Breaking: State of emergency should be implemented all around #Ukraine, except for Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said. The parliament now has to vote on this.
This includes possible measures like increased security around vital parts of cities, increased screening of transport, limitation of public transport, and so on – general security measures.
Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts are an Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone, they've had these measures implemented since 2014.
"This won't affect our lives in any radical way" – Danilov, the council's secretary.
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In the shadow of #Donbas, Ukrainians in occupied Crimea are fighting another war against #Russia – 15 Crimean Tatars were arrested today for coming to a local court to support their friend, also Crimean Tatar, who is prosecuted for an online comment from 2017.
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has been severely repressing any Ukraine sympathizers on the peninsula, mainly Crimean Tatars – a Ukrainian ethnic minority native to Crimea. Since 2014, 169 Crimean Tatars were prosecuted – nearly 3/4 of all political prisoners in Crimea.
Crimean Tatars were forced to flee their home, Crimea, three times: a) when the Russian Empire annexed Crimea in 1783, b) when the Soviet regime deported at least 200,000 Crimean Tatars in 1944 (this is recognized as genocide) and c) when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
THREAD: Revolution of Dignity through the eyes of a kid. 1/12
When Maidan happened, I was 13.
My first memory is me walking through Kreschatyk with mom and dad, possibly on Dec. 1, the first time a million people turned up to protest. A crowd of thugs appeared out of nowhere and began destroying the Kyiv City Council. 2/12
I was curious and began walking towards them, when my dad grabbed my whole body and pulled me away. I didn’t take my eyes off them. They wore all black and were breaking windows and shouting – an image frozen in my memory. Later I learnt they were government-paid titushki. 3/12