Thread by @cryptodrftng

1/ 📆 TIMELINE OF EVENTS

08 November 2021 - a group of @KyivPost journalists are fired by the owner, Adnan Kivan, for defending editorial independence.

Sources: @KyivIndependent @IAPonomarenko

🔗 kyivindependent.com/about

2/ The exiled @KyivPost team promises to launch something better.

That is how @KyivIndependent, one of the best Ukraine’s media outlets in English, is born.

Support independent Ukrainian journalism here:
patreon.com/kyivindependent

cc: @IAPonomarenko

3/ End of January - February 2022

I start going to Ukrainian protests against the russian military buildup around the borders of Ukraine.

Most lf them are at 10 Downing St and outside @RussianEmbassy

4/ 19 February 2022, 5 days before the full scale invasion.

I can't explain what it felt like seeing this kind of nonsense everywhere, for years, as a Ukrainian person.

@Reuters in particular have been spreading 🇷🇺 propaganda non-stop.

#ReutersLies -

5/ 22 February 2022 - messages to a friend.

6/ 23 February 2022 - to refresh everyone's memory on what it was like BEFORE the full-scale invasion began.

7/ A little earlier, January 2022:

"Making Ukraine, with its 44mn population, live in a state of constant terror since 2014, after attacking it for nothing, and the level of cruelty and psychopathy this involves, still shocks me after all these years."

8/ 24 February 2022 - the day russia starts the full scale invasion, @Patreon suspends Come Back Alive's page, citing some rules about "financing military personnel".

They do this at the worst time.

9/ 🪖 06 March 2022 @Ukraine_DAO sent 1550.5ETH to @BackAndAlive - the most respected charity in Ukraine supporting the Armed Forces.

Ukraine is one of the leading countries in the world for crypto adoption.

10/ From the very beginning, @Ukraine_DAO countering 🇷🇺 propaganda and disinfo, has been a target

🚩DISINFO TIP:

❗️ When seeing libelous statements, be particularly sceptical about anonymous accounts.

❗️After making false accusations, those often suffer no reputational damage.

11/ By June 2022, the info attacks got bad enough for @perrigracet to write the below.

Btw, the most horrible and “consistent” abuser turned out to be a friend of @KyivPost’s @officejjsmart - his name is Hans Hyde, he’s German.

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12/ 02 June 2022 - Community members saw @officejjsmart promoting Hans Hyde (@UkrainesGrains) in his article, started tagging me, so I responded.

@KyivPost was now being used to promote accounts known to attack Ukrainians and prominent foreign activists and experts.

13/ Approximately 17 July 2022 - @YAmzallagh and @BalticSnowTiger complete the hostile takeover of a popular 24/7 Twitter Space "Walter Report" and it becomes @MriyaReport

They claim to "amplify Ukrainian voices" there 🤣🤌

14/ If you are wondering why I'd be blocked by all of the above - here is why:

15/ @MriyaReport blocked me because I didn't enjoy listening to genocide apologism delivered by controllled opposition from 🇧🇾

Details in this 🧵:

16/ 27 August 2022 - I see @officejjsmart promoting nuclear hysteria and then covering up the tracks.

Danger discourse is one of the most common 🇷🇺 disinformation techniques.

I'll let you be the judge there.

17/ I pointed out an obvious logical fallacy in @officejjsmart arguments.

In response, he calls me illiterate and trolls me suggesting that Ukraine will inevitably get nuked - while my hometown gets shelled from the NPP.

He also says I'm not Ukrainian.

18/ 📌 Next, @officejjsmart and his employee who sexually harassed me (🔗 - ) demand that I join a Twitter Space called "Trying to get Alona to speak Ukrainian"

In that Space, it becomes obvious pretty quickly who can speak Ukrainian and who can't.

19/ 📌 Speaking about "grifters who provide nothing":

@spook_info employed by @officejjsmart now has a "standalone brand"

20/ The "antisemitism fighter" @YAmzallagh from @MriyaReport repeatedly platforms @officejjsmart of @KyivPost who uses antisemitic slurs to describe our Jewish President, who is leading Ukraine during a genocidal invasion.

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21/ Here's a 🧵 with a few other "achievements" so far:

- @walterlekh - 🇷🇺 troll
- @OKhudetska - not a real journalist
- CBA - "a discredited non-charity" (🔗 - )

But @MriyaReport are a victim of info attacks 🤌

22/ TLDR:

"Hospitaliers (some of 🇺🇦's best paramedics) - are Nazis!

@BackAndAlive are shady - what's not clear here?

You just don't know the full story, but I don't know it myself!

But don't criticise us, otherwise the donations going the wrong way anyway will disappear"

23/ In this 🧵 below, I was trying to explain to @MriyaReport's @ferlain what's wrong with her defending the Mriya people.

Constitution of Ukraine, Article 65 requires for Ukrainians to defend Ukraine (!)

It says nothing about Mriya.

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