A dog called Patron, who works with SES rescuers in Chernihiv, has helped defuse nearly 90 explosive devices since the beginning of the full-scale invasion 🐶 One day, Patron's story will be turned into a film, but for now, he is faithfully performing his professional duties.
⚡️ Russian assault force in Hostomel airport fully destroyed.
The facility is entirely under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — adviser to Head of the Presidential Office Oleksii Arestovych.
#StandWithUkraine
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have breached the occupiers' first line of defence near Kherson. They believe that Ukraine has a real chance to get back its occupied territories, especially considering the very successful use of Western weapons by the Ukrainian army.
URGENT: Russian troops have wired energy units of Zaporizhia nuclear power plant with explosives. Major General Vasilyev, commander of the garrison stationed at the plant, announced readiness to blow up the plant, leading to a nuclear catastrophe. 1/3
❗️ BREAKING. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has recognized Russia a terrorist state. 99 memberfs voted in favour, 1 abstained. A historic moment. According to UA rep Honcharenko, the resolution recognizes Russia's participation in the UN Security Council illegal.
NATO Secretary General
@jensstoltenberg
:
"Price we pay as the EU, as NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money. The price they pay is measured in lives lost every day. So, we should stop complaining and step up and provide support. Full stop.”
#StandWithUkraine
Russia has agents of influence - and entire parties of supporters - all across Europe. Choose your allegiance carefully. They, too, can ask Putin for help one day.
Each day this 5 year old girl Eva from Pustomyty, Lviv oblast, helps her mother and grandmother to cake and sell pastry to donate to Ukraine's Armed Forces.
#StandWithUkraine
«I want to go home, alive. I want to see the sun»
Ukrainian soldiers have released video from the Azovstal bunkers, where children aged 5–14 have been sheltering for the past two months.
#SaveMariupol
The Centre for Strategic Communication has learned that Amnesty International researchers were operating on the occupied territories, including filtration camps and jails, and thus, some of the interviews conducted for the notorious recent report may have been conducted there.1/3
Terrorist state shouldn't be responsible for the world's security. Josep Borrell, the chief diplomat of the EU, has advocated for changes in the UN Security Council 🧵
⚡️ Germany resists the EU attempts to cut off Sberbank, Russia's top bank holding about half of the Russian retail deposits, from SWIFT, Bloomberg reports. How much is a human life worth?
#StopRussia
❗️Russians exploit a "Serbian backdoor" loophole to avoid the EU flights ban. Air Serbia has 15 direct flights from Moscow to Belgrade a week. Russians arriving in 🇷🇸 are travelling on to Europe, with the top destinations being Cyprus, France, Switzerland, and Italy.
#StopRussia
"Nastia Kuzik, 21, reacts to pain while undergoing a rehabilitation session. On March 17, she went to her brother's house in Chernihiv, then on her way back was caught in a bombing. She lost her right leg below the knee and seriously injured her left leg".
📷 Emilio Morenatti
This's Vitaliy Skakun
A Ukrainian marine, decided to sacrifice himself to blow up a critical bridge next to Henichesk in southern Ukraine to stop the advance of the🇷🇺tank column.
This is what Ukraine does for Europe.What has Europe done for us?
#RussiaInvadedUkraine
#StopPutin
"This will either be Russian land, or scorched earth," he said. He also told his soldiers that no matter how difficult orders they could receive, they had to execute them "with honour," calling them "liberators." 2/3
There's not enough aspirin in Russia to cure the headache Putin must have this morning after this past 48 hours.
- Sinking of Russian warship Ivanovets
- Attack on Russian occupied Belbek airfield in Crimea
- EU approves €50 billion in Ukraine assistance
- US confirms imminent
Residents of liberated from the Russians Kutuzovka in the Kharkiv region greet Ukrainian servicemen and volunteers, who brought humanitarian aid. The village was occupied for more than two months.
As the people of 15 regions of Ukraine are hit by wave after wave of Russian missiles, North Korean missiles and Iranian drones, we'd like to remind our US, UK and German partners that we know the exact launching positions of almost everything Russians send.
We again kindly ask
A Ukrainian soldier hugs a dog that left abandoned by the owners, inside a house that the residents left, on the front line near Kyiv as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues,
Photo: Gleb Garanich
Kremlin cooperation with the Taliban terrorists is one of the good reasons for recognizing the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. (thread)1/4
During the recent information attack against Ukraine,
@CBSNews
published an ominous story about Western weapons allegedly "disappearing" in Ukraine and being used for "unknown purposes." Here are some facts and points refuting the story. 1/6
Ukrainian fighter pilot known by his call sign Juice urged partners to provide Ukraine with more and better aircrafts to effectively oppose Russian invasion
#StandWithUkraine
This means that information obtained from witnesses on the ground may have been obtained under significant pressure and should have never been used as "evidence" in a report of this scale and significance. 3/3
"Russia is turning occupied and sieged 🇺🇦 settlements into concentration camps, depriving civilians of food and medicine and directly violating the European Convention on Human Rights" – Ukraine's Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova. [1/4]
X does not restrict the activity of Russian accounts. X even removed the "state-affiliated media" label, making it easier for propaganda to deceive the audience.
Russians made a video urging Ukrainians to surrender. However, Ukrainians played a "reverse card", altering the video and inviting Russians to surrender instead. Check out how Russian information operation backfired 🧵
Harvesting crops in Ukraine these days. While the occupiers are burning our fields, Ukrainians, at immense risk to their own lives, are trying to save everything they can.
This is a freeze frame of the massive missile that Russia deliberately launched at a shopping mall full of Ukrainian civilians in a targeted airstrike timed to coincide with the busiest part of the day for maximum carnage.
#RussianWarCrimes
Dear
@elonmusk
, are you sure you don’t see any Russian propaganda on the X profiles of RT, Sputnik, Medvedev, Rogozin and others? If you really fight Russian propaganda, block their accounts.
Israeli Channel 11 showed a fake video about Ukraine's transfer of Western weapons to HAMAS. We requested the channel to refute the fake and apologise.
Russian media distribute a video that allegedly indicates the shooting of Russian POWs by the AFU. The Russian Ministry of Defence issued an angry statement. However, this is another information attack on Ukraine. Let us explain why.
A THREAD👇1/
"Alexandra Trofimovna, 86, was a little girl in Kharkiv when the Germans bombed her house during WWII, killing her mother and sister. She also lost two fingers on her right hand. Yesterday, her house was bombed once again, this time by the Russian army." 📷 & ✏️
@AlexanderLouri4
Sometimes a "correct" interview was the only chance to go through filtration and leave the occupied territories. In addition, materials collected during research by independent journalists and volunteers sometimes were subject to verification by FSB. 2/3
❗️ BREAKING: Ukraine applies for accelerated NATO membership, said President
@ZelenskyyUa
following the meeting of the National Defence and Security Council.
Ukraine used NASAMS systems to shoot down drones attacking the country yesterday. Despite having learned to operate them only a few weeks ago, our military used them almost like artillery, reloading them as fast as possible. This use case is probably a first in history. 1/2
This is Polina, who was killed by Russian saboteurs. The sabotage group shot her family: Polina and her parents died.
From the first day of the Russian attack on Ukraine, 16 children died.
Near Sievierodonetsk, Russians went into the home of a pro-Ukrainian volunteer and wheelchair user Oleksandr Kononov and shot him dead, reports Head of Luhansk MCA Haidai.
NOTE: the researchers were not present on the occupied territories in person, but rather obtained information from there using a network of volunteers and journalists.
Torture chamber in liberated Izium. Putin has repeatedly said that Russia came to Donbas to “prevent a new Srebrenica.” But the truth is that it was the Russian troops who massacred people in Bucha, Irpin, and now in Izium.
🎥Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets
In Enerhodar, people gathered to demand the release of Deputy Mayor Ivan Samoidyuk, abducted by the Russian military. At the end of the rally, the occupiers tried to capture several protesters, but hundreds of people formed a 'human wall' and pushed them back, Mayor Orlov says.