you here in about 3 hrs. Maybe you can be a real tourist here this spring😏

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Three men are now convicted for killing 298 people on MH17 flight. None of them is Putin or another high-rank Russian. So as I understand, the three walked to a store somewhere in Moscow, bought BUK, a medium-range surface-to-air missile system, and brought it to Ukraine. Okay.

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When I founded New York Literature Festival in a small village called New York in the Donbas, I was, of course, being ironic. After all, irony is what makes literature great. Self-irony made the village of New York a fantastic place. Russians have no self-irony. They are so…

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Today thanks to @avalaina Ukrainian language sounded at the Nobel ceremony for the first time. Oleksandra's Nobel Peace Prize lecture about responsibility and humanity is available here 👇 Please congratulate Center for Civil Liberties and #Ukraine !

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Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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I hope you got some presents for Christmas. I got new lipstick and a scarf. #Ukraine is also getting Patriot missile systems—the best gift for all Ukrainians, of course.

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Reviewing the photos from the mission to Kherson region, I found myself—an accidental reflection in a broken glass in what used to be a cultural center. Russians deliberately burnt it.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

1 year

This timetable has trains from Kyiv to Mariupol, Melitopol, Donetsk, Sevastopol... Train to Victory is a powerful project by Ukrainian Railways. You can buy tickets now. Kyiv-Kherson is already running, so it's marked white. All these lines will be white soon. #Ukraine

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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@DavidSacks Even Russian propagandists on Russian state TV already sound less optimistic than Mearsheimer. But well, they are scared there in Moscow, and Mearsheimer doesn't risk anything.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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People often ask me how I cope. For example, I sometimes hug stone babas in Izium. They are thousands years old, and they tell me it still can get worse, so I shouldn’t complain. But mostly I hug other women: war crimes researchers, journalists, soldiers, lawyers, and volunteers.

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Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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Ukrainian author with her book taking shelter behind the bookshelves in the Kherson library during Russian artillery shelling. Disclaimer: in fact, even Ukrainian books do not protect you from shelling; they just make you braver.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

2 years

#Russia damaged cultural objects in Kyiv this morning: Taras Shevchenko National University, Khanenko National Museum of Arts, Kyiv Picture Gallery, National Philharmonic of #Ukraine , Maksymovych Scientific Library, and Kyiv City Teacher's House. They target Ukrainian culture.

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Ukrainian writer and her library after Russian “liberation.” Donetsk region. I used to bring dozens of new books to this library, play with kids here, and meet with the local community. More than 500 libraries in Ukraine are damaged or destroyed.

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Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

1 year

Thirty years of Independence, yet only in 2022, Ukrainians are moved to tears as, for the first time in decades, Ukrainian carol sounds here. The Cathedral was built in the 1070s but fully destroyed by NKVD in 1941. Rebuilt in 2000s, it served Russian Orthodox church till now.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

1 year

I cannot look at the images of horror today. I try to focus on the building, where people are still under the rubble, but somehow I focus on the poplar trees behind it and the sky. Ordinary Russian men and women make missiles, press buttons, kill. Such a blue sky in Zaporizhzhia.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

2 years

Russians 'have everything', and Europeans are all 'afraid' and 'jealous' of them. These are the reasons for #visabanforrussians , ordinary Russians think. I'm tweeting this at 5 am Kyiv time; air raid siren woke me up. #Russians have to keep thinking. Or rather start thinking.

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1 year

Flowers are not enough. These people deserve justice. #Izium

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1 year

Dnipro. People are under the rubble. I don't know how to live with this, do you? Photos: OP

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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The photo is from two weeks ago, in Kyiv, #Ukraine , of course. I just would like to apologize to whom it may concern: my flu changed into pneumonia, so my answers might be delayed. Stay calm, vaccinate and send tanks to Ukraine, if you accidentally have some :-)

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

1 year

Everyone has confetti on the floor after New Year parties. But in Ukraine, we have Iranian drones on the ground after this night🤦

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

2 years

Courtroom 600, where Nuremberg International Tribunal had sentenced high-rank Nazis to death. The kids are listening to the audio guide; I'm dreaming of International Tribunal for Russia's putins & dugins. Tomorrow I'll stop dreaming & go back to #Ukraine to help Tribunal happen.

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

2 years

All empires will fall, and monuments can stay, e.g. for human rights defenders to take pictures on their way to justice. Tomorrow Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina and I should finally get UK visas and head to British Parliament to speak on war crimes & justice for all Ukrainians

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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Reading poetry in Kyiv despite everything tonight

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@vamelina

Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦

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I'm a Ukrainian writer. But I had to cancel my participation in a great literary festival in Sweden. As I have to be in #Izyum and help document Russian war crimes. Easy choice. When there's #GenocideOfUkrainians , you shouldn't be a writer or anything, you should be Ukrainian.

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