We had to reupload my
@KyivIndependent
investigation on 🇷🇺Russian genocidal intent in 🇺🇦Ukraine because of YouTube restrictions.
Watch it if you want to truly understand this war and the true nature of Russian war crimes.
🇫🇷 France and 🇩🇪 Germany are not the leaders of today's EU facing Russia.
🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, 🇸🇰 Slovakia are the leaders.
Because a leader is the one who assumes responsibility - accepting the risks.
No, Mr. Zelensky, you can't speak at the Oscars, that's politics. But we'll give an Oscar to "Navalny", that's not politics. And Navalny's wife will speak, that's also not politics. But she won't mention her country's invasion of Ukraine, because... Yeah, you got it.
Gorbachev made 100+ thousand people with kids march in the irradiated Kyiv on May 1th 1986, while keeping the Chornobyl disaster secret.
In case you're somehow inclined to feel nostalgic because of his death.
For a clearer understanding of what it is that the 🇷🇺Russians abroad AREN'T doing, you can look at 🇮🇷Iranians protesting against the Iranian goverment in 🇩🇪Berlin.
It should be a matter of common decency for a foreigner to never suggest that 🇺🇦Ukraine should concede some territory to 🇷🇺Russia.
If
@nytimes
"editorial board" thinks there's a need for territorial concessions to Russia, it can try to suggest Alaska, but not Kherson.
If you donated to Ukraine, supported Ukraine and Ukrainians in your country or on the Internet, agreed with no "buts" for your governement to help Ukraine with weapons or money...
It's your victory too. You helped make Kherson free.
Thank you wherever you are. Keep it up.
🇺🇦Kalush Orchestra risk disqualification from
#Eurovision
, but they still shout "Save
#Mariupol
, save Azovstal right now!" after their song.
Because life is not a show. And there are things much, much more important than winning a singing contest.
@elonmusk
@RenataKonkoly
"German intellectual's" vibe from March&April caught up with Elon Musk.
Sometimes it's better to just stop voicing opinions if you don't know what you're talking about.
1/7 Let's break down the Kremlin propaganda piece published today by
@guardian
. It's authored by an ex-PR advisor to the Kremlin, Angus Roxburgh. And it's quite indicative of how the "export" variant of Russian propaganda works.
A🧵incoming.
Russia "denazifies" a country with the lowest level of antisemitism in Central Europe. In Russia it's 3x higher.
The Pew Research Center survey was published in 2018. The next year Ukrainians elected with 73% of votes a president of Jewish origin - Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
The day some future Russian president kneels in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and asks Ukrainians and humanity for forgiveness - would be the first day it'd be decent to start any debate on lifting sanctions against Russia.
No mass protests in 🇷🇺Russia after Bucha. No mass protests after Izyum. After hundreds of 🇺🇦Ukrainian children killed. Etc etc etc.
So forgive my remaining very much unimpressed by today's "No war" chantings after they got mobilization.
@elonmusk
@officejjsmart
@MelnykAndrij
So the letter to Pentagon was sent last month, but it's following Melnyk's recommendation from 10 days ago?
It seems you just can't stop misleading, can you, sir?
It seems Hungary and Germany are blocking a EU embargo on Russian oil and gas.
I wonder if the citizens of those countries are also OK with financing with their taxes the destruction of Mariupol and Kharkiv, as well as the killing of thousands of civilians and 100+ kids.
In March,
@ZelenskyyUa
asked the Western partners for F-15&F-16 fighter jets. One of the excuses not to give them was: "🇺🇦's pilots would need 2 months to train on them".
We're in May now. The pilots would be trained by now. The fighter jets are still needed.
#ArmUkraineNow
So Ovsyannikova, the Russian TV propagandist fined for a banner, became an anti-sanctions speaker on the Western media.
Now you know what it was all about.
🇺🇦"Azov" are not nazis. What 🇷🇺Russians did to them in Olenivka is nazism.
Nazism isn't defined by the esthetics of an insignia. It's defined by its atrocities and the intentions behind them.
Those falsely accused of being nazis fell victim to the real nazis.
This is Oksana Leontieva, a doctor. Yesterday morning she brought her 5 y.o. son to a kindergarten and went to her work in the National Children's Hospital. On her way she was killed by a Russian missile attack in the centre of Kyiv.
The boy's father died earlier this year.
This 98 y.o. woman walked 10 km with a cane and a stick to reach the Ukrainian-controlled territory from her Russian-occupied Ocheretyne. Because she wanted to be free.
Her name is Lidia. She's Ukrainian.
🇩🇪German media goup
@RTL_com
has actually conducted a poll "Should 🇺🇦Ukraine cede territories to 🇷🇺Russia for peace?". Polling Germans, not Ukrainians.
It's honestly beyond disgraceful. I'm trying really hard to contain a bitter joke about Sudetenland.
Masi Nayyem (
@MasiNayyem
), a well-known 🇺🇦lawyer. Represented me in one case too. Has sustained a severe head injury in action on the frontlines a couple of weeks ago. Lost an eye.
Today he posted his first post-injury selfie.
He's of Afghan origin, in case you wondered.
Let me reiterate again: Putin doesn't need a reasons or pretexts to attack Poland, Lithuania or another NATO country.
If he thinks he's ready and can afford it, he'll attack without pretext. If he thinks he's not, he won't attack even if the country sends it's troops in Ukraine.
Buying Russian-made fear is almost as bad as buying 🇷🇺 oil&gas. "If 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪 join NATO there'll be consequences!", "Don't provide weapons to Ukraine or else!", "If you apply sanctions we'll retaliate!", "We got nukes!" etc.
Putin just wants you to be afraid. He's just a bully.
@elonmusk
Confusing even basic political terms like "elections" and "referenda" is apparently not an obstacle to suggesting big geopolitical solutions and evaluating historical political moves ("Khrushchev’s mistake" lol).
A very pathetic story in 3 parts.
Part 1:
@EmmanuelMacron
annonces France will lead an operation to evacuate people from Mariupol - with Greece&Turkey.
Part 2: Macron calls Putin for a 9th time sice Feb. 24. Putin: "Not gonna allow it".
Part 3: Macron calls off the operation.
Some Western leaders are reportedly afraid of what could happen if 🇺🇦Ukraine wins the war - because it would mean a big humiliation for 🇷🇺Russia.
That's a whole new level of cowardice.
His Honor Judge Dmytro Konstantynov. Sapper (deminer). Killed by a mine while demining the recently liberated part of the 🇺🇦Kharkiv region.
Reported by the district court he worked in.
🇺🇦Ukraine doesn't have to be perfect as a state for you to unambiguously support it in its resistance to the 🇷🇺Russian invasion. I know it's not.
Wartime geopolitics aren't a beauty pageant. But the line between the good and the evil is very clear these days.
"Why talk to Putin? He's a war criminal". 🇪🇪Estonian PM Kaja Kallas
@kajakallas
absolutely nails it.
"If everybody keeps calling him, he doesn't get the message that he's isolated".
7/7 And, most importantly: what would Ukraine itself say to the idea of negotiating it's borders with Putin?
Because you see, that's what betrays Kremlin's foreign mouthpieces: 🇺🇦Ukraine is never an actor for them.
@elonmusk
Let's try this: put you in a basement for a year, indoctrinate you clockwork orange-style about how owning Tesla is very bad - then let you out and ask if you want to sign some papers to get rid of Tesla right away.
It would be legitimate only after a period of recovery.
Putin's spokesmoustache Peskov admitted today that 🇷🇺Russia attacked 🇺🇦Ukrainian civilian energy infrastructure in order to force Kyiv to negotiate.
That's open terrorism.
Congrats to all the Western "let's make Ukraine negotiate" experts on being on that side.
🇷🇺Russia paid it's foreign debt yesterday: 649 mil $.
Now think, dear "nuclear WW3" scaremongers. Would Russia give away more than half a billion if it was about to use nukes?
It wasn't Putin that dropped a bomb on a children's hospital in Mariupol today. It was another Russian citizen, committing an obvious, blatant war crime. Yet another Russian gave the order.
Millions of Russians today are not "Putin's victims". They are his accomplices.
What the 🇺🇦Ukrainian army is accomplishing in the Kharkiv region during the last few days is positively incredible.
But we should also not forget the sacrifice each offensive necessarily entails. That's why it's also heroic.
1/2 In all seriousness,
@amnesty
's report is endangering 🇺🇦Ukrainian civilians.
The report legitimizes 🇷🇺Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure and puts the responsibility for it on Ukraine.
You may only suggest any 🇺🇦Ukrainian concessions to 🇷🇺Russia if you yourself accept that someone would be allowed to destroy your house, rape your spouse, kill your kids - and walk away with a gain.
If not, just shut up.
🇿🇦 South African President's spokesperson, visiting 🇺🇦Kyiv today, denied that there were explosions during the air raid alert and called it a "disinformation".
That's quite staggering given how I heard several explosions myself. I also heard the air defence working.
Why lie?
🇷🇺MFA Lavrov complained about a "blatant Russophobia" at the
#G20FMM
. On the same day,
@nytimes
reports on at least 18 identified Russian filtration facilities for 🇺🇦Ukrainians.
Lavrov is wrong. It's not a phobia. It's a deeply humane reaction: disgust.
🇺🇦Ukrainian mother singing one last lullaby to her son - soldier Artem Dymyd, killed by mortar fire on the 18th of June.
Video by Dzvinka Kalynets-Mamchur.
1. Produce an outrageous nonsense about 🇷🇺🇺🇦 war.
2. Garner a well-deserved massive criticism.
3. Blame it on "bots".
Original: by
@AgnesCallamard
of
@amnesty
.
Remake: by
@elonmusk
.
Not a joke. This very morning, when Russians blow up the Kakhovka HPP and dam causing a real catastrophe, the
@UN
publicly celebrates Russian language day.
🇷🇸Serbia, largely pro-Russian, has a candidate status to the 🇪🇺 membership. Only 35% of Serbs support the membership. 🇦🇹Austria: Yes to Serbia!
91% of Ukrainians support 🇪🇺 membership. 🇦🇹MFA
@a_schallenberg
: No to 🇺🇦 candidate status.
(Picture by
@sternenko
taken in Kharkiv)
A man in the occupied Kherson region was detained by 🇷🇺Russians for wearing a 🇺🇦 bracelet. He was beaten and thrown into a cell. Upon his release several days later, he told his friend: "I could hear women screaming all day there, the screaming doesn't stop".
Ivan Mishchenko, 🇺🇦Supreme Court judge since 2017 (economic law branch). Father of 3 children, which would allow him to cross the border and leave Ukraine.
On the frontlines since February. Volunteered. Callsign "Dredd" (yes, as in "Judge Dredd").
If you know anything substantial about corruption in Ukraine, that's because Ukraine has free press that uncovers the corruption and/or Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies are investigating, arresting and communicating.
That's how you know. Because Ukrainian institutions work.
1/4 🇺🇦Ukrainian journalist Kostiantyn Ryzhenko lives in Kherson under 🇷🇺Russian occupation. He's being hunted. He has to hide, lay low and change his location constantly to avoid being detained by Russians.
His posts on Facebook are haunting ⤵️
It's been 3 weeks since the 🇩🇪German MOD Christine Lambrecht announced at Ramstein that Germany would finally deliver heavy weapons to 🇺🇦Ukraine.
As of today, Ukraine still hasn't received those heavy weapons.
Take your time, it's not like there's a war happening or something.
1990s
🇺🇸USA: Hey, 🇺🇦Ukraine, you have to give all your nukes to 🇷🇺Russia!
🇷🇺: Yes, give me all your nukes!
🇺🇦: Well I actually have some issues with that...
🇺🇸&🇷🇺: Do it NOW!
🇺🇦: Ok, ok, gosh, calm down.
2022
🇷🇺: Hey you two, guess what...
That's how endangering civilians really looks like (as opposed to what
@amnesty
described in its report). 12 🇷🇺 military vehicles parked near residential buildings in Bucha on March 24.
🇺🇦 forces didn't attack the place to keep civilians safe.
Source: Viacheslav Shramovych.
1/5 The defenders of
#Mariupol
are facing imminent death. Upon surrendering they are unlikely to survive. A 3rd party (i.e. 🇹🇷Turkey) extracting them wouldn't be a military intervention - just a prevention of yet another war crime.
For "But Putin promised..." believers: see⬇️.
NATO and the US are seriously misled if they think that at this point Putin needs a "reason" to attack a NATO country (like a no-fly zone or a NATO country giving Ukraine fighter jets).
He will attack if he wants it and thinks he can afford it. Period. No other factors in play.
When 🇩🇪
@OlafScholz
's team provides yet another promise of weapons for Ukraine instead of providing actual weapons, it helps 🇷🇺 and hurts 🇺🇦.
It intentionally creates an ILLUSION that 🇺🇦 receives weapons. It decreases the pressure and the sense of urgency. It costs lives.
First, 🇷🇺Russians stage a "referendum" in the occupied 🇺🇦Kherson region and claim that 87% voted for Russia.
Having retreated, they shell those same people on that same territory daily. 21 dead and 48 injured in the region JUST TODAY.
Video by
@dwnews
. 👇
Ukraine: 742 thousand civilians without electricity, 238 thousand - without gas as result of Russian aggression.
Germany: We can't stop buying Russian oil and gas, we need our citizens to be warm and comfy for the lowest possible price. So we keep financing Russian aggression.
Dear Westerners, please stop saying to Ukrainians "I understand your frustration, but...". Most of you don't. Most of you have absolutely no idea.
It doesn't make you sound polite. It makes you sound arrogant and condescending.
Thank you.
Another 🇺🇦Supreme Court Judge on the frontlines, Oleksandr Mamaluy. Sniper. Call sign: "Lawyer".
Also fought in 2014-2015. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 2017.
First thing he did having woken up to the war in the early hours of Feb 24: shave.
Those pushing for a frozen conflict in 🇺🇦Ukraine and for a kind of "Minsk 3" (ciao, 🇮🇹Italia!) are unwilling to learn from history.
A frozen conflict with 🇷🇺Russia doesn't end a war - it leads to a full-scale war. See Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008 and Ukraine 2022.
🇷🇺Putin, last week: Compares himself to an 18th century tsar on a quest to "return and fortify territories".
🇷🇺Putin, today: Accuses the West of nurturing "outdated geopolitical illusions".
Is there a psychiatrist among my followers to provide a diagnosis please?
Her name's Katya, she's 20. One of the last defenders of
#Mariupol
at "Azovstal". Singing a 🇺🇦 patriotic song, written in 1929. The first lines are:
"We were born in a great hour
From the fires of war and the flames of gunshots
We were nurtured by the pain of losing Ukraine..."
This couple was shot yesterday by drunk 🇷🇺occupants in the 🇺🇦Kherson region. For no reason at all. In front of the woman's elderly mother (rep. by
@InvestigatorUa
).
Those advocating territorial concessions to Russia want to leave people there at the mercy of barbarians.
Today, 🇮🇱
@Jerusalem_Post
names 🇺🇦
@ZelenskyyUa
the Most influential Jew of 2022.
Zelenskyi in an interview to 🇫🇷
@OuestFrance
2 days ago: "I'm shocked. I don't understand. Israel hasn't supplied us with anything. Nothing, zero."
"This is a russian military vessel. Surrender or we will open fire!"
"Fuck you, russian military vessel!".
This is a true transcript. 13 ukrainian heroes died defending the Snake Island, but did not surrender to the occupation forces.
We will not surrender.
1/5 After the 🇷🇺Russian missile strike on 🇺🇦Kyiv this morning (a civilian building has been hit, injuring a little girl and killing her father), I have already seen three different Russian propaganda messages.
They may serve as a reminder of how the Russian propaganda works. ⬇️
If you support 🇺🇦Ukraine now, one day you'll be able to point it on a map and say: "I was a drop in the ocean that washed away the 🇷🇺Russian plague from this place".
If the world understood the full extent of what 🇷🇺Russians are doing in the occupied Kherson region, there would be no possible excuse for stalling weapons deliveries for 🇺🇦Ukraine.
"It's another Bucha - only worse", different people from different towns and villages say.
🇺🇦Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk has been booed at
@rolandgarros
for refusing to shake hands with a 🇧🇾Belarusian player.
Well, it's one thing to have no moral stance... But to have none and boo someone for having it is simply nauseating.
🇦🇿Azerbaijan attacks 🇦🇲Armenia with no fear about a possible 🇷🇺Russian response (Russia and Armenia are CSTO allies).
🇩🇪Germany refuses to allow exporting tanks to 🇺🇦Ukraine, (ostensibly) fearing a Russian attack.
Just an observation.
6/7 Now you got it. Kremlin's "Don't give arms to Ukraine" is well seasoned and packed for export. It smells so Ukraine-loving...
Just hope that no one will ask: but is this Roxburgh a military expert to predict the outcome? Is he familiar with the situation on the battlefields?
Ukraine should investigate its forces "apparent" use of banned landmines,
@hrw
tells us in a new report, decorated with a map with a Russian Crimea.
Nice hint, thank you.
According to 🇩🇪Kevin Kühnert, SPD Secretary General, Germany will not deliver tanks to 🇺🇦Ukraine to not encourage 🇷🇺Russia "to act completely irrationally in the end and to attack completely different states".
Is there anyone left who thinks it's a viable argument at this point?
Darya Dugina was taking a very active part in 🇷🇺Russian genocidal propaganda.
She's not "innocent", as per 🇻🇦
@Pontifex
. She's very guilty of a crime, defined by the 🇺🇳UN Genocide Convention - incitement to genocide.
Ubelievable. Russians whining about Spotify not working while their army is bombing civilians in Ukraine. They say it's "unfair". Trying to occupy a country must be ok though.
It's really a special kind of torture - to witness Western journalists asking again and again, if 🇺🇦Ukraine defending itself wouldn't be "too escalatory".
🇺🇦Hennadii Afansiev was killed on the frontline.
Arrested by 🇷🇺Russians in Crimea in 2014, he'd been a political prisoner in Russia until 2016.
He lived and died fighting for freedom.
🇷🇺Putin, last week: It's our destiny to return and fortify territories.
🇷🇺Medvedev, today: Who said that in 2 years 🇺🇦Ukraine will exist on the map?
🇻🇦
@Pontifex
: It's not so clear who has provoked the war, some dude told me about NATO barking.
"We will not leave Russia, we're on a humanitarian mission!"
@AUCHAN_France
explained last year.
Turns out, the humanitarian mission was to provide support for the Russian army. 👇