82 women, most of them are doctors and nurses of the military hospital
#555
in
#Mariupol
illegally taken and kept prisoners by the occupying Russian forces. Their fate is unknown for over 100 days
@ICRC
@UNHRC
are not in contact with them. Story is here
Ukranian Bakhmut had 17 schools, 29 kindergartens, 3 colleges, 5 cultural centers, and 12 libraries.
You could visit a salt mine and the largest underground concert hall in the world in it.
It was also home to the largest in Eastern Europe production of sparking vines.
28-year old Alen Dudnik, commander of a manpad unit of the 93rd brigade, named by his mum after Alen Delon and not bad looking himself, shot down a russian SU-25 fighter jet with a MANPAD on March 15 from an apartment in
#Bakhmut
.
Maksym Kryvtsov, serviceman, combat medic, one of the brightest and most talanted Ukrainian war poets of his generation, was killed in action.
His poems about the day-to-day experiences, feelings and deaths on frontline are indelible contribution to world war poetry.
RIP
Estonian farmer Hillar killed his 2 bisons, made special bison canned meat and donated them to Ukrainian army. I don't know what else to say about it except that it was made with love.
#Estonia
#Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine
One of the most shameful pages in major media journalism. I remember being shocked when the CNN were repeating "russia says, Ukraine says."
Only weeks later, a NYT report proved that the dam was blown up from inside the structure, i.e. clearly by russia. No one ever apologized.
A year after Russia deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka Dam, recently released footage of the act highlights the Western media's failure to properly report on Russia's war crimes.
Oleksandr Baklan, 60, civilian, was captured by
#russia
's military at a checkpoint near his home in
#Chornobaivka
,
#Kherson
oblast and beaten up violently for refusing to give up his car. He lost his memory and his vision.
#ukraine
#war
#ruasianwarcrimes
Photo Evgeniy Maloletka
Fascinating twist in the story about the Polish farmers blockade of Ukrainian border and grain: Pl imports almost THREE times more grain from russia than from UA, 12 mln tons vs 4,8 mln tons between Jan 2022 and Aug 2023!
And yet Polish farmers do not block grain from russia
Award-winning writer, human rights advocate, investigator of the russian war crimes in
#Ukraine
, Victoria Amelina died of the injuries incompatible with life received as a result of the Russian missile strike on Ria Lounge in
#Kramatorsk
on June 27.
Young ladies of
#Sudzha
, 1912.
Sudzha, Kursk oblast is histocal part of what is considered ethnic Ukrainian territories also known as Eastern Sloboda Ukraine.
In the 12th c, Sudzha was part of the Chernihiv Principality, in the 17th c, part of the Sumy Regiment within Sloboda
Serhiy Zhadan, Ukraine's best and best known poet, writer, band leader, activist, profound intellectual and patriot, a co-foundee of the Kharkiv-based Khartia territorial defense battalion decided to join the ranks of the battalion. Brave, decent, but heartbreaking move.
Former director of Carnegy Moscow Center (2008-2022) Dmitri Trenin is discussing on russian TV propaganda show Right to Know denazification of Ukraine and "normalization" of "abnormal people" on the "new (occupied Ukrainian) territories".
14 years of Carnegie Endowment funding!
Kateryna Yushchenko fled russian-occupied Luhansk in 2014, moved to Lviv, worked in a hospital where in 2016 she met and married her serviceman sweetheart.
In 2018 she joined UAF.
On April 4, 2023, she was killed by a bomb dropped by ๐ท๐บ Su-35 on Pechenizhyn in Chernihiv oblast.
russia has come up with many creative ways to poison lives of Ukrainians figuratively and now literally.
๐ท๐บ polluted the
#Seim
River by dumping sewage from a sugar factory in the town of Tyotkino in Kursk oblast. Pollution of the Seim River led to a decrease in oxygen levels
#Kyiv
restaurants are open despite the blackout. Kitchens closed, vine is served, chefs cook a couple of signature dishes outside on barbeque. Restaurateurs keep running their businesses to retain the customers and keep staff employed.
Photo - Viktoria Sumar
#Ukraine
#war
The West should let us know how many daily massive missile attacks on major Ukrainian cities are they going to tolerate before deciding if enough if enough? I guess those who survive this winter will know.
@USCongress
, how is you holiday break going, eh? Unbelievable
Oleksandr Samoilenko, 26 served in
#Mariupol
' Rapid Operational Response Unit. He got captured by the russian forces while on assignment on March 2, 2022, held in captivity in horrible conditions in prison
#Donetsk
, and died of meningitis on January 19, 2023.
An average Daniil, 22, is cheerfully entertaining an idea to join the russian army and get paid for killing and torturing Ukrainians. It sounds like a fun idea to him, especially if it is for the good of russia. Because what can be gooder than torture and murder for a good cause,
In his last facebook post, Maksym was joking that 90 per cent of his poems are about death. His last poem depicts the decay of the body after death. The poem's protagonist could not wait until spring to turn into a violet.
Maksym Kryvtsov, 33, poet, humanist, warrior,
#KIA
. RIP
Impressive capture of 102 russian
#POWs
at once in
#Kursk
oblast yesterday.
Special operations centre "A" of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) captured a russian forces strongpoint complete with the underground communications, living quarters, an armory, and a bathhouse.
In response to the most massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv on August 30th, Kyiv city mayor gave permission to restaurant and cafes to stay open for an hour longer, until 11 pm.
You've got to love
#Kyiv
and visit one day.
The atmosphere is inimitable.
30-year-old sniper of the 53rd mechanized brigade Kateryna Shynkarenko, callsign "Whisky" is confirmed dead, killed covering the retreat of Ukrainian forces from
#Avdiivka
on February 22, 2023 near Lastochkyne.
Her body was evacuated only now.
9 more people have been abducted, beaten and taken away in a prisoner transport vehicle in
#Melitopol
today, as
#Russia
's
#FSB
attempts to subdue the belligerent Ukrainian civilians peacefully opposing the Russian occupation. The fate of 7 men abducted today is unknown
#Ukraine
Facebook page of russia's air force academy proudly displays a drop of ODAB-1500 on the village of
#VelykaPysarivka
in Sumy oblast that happens to be close to the border with russia.
The comments prove what we already know - 80 per cent of that population are moral cripples
#Kyiv
received less than 15 percent of the quantity of demining and engineering materiel, including MICLICs, that it asked for from Western partners ahead of the counteroffensive. Some of that equipment arrived just last week.
@Truth_InMedia
Dunno. Does the US Constitution apply to Florida? In Ukraine, we live by the Constitution of Ukraine. It explicitly says: no election can be held during the war. It is common sense. You might need to google that and the meaning of Constitution.
Torture is routine, including repeated electrical shocks, beatings that crack skulls and fracture ribs, and simulated suffocation. Many former prisoners witnessed deaths. A late June UN report documentedย 77 summary executions of civilian captivesย and one death due to
#torture
.
Beloved Kharkiv sculptor, artist, musician, father of 3 children who joined the 5th Slobozhanska brigade of
#Ukraine
's National Guard first week of war, awarded multiple time for valour during the liberation of
#Kharkiv
oblast, KIA on April 6 at Kreminna
The price of free Ukraine
They are mocking us, mocking our dead children, our dead defenders, burnt out land and destroyed cities: LATE MARCH OR APRIL!?
I leave unpublished my private thoughts about it.
It's appeasement to say the least.
I wish all the good Christians who do this to Ukraine burn in hell
Two years ago, on 31 March 2022,
#Kyiv
โs suburb of
#Bucha
was liberated from the russian occupation. The Bucha massacre was the mass murder of at least 422 Ukrainian civilians and POWs by russian forces during the month-long occupation of Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, in 2022.
A theatre actor Anton Prasolenko known for his performances with Vavylon theatre company in
#Kyiv
died of wounds recieved a week ago at
#Bakhmut
.
He was not a likely type to join the armed forces, but he volunteered when Russia unleashed a full-scale invasion of
#Ukraine
All women in this happy Ukrainian family were killed today in their home by the Russian missile strike on
#Liviv
.
Yevheniia and her three daughters - Yaryna, Dariia, and Emilia - were killed at the moment of strike. They were at the staircase, while Yaroslav survived by miracle
In other words, kind russian military captured a mother of four children, kept her as a sex slave, then wanted to deport her with (or without) children to Siberia from the warm and bountiful Kakhovka, and she, the ungrateful, fled with the children when she had a chance.
War correspondent Dmitry Steshin explained why Russia is not interested in a ceasefire and told a story about an attempted deportation of a Ukrainian mother and her 4 small children to Siberia. Thankfully, they were able to escape before being shipped out.
Russian barbarians intentionally bombed Ukrainian national monument Kamianska Sich in Kherson oblast. It is the only Ukrainian Cossack Sich site (base) which was not flooded by the creatiin of the Kakhovka reservoir. It contained mid-18th c Cossack necropolis and lapidarium .
@DVATW
This tweet is a perfect illustration of what happens when people do not know the context and have no sense of humor. I am not a fan of Zelensky's type of humor, but to be fair, this particular sketch was a parody on a song by a Ukrainian band. The fact obviously unknown to you.
It is said that one should never compare tragedies. It is indeed senseless to compare what's worse - HAMAS mutilating Israeli civilians or Russian regular troops beheading Ukrainian servicemen. Except that Russia is a state-UNSC member, not a terrorist organization. Or is it?
Anastasia Ren from Skorinetsk in
#Chernihiv
region is 20, left, and in her 90s, right.
She survived the
#Holodomor
and
#WWII
but she burned, with her pictures and her beautiful set of traditional clothing, on March 16, 2022 in her house, when it was hit by a russian shell.
April 16, 2014.
#Luhansk
. Found these going through my memories on facebook.
9 years ago Luhansk was rallying for peace and unity at the time when russian special forces and proxies began staging takeovers and attacking militarily Ukrainian cities in the
#Donbas
#Ukraine
#war
@TheDarkFacts
What did we expect? We expected to live peacefully in our own country. But Russia, with the largest landmass in the world, decided that there isn't enough russia, and Ukraine should become russia. Since Ukraine did not want to be russia, it is being destroyed.
Well, now it is official, Russian ministry of defence confirmed that
#Moskva
has sunk.
Major victory for
#Ukraine
.
Moskva was built in Mykolaiv.
Ukraine gave it life, and it also took it.
Ancient
#Kyiv
gave life to
#Moscow
.
There is a moral to that tale, don't you think?
More evidence of the hierarchy within the russian forces.
A young russian POW, of drafted forces, captured in Kursk oblast, tells that the kadyrovites retreated because they believe that "the kadytovites cannot be captured."
Whenever fighting is likely to become heavy,
In an interesting turn of events, drafted russian soldiers and even some russian civilians in Kursk oblast reported to the Ukrainian forces on the location of kadyrovites of the Akhmat-Rossiia battalion in the areas bordering with Ukraine.
This is according to Roman Burko of a
A missile attack on
#Kyiv
, minutes ago
Multiple explosions reported on city's Right bank. Sightings of a missile shot down by the air defence systems and of an explosion posted on telegram.
#Ukraine
#war
#RussianWarCrimes
Women constitute 17% of Ukrainian Armed Forces. One of the first killed in action was Iryna Tsvila, mother of five, of the National Guard of
#Ukraine
.
#war
#russianinvasion
Today, a russian iranian-supplied kamikaze drone aka shahed hit a residential building in
#Sumy
, killing at least one civilian. One more of endless acts of carnage aiming to terrorize Ukrainians into submission, another of
#russianwarcrimes
that the world seems to get used to
18-year-old artist Veronika Kozhushko killed today in a Russian bombing of
#Kharkiv
.
She shared her last painting an hour before she was killed.
One of 6 people killed in Kharkiv today. 77 more people got wounded, including 18 children.
๐ธ Mykyta Olkhovsky/
Suspilne Kharkiv
Young lady of
#Pokrovsk
in traditional Ukrainian wear.
June 1941
We don't like to talk about Pokrovsk now, but we think about it every day.
๐ป ๐บ๐ฆ
@JuliaDavisNews
@sumlenny
These images, murders of Max Levin and Serhiy Pronevych, have stayed with me all day today. The only thing comparable that I can think of,is NKVD torturing to death and executing political prisoners in 1941 on Lontskoho,in Drohobych, and many other NKVD prisons in Western Ukraine
The morning of September 2, around 5 am., Russia attacked
#Kyiv
with at least ten Kh- 101 cruise missiles, ten more Iskander M/KN-23 missiles, and one drone, all of which got shot down.
Falling debris caused damage to a heating plant, subway station entrance, vehicles, and some
Kyiv City Mayor reports new aerial attacks on
#Kyiv
, explosions in Shevchenkivsky district. Office of the President claims it is a kamikaze drone attack.
#Ukraine
#war
#russianwarcrimes
@itanasoaie
There was no Romanian taught in the Soviet Union. Moldovan was. But then russia also occupied part of Moldova that they call Transnistria, and there the official language is russian now. But you don't have a problem with that, of course.
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, nearly $4 billion of restricted chips have poured into Russia
Another fun fact is, that Alen Dudnik came a long road from an inexperienced 18- year old fighter on a checkpoint in the
#Donbas
featured in a 2014 article by WSJ.
Imagine, Ukraine has a young generation of people who have been fighting
#russia
since 2014
A neighbor traveling with Baklan said that they were severely beaten by russian soldiers who wanted to steal Baklan's old car, but he broke the key in the ignition. The russians dropped him at a hospital with broken skull, ribs, saying that he had been in an car accident.
A year after AFU liberated
#Izium
, 57 bodies found in a mass grave remain unidentified. Identities of 58 more people have been established but no relatives found to confirm their DNA.
23 bodies in the grave had broken jaws, sculls, other bones, 15 were tortured, 15 were shot.
In an interesting turn of events, drafted russian soldiers and even some russian civilians in Kursk oblast reported to the Ukrainian forces on the location of kadyrovites of the Akhmat-Rossiia battalion in the areas bordering with Ukraine.
This is according to Roman Burko of a
Wow! 58 percent of Ukrainian women ages 15-25 agree that
#women
should be subject to
#conscription
, according to a poll exploring changes in
#gender
stereotypes in
#Ukraine
since the full scale war conducted by Infoย Sapiens agency on request of Insight NGO
@slavoljubc
Kherson is an exception. It was spared as long as russians thought that they would control it. Once Ukraine regained control over Kherson, russia pounds it with artillery and missiles regularly.
Faces of Independence.
Ukrainian artist Olga Kostiuchenko, a Chernihiv native and a prominent Ukrainัan textile artist known for her reproductions and interpretations of the traditional Ukrainian wear and textiles of Chernihiv region, is a survivor, with her family, of a
All is hot, fiery, and quite unquiet on the Crimean front.
Crimean (Kerch) Bridge is closed.
#Kerch
residents report hearing explosions in the direction of the Mounth Mitridat, where a russian Pantsir-S1 air defence system is located, and seeing a strong fire after one
The agony of
#ChasivYar
,
#Donbas
,
#Ukraine
: Local residents watch rescuers work as they wait for news about their relatives, who are under the rubble of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike on July 9. 38 people dead, incl. a 9-year old boy
๐ท Gleb Garanich
I remember in Soviet high school our teacher of russian used to say that there is no great Ukrainian literature to study. That's why we were studying extensively russian language and literature instead.
Now i know why we were forced to believe it.
Six-year old Sophia Holynska was killed today in a russian strike on Chernihiv. She and six more men and women. Her mom who accompanied her is in a state of shock. Her father is fighting. She was the only child.
117 people, including 11 children, injured.
#russianwarcrimes
9-year old Bohdan, whose parents were killed in
#Bakhmut
by a Russian shell, dreamt of meeting a famous pyrotechnic dog Patron. His dream has come true. But can even Patron mend his broken heart?
@Mimi95225930
Are they gone? Are you sure? I don't know if they are gone. Since they are clearly a fruit of your sick imagination, and I see no sign of you being cured, make sure to look over your shoulder and under your pillow. They might still be hiding there.
@elonmusk
@KanekoaTheGreat
Hey Elon, some politics 101 for you. Coup happens when military take power using force. In Ukraine, unarmed people were killed by law enforcement on Yanukovych's order. He committed a crime, a treason, and he fled. The power was taken over by an interim government elected by Rada
He is a voice of his generation, voice of the Donbas, of Kharkiv, of Ukrainians at war. Novels Wild Fields, Internat, his poetry, his band "Zhadan I Sobaky", his daily Facebook posts are essential parts of Ukraine's cultural fabric.
While the ire of the Polish farmers seems to be directed at the EU policies and Ukrainian grain export, russian export, the actual problem is not even mentioned. Because russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda sets the agenda.
@carlbildt
@KatyaYushchenko
Typical genocidal discourse. Shocking from a government official. Simply illustrative of russia has veen doing since February 2022. They just don't want for Ukraine to exist. All other explanations is gaslighting.
Zhadan is native of the currently occupied Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast. He got his PhD in literature by studying Mykhail Semenko of Ukrainian "executed renaissance." As a resident of Kharkiv, he is at the heart of Kharkiv activism, volunteerism, fundraising for army and civilians.
The most important symbolic achievement of the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk oblast so far, has been the demonstration that the emperor has no clothes.
Putin is so fixes on destroying Ukraine that he can not care less about protecting his own people. We see it again and again
The scale of devastation in
#Lviv
appears to be much larger than reported initially. Early morning russian strike, or strikes, damaged as many as 50 buildings in the city's historical centre.
A 14-year old girl is one of the two civilians found dead. 35 more people, including
Massive fire in
#Lviv
's historical centre in the early morning hours of September 4.
Two buildings damaged and six civilians have been injured in the course of russia's combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine.
More barbarity, sadness, and destruction courtesy of russia.
First reports of destruction of the civilian, residential buildings in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblast.
Kyiv subway is packed as people are hiding from the potential missile strikes
It is another massive attack on Ukraine with at least three waves of missiles from several directions. S-300s have already struck Kharkiv, explosions are heard in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. A group of missiles is moving west to Lviv oblast.
Dah! So NOW (!) out of all times is THE TIME to fix the US border! Because there was no time before and there will be no time after!
Let's make Ukraine hostage to the issue that the Congress was incapable of addressing as adults for ages NOW, when Ukraine's funding has run out.
On the eve of the
#Passover
, Ukrainian rabbis gifted President Zelensky with an Aggadah in Ukrainian and matzah produced in
#Dnipro
, important centre of Judaism in Ukraine.
Watching
#Bakhmut
burn is particularly painful to Ukrainian psyche. It's the oldest Ukrainian cossack city-fortress in the
#Donbas
and the region's main urban centre until 1930s, the most pro-
#Ukraine
city in the Donbas during the 1917-1921 Ukrainian War of Independence.
Eight-year old Volodymyr Balabanyk was heavily wounded today, when one of four russian Kinzhal missiles launched at Ivano-Frankivsk oblast hit his family home in the village of Tseniava in Kolomyia raion.
He died in hospital, leaving behind parents and two siblings.
Liberated
#Kherson
's current mayor, Halyna Luhova has been almost killed six times, sleeps on a cot in a hallway, makes $375 a month while her city has been fired on by russia's artillery nearly every hour.
#Ukraine
.
This is getting exhausting. The confrontation has been going on since 2014, and somehow Ukraine is the only one facing it and is not afraid of it. They have to come up with a better excuse. This is pathetic.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has prevented the transfer of Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine because he fears it will lead to a confrontation with Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
@Rickpinajr
Check out a russian city the size of Bakhmut and how many houses there have toilets. You live in a make-believe world. Watch the Intercepted where the "regular russian soldiers" are on shock over the clearly higher living standards of the not so rich Ukrainian towns and villages.
Another devastating russian drone attack on
#Odesa
. A drone strike destroyed a residential high-rise, killing at least 7 people, including a mom with a three-months old baby whose bodies were just restrieved from the rubble. Among 8 wounded are a baby and a pregnant woman.
My bank customer support rep named Connor, non-Ukrainian, when I mentioned that I'll be travelling to Ukraine, asked me if I was originally from there. When I said yes, he responded "Slava Ukraini!" That was unexpected and truly cheered me up. Good to know that people care.
9 years ago, on February 18, 2014, the
#Maidan
protestors in
#Kyiv
walked to Verkhovna Rada to demand the abolition of the dictatorship laws of January 16, that were banning peaceful protest. Riot police and hired thugs attacked the march, killing and wounding dozens of people.
@MLallai
Dehumanization, little value attached to a human life seems to be one of the defining features of the russian culture. Their obsession with greatness clouds any moral judgement. I don't think Ukrainians value greatness. They want live well, let live and be left alone.
"I believe that today, there are no writers or not writers, musicians, or not musicians, - there are only citizens of Ukraine who feel responsible for their country and citizens trying to avoid this responsibility in one way or another," says Zhadan explaining his decision.