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Feb 24, 2022 • 2780 tweets • >60 min read • Read on X
#war #Kyiv #Ukraine #Russia Collecting all reports thread; Ukraine's operational command says "cruise and ballistic missile strikes are underway at the control centres in Kyiv" from @lukeharding1968 Friends report explosions in #Kyiv, #Odessa #Kharkiv #Mykolaev thread, add info
Targets include airfields and military headquarters, operational command says
"Distant crumps - soft explosions - reported from west Kyiv, towards the airport. Not Cruise missiles, i think, but sounds like an attack on the airport." @JohnSweeney
#Ukrainian Minister of #Defense #Kuleba
Explosions reported across the country: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Dnipro, (according to Major Boris Filatov, who heard them, operational command says), Odesa, Slavayansk, Kramatorsk (reporters on the ground)
#Kyiv #Ukraine #war
reporting #Ukraine @gregolear @LincolnsBible @WendySiegelman @AlexandraChalup @grantstern @peterjukes @BylineTimes @BylineTimesPod @BylineTV @Hardeep_Matharu
BREAKING: Russian troops have landed in Odesa and are crossing the border into Kharkiv, according to Anton Herashchenko, advisor to Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior.
#Kiyv and #Kharkiv bombed
@KyivIndependent
not verified but
#Kharkiv people moved to metro
#Kyiv “Boryspil international airport came under attack … we’re not sure whether it was shelled or whether it’s an explosion,” We’ve heard sirens as well, so there’s definitely a full attack happening on the capital.”aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/23…
not seeing any new explosion reports for now, monitoring, will tweet if hear anything
Summing up, as of now: At least 4 explosions reported in Kramatorsk, a powerful explosion in Odesa, Kharkiv, Berdyansk, the beginning of powerful shelling in the Donbas by terrorists. Cruise and ballistic missiles fire at strategic objects in Kyiv #Ukraine
ATTENTION! POSSIBLE #FAKE news coming from #Kremlin media. Don't want to share as it might be disinformation to demoralize
Really important to check ALL information before posting. This is #HybridWar. Disinformation can be lethal. Rumor is used as a weapon. Check all info and photos before sharing. (Sources)
Martial law announced, #Zelensky to give speech soon
Missiles
#Kharkiv
#Kharkiv
#Zelenkskyy is speaking now. He spoke to #Biden
#Ukrainians stay home to stay calm: We will win because we are Ukraine. Glory to #Ukraine"
#Kharkiv
#Guardian #LukeHarding:
@lukeharding1968 Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klichko has put out statement. Says Ukraine is under attack from aggressor: "In Kyiv we can hear noise of shelling. The worst enemy now is panic. Keep calm. Everyone not involved in critical city functions, stay home. We have to prevail"
@IAPonomarenko: #GlorytoUkraine
#EU reaction
IMPORTANT! RT! DEMAND YOUR GOVERNMTS DO IT: The world must act immediately. The future of Europe and the world is being decided. Five priority actions from @DmytroKuleba :
1. Destructive sanctions against Russia immediately, disconnection of Russia from SWIFT.. Keep reading
2. Complete isolation of Russia in all formats
3. Weapons and equipment for Ukraine
4. Financial assistance
5. Humanitarian aid
Сonfirmed summary from the military. Yuri Birukov
1) Attacks on military airfields: Chuguev, Kramatorsk, Ozernoye, Kulbakino, Vasilkov.
2)Attacks on storage bases and arsenals.
3) thick shelling along "borders"
Many of the "explosions" are launches.
Ukrainian military is working
NOT CONFIRMED: Marine landing in Odessa; tank columns at the entrance to Kharkiv / Sumy / Chernihiv / Kiev. DO NOT SHARE INFO ABOUT THIS, CAN BE FAKE facebook.com/yuri.biriukov
Sounds like in #Kyiv the shelling/bombing/reponses stopped for now. Long lines to grocery stores. Some people are leaving, many are staying. No panic in #Odesa and #Kyiv. #GlorytoUkraine #СлаваУкраїні
From @IAPonomarenko
ALERT! Tanks of the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Belarus with "Javelin fittings". cross the border of Ukraine at the checkpoint
Senkivka - Veselivka.
Approximate data on the shelling as of 7:40 24.02.22.
From @ua_industrial Image
thank god.
ALERT! Intensive shelling in Ukraine’s east, minister says Ukraine’s defense minister has said that Ukrainian units, military control centers and airfields in the country’s east are under intensive Russian shelling.
THIS: What #Putin needs is panic. "Running away, bustle, reposts of throws and fakes.
Stay at home if possible. Stay calm. Moving out of the cities is now technically difficult. Always keep all mobile devices on charging. Don't panic" don't share fakes facebook.com/yuri.biriukov
About an hour ago in #Kyiv
A lot of people are waking up now to the news of war and only now hearing the sirens. Not all heard sirens. Transport, metro, taxis are working in #Kyiv now. Some people slept through the air raids and bombs.
Banks, ATMs, telephones, grocery stores are working for now in #Kyiv.
Listening to a heartbreaking report of parents explaining what's happening to children, and attaching labels with names to their clothes, and older people's reactions. Most people are staying calm. No major panic, things feel surreal. (from #Kyiv)
#Mykolaev #Nikolaev airport destroyed completely
Another airport strike, reportedly Ivano-Frankivsk
twitter.com/ASLuhn
!!!!
It is possible that Twitter might not take the capacity. It is at its max. FB was down yesterday. Experts expect the Internet down in Ukraine. Be aware and DO NOT PANIC.
TO ALL UKRAINIANS FROM @DmytroKuleba
Another assault from #Crimea
From @ChristopherJM latest, many more assaults, don't have time to verify but looks plausible:
Ivano-Frakivsk
A report from #Odesa #Odessa: relatively quiet now, long line to ATM, no explosions now. Public transportation is working, lines for gas, people are out shopping for food. Authorities asked people to stay home, no panic in the streets. Communication systems working.
ALERT!!! FAKE NEWS GALORE. Moldova attack: not confirmed, etc. Always double-check ALL (including my reports here.) I try my best to verify and use reliable sources but it is the INFORMATION WARFARE SO FIRST CHECK!
I talk to people on the ground in Ukraine and check the accounts of reliable journalists whose work I know. Cyber-attacks are ongoing. Do not open attachments.
From Meduza: Ukraine’s Border Service reports that Russian troops have crossed into Ukraine near Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Luhansk. meduza.io/en/live/2022/0…
Reposting for UKRAINIANS
Reports being now confirmed that #Russians are entering/moving into #Kharkiv. Not verified. Looks like ground troops now will be moving in.
Adding from @MalcolmNance (see tweet above)
SORRY, had to take a short break and dreading to see what I have missed. Back to reporting.
First casualty reports.
Quiet in #Kyiv for now:
Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko shared footage of the aftermath of a purported Russian missile attack in a suburb outside Kharkiv. The damage was reportedly caused by an unguided BM-30 Smerch heavy multiple rocket launcher.
#Kharkiv
#Zelenskyy speaks to Ukrainians: "Today Putin began an invasion, today began a war against Ukraine, with the whole democratic world. He wants to destroy my country, our country, everything that we have built.”
"I call on the Ukrainian military, which is already under fire, and are fighting off the enemy, ...you’re strong. Ukrainians, don’t panic, together are doing everything to support our army...I talked to Biden, Johnson, more:we are initiating an anti-Putin coalition." #Zelenskyy
"I called on the world community to impose all possible sanctions against Putin, initiate large military support, establish a no-fly zone. Together we must save #Ukraine"
(Also, if you are in Europe and just joining: #Putin challenged the #US and the #West in his speech, not #Ukraine only, before going on his assault. He is completely unhinged. See the beginning of this tread)
!!! IMPORTANT: NATO member states Poland, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania have triggered NATO Article Four to launch consultations within the alliance over their security concerns. Estonian PM said #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine represented a “threat to the whole of Europe,” @CNN
Under Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Agreement, the Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the allies is threatened. cnn.com/europe/live-ne…
Police in #Moscow arrested a small group of anti-war protesters trying to picket near Pushkin Monument... 1968 all over.
Very disturbing images from #Kharkiv, with civilian casualties. Not going to repost. It's horrible.
#Kharkiv
#Luhansk: Columns of Russian tanks entered the border of Krasnaya Talivka, Milove, Horodyshche. The enemy put in front of the column white cars with symbols #ОБСЄ . Fighting is currently underway on this frontier. SBGS 🇺🇦 the Armed Forces, the National Guard hold the defense
Source: Official Twitter-page of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Listening to updates from #Kyiv: What do you see outside? A lady is walking her dog... No panic. Very few people but no panic.
Very long lines in supermarkets. Pharmacies are working, banks are open but there are limitations. Everything is done to avoid panic. #Kyiv
In the area of settlements Kopani and Ivanovo, Kherson region, there are fights. In the Skadovsk area, the border commandant's office of the rapid response is fired from helicopters. 3 border guards killed, a number of injured. The State Border Guard Service is fighting occupants
Source: t.me/mvs_ukraine/87…
This is worth repeating. Little stars: rocket attacks Image
Okay, so I have seen this video in several reliable outlets. #Kharkiv
URGENT: from #Belarus, troops without identifying insignia are attacking.
Okay so this is about an hour ago, but from a reliable source
More: on this front:
I hear reliable reports of several Russian planes and tanks being destroyed but will have to find the link. For now, here is a part of the mind war: Z on Russian tanks.
Aha! Here it is!
!!!Ukrainian border guards report that the enemy is trying to attack from the territory of Belarus with the help of aircraft and military equipment without identification marks t.me/insiderUKR/210…
Okay, a few brave girls in St.Petersburg, Russia. They are probably arrested by the time you are seeing it. Image
And the rest of them, in their indescribable lowness. To these--a personal message: burn in hell.
Ukraine’s military says about 50 Russian forces have been killed and six warplanes destroyed amid fighting in the country’s east (according to @AlJazeera)
I have to say that I am losing it after five hours of this reporting as it looks like #Odesa had suffered three explosions and my friend is not answering. I see bad videos. If someone there, please PM.
This is #Uman'. My ancestors were from here. Shot dead in Holocaust. I am going to take five min break.
Confirmed, #Odessa, an explosion in an industrial area. There is very little official information. A few minutes ago, a new explosion was heard in Odessa, it was similar to the one that sounded in the morning. This is reported by the correspondent of TSN.
Expect a #refugeeCrisis in #Europe
Have you read all this? Okay, brace yourself: "The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the Russian military does not use "neither missiles nor aircraft against artillery" against Ukrainian cities"!!!!!!!!!The agency claims that the Russian armed forces do not strike....
...at the cities of Ukraine, but at the same time staged video filming of civilian casualties is allegedly being conducted in Ukraine!"
Not going to comment. BUT. Rouble falls to all-time low. In Moscow, no more trading roubles for dollars and euros.
Confirmed: in #Odesa / #Odessa (old spelling) a big explosion, and a fire at a metal processing factory. A child is killed in #Kharkiv region. Murderers. Criminals.
Ongoing: Nova Kakhovka: Russian aircraft launched a missile strike on the outskirts of the city. Some Russian military equipment in Nova Kakhovka.
#Navalny on trial speaks against the invasion. This trial was scheduled to coincide with the attack. This is an assault on the free world. Make no mistake.
FROM #Zelenskyy
(or leave Russia--from me, ZZ)
Yes! And I #StandWithUkraine
Meanwhile, in #Kyiv, Boryspil airport, an explosion has been reported as of now
Lithuania and Moldova — two countries bordering Ukraine — introduce a state of emergency. Moldova, which is not a part of NATO, is ready to accept the thousands of people fleeing from Ukraine.nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Russian troops crossed into Ukraine from the direction of Crimea and are attacking slowly in two directions - towards Melitopol (Zaporizhia region) and Kherson.
In Donbas, Ukrainian forces were able to defend Shchastya (Luhansk region), inflict casualties and destroy a lot of enemy equipment.
Ukrainian Armed Forces recaptured Snake Island in Odesa. Russian troops are suffering losses. #StopRussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine
Friends, I have been trying to sum up this hell for the last six hours since it broke up, and I am losing my ability to verify the info. I don't want to share anything I'm not sure about. Taking a break. My heart is heavy. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine
Back to reporting but need to review and sum up. For now, “Zelensky said that the Ukrainian armed forces have forced Russia’s advance to pause. Ukrainian forces are fighting hard for the control of Kherson. In the north, Russia is pushing through Chernihiv oblast.
STARTING THREAD COVERING THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE, 02/24, 8.20 AM EDT. 6.20 PM KYIV. "BAN RUSSIA FROM SWIFT.
INTERESTING: The Kremlin website, as well as most Russian government websites, are down. kremlin.ru
#Kyiv The mayor of Kyiv has ordered a curfew in Ukraine’s capital from 10pm to 7am, according to a statement shared on his official Facebook page. Some are still trying to escape but the whole country is under attack; nowhere to hide. No panic.
Few brave souls try to protest war in Russia. Moscow now--no more pretense. Masks down. #PutinHitler
#Kyiv now, people awaiting air strikes, hiding in metro
THe US believes that the Kremlin wants to "behead" the Ukrainian government and installed its own. from @KyivIndependent Telegram
Continuing from 1 hr ago: HORROR: Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the #Chornobyl_NPP. Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated. This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe. from @ZelenskyyUa
IMPORTANT: LOTS OF FAKES. Be very careful sharing anything, verify sources. Disinformation is a part of #HybridWar.
#Putin meets with Russian ‘businessmen’ in Moscow; not going to relate what he's saying. He is unhinged and if not stopped ASAP will destroy the world.
26 min ago: Heavy fighting for military Hostomel Airport near Kyiv. Russia was able to seize the airport, Ukraine shelled Kremlin troops to prevent seize of key infrastructure.
On the border with #Belarus
Russia's attacks have left 40 Ukrainian servicemembers dead: Ukraine's top diplomat to the U.S. Several dozen civilians injured in Russia's initial salvo. (h/t
@RobbieGramer who's at the presser)
!!
In 24 Russian cities, 167 people arrested for protests. People are being arrested right away, en masse.
!!
More than 400 arrested in Russia at this point for protests. Fights continuing throughout Ukraine, verifying information. Disinformation and inaccuracies, check everything.
The Russian landing in Gostomel of the Kiev area was blocked, the order for destruction was given, - Zelensky but unverified, hoping it is true
! heard from two sources
!!! The Chernobyl power plant has been captured by Russians.
How do i unsee this:
New sanctions from the #UK, more soon, the strictest so far, meanwhile clarification: Urgently! Russians captured the #Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Station personnel reportedly taken hostage
⚡️ Гостомель захвачен оккупантами
In Kharkiv, the mayor asked everyone to hide in metro Image
Russian forces strike hospitals, says 🇺🇦 Health Minister. Air battles close to #Kyiv. Over 600 protesters arrested in Russia by now.
Red dots: major strikes by the Russians on Ukrainian territory Image
#Chornobyl @Chernobyl
Air battle over Kharkiv. Air battle over Kyiv. Confirmed: Antonov airport, 10 km from Kyiv captured by Russians. (the Head of the President's office.)
Zelensky signed a decree on the establishment of military administrations on the basis of regional state administrations. Protests in Moscow despite arrests:
1,000 arrested in Russia. Waiting for sanctions from the West. #Biden is about to speak. "Moscow is willing to negotiate terms of "surrender" w/Kyiv regarding the ongoing Russian military offensive currently taking place in Ukraine, Kremlin Press Secretary said on Thursday.
"Putin has expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart, with a focus on obtaining a guarantee of neutral status and the promise of no weapons on its territory," to enable the achievement of the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine"
[F********* P*****] meanwhile, people are walking along the highway with suitcases away from Kyiv. Waiting for Biden to speak. Demand sanctions from your government. Share information.
Russian citizens abroad burning their passports. If I had a current one, I'd burn it.
A video is circulating on social media purportedly showing a woman in Moscow throwing a Molotov cocktail in downtown Moscow. The news outlet Baza says police have already arrested the 22-year-old individual. Thank you. Brave souls. The whole country is a hostage. The whole world
A big explosion at the airport 10 km from #Kyiv now, unconfirmed but reliable sources
18 Russian Il-76s flying towards Kiev – Bellingcat pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/…
Occupied territories in pink and reports of fierce fighting everywhere Image
In Kharkiv Реакция простого человека в Харькове на вторжение оккупантов-"освободителей"
the video didn't copy from Telegram. A crowded metro station/makeshift bomb shelter. 2022. A reminder: it is still CORONA.
Listening to #Biden now and will sum up.
I am still processing Biden's speech but on the first glance they are anything but "SWIFT" or "SEVERE". Can hardly believe my eyes and ears. Devastated. Devastated. Shame.
Four banks, including VTB, and no SWIFT, or sanctions against Putin.
At loss for words, but meanwhile, unverified but from a solid source, please share with Ukrainian friends.
NUMBERS FOR THE FIRST DAY OF INVASION: From @unian On Feb 24, 2022, it began shelling large Ukrainian cities. The Ukrainian armed forces are fighting back against the Russian invaders. Rocket strikes:
Russians fired at almost all military airfields from Donbas to Western Ukraine.
The Pentagon considered that in the first strike, the Russian army used more than 100 ballistic and cruise missiles. They did not break the resistance or sow panic.
From social networks: destroyed: 7 Russian aircrafts, 7 helicopters, 24 tanks, 24 armored vehicles.
Shelling was followed by offensive attempts. During attack attempts, equipment was destroyed and about 50 Russians were killed. During the shelling of the city of Chuguev, a child was killed. Russian GRADs hit the residential area in Mariupol. 1 woman dead, 1 injured.
About 400 houses destroyed in Donbas. Today, this figure has at least doubled. And this is a very optimistic forecast. Kharkiv and Sumy: interruptions in communications, difficult to clarify the situation in these cities. In Kharkiv, a shooting battle in residential areas.
Sumy residents talk about Russian tanks in the city center. Chernihiv: Units of the first separate tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Baturin area and in the vicinity of Chernigov stopped the columns of enemy armored vehicles.
Major battles are being fought for the airfield in Gostomel. It was attacked from the air, our soldiers managed to shoot down 3 helicopters.
STOPPING TO TALK TO A LOCAL NEWSPAPER, will be back soon, more numbers and more attacks happening now as I type.
BACK. Major battles are being fought for the airfield in Gostomel. It was attacked from the air, 🇺🇦 soldiers managed to shoot down 3 helicopters.
Hostomel airport is under 🇺🇦 army control! Russian landing destroyed. In Russia, 1,500 anti-war protesters arrested.
Fights are reported all over Ukraine. Ukrainian Army fights back, pushing the aggressor back. Estimated 60 battalion tactical groups (800 soldiers per group) so about 48,000 Russian troops is engaged; Ukraine will be supporting more of the reserves, according to expert analysis
13 border guards killed by the aggressor after declining the offer to surrender strategically important Zmiiny Island and answering “Go f**** yourself!” The aggressor, much bigger in number,
captured the island. Image
IMPORTANT: DEMAND A NO-FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE:
A good map of #Ukraine and the invasion by #Russian aggressor. Many experts express an opinion that Russians are regrouping and preparing for the new attack. Civilians should seek safe shelter. Heroic Ukrainian troops displaying courage and dignity. No panic in #Kyiv. Thread Image
Deputy Minister of Defense of #Ukraine: Defensive battles in Siversky direction. The enemy column from the #Russian 58 brigade stopped. In the south, defensive battles in the area of #Kherson. Mechanized units hit the bridge and were positioned on the left bank #Dnipro
#Zelensky announced general mobilization. All conscripts and reservists from all Ukrainian regions.
RT ⚡️Zelensky calls on EU to suspend Russia from SWIFT, stop trade in oil and gas. urope’s fate is being decided in Ukraine: If Putin does not get a decent response now, he will move further." Demand your governments to suspend Russia from SWIFT
🇺🇦Defense Minister: expect a new wave of #Russian assaults, including a massive airdrop operation within the next hours (night time in #Ukraine) #russianinvasion
Just in
ALERT
ALERT, NEW OFFENSIVE BUILDING UP
ALERT, MORE
This is a GREAT MAP #Ukaine #russianinvasion #RussianArmy offensive, #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine #GlorytoUkraine Image
An overview: #Russian air and land forces are pressing into #Ukraine from three sides in #Europe’s first full-scale #military conflict in decades. Three-way Russian advance is being contested yet moving ahead. defenseone.com/threats/2022/0…
"We see initial phases of a large-scale invasion, an advance on what are essentially 3 main axes of assault. 1. Northward from Crimea toward Kherson; 2. Southward “from Belarus to Kyiv”; 3. From Belarus southwest toward Kharkiv,second-largest city." a U.S. senior defense official
“These 3 axes are... clearly designed to take key population centers... They’re making a move on Kyiv…They have every intention of decapitating the government &installing their own method of governance. We see the heaviest fighting in & around Kharkiv, right now.”
"Russian forces fired > 100 missiles, mostly short-range ones +also medium-range missiles, +cruise missiles from warships in the Black Sea. They used approx 75 fixed-wing heavy and medium bombers as a part of this initial onslaught.
"The targets thus far…have been primarily focused on military and air defense: barracks, ammunition warehouses, nearly 10 airfields targeted. We do not have a good sense of total damage or casualties"
U.S. officials had not yet confirmed reports of Russian ground troops in Ukraine. local reporting and social media, including from Ukrainian government sources, showed images across the country of downed aircraft, destroyed tanks, civilian casualties and captured Russian troops.
Here we go... as promised. Russian airforce continues to arrive, landing at the Bobruisk airfield in the Mogilev region of the Republic of Belarus.
Fight/fire in Sumy
more from #Sumy
#Sumy
New address by President #Zelenskyy: 137 🇺🇦people killed, 316 wounded. "Today #Russia attacked the entire territory of #Ukraine point and our defenders fought back well. Glory to the armed forces of Ukraine!
#Putin designated #Zelensky and his family as the number one goal. The West is afraid to accept #Ukraine into #NATO and to fight #RussiaAggression along with Ukraine. There is information that #Russian saboteurs of have already entered #Kyiv
Intel info (#US and other sources): 3 am--airstrike on #Kyiv is planned, 3.30 am- 4.am - #Kharkiv. Civilians to shelters; RT spread the word. Help save lives. #Ukraine #RussianAggression #RussiaInvadesUkraine
Russian troops abandoned armored vehicles, flee from #Sumy oblast. Invaders left their BTR, armored vehicles and ammunition, and burned other supplies. Advisor to the minister of internal affairs Heraschenko stated that the troops either fled back to Russia or surrendered.
IMPORTANT! General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: #Sumy, #Chernihiv, #Kherson, #Zhytomyr, #Kyiv, #Kharkiv! At night, the aggressor might pull up troops with fuel and ammunition. Inform Ukrainian military or authorities if you see enemy equipment
Please RT the important info for the world to know. Taking a few minutes as the attacks are expected in about 1-1.5 hours to follow and report. Stay safe. #SupportUkraine Be vigilant. Verify information. 🇺🇦
⚡️The main international network of #hackers has declared war on the authorities of the #Russian Federation. An hour later, the #FSB cybersecurity structure declared a critical threat level. GO HACKERS!
Pretty much the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time. Thank you @YourAnonOne Image
Meanwhile, #RussianAgression plans confirmed by Blinken, #Russia plans to encircle and threaten #Kyiv and #Moscow has developed plans to inflict widespread human rights abuses--and potentially worse--on #Ukrainian people." Civilians, find shelter!
The airstrikes on #Kyiv are expected at 3 am local time and mainly on military objects. From Zelensky's aide Arestovich: Ukrainian army is magic and pushes back fiercely and that is why what awaits is terrible. The aggressor will do its best to terrorize, and break the spirit but
...but it won't be as terrifying because it is already expected. And, today they lost 7 planes, 7 helicopters, more than 30 tanks, 130 armored vehicles. 450 killed, over 200 captured. #UkraineWillResist
In #Ukraine, 137 Ukrainians died on the first day of Russia’s attack. 316 wounded. You know who is the murderer? You guessed it. #Putin #PutinIsaWarCriminal and he will answer for all the deaths and grief. We know what happened to Hitler and Mussolini.
Ukraine’s Air Force says Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 downed two Russian Su-30s in dogfight
I see a lot of satellite horror images of Russian tanks and armored vehicles crawling through the nuclear contaminated area around #Chernobyl #Chornobyl supposedly now and it is disturbing on many levels but not going to share as the dates are confusing (it's Feb 25 there...)so
#Kharkiv "denazification"
#sanctions! more sanctions!
Sounds like all the details on the EU sanctions will be revealed tomorrow. Meanwhile, it is confirmed that on the highway from #Sumy to #Kyiv the Russian troops installed checkpoints and check IDs. (Not quite sure whose IDs are being checked.) This is from Unian Agency.
The #Sumy region governor just said that Russian forces hold Konotop under siege and are moving to Kyiv. ALERT: A LARGE MILITARY GROUP IS MOVING FROM OCCUPIED #SUMY TOWARD #KYIV. Pray for Ukraine if you pray. Pray for Kyiv if you pray.
In case you missed it, this is Sumy burning
#UK intelligence: It is unlikely that #Russian military achieved their goals today
#Sumy: the shell hit the balcony of a multi-storey building; it is now on fire
@christogrozev: Other unconfirmed reports say the plan is to be met by local coup plotters who will initiate a mutiny and arrest him on (trumped-up) treason charges. ...it's almost certain Russia has local collaborationists at various positions, so that's not unthinkable.
EXPLOSIONS IN #KYIV, TWO, WITH A FEW SECONDS IN BETWEEN
cruise and ballistic missiles, @Heraschenko
6 explosions in #Kyiv (Троещина)
Ukrainian air defense shot down two Russian ballistic missiles shot on #Kyiv
t.me/uniannet/31649
Unconfirmed: the video about is hitting down the agressor's aircraft. waiting for confirmation
@UnianInfo
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malar informs:
Estimated losses of the opponent as of 03:00 25.02.2022
Airplanes 7
Helicopters 6
Tanks - more than 30
BBM - 130
The loss of soldiers and officers: approximately 800 people. #PutinIsaWarCriminal
#Kyiv now t.me/uniannet/31654…
#Kyiv now Image
The special services report: the further plans of the Russian invaders, the purpose of which is to "take control" of the capital of Ukraine. Source: SBU counterintelligence source Details: According to the operational plan of the Russian Federation, up to 2,000 special forces
will be used to to capture the airport in Kyiv (one of the two - ed.) and air traffic control facilities, the indicated number of military personnel will ensure the arrival of the main group of forces in the amount of up to 10 thousand paratroopers by Il-76 aircraft
... with light armored vehicles and standard weapons of the airborne troops (armored personnel carriers, Nona, cars). The landing operation will be controlled from the A-50 aircraft, in the airspace of Belarus& Russia.The 1st part may arrive from Belarus by helicopters/aircraft
(i am writing, reading, translating and screening all this and it feels like i have lost my mind.) In #Kyiv, 9 storey residential building is on fire, 4-9 floors, no reports of casualties yet.
Continuing about the plan to seize #Kyiv"Sabotage groups that are already on the territory of Ukraine might commit sabotage at power grids & substations in order to disconnect a significant part of the city from the power grid & communications, to cause panic among the population
"According to the source, separate groups of provocateurs organize arson and acts of looting in order to further sow panic and focus the attention of law enforcement agencies on stabilizing the situation with public safety, and not on searching for saboteurs and spies."
pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/…
attack on #Zaporozhye at 4.25 am; there are dead and wounded among the border guards. The residential building in #Kyiv. Where people were asleep at night. Image
"They are trying to occupy the Kherson region, we will fight, ready for anything" report (not sure what ОДА means)
ALSO: A LOT OF DISINFORMATION (Russians boasted (! I kid you not) of launching over 40 missiles on #Kyiv) CHeck everything. One explosion or fire can be photographed from different angles. Their goal is to sow panic and "demoralize the army and population of the adversary."
Now: confirmed, two residential buildings are on fire in #Kyiv, Ukrainian army repelled the asssault by intercepting a number of missiles and downing a Russian aircraft (a drone, likely). It fell on a residential block in eastern Kyiv.
Three people were injured, one in a critical condition, @Kyiv Mayor's information)
... and now there is nothing. silence. in #Kyiv, the buildings are on fire and can collapse. other cities are burning. people are in shelters, children are asking "Will #Russians come to kill us?" #StopRussia #StopPutin #StopRussianAggression Someone, do something!
@NATO #Ukraine is burning, people are dying, #StopPutin #StopTheWar #HelpUkraine @UN @POTUS #SaveUkraine
ALERT: NOW:
"We have been left alone to defend our state," #Zelensky said in his midnight address to the nation, adding that he was grateful to those countries providing help and not just statements. just to put the visual to his words. This thing to the right-all the way to the right-Russia Image
Two explosions in #Rovno just now.
#Explosions in #Kyiv again. Russian tanks are moving towards #Kyiv, fight by #Ivankiv. UKrainians exploded the bridge to stop the movement
Distant explosions might be heard in #Kyiv (to be confirmed.) Otherwise, early morning and not much is happening, eerie silence.
Meanwhile, some news: #Canada’s new sanctions target 31 individuals, as well as 27 banks and entities, connected to Russia’s ruling elite. Canada canceled all export permits to Russia, which would curve about $750 million in Canadian exports & penalized 351 Russian lawmakers.
More explosion sounds in #Kyiv, louder now. In #Kharkiv Ukrainian troops push back against the assault in Dergachi and Pechenig (sp)
The State Emergency Service of #Ukraine informs about the landing of #Russian troops in the village of #Pavlovka, #Zhitomir region; the number of enemy personnel is currently unknown
Ukrainska Pravda informs that a Russian drone was taken down. Explosions were heard by many, waiting for confirmation from official sources and explanations.
Sirens are reported to be heard in #Lviv again
Fragments of an aircraft (drone?) fell on a two-story residential house on Sadovaya street. Details forthcoming (@UnianInfo)
Sirens are now heard in #Chernihiv
Fragments of the aircraft in #Kyiv. Fire was extinguished. Image
Sirens in #Kyiv
Fights in #Dimer, close to #Kyiv. Air defense is fighting for air space over #Kyiv
Russian military transport in #NovayaKahovka. Sirens in #Kyiv stopped for now
@ZelenskyyUa just addressed Ukrainian people and at the end spoke Russian, addressing Russian people and explaining that the Russian troops started to bomb residential areas. "THis morning we are defending our state alone.
... Like yesterday, the world's most powerful forces are watching us from afar. Did yesterday's sanctions convince Russia? We hear in our sky and see it on our land: this was not enough." #Zelenskyy
URGENT!!!! A column of Russian tanks is moving towards #Kyiv. A bridge by #Kyiv was exploded by the Ukrainian military to stop the aggressor from advancing so they are approaching from #Hostomel. (@Heraschenko)
UNIAN just sent a message asking residents of many towns and areas to go to shelters. Explosions are heard in #Kyiv. Will review/verify resources
i will share any developments that i see; for now--a moment to try and get back to one's senses (if it is possible under the circumstances) or at least get some balance to report with a clear head.
SIGNAL TO IMMEDIATELY HEAD FOR SHELTER (in #Kyiv) Russian aviation might enter Kyiv airspace in the next 15 min.
Sirens and explosions in #Kyiv
Sirens stopped.
In #Vyshgorod near #Kyiv, (20 km) the sounds of artillery cannonade are heard more and more clearly. They can be heard in Kyiv. Judging by the intensity, Ukrainian soldiers are fighting somewhere on the outskirts of the city. In the city, people go outside with children & luggage
Ukrainian military managed to hold the defence of the area near Chernihiv. Russian forces retreated, leaving behind armored vehicles and documents of Russian soldiers, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said.
Russian forces are not letting the Red Cross enter Schastia, a frontline village near occupied Luhansk. There is no electricity or water, the village is under constant shelling by Russian forces, evacuation is impossible, said the Head of Luhansk Regional State Administration
The enemy is trying to land troops in the Minsky area of Kiev. The response teams are aware and are trying to push back Vitaly Glagola reports.
BREAKING: Ukraine army says fighting Russian forces outside capital Kyiv -
@AFP
BREAKING
The Russian military seized two vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, changed into Ukrainian uniform and are moving to the center of Kyiv. They are followed by a column of Russian military trucks, says Deputy Defense Minister. @KyivIndependent
!!!!Senior Ukrainian official: Russian troops will enter Kyiv outskirts today. The unnamed official also told Reuters that Ukrainian forces were fighting on four fronts despite being outnumbered.!!!
Found video:
Street fights in the streets in #Kyiv t.me/uniannet/31795…
More videos of street fights in Minsky district in #Kyiv t.me/uniannet/31796…
In #Chornobyl /#Chernobil the radiation is now much higher than usual; no scientific explanation. #Russian troops went through the zone.
Russian troops are in the residential area of Kyiv, Obolon (North). The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine says: make Molotov cocktails, stop the occupants! Peaceful residents - be careful! Don't leave the house! #SaveUkraine #StopPutin
Airstrike in #Kherson t.me/uniannet/31798…
Starobylsk, in Luhansk area, burning houses, broken windows, destroyed streets t.me/uniannet/31804…
I hear reports of street fights and shootings in #Kyiv, the capital of #Ukraine, but can't find anymore videos so far. Many #Ukrainians flee to Moldova (agreed to accept up to 10,000), Poland (not sure). The horror, the horror. #StopPutin #SaveUkraine
an endless row of tanks by #Kyiv, with "Z" inscribed on every tank. #Putin needs to be in an institution. He is f**** nuts. How did the world let him get so far? Any more negotiations?! Economic Forums, maybe? F* you all, political geniuses of today. t.me/uniannet/31810…
SHARE THIS WITH THE WORLD!!! RUSSIAN TANK JUST RIDING OVER A PERSON IN A CAR! LET EVERYONE SEE THEIR REAL FACES. ANIMALS. t.me/uniannet/31812…
#Ukrainian tanks are heading to defend their city from #Putin's Orks. t.me/uniannet/31813…
Residential peaceful district in #Kyiv. Usually, moms with strollers and toddlers walk around in these yards and people walk their dogs. Unspeakable. Share. Let everyone see it. t.me/uniannet/31814…
#Russia’s forces have entered the Obolon district in #Kyiv. The #Ukrainian military is currently fighting them. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry asks residents not to leave their houses and prepare Molotov cocktails. The district is approximately 10 kilometers from central Kyiv.
#journalists Address of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, @Gerashchenko7 (via FB): "I appeal to all Journalists from civilized countries currently working in Ukraine. At the time of the terrible tragedy that is now being played out in our peaceful country...
the role of the Media is extremely important. Ukrainian media outlets are not broadcasted in the Russian Federation. But they do read and watch the leading Western media. We desperately need your help: show that the #Russian troops were deceived by #Putin...
...They were not told that they were going to attack Ukraine. Ther were told that this is a continuation of the exercises. The Russian military staff often surrenders without a fight. They are absolutely disoriented and do not understand what they are doing in Ukraine...
...Please show the facts of the surrender of Russian soldiers to help us demotivate the aggressor. This is VERY important and will be your contribution to stopping aggression and the WWIII!" from @Gerashchenko7 via FB
via @UnianInfo: A request to stop publishing online videos of street fights so as not to give any visual clues or information on dislocation to the adversary. All right, no more videos here.
Also, a warning about phishing and fakes (for journalists, Ukrainians, and pretty much anyone at this point); do not open links unless you absolutely have to and know the sender for a fact. Do not scan QR-codes (a message from @UnianInfo)
#Zelensky is in #Kyiv in an undisclosed location even though the aggressor has a plan to destroy the leadership of the country, with Zelensky as a number one target.
This young man sacrificed his life today to mine and explode the bridge to stop the occupants from entering his city, #Kyiv. Marine engineer, Vitaly Skakun. #GloryToUkraine #GloryToHeroes Hundreds died today, because of the folly of one [...] Image
Airstrikes in #Vinnytsia; in #Zhytomyr area heavy explosions. It is not stopping. It is going on.
And this is from #Kharkiv where people slept in the metro overnight, in extremely stranded conditions. Remember COVID? Yeah.
More:
#Kremlin trolls are hyperactive on all social media. "Trending" on Twitter, FB comments and comments on YT videos and news broadcasting. Here is a good sample: This is a textbook, word by word, pamphlet for wartime to target the army of the adversary (soldiers, surrenderblabla) Image
#Ukrainian troops had to blow up infrastructure objects like bridges to prevent the occupying forces from entering the capital. This reminds me of the Napoleonic wars as described by Tolstoy. How did it come to this?!
Air strikes in #Kyiv and #Kharkiv
#Kharkiv
Here is a young Russian anti-war protestor, awaiting his trial for stepping out with a poster against the war in January. #Putin holds the whole country hostage. And the whole world. I said it, and I will say it again.
#Gunfire heard near government buildings in #Kyiv @KyivIndependent
I've slept 3 hours since Putin started his aggression against Ukraine. My heart is aching for all my friends in Ukraine, for Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv, Crimea... and I'm afraid to fall asleep--I don't know what I am going to wake up to. I can't see straight, though. Fingers crossed.
I am back online (was completely out) and checking in and summing it all up to continue reporting. Bad things happening but #Ukrainian people are strong and brave and fight back. 👊🏼🇺🇦
There are multiple attacks and fights happening all over #Ukraine where the #russianinvasion is ongoing. I just talked to multiple friends attempting to find a safe place. The problem: the whole country is under attack. Nowhere to hide. People also don't want to leave...
their family members (men 18-60 cannot leave the country as there is a general mobilization). Diffiult decisions under stress: pets (taking dogs, cats, etc with them). Meanwhile, reports of possible damages to the power station in #Kyiv, where explosions are heard everywhere and
residential buildings are bombed and being fired. #Kharkiv went under several bombings overnight. Fierce fights in #Melitopol #Mariupol near #Kherson, #Ukrainian troops exploding infrastructure objects to stop the troops of aggressor. #Zelenskyy shared a video addressing
#Ukrainians, standing in the street in #Kyiv, near his office, with his government, showing that he is with his people and his country and not leaving. He also said in a conversation with #EU politicians that "this might be the last time they see him alive". The video verified
Meanwhile, the West is very slow with responses. Some positive steps taken: massive sanctions against #Putin and #Lavrov, #Russia is excluded from several political organizations and public associations, from the EU council to Eurovision, and most country leaders express support,
#Poland and #Moldova accepting refugees (over 50,000 refugees fled #Ukraine in the last 24 hours.) #Ireland opened w/o visa regime to #Ukrainians. Since the start of the aggression, over 1,000 Russian soldiers and officers were killed, many were captured and reportedly fled.
#Putin is recruiting #Chechen mercenaries to be flown to #Ukraine. Captured #Russian soldiers tell (on film) that they were misinformed:"they were not going to fight", "it was training", "#Ukrainians started the war" etc. Meanwhile, many facts of atrocities and war crimes are...
... reported: casualties in a shelled orphanage and kindergarten, civilians shot by #Russian troops, a tank rode over a civilian car, etc. Currently, Ukrainian troops are stationed downtown #Kyiv ready to push back against #Russian troops that are encroaching on the city.
Air raids are heard in multiple cities and residents are advised to take shelter in metro stations and basements or stay inside. Explosions are heard all over the country (I will be doing specific reports after I'm done with the summary of the last few hours that I had take
to sleep so I can report and verify the information. Many more fakes and disinformation flooding the cyberspace. Verifying information and checking your sources is crucial because this is #HybridWar #Cyberwar and #Russian troops have experts working on creating disinformation
Reports just came in that a town called "Happiness" (Schastje) is almost entirely destroyed by #Russian troops. I am switching back to reporting on the battles, and latest events, relying on reporting from my friends and journalists who are in #Ukraine and Telegram canals
#Mariupol is under fire. #Luhansk is still fighting and there are fakes that it is taken--NOT TRUE. Many messages from city authorities: DO NOT PANIC, STAY CALM. VERIFY ALL INFORMATION. #Poland sends in military equipment and ammo. The aggressor is stopped by #Konotop.
#Chernihiv is protected by #UkrainianArmy. Minister of Defense, #Urkaine, addressed people: Over 40 hours of repelling Russian occupants showed that we have the most powerful army in Europe and fearless people....#Ukrainians are fighting for the future... their own and Europe's.
We will win! #Glory to #Ukraine!" Meanwhile, the territorial defense (=people fighting the aggressor) received anti-tank grenade launchers (NLAW). in #Kyiv about 30 min ago, 5 explosions occurred near power station.
From #Ukrainina Ministry of Defense: Be vigilant - Russian troops can disguise themselves as servicemen of the Armed Forces and other law enforcement agencies, as well as be in civilian clothes. See someone suspicious - call the police! Spread the message.
Just in: #CNN reports that #putin will be sanctioned by the #US tomorrow morning. Earlier, it was reported the the #EU sanctioned #Putin and #Lavrov and #UK is about to do it, too. There is a discussion of banning Russia from SWIFT but Hungary and Cyprus still object
From @UnianInfo: #Russian occupants are stationed by #Konotop after losing 40 tanks (burnt); soldiers are reported to stop by residents' houses and ask to buy "salo" (lard) and moonshine... #RussianBBQ no comment.
I forgot to mention: today, #Putin made another speech, addressing #Ukrainian Army, suggesting they surrender and takedown "drug addicts" and "Nazis" that "took over" Kyiv. At the time he made the speech #Russians shelled an orphanage and kindergarten with kids in them.
Meanwhile, in @Russia, over 1000 arrested in anti-war protests, partial Facebook censorship, "independent" channels banned to report on the war, losses statistics can't be shared,
#Putin via his press secretary said that he "is ready to negotiate" and his representatives can meet in #Minsk or Poland but made an ultimatum (Ukraine's neutrality, disarmament (no firearms whatsoever) etc.
#Zelenskyy previously has called for negotiations "to save lives." It is not clear if such negotiations are feasible or will happen. Monitoring.
Special note: #ghostofkyiv is a legendary #Ukrainian jet that allegedly singlehandedly hit and took down 6 Russian aircraft. Needs verifying.
My favorite people and personal heroes hackers hacked into the Russian Ministry of Defense site and leaked all personal data. Here you go. The world needs to know their heroes
On this note, dear hackers:
#Odesa #Odessa stable situation for now. #Kharkiv explosions are heard NOW all around, downtown, residential areas, airports, residents are asked to take shelter in metro; in #Mikolaev an oil base is on fire; more explosions in #Kyiv; street fights in #Mariupol
#Kyiv is blocked from the West now, the saboteurs group have entered #Kyiv in the morning and was liquidated. People are donating blood in #Kyiv. Sirens, explosions now. Image
An update: The UN refugee agency says an estimated 100,000 Ukrainians have fled their homes. Also: Ukrainian journalists swap tv studios for bomb shelters in Kyiv but keep reporting.
Notable: the amount of jokes #ukrainains make, and the overall spirit. Strong language and the ability to laugh: admirable.
Another air raid alert in #Kyiv Mobile phone service providers of Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and many more won't charge for calls to #Ukraine.
5 Russian missiles dropped on the airport in #Khmelnytskyi. In #Konotop, after fierce fights, #Russian soldiers are trying to buy fuel for their tanks and food. (sign on Migalki village bus stop: "B*** go f*** away from Ukraine and from our village. Grandma Nadya) Image
Pictures from #Kyiv today:
Here is the video of #Ukrainian president #Zelensky last night.
IMPORTANT!
In #Kyiv, shooting downtown. Not just explosions.
Ukraine’s ministry of energy: Russian forces not following Chernobyl safety guidelines!!! “For the second day, the occupiers have been detaining the personnel of the Chornobyl NPP station, not allowing them to rotate as required by technical safety rules.”
#Chechen soldiers sent to #Mariupol where fights are ongoing. Says the Mayor, our troops are ready to defend our land. Reserves for water are in full supply although the water pipe has been damaged by Russians. scontrolhttps://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1497231090041430018
Putin called "de-Nazi-fication" now watch this
Currently, in #Kharkiv blood donation center is under fire and school; there are casualties. 80 people suffered, civilians and military; 11 people dead from #Russian shelling. South of Ukraine, #Kyiv and #Kharkiv are the most dangerous areas to watch NOW.
I just watched a video of a young woman with newborn baby in a carrier arrested in St.Petersburg for protesting against the war in #Ukraine. PLEASE SHARE THIS. #StopPutinNOW Image
#Zelensky's Press secretary: There was a fake that #Ukrainian government to negotiate with #Russian government. Currently, the time and place are being negotiated
This. Baby. Was. Born. in. Bomb. Shelter. in #Kyiv. 2022. #StopPutinNOW #StopPutinsWar
This is what YOU can do to help:
The US is imposing sanctions on #putin and #lavrov (foreign minister.) [better late, than never--zz]. Power is still on #Kyiv, water supplies are sufficient.
Solid message from #Ukraine, especially to #Russians: stop writing and saying you are ashamed or in shock. DO SOMETHING. ACT. Hide your kids from being recruited to the army (in Russia, it is obligatory for men to serve, starting at 18.) Celebrities: talk to your fans, openly.
The map of invasion as of now, 02.25.2022 ImageImage
[Going to take a few minutes to speak to a few people on the phone.]
[Back] #Kyiv: #Zelensky is reported still there. Several districts are under fire and tank attacks in #Kyiv. Many people are hiding in metro and basements; #Kharkiv, #Kherson and #Sumy areas are also the main battlefields.
In #Kyiv, authorities deliver trucks of firearms and ammunition to volunteers/residents/civilians who want to stop occupants. Many people are scared but no panic. #Putin made a speech, stating that his troops are there to "protect the population": people sitting in basements.why?
!!! #Russia used its veto power to block a #UN Security Council resolution condemning its invasion of #Ukraine. 11 in favor, 1 against, 3 abstentions (including #China). #Zelensky just spoke to #Biden, thanked for personal sanctions on #Putin. still waiting for #EU on #SWIFT
#Putin made an ultimatum to #Ukraine: agree to a neutrality status, that would prohibit it from EVER joining NATO. #Zelensky said that everything would depend on the security guarantees that Ukraine would receive.
more: anticipated attack on #Kyiv Zelensky:Russia will storm Kyiv tonight in “vile, cruel and inhuman” fashion. We have to persevere tonight. The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now. The night will be hard, very hard, but there will be a morning."
Minister of Defense of Ukraine to the residents of the Russian Federation: (especially to the wives, mothers, friends of Russian soldiers and officers): In a few days of interventions in Ukraine, as many Russian militaries will be destroyed as during two Chechen wars. Thousands.
"The Russian government has become a murderer. The killer of not just Ukrainians but Russians as well. We know that now all boys are urgently recruited to the army all over Russia. They throw in conscripts without any combat skills. They don't tell the boys where they are heading
"...and what awaits them. Hide your loved ones if they are dear to you. Don't send them to a sure death! They will be killed from every window in every Ukrainian city.
Take to the streets! Demand to stop the war! Demand to remove the Russian army from Ukraine!
Don't be afraid!"
"The truth is on your side. Now you can still change everything so as not to regret it later. When all information about the Kremlin war crimes is out, your loved ones will be very grateful to you." RT and pass it to all #Russian citizens please.
#Ukraine's air defense downs a #Russian transporter aircraft carrying approx 150 paratroopers South of #Kyiv.
@YFelshtinsky saying what I think: "The WWIII has started already. We are now in a state of war with Russia. It is not announced yet but the shelling of #Kyiv is the shelling of Europe, West and the war against the civilized world. Defending #Ukraine, we defend ourselves."
Expanding on this thought: If #Putin is not stopped now he will then make an ultimatum to the civilized world, threatening using nuclear weapons. He has crossed the line already. I have been explaining for a while that Putin's goal is Eurasian Empire and world dominance.
What can you do? Demand your government to impose strict and immediate sanctions on Russia, ban it from SWIFT, freeze ALL assets. Put pressure on your elected officials. Meanwhile, #Russian will attack with full force tonight. Share information. Make the world know.
#Ukraine air defense downs a #Russian lose support aircraft and a helicopter in #Donbas. (@KyivIndependent )
A powerful explosion in Kyiv now.
In #cherkasy people in a shelter are singing the national anthem during the air strikes: t.me/uniannet/32178…
A lot of military equipment moving to #Ukraine from #Belarus (@UnianInfo)
Kyiv, explosions are heard in Troyeschina, can be heard all over the city, as reported by residents.
From Yevgenia Belorusets: "I hear sirens, they're like fantastic mythical creatures, going up to the windows. I'm not worried at all. My consciousness can't believe: the city of Happiness is 80%. I spoke to his residents, I lived visiting them, wrote about the city..."
"...walked around the city, saw dogs, curiously looking out of the windows, well-groomed playgrounds, carefully cemented holes left after the shooting. Natalia Opryshko, a child and crisis psychologist from Happiness, participated in my exhibition."
"...Happiness is, in essence, the suburbs of Lugansk. Donbas people. When I hear about the destruction of the city, everything shrinks. We ran away from Happiness without stuff, without suitcases, without jackets, without spare socks."
"The scattered bodies of neighbors,elderly people, shot at the entrances to the entrances, ravaged by the shops, ravaged by shop robbers.The city has been in the dark for many days.A fighter against the genocide destroyed the power plant: there was no heat, water, light at once."
"... A mass murder took place in this darkness. Wait, isn't this a genocide of the "Russian-speaking" "Donbas residents"? In Happiness.. they spoke in two languages and often in Ukrainian, as in Luhansk. Happiness was simply on the territory of Ukraine. Feelings no more."
In #Kyiv region, Vasilkove, heavy fighting. Paratroops are attempting to land.
Attempts to destroy the power station by the aggressor are reported at this moment. Air defense is reflecting attacks.
This was posted an hour ago,
@UnianInfo reports that Ukrainian troops defended #Nikolaev #Mykolaiv
More shelling reported near the plant in Northern #kyiv.
"My niece was hit by a shell in the Luhansk region today, she was only 8. The kid was eight years old. bitches. I hate Russians." #PutinIsaWarCriminal
#Russian invaders attempt to land in Vasylkiv, #Kyiv Obast. More shooting and shelling in #Kyiv at #Solomenka
#Saboteurs attacked the checkpoints of the airport and killed the guards. They arrived disguised as National Guards, in a police car with flashers, and executed the guards, distracting as another group on the truck attacked from the other side. #SaveUkraine #StopRussia
Russian troops are attempting to land in #Kyiv by air. @KyivIndependent
#Kyiv now. t.me/uniannet/32190…
Just in: The US offered #Zelensky to help leave #Kyiv. President said that he and his family are in #Kyiv and not going anywhere.
Also, in case you didn't know: Fact 1. #Zelensky is Jewish. Fact 2. #Putin's "reason" to invade #Ukraine: "de-Nazification". Fact 3. Heavy explosions are heard in #Kyiv as you are reading this.
More videos of fires and shooting from #Kyiv. More than 50 explosions and shots in the last 10 minutes, URGENT TO SHELTER if you are in #Kyiv and wake up your loved ones if you are not awake. From State Communications of Ukraine.
Street fights and fires in Kyiv , metro Beresteyskaya t.me/uniannet/32197…
"Prospect of Victory" in smoke and fire (that is like victory in WWII) t.me/uniannet/32198…
Footage of fire in #Kyiv posted 15 min ago
Second Russian transport aircraft downed by #Ukrainian army Il-79. It was carrying over 100 paratroopers to the South of Kyiv
The ground forces report repelling an attack on a military unit in Kyiv.
According to @UnianInfo the aggressor was pushed back
Shooting reported in #NovayaKahovka t.me/uniannet/32208…
#Nikolaev defended. The air defense pushed back the attack. The landing did not happen in Ochakovo
#Zelenskiy refused to leave #Kyiv
Here is a great example of #fake/#disinformation. A photo of "Russian flags in Odesa=They were waiting for Russians for 8(?!) years" They were: it is a Russian consulate in #Odesa, #Ukraine. ALWAYS VERIFY YOUR SOURCE. This is called #CombatPropaganda ImageImage
The Armed Forces expel sabotage and reconnaissance groups from Kyiv. The fighting continues, according to Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence
A bit late but: today, in the area of the village of #Koblevo in the Odesa region, the military of the 28th separate mechanized brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign pushed back against Russian paratroopers, killing 20-25 od.vgorode.ua/news/sobytyia/…
Shooting is heard in #Kyiv now. Unverified source: #Ukrainian troops are cleaning the city from the occupants, #Russisans are suffering heavy losses. Will verify.
Russian troops captured a highway from Kipti to Bachevsk, close ty #Sumy, and won't let civilians access the road. All other passenger transport, including railway, has been stopped.
VERY HEAVY EXPLOSIONS IN #KYIV, shooting continues, ongoing now for a few minutes already
Heavy shelling in #Odesa reported! The air defense is at work.
Verifying: approx. Russian losses in Kyiv on Feb 25: 60 personnel.
Air aid in #Lutsk. These liberators would not stop, would they? #StopPutin #SAVEUKRAINENOW #saveUkraine Image
In #Odesa #Odessa t.me/uniannet/32229…
#Kyiv At metro Beresteyskaya, Brigade 101 destroyed equipment: 2 vehicles, 2 trucks, 1 tank. (Ground Troops info)
Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled an attack by Russian forces on #Mykolaiv, in Southern Ukraine. The aggressor was unable to break through Ukraine's anti-craft system @KyivIndependent Image
ATTENTION: some reports of Internet down (but also working for many more.) Just FYI
#Biden is going to provide $600 million dollars to support Ukraine; 50% for defense. @UnianInfo
Currently, heavy battles are ongoing in the city of #Vasylkiv in #Kyiv region, where the air landing is attempted by the aggressor. Active combat actions on the streets of Kyiv. #Russian troops suffer losses. From Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
Air raids; L'viv, Kyiv, Uman, Vinnytsia, Rivne. People must go to shelters. Heavy fights continue and #UkrainianArmy and civilians are pushing back against the invaders. Most people I know spent the whole night in shelters.
A big fire near the Zoo in #Kyiv. Now heavy shelling of #Uman' (my ancestors are from there, by the way. They didn't leave in 1942, believing that civilized people are not capable of massacres. I passed by Uman this summer, planning to come back in a few months.)
#Cherkasy , #Kherson air raids. Many videos.
A #Russian drone is shot down near #Odesa, in #Chernomorsk. It was targeting a Ukrainian border guard ship.
Four explosions near #Kharkiv in #Pesochin, air raid siren after the explosions... it is all over the country. mass shelling. Image
A lot is happening so processing and verifying. Drones shot down by the #BlackSea--more details soon. Sounds like these are reconnaissance drones. WhatsApp is being screened by the #RUssians, not verified yet, but be careful. From an official Ukrainian source.
#Kyiv at dawn, fire by the #zoo.
People fleeing their cities and sheltering in metro and basements had their animals with them. #Kyiv ImageImageImageImage
As of now, after a difficult night, #Kyiv is under the control of the #Ukrainian state 🇺🇦 The neutralization of saboteurs continues. Watch and act. From Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence #GloryToUkraine
[Going to step away for a few minutes, eyes hurting. back soon]
or maybe not, air aide in #Odesa #Odessa and I'm crying. in September... ImageImage
air raid in #Kharkiv as well. This is to demoralize the whole country and exhaust the will to resist. It is a military strategy. #Ukraine needs your support now. World, #Ukraine needs you--it's fighting for freedom, justice and its dream. #SaveUkraine #SAVEUKRAINENOW Image
Not going to take a break. Here to fight with information. Today, 3,500 Russian military personnel were killed, 200 captured--@UnianInfo
ALERT! RUSSIAN FAKES AND #DISNFO GALORE (All following the textbook they were teaching me!) about #Ukrainians surrendering to #Russia. Be vigilant! t.me/uniannet/32253…
New explosions heard in #Kyiv in Nivki area
ALERT! IN #KYIV 100 ARMORED VEHICLES ARE MOVING FROM VYSHGOROD, marked with a white letter V, and the invaders have a white sticker on the sleeve
They JUST stopped, accoriding to @UnianInfo
Just heard from my dear friend in #Odesa. They had to spend all night awake, on makeshift bunker beds, with parents in their 80s. They say that knowing that the world sees it and hears it, helps. Image
In #Kharkiv 100 Russian troops killed, armored vehicles destroyed. The situation in #Kyiv is 100% under control said a government representative
Do not believe fakes! #Zelenskyy #Zelensky just addressed the #Ukrainians again saying Good morning... saying again, that he is here, not going anywhere. "Truth is on our side, here is our land, our children, we will defend it."t.me/vgorode_odessa…
Alert! Another Air raid in #Kyiv, all residents are asked to go to shelter, the metro stations on red lines are only operating as shelters, also, in case of necessity the doors could be sealed.
I am just translating this: "Citizens of Brovary in #Kyiv district, the situation is difficult and try not to leave your premises; if you must, do wear yellow ribbons on your arms..."
Air raid in #Zhytomyr
A residential building was just hit by a missile in #Kyiv, by Zhulyany airport. Other sources don't confirm the house, just the airport
I can't agree more. #Zelenskyy #Zelenskiy thank you. Courage. Dignity. Poise. the opposite of the #PresidentOfOrks #Putin the Rat.
That's the missile in #Kyiv a few minutes ago (see above)
Look at this. Imagine: you wake up. This is a peaceful country. Women, kids, old people who still remember the WWII. #StopRussia #StopPutin #SaveUkraine #SAVEUKRAINENOW t.me/uniannet/32265…
In #Hostomel the land is booming from terrifying explosions.
I am speechless. People happened to record this from inside. Speechless. This is NOW. Not Netflix. 2022. Eastern Europe. t.me/vgorode_odessa…
In #Kherson, early morning, #Ukrainina flags on the Mayor's office, and the national anthem is playing. Courage. t.me/vgorode_odessa…
Thankfully, no reported deaths in #Kyiv Zhuliany bombing. Miraculous.
Now there are reports of #Russian special forces using fake documents to impersonate the Ukrainian police, military etc. That happened in Yerpen, a town close to #Kyiv. Will add details if there are more but they asking to report all suspicious to authorities and be vigilant.
Losses of the Russian troops, as of 6 am Feb 26, 2022
Airplanes -14
Helicopters - 8
Tanks - 102
Battle armored machines - 536
Cannon - 15
ZRK BUK - 1
Automobile equipment - 17
Personnel - more than 3000 (data is specified)
from Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
In two days of combat, the Armed Forces of Ukraine several times forced the opponent to change their strategic goals. Trying to surround the joint forces group, the adversary quickly lost the initiative north of Kharkiv and was stopped in its advance south in the Kherson region.
I translate one comment: We will drive them all the way to Moscow, we will bury Lenin in a human manner, and build dachas (cottages) with the red bricks from his Mausoleum! Мы будем их гнать до самой Москвы, по людски похоронем Ленина, а кирпичики красные разберём на дачу!
(Lyrical pause: In case you are blissfully unaware, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, a bloody dictator and mass murderer, Lenin is preserved as a mummy at the center of the main square of the capital of Russia. I sh*t you not.)
The update from the explosion: the family was in the kitchen, so the father is okay, the mother and older son have broken legs, and the younger one is with the rescue services and the father is looking for them. "Burn in hell, ** Russian occupants," said the father.
#Zelensky #Zelenskyy: "weapons en route to Ukraine after #Macron call. The anti-war coalition is working."
In #Kharkiv, to the metro station where people shelter, free bread and COOKIES are being delivered :) by the city authorities.
More videos from captured Russian soldiers. Very young. Completely unmotivated. Many say that they were not informed that they were going to war in Ukraine; told that they are going for training. Russian men MUST serve in the army for 2 yrs, at 18. #PutinWarCriminal #PutinKiller
Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, Russia, special forces, arresting the survivor of the Leningrad Siege protesting against the war with Ukraine. Earlier, I shared the video of the arrest of a mother with a newborn in a carrier. instagram.com/reel/CaXYgvQgP…
In addition to a baby girl Mia born in a bomb shelter in #Kyiv last night, tonight two baby boys were born in shelters in #Kherson. The streets are being cleaned and trolleybuses started to run in #Kherson. In #Kyiv, overnight 5 people, including 2 children, were injured.
More airstrikes are expected in #Kyiv and the mayor asked people to stay inside/in shelters. In #Chernihiv, people are preparing to meet uninvited guests with cocktails. t.me/uniannet/32302…
This is just hilarious. In #Melitopol Not going to translate it all but the dialogue is Tarantino. Although, more Heart of Darkness, really; but Ukrainian people have an amazing sense of humor and it is contagious.
To sum today up, #Ukrainians told #Russian troops to f**ck off in every way possible: on land, on air, on the sea, in cyberspace. This will stay in history. Going to try and catch some sleep. #PutinTheRat is revengeful, he'll come back with fury. #GloryToUkraine #СлаваУкраїни
Back online to cover #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack #Russia's #Putin invading the independent sovereign country that is the land of my ancestors and the home of my beloved friends. See 🧵.☝️for events 23-25 Feb. Image
Summing up the evens of the last 6 hrs (caught up on life): #Putin announced general offensive on Ukraine after alleging that #Ukraine refused to negotiate (false claim.) Currently, #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, south of #Ukraine and many major cities & towns under attack from land, air, sea
My friends making #molotovcocktails to meet occupants. Many #Russian soldiers killed and captured; most are 18-20, confused, not knowing where they were sent; #Chechens arriving from Putin/Kadyrov-run Chechnya but #Chechen living in EU joining to fight for #Ukraine; long lines to ImageImageImageImage
join "territorial defense" (population fighting occupants); firearms are being distributed from trucks to all volunteers; civilians donating medical supplies, blood, food, fuel to army; stores & pharmacies in #Kyiv mainly empty; #Russian army aims to damage infrastructure
to cut the water supplies, electricity; #Ukrainian people take down road sides to disorient the aggressor. Videos of unarmed people standing in front of tanks trying to stop them; authorities ask to destroy the fuel transport that follows the armored vehicles/tanks
By #Odesa, Russians downed their own aircraft (oops!); @YourAnonTV @YourAnonOne hackers around the world called the war on #Putin and took down #Kremlin site, Ministry of Defense site, #RT and propagandists sites, and all major #Russian TV currently are playing Ukrainian music :D
Great news: all countries involved now have agreed to ban #Russia from #SWIFT system; aimed to strangle #Putinn's regime and left it w/o $. Military equipment, fuel, supplies coming from most countries in EU & around the world. Sanctions are on the way. In response, #Russia is
looking at restoring capital punishment, and "other important institutions" (!) #Russian people protesting the war are brutally arrested & suppressed, protests still ongoing. Yesterday, #Ukrainian government official requested the Red Cross to collect "thousands of Russian bodies
I will now be covering the current attacks happening around #Ukraine. I'm using my friends' direct communication in several cities, info from journalists currently in the country, and reliable sources like @UnianInfo, @KyivIndependent, local cities Telegram boards, verifying it
#Lviv brewery switches to Molotov cocktails. Consider my work my own Molotov cocktail from afar. FB & Instagram label and block #Russian state media to stop information warfare attacked. LOTS OF FAKES SO BE VIGILANT. Don't open attachments. install maximum security on your eqpt.
#Russian troops seized #Berdianks Airport on #Azov Sea and moving toward the port of #Mariupol Image
Loud explosions in #Kyiv right NOW, throughout the day it was calm. Lots of #Ukrainian eqpt downtown #Kyiv; ready for pushing back against provocations. DO NOT TAKE OR SHARE PHOTOS OF MILITARY online. Mayor of #Kyiv believes there is a high risk of another attack on the city soon
#Hostomel airport is captured by the #RussianArmy . Shelters are open in #Kyiv; many stores are closed but groceries are open with limited access inside so long lines outside, Apple pay and credit cards still work. Low traffic, some are hitchhiking to get out
Germany changed its rules and sending 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles. #Russian Ministry of Defense claims that #Kyiv is blocked on the West--but this information is NOT confirmed and might be fake. Will verify.
Territorial forces are trained & instructed by professional military personnel/officers. South-East part of #Kyiv, Darnitsky district: very quiet, most people in shelters but some step out to get air; today, kids played a little at a playground; at the sound of siren they go back
From #Odesa vgorode.ua site: each town/city in #Ukraine has #Russian "sleepers" groups. Real estate agents are asked to check their databases and share the information on groups of Russians renting apartments. The saboteurs now plant markings & coordinate shelling
Heavy fights in #Chernihiv #Chernihov Also, #Sumy is under air strike right now. In #Kharkiv, a group of saboteurs was captured. In #Russia, protests in 27 cities despite brutal suppressing. ImageImage
[Verifying information.] This is #Kyiv now. It is difficult to report in detail as there are aggressors' missiles and #Ukrainian air defense taking them down. t.me/uniannet/32607…
In #Belarus all reserve personnel is called to duty. A village Sartana near #Mariupol is bombed to the ground. 4 civilians killed. Only sharing the LEAST disturbing photos. It is F*** DISTURBING. Everyone wants to look away. I want to look away. I don't want to see it either ImageImageImage
To stop seeing this, to go back to life as we knew it, this war NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. HELP IN ANY WAY YOU CAN. A deployment of #Chechen #Kadyrov soldiers destroyed by #Ukrainian army. On many high-rise blds in #Odesa red flashes/lights are noticed--signaling strikes, possibly.
ALERT: If you are in touch with anyone in #Ukraine, tell them to turn off geolocation on their phones. Another air raid in #Kyiv. More people are arrested in Russia protesting war. Parents are shocked to find out that their sons were sent to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, #Kremlin bans any media that calls the war "war" (they claim it is a "special militarized operation") and I see trolls spreading messages that there are no Russian troops around Kyiv, only "local criminals that got out of prison". Ministry of Ukraine opened a hotline
for captured Russian military personnel to call home; Russians can call the line to collect the bodies; in the West, the idea to offer the deserting Russian soldiers shelter/citizenship in the EU is being discussed.
YouTube is stopping the monetization of #Putin propaganda channels like RT, Sputnik, etc. [I worked for 10 months writing a report about it, with the organization that demanded this measure in 2019, and they WOULD NOT budge. It took a war and many lives.]
[talking to my contacts now, back in a 5-10]
Medical personnel at a hospital ain Crimea informs Ukrainian journalists that it is filled with injured Russian soldiers and that the morgue is full, @UnianInfo . Refugees are sitting in traffic for 4-6-more hours, 15 km line at the border with #Moldova.
From Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence: Equipment destroyed today
Welcome to Hell!🔥🔥🔥 ImageImageImageImage
I saw the WEIRDEST video of #Kadyrov claiming he didn't know and that his soldiers will not fight in Ukraine but it is too good to be true and might be a deep fake; if anyone sees something on this please share. the flow of info is overwhelming rn
#Odesa is ready to meet the "liberators." t.me/uniannet/32655…
RT this at all Russian channels. Mom and kid from #Kharkiv: Thanks, Volodya! You're tsar and god! That's what we wanted. Now it is warm in winter!"
#Kharkiv heartbreak after heartbreak
From #Zelenskyy office: Sumy fully returned to #Ukrainian control. Half of the city WAS under #Russians. #Kyiv central railways station went dark, there was shelling close to the bldg, people evacuated to shelter
As of 10 min ago:
Advisor to the Minister of the Interior Affairs, Geraschenko, advises the population to partake in psy- ops, the information warfare. The measures are extreme, disturbing, likesending graphic images to the population of the aggressor. These are the measures I was force-taught.
Not going to cover here and now; most civilians will be shocked and feel thrown off and it is the justified reaction of an ethical person who is not a sociopath. We are at WAR, though, and this is martial law. The aggressor must be stopped before more innocent lives are destroyed
From everything I see, #Ukrainians are showing a lot of mercy, empathy and restraint to captured soldiers of the #Russian army. Gerascheno also informs that the aggressor's troops are almost entirely stopped from the Eastern front. THe map from WaPo from 5 hrs ago Image
#Russian losses today in its war against #Ukraine: Over the last 24 hours Russian forces have lost SU-30 fighter aircraft, 11 helicopters, 2 Su-25 aircraft, 2 Il-76 air-fighters, a column of equipment and fuel echelon, according to Air Force Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Additional $350 mn from USA in assistance to #Ukraine
#Kyiv Darntisky rayon. During the attempt to break through the checkpoint, the police and #Ukrainian army destroyed the group of the aggressor's troops t.me/uniannet/32667…
Many in #Odesa #Odessa are sheltering in churches. Many others are out in the streets with #molotovcocktail Also, the church bells were announced to signal air raids. Russian people following, if you are in Russia, make it stop. The world is now calling you "fascists."
#Russian artillery fire has struck #Kyiv's children's cancer hospital Okhmadyt, killing one child and wounding two, along with two adults, TSN reported.
Eyewitnesses reported that the city is under fire from multiple-launch rocket systems#StopPutinNOW #StopPutinsWar #SaveUkraine
L'viv. Hundreds of people waiting for a train to Poland...
This is just... no words. #StopPutin
WHAT YOU CAN DO!
An attack and shelling reported in #Kharkhiv #Kharkov
t.me/vgorode_odessa…
Reviewing all sources and trying to verify and make sense. If anyone knows: #Kadyrov video refusing to fight #Ukraine--fake or not? Please confirm. the video is going around along with the news that his daughter spoke against the war. PM pls
#Chernihiv is bombed and more attacks are expected overnight, residents are asked to shelter. Many memories there.
You can't break people like this, #Putin.
Re: more #Russian casualties:
To all #RussianArmy all #Russian people who know #russiansoldiers : desert! The only way to save honor, life, Russia and the world--and more lives of innocent people in #Ukraine and elsewhere. Fighting this war on #Putin's side is a crime. #PutinIsaWarCriminal
#Russia lost more troops in the first 24 hours of war against #Ukraine than in 8 years of war in #Syria, according to
@TheEconomist
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#Russian tanks attacked #Mykolayiv Tanks moving through the city according to the governor, disinformation attempt failed trying to claim the governor was captured. Image
Another air raid in #Kyiv now. "You have united Ukrainians," says a #Ukrainian soldier. "For one of ours, we will take 100 yours." This war MUST BE STOPPED. In a few moments, everything Russians have is flying towards #Kyiv. Shelter!!!!
10 p.m.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has the following updates. #Polissya: Russian forces have been halted at Borodyanka, Bucha & Vyshhorod, having lost some firepower. #NorthernUkraine: #Russians regrouped/continued their offensive, goal of blocking off Kyiv.
#Chernihiv, #ChernihivOblast: Regional authorities are calling on citizens to spend the night in shelters due to massive rocket bombardments. #Kharkiv, #KharkivOblast: Multiple flashes of light,distant bangs were filmed in the city of Kharkiv and posted on Telegram at 10:30 p.m.
#Kyiv, #KyivOblast: Police stopped a group of saboteurs in the Darnitsky district of the capital, according to Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Interior Minister.
from @KyivIndependent #Kyivunderattack
explosions on #obolon #Kyiv
#Vyshhorod, #KyivOblast: Powerful explosions detected in the city, video posted on Telegram. #Kyiv, #KyivOblast: Multiple reports that the Russian forces are about to hit Kyiv with everything they’ve got. Air raid sirens are active. people to take shelter immediately.
Explosions have been detected in #Kyiv, from the direction of the outer #Obolon district, #Bucha and #Hostomel.
paratroopers landing in #Kyiv
t.me/uniannet/32705 paratroopers
t.me/uniannet/32704
#Russian paratroopers being deployed right now in the sky over my #Kyiv | EMPR #Ukraine #russianinvasion #RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar
#Kharkiv was bombed,
Information (unverified but via @UnianInfo ) that the silhouettes in the sky over #Kyiv are the traces from Ukrainian air defense system
the longest five min in my life... nothing... pray for #Kyiv if you pray
why is it all silent.. all my sources are not responding
"Paratroopers over Kyiv" are, in fact, traces of the work of Ukrainian air defense,” says one Ukrainian media outlet
a lot of confusing information about the paratroopers; trying to verify
i should be speaking to comment here now: (if it connects) twitter.com/i/spaces/1yoKM…
sorry this is not working i will be just reporting here on my twitter
According to Galina Tretiakova, Ukrainian air defense downed two russian aircrafts over #Kyiv
All Central Bank of Russia assets are frozen, meanwhile. $643 bn. Russian citizens can't obtain German citizenship for investing. #Ukrainian Army controls the situation over the country, the aide to Zelensky says
YES!!!!!! No more #SWIFT
Cut #Putin off his $. #Russians time to rise. Without their $, TV channels down (thanks, dear hackers!!!) and army in #Ukraine being killed, time to take down #PutinTheRat! Away with him! Enough!!!
Air raid in #borispol In #Russian Belgorod 5,000 revolting and refuse to go to Ukraine to fight! That's what I am talking about! Go boys! RT at every Russian you know, contact all, let's take #Putin down. #GloryToUkraine
While waiting to hear updates (hopefully good ones and 'praying'), a note: many experts are asking what does Putin think and what is his plan. I've been following--fighting him--for over a decade. This is my opinion: in the past, he pursued Dugin's geopolitical plan of creating
a Eurasian empire. (Look it up, basically an empire from Lisbon to Far East, with Russian at the core, as a heartland, you can also call the USSR reincarnation). This year, he went mad. He's not pursuing anything anymore and there is no strategy:that's why the analysts were wrong
like a dying oligarch in @tenet (yes, sci-fi film) he went insane, unable to handle the death anxiety, and decided to take the world with him. Anyone in their mind should rebel against him and his sickness. The world feels it and this is why we see--finally--unity. Back to report
#Kherson is encircled and under siege but the army is keeping things under control and defending the city overnight
Still very few updates on #Kyiv looking at all my sources
#Sanctions: the #US, #EU, #UK and #Canada are ready to take additional measures "to hold the Russian Federation accountable for the attack on Ukraine"; they will create a "task group" that will ensure the effective operation of sanctions against the Russian Federation;
In Balakleya, #Kharkiv region, one hour ago (ish) #Russian troops bombarded the warehouse of the military arsenal from the air.
Anti-war rallies were also held in London, Glasgow, Nicosia, Berlin, Athens, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Madrid, Milan, Geneva, Warsaw, Istanbul, Dusseldorf, Tbilisi, Varna, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Phuket
ALERT #Kyiv Powerful explosion Pechorsk district
#CNN poll. #SaveUkraine #SAVEUKRAINENOW
JUST IN: #Ukrainian Army knocked down the second Il-76 with #Russian paratroopers
This was verifieid, from Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence; [my unverified guess the explosion reported in Pechorsk? Air force at work does sound like an explosion.--THIS IS JUST A GUESS}
Shelling in #Kharkiv now t.me/uniannet/32747…
Unverified, just in, from @unian, in #Vasilkiv a big oil and gas base is on fire. If true, this will be a large scale ecological catastrophe. About to share a video: there is still hope that it is a gas station on fire, not the base.
#Kharkiv is under the most powerful shelling attack since the start of the war RIGHT NOW.
Fire in #Vasilkiv. Please pray to all that is out there it is not the base. [I worked at an oil field. Also, was close to Chernobyl THEN. This is bad.] t.me/uniannet/32752…
1st hour Come back alive from Ukraine hotline: 100+ calls received from the parents of #Russian military personnel: the vast majority do not want war and are shocked that their children ended up in #Ukraine. From Adviser to the Minister of the Interior
Here is the hotline for #Russian citizens. Share the word. Save lives. #StopPutin #StopPutinNOW #StopPutinWar Image
[Just read dozens of notes from women with little children stuck in traffic on the way to get out, with newborns, etc. People from neighboring countries (Poland, Moldova, etc) bring bread, diapers, toys... ccrying again]
This is the fire in #Vasilkiv. t.me/uniannet/32756…
And this is the sky over #Kharkiv. Anyone in this world left (other than Kadyrov) thinking this is peacekeeping, 'de-nazification'? The world now knows who needs de-nazification. Putin. t.me/uniannet/32758…
[taking a few minutes to regroup. online and monitoring but need to breathe for a few.] to everyone who is following and cares and grieves--deep thanks
The worst has been confired. It IS the oil and gas base in #Vasilkiv. People need to be evacuated ASAP.
this is just horrid t.me/uniannet/32762…
#Brovary AIR RAID ALERT Image
The town of #vasilkiv next to #Kyiv sustained really heavy damage, mayor says, the enemy wants to destroy everything around, but "he will not succeed." The oil depot is burning. If #putin is not stopped he will burn down the planet.
two massive explosions in #Kyiv now, one approx 20 km from downtown. the night sky lit up for a few min
More explosions in #Kyiv.
In #Kherson, #Russian army executed a journalist, in #Kharkiv hit a residential high rise. From Attorney General and Украинская Правда
Mushroom shaped cloud close to #Kharkiv, video from @unian t.me/uniannet/32769…
From @KyivIndependent Ukrainian military stopped the Russians by #Kyiv, at the border of Borodianka, Bucha, &Vyshhorod; they were heading in Polissia’s direction. Russians continue to try & capture settlements in the Slobozhansky district, advancing from Belgorod to Starobilsk.
Fierce battles are taking place to prevent Russian troops from consolidating their position on the left bank of the Dnipro River, from @KyivIndependent
#Ukrainian military blows up 56 #Russian tank fuels in #Chernihiv Oblast, depriving units of combat capability. from @KyivIndependent
Update on oil depot burning: no plans to evacuate the population from #Vasilkiv, no threat, say authorities
More on the burning oil depot in #Vasilkiv here:
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The mushroom-shaped cloud was a gas pipeline exploded next to #Kharkiv
Military equipment (tanks and armored vehicles) marked with letter V keeps moving towards #Ukraine from #Belarus. from @UnianInfo
[For all people joining me: thank you for caring about #Ukraine. I cover the #RussianInvasion, based on my multiple contacts (friends and colleagues) eyewitness stories, combined with verified info from reliable Ukrainian and Ukrainian Russian-language, as well as English outlets
I also have live webcams on and Telegram channels where people share videos. I did not go to #Ukraine to fight because my friends tell me to stay in a safe place and tell the story to the world. I've been fighting #Putin & his #hybridwar for the last 10 yrs. This is my fight, too
Back to reporting: big explosions heard in downtown #kyiv right now.
"Ilon Mask provides Ukraine Starlink stations and access to satellite Internet. Terminals on the way" from the #Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
From #Kyiv administration: "Residents must close windows tightly. Due to the shelling and explosion of the oil depot in #Vasylkiv, 40 km south, the wind may carry smoke and harmful substances." Most people are hiding in bomb shelters, metro stations and basements,w/o air for days
Loud explosions/shelling continues, audible at Maidan square in #Kyiv. It could be air force defense, hitting the aggressor's aircraft. Getting really loud now.
Explosions are not heard everywhere. [Hoping it's air defense.] It's 02.43 am in Ukraine right now. The number of volunteers joining Territorial Defense Forces reached 37,000 according to the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief
Civilians, mostly women and children, fleeing #Kyiv now. 15 km line on the border with #Moldova today, my friend was stuck in traffic for over 5 hours with several pets, and here is one more eyewitness
In addition to the ecological catastrophe (an oil deport fire, a gas pipeline explosion, nuclear radiation in Russian occupied #Chernobyl #Chornobyl where the workers kept hostage and not allowed to do proper maintenance), it is a humanitarian crisis. Over 150,000 refugees...
...have already left or in the process of leaving #Ukraine, fleeing bombing and gunfire. Ukraine announced that #Kyiv cannot guarantee nuclear safety after #Chornobyl has been captured by the #Russians.
Here is the video of the oil depot on fire: t.me/uniannet/32762…
This is worth repeating. WARNING: not a nuclear explosion, according to authorities. t.me/lentachold/449…
a great thread and visuals, on the current situation, within the last hour. 3.00 am Feb 27 #Kyiv time
As of 1 am, #Hostomel, #Kyiv district: Column of Russian-Chechen special forces defeated near Hostomel. According to Channel 24 sources, the Ukrainian military blew up an echelon of 56 tanks.
[taking a few minutes to read through all sources/outlets. most of my sources are silent, presumably and hopefully resting, most likely, in bomb shells, at 3.11 am. however, based on the previous few days, the aggressor attacks at night and at dawn.]
More pictures from #Lviv where refugees (women and children, older people) are trying to get on the train to Poland. It's a free train but not enough space, so people leave their stuff and many have missed 3 trains already. t.me/uniannet/32795…
I want to remind: it is still COVID. People thrown together in metro stations, basements, improvised bomb shelters, trains, many unvaccinated because of the #Kremlin anti-vaxxers propaganda are now facing (and spreading) a new outbreak of a pandemic. #PutinIsaWarCriminal
On top of this, the hospitals that are not bombed to the ground by #Russian "liberators", will be treating the military personnel. Today, in #Kyiv, the aggressor's artillery struck CHILDREN'S CANCER hospital, killing one child and wounding two. Since yesterday, 3 babies were
delivered in bomb shelters, in Kyiv and Kharkov, luckily healthy. If anyone still believes that #Putin won't stop at anything... What to do? You can help by demanding your elected officials to impose strictest sanctions possible on #Putin and #Kremlin to cut them off the $ they
stole from the Russian people. You can donate to multiple charities like Red Cross (that was requested to move thousand of dead bodies of #Russian young men sent to death by #Putin), or #Ukrainian Army or Ukrainian-based journalists on the ground, covering the events. Sharing
information online and in any way possible helps. For fun people, you can join the cyber army following the request I posted somewhere in this giant thread. Hackers are doing a great job: today, they broke the frequency that the #Russian military staff used for communications and
played #Ukrainain anthem (earlier, the said anthem played on all state-funded TV channel in Russia), and took down the RT (Russia Today) website as well as many Russian government sites, including the #Kremlin site! At least, 240 civilian casualties in Ukraine since the beginning
of the Russian invasion and the United Nations believes that the actual numbers are much higher. And the real harm is not reflected by numbers. #Putin has disrupted--not, destroyed--the life of 40 mn peaceful people living their life, trying to cope with COVID, and living their
dream of independence. Furthermore, #Kremlin Dmitry Rogozin, Russian space program chief, threatened the US with the fall of the International Space Station on the US--destroyed by the sanctions space.com/roscosmos-rogo…
Just in: updates from the front. Heavy fights for the airport in #Vasilkiv, next to the burning oil depot, continue.
"After 3 days of Russia's war, the fighting is where it began, the #Russian army has not been able to advance but is attacking Kyiv. We totally control everything that happens in the regions of Ukraine,” Advisor to the Chief of Staff of President said. @KyivIndependent
#Odesa #Odessa alert: Shooting in the region. The aggressors attacked the police; were pushed back several policemen were wounded. More details to follow
Some really bad unverified news are going around. Verifying. A warning: don't share ANYTHING unless you verify your sources or at least add UNVERIFIED. A lot of #Russian fakes are produced to create panic and demoralize the army and population of the adversary and the world
It is tempting to share something shocking. Always stop and check: source, time, location, if it is a visual: light, angle, pixelated appearance, etc. Also, logic. We all are getting tired and overwhelmed and prone to making mistakes. This is a hybrid war, the #informationwarfare
I am afraid it was confirmed by too many sources. Still might be a fake. But. Russian forces fired at the #radioactive waste disposal site in #Kyiv. According to preliminary assessment of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of #Ukraine there is no threat outside the
sanitary protective zone. As per @KyivIndependent @unian and several other sources. However, good news is that the radioactive numbers are withing the norm: t.me/uniannet/32805…
[taking a technical break but monitoring the situation]
IMPORTANT: Ukraine's State Emergency Service has clarified that the shelling on a radioactive waste disposal site in Kyiv did not lead to depressurization of the storage of radioactive substances. The hit was on the fence and the building itself and the tanks remain intact.
In #Odesa "The enemy is awake. Threats, launches unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs,) puts on psychological pressure. The Ukrainian air defense system is working. Accurate launches to you, brothers!" the chairman of the Public Council at the #Odesa Regional State Administration
#AirRaid alert in #Rivne region & #Lutsk. People should go to the nearest shelter.
The #SWIFT system is ready in the coming days. Google suspends monetization of Russian state-owned media, Reuters reports.
[back after installing some much-needed computer security. Make sure that your devices are protected. Beware of phishing emails: the #cyberwar is ongoing. It is now 6.43 am #Kyiv time, and I hope to get some good news from around #Ukraine.]
The fight is ongoing by #Vasilkiv so the rescuers are STILL unable to extinguish the fire. At least, the gas delivery was stopped. This is a very long fight for the airport where #Russians paratroopers were planning to land. Not so. #SlavaUkraini #GloryToUkraine
#Kyiv is controlled by the Ukrainian army and territorial defense forces, as of now, 7 am, Feb 27 local time, Deputy Mayor said. At night, there were several skirmishes involving sabotage and reconnaissance by the groups of Russians in the city.
The now-legendary #SnakeIsland defenders may still be alive. 13 #Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service were believed to have perished defending a strategically important small island in the #BlackSea and told a Russian warship to “go f*ck yourself” when offered to surrender. #hope
[See the cover photo for how it sounds in Russian: #русскийкорабльИдиНахyй. Since then, the saying became a meme and there are road signs with arrows showing where the #Russians should go **** ]
"3 days that forever changed our country and the world. Where are all those who promised to capture #Kyiv in 2 hours? Where are they? I don't see them. I just hear them trying to find excuses. I do see a heroic army, victorious guards, fearless border guards, selfless rescuers...
"...reliable policemen, tireless medical angels. All those who do their duty. I see thousands and thousands of citizens who have taken up firearms, joined the ranks of territorial defense and are fighting," #Ukrainian Defense Minister @oleksiireznikov said.
Also, there is so much disinformation and fakes that I cannot possibly cover/mention most of it and there is no need. It takes a long time to verify facts and there will be mistakes made by everyone. Partially, do to #informationwarfare; partially, because everyone is exhausted.
Confirmed by many #Ukrainian officials: After 72 hours of resistance, we hold the defense. #Kyiv is under the control of the #Ukrainian state [as it should be, it is the capital of Ukraine.] Will look for more details around the country.
#Map of the #Russian offensive as of the morning of February 27. For three days, the invaders failed to occupy a single regional center. And it is not what they saying on their propaganda channels AT ALL. It is a parallel reality. Image
In #Vasilkiv, #Ukrainian forces managed to save 15 cars with diesel and 8 cars with gas just minutes after the Russian missile hit the oil depot. This fuel will be sufficient to refuel the Armed Forces, Territorial Defense, medics, & others defending #Kyiv.
#ALERT: Russian troops entered #Kharkiv. #UkrainianTroops pushes the aggressors back. Civilians are asked to stay inside!
Ask all your elected officials to IMMEDIATELY impose sanctions. #Russians are plotting to install a puppet government. They need to be stopped.
A sabotage group was found in the #Odesa region: there are wounded #Ukrainian soldiers. Image
Russian light vehicles broke into #Kharkiv and were liquidated by the Armed Forces. Citizens are urged not to take to the streets, according to the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration t.me/vgorode_odessa…
ALERT! #NovaKakhovka in the #Kherson region is under the control of Russian troops, they seized the city executive committee, removed all #Ukrainian flags from buildings, - Mayor Volodymyr Kovalenko.
#Russian propagandists are sowing panic and fabricating fakes. There will be a lot of misinformation, toxicity, and hatred sown. Stay positive, be vigilant, verify all information.
Heavy fights in #Kharkiv. #Russia has sustained losses.Situation is serious t.me/uniannet/32840
ALERT! Air Raid #Kyiv! All to shelter!
Burning #Russian armored vehicle in #Kharkiv t.me/uniannet/32853
Explosions in #Zaporozhye t.me/uniannet/32854
In #Bucha, #Kyiv region, a convoy of #Russian vehicles was seen, shooting and fights in progress t.me/uniannet/32856
#Russian troops are in #Kharkiv. Civilians stay in hiding
t.me/uniannet/32858
Friends! Fierce fighting is happening in all major cities. Share information, do anything you now to support #Ukraine. #SupportUkraine #SaveUkraine
Air raids and street fights ongoing in many cities. #Russians are in the #Kyiv region, local residents report an attempt of the enemy equipment to break through from #Hostomel t.me/uniannet/32862
#Russian propagandist channels are saying: "This is the first step. #Ukraine is not the goal. It was a friendly country that is captured by the real enemy, #NATO and the US. We are preparing biological and nuclear weapons to hit then." These are threats and meant to demoralize...
... the free world. This country and its government are sick and they need to be stopped before it is too late. Contact your elected officials in your country, share the information. Stop the aggressor and the insanity before we have the WWII situation on our hands.
More #Russian equipment burning in #Kharkiv t.me/lentachold/450…
"Not a single fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down his arms. All Ukrainian soldiers are in their combat positions,” the head of the #Kharkiv regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov, in response to a statement by the #Russian Ministry of Defense...
...in response to #Russian disinformation of about surrendered Ukrainian soldiers from the 302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Ukrainian woman single-handedly burned the armored vehicle in the #Kharkiv region: a Molotov cocktail."Be like a Kharkiv woman!” the message of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reads.
Street fights in the residential sector of #Kharkiv. Sapernaya street. A group of invaders with armored vehicles attacked by Ukrainian soldiers #SlavaUkraini #БейРоссийскоФашистскихОккупантов t.me/uniannet/32866
In Bucha, an apartment building was hit. [I am watching and listening and calling to the whole free world--#SaveUkraine #SAVEUKRAINENOW--the #Russians will not stop--HELP!!! t.me/uniannet/32868
#Kharkiv Shevchenko Avenue. The occupants abandoned their cars and fled. Kharkiv residents, stay safe and fight the aggressors! The world is with you! t.me/uniannet/32870
#Kharkiv Heroes. #CлаваУкраине #ГероямСлава t.me/uniannet/32871
Important! #Zelensky announced the formation of the International Legion. Come to #Ukraine and fight against the #Russian occupiers shoulder to shoulder with #Ukrainian troops. To enroll and for details, contact: the Defense Attache of the Embassy of Ukraine in your country! RT!
RT #Zelenskyy: calling all people to join the #InternationalLegion. Come to #Ukraine and fight against the #Russian occupants shoulder to shoulder with #Ukrainian troops. To enroll and for details, contact: the Defense Attache of the Embassy of Ukraine in your country! RT!
A large column of #Russian vehicles is pushing into the city of #Sumy from the side of #Khimprom, the military administration is reporting.Civilians are asked to be in a safe place, not to go out unnecessarily and to stay away from windows. #AirRaid alert in Sumy. Shelter!
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine a few minutes ago shot down a cruise missile fired at #Kyiv from #Belarus by a Tu-22 aircraft. Another war crime of Belarus and Russia. Share information. Don't let the world slide into madness.
In Koryukovka in the #Chernihiv region, Ukrainians took to the streets to stop Russian tanks. This friendly dog is heartbreaking. t.me/uniannet/32876
Russian media informs: #Russian delegation arrived in #Belarus for negotiations, ready to start talks in Gomel. Moscow is waiting for the decision of the Ukrainians, says #Peskov." What?! How did I miss this? :0 too busy reporting bombs.
#Vasilkiv, little, peaceful town, destroyed. "Denazification" and "liberation" by #RussianOccupants t.me/uniannet/32880
IMPORTANT, #Zelensky is talking, addressing #Belarus t.me/uniannet/32882
#Kharkiv. Vehicle abandoned, 5 soldiers hiding at the entrance: from houses, civilians are shooting them. "Occupants, remember: Ukrainians are kind only to those who come in peace. We told you - the earth will burn under your feet" says the caption t.me/uniannet/32883
In #Bucha, a residential house, a playground destroyed by #Russians. The world needs to see it. Russians on their channels call it "cleaning the cities"-- I heard it myself and my heart hurts, my eye hurt. Share this. t.me/uniannet/32886
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This is hard. Don't look away. This girl was killed by #Russian occupiers, with her father. Her sister is in reanimation, little brother is in a hospital. 4th grade. Let everyone see this. #PutinIsaWarCriminal #PutinHitler #RussianArmy STOP Image
"In 2 hours we knocked half of the Russians out of #Kharkiv. We hold the defense, with weapons and Molotovs in our hands...Most of them are boys 17-25 years old, they are scared, they are in a foreign land, happy to run, let's help them. Guys why did you come to die?" Heraschenko
Two Danish journalists shot in Okhtyrka. The Daily Beast reported that Stefan Weichert and Emil Mikkelsen were injured by gunfire in the Sumy Oblast town, but are now safe and receiving treatment in hospital. @KyivIndependent
#Odesa rescuers put out 37 fires overnight. My beloved Odesa. Burn in hell, Putin. Burn in hell, Russian invaders. Image
#Zelensky in his speech: he is ready to negotiate with Russia. But not in Belarus. "Warsaw, Istanbul, Baku - we offered these cities to Russia for negotiations, and any other city from where missiles do not fly to Ukraine."
Alert! #Kyiv. Explosion in Troyeschina, thick black smoke. t.me/uniannet/32892
#Mikolayiv A residential house t.me/uniannet/32894
Hey you, @washingtonpost Who pays you? Putin? This is dishonest journalism, borderline propaganda on the side of the aggressor. #Kyiv stands. #Putin gets nothing. You suck. #РусскийКорабльИдиНаХуй, along with sloppy journalists. Image
[Need to take a few to regroup. I report and this is my Molotov. My dear Ukrainian friends who are in the streets with real Molotov and hiding their kids and animals in shelters asked me to tell their story to the world. Putin ruined Russia and now he's after us. We fight.]
#Mikolayiv Ukrainian anthem #GloryToUkraine t.me/uniannet/32900
"Another #Russian tank burns on #Ukrainian soil." t.me/uniannet/32901 #StopPutin #StopWar #StopRussianAggresion
"In the #Chernihiv region, hundreds of residents of Koryukovka did not let the tanks of Putin's Orks into the city" t.me/uniannet/32908
Grandma Lyda from Volyn is 97 years old. “I survived Hitler and the Germans, I was there when Donbas was restored. I will also survive Putin the Tiny, with his locusts. Glory to Ukraine!" Image
#Kharkiv. #Ukraine. A playground. A #Russian missile. Feb 27. 2022. Share this. #StopPutin #StopRussianAggression #StopRussia #SaveUkraine Image
Will take a sleep break [I need to be accurate w/reporting] with this lovely piece of news: International Judo Federation strips #Putin of Honorary President & Ambassador of the International Judo Federation status in light of the ongoing war in #Ukraine. medium.com/mosaic2/wrestl…
Friends! I am back, and just reviewed everything that happened in the last 7 hours. I will sum up the events BUT it takes longer as the social media (Telegram channels, in particular) are flooded with disinformation and planted fakes. I have to verify everything & my sources are
not always responding: some are busy fighting in the streets, others are attempting to flee, yet more friends are in shelters w/o connection. I am working with more limited resources and want to be as accurate as possible. I will specify what is verified and what is not
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS: 1. After hours of going back and forth, the #Ukrainian authorities agreed to meet the #Russian delegation in #Gomel, #Belarus for negotiations. The head of RFdelegation: #Putin's former Minister of Culture #Medinsky known for his revisionism of history
Here is my old thread/article w/references to #Medinsky for details
#Lukashenka agreed to guarantee safety of the #Ukrainian delegation. #Belarusian president reportedly will send a deployment of troops to #Ukraine. Missiles Iskander were launched to Ukraine from #Belarus today
2. In #Kyiv, 10 min ago an air raid was announced, all people to shelter, after an extended curfew. Less journalists are able to report as many are in shelters and the residents are asked to stay in places and not move/drive around the city as it is a distraction: many saboteurs
masquerade as #Ukrainian civilians or military & drive around in small groups in civilian vehicles or, sometimes ambulances, & the police/military/territorial defense check all vehicles. #Kyiv stands & prepared to fight the anticipated attacks. I will get back to report on #Kyiv
3. Explosions are heard throughout #Ukraine, during the last 7 hours and NOW. Currently, a big explosion reported in #Odesa and #zhytomir. Overnight, fierce fights took place in #Kharkiv, #Kherson, #Nikolaev and more t.me/uniannet/33067
4. [I will try to cover each city situation accurately after doing the summary/review.] IMPORTANT: #Putin made another speech, and gave an order to PUT NUCLEAR TROOPS ON ALERT, escalating the tension in the WORLD. THIS IS A SERIOUS THREAT. share the info #StopTheWar
#Putin is in a bunker. His threat is to be taken seriously. Over the last 3 days, #Russians captured #Chornobyl, where radiation level increased and the maintenance staff is taken hostage; hit the nuclear object near #Kyiv;& exploded 3 oil and gas depots/pipelines causing
environmental danger. #Ukraine cannot guarantee the nuclear security under these conditions. #Russian propagandist channels speak of future biological and nuclear war against the West; the Space Agency chief threatened the collapse of International Space Station on the US
5. J#Zelenskyy spoke to #Lukashenko on the phone. #Lukashenko promised he would NOT attack #Ukraine & will not allow missile strikes & attacks by #Russian ground forces from #Belarus territory. He offered to organize a meeting w/the Russian delegation on the border B &Ukraine.
#Zelenskyynoted that this wil be a tough diplomatic battle. Ukraine's first condition in the negotiations is to cease the fire and withdraw troops. The first results of the talks will appear within 3-4 hours, by the end of the day
6. AIR RAID in #Odesa NOW.
7. So many countries and organizations are taking measures against the aggressor that I cannot cover all in this summary. A few important ones: The European Commission proposes to ban broadcasting throughout the EU of RT, Sputnik and their subsidiaries, including YouTube.
Some Russian banks would be banned from SWIFT system SHORTLY. The EU prohibits all transactions with the #Russian Central Bank. The EU completely closes the airspace for Russia, said the head of the European Commission.
Multiple sports teams refuse to compete with #Russian athletes. In many countries, #Russians are refused services (luxury shopping, luxury restaurants etc).
7. Communications. IMPORTANT. The information space is flooded with dis-and mis-information. #Russia bans, fines & blocks all outlets that call "war" a "war". Western mass media doesn't pay adequate attention to nuances and headlines are often misleading & form wrong perceptions
In #Ukraine, many sources have limited access to communications (low batteries, interrupted internet, logistics). Telegram canals, often the only source of info for #Ukrainians,flooded with fakes, intentional & not. Durov, the owner, for 15 min considered banning the service.
8. MORALE. Very high, both in #UkrainianArmy and population. People are joining territorial defense forces. In #Russia: very low. The military personnel is confused; many are very young, born in 2000-2002, misinformed about their destination & purpose, not wanting to fight
In #Russia, thousands arrested [including my sources] & kept in police stations. Still, many taking to streets to protest. Today is 7th anniversary of the murder of popular #BorisNemtsov, the opposition leader shot in the back by the #Kremlin; he was fiercely anti-war w/#Ukraine
Meanwhile, #Navalny is on a closed and silenced trial in prison RIGHT NOW, about to be sentenced to 15 years more. Brutal arrests and impression of all opposing voices continues & as the news of reported approx 3,500 dead #Russian soldiers reach #Russia, morale is even lower.
As I type this summary, AIR RAIDS are announced in #Odesa, #Kyiv and a missile was shot at #Zhytomir from #Belarus (as #Lukashenko promised to cease fire for the duration of #Russian #Ukrainian negotiations)
8. MISCELLANEOUS important developments: For the first time, in history, the #EU is ready to start deliveries of weapons to #Ukraine. The US sanctions target computer chip sales to Russia. I will report more about sanctions but my focus is on the assault/military strikes.
I also focus on the local people's reports, reactions and news as you can find the info on sanctions and the West's response in mass media and other journalists' reports. Thank you for all who is listening and hearing and helping to share the tragedy.
I was going to fight in #Ukraine but all my friends/colleagues asked to cover the story from a safe place. Reporting this is hard because I have deep connections and roots in #Ukraine and many people and places very dear to me. I do my best to focus on facts but I am hearbroken.
Please help me to help the brave and beautiful #Ukraine by sharing #Ukrainians' stories. They tell me that it helps as they are facing the fourth night of the invasion. Starting to report current events from locations now. Will take a few minutes to review and verify reports.
A few photos and facts that struck me:
Animals in the war zone. As we are talking about the tragedy of #Ukrainian people, and as I [have to] listen about #Putin's absurd accusations against them, the humanity...
#GloryToUkraine Humanity.
[have to take a few min to help friends in #Ukraine, back soon.] pls share the hotline for #Russians to find their loved ones killed/captured in #Ukraine. #Kremlin does not allow this information. mothers & fathers cannot find their sons. Military service is obligatory in Russia. Image
Just received this. From #Kyiv... facebook.com/lybomir.boroda…
From a friend: "My son is defending #Kyiv. Street fights going on, shooting at the windows. He slept at the entrance to a building, apartments are being shot through. curfew on 24 hrs. People are organized, everyone helps each other. Free bread distributed, mobile free" RT
[Back] From locations: Town called Happiness near Luhansk on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Residential buildings & infrastructure facilities massively destroyed by shelling. People stuck in the basements. On Feb 26, the occupants captured Luhanska, Krymske, & Markivka.
Within the last hour, air raids in #Kyiv, #Kropyvnytskyi, #Dnipro, #Mariupol, #Cherkasy, #Ternopil, #Kharkiv, #Lviv, #Zhytomyr and #Volyn.
"Belarus missile ruins historical building in #Chernihiv, an Iskander ballistic missile fired from #Belarus hit the 1939 building downtown, a regional capital 150 kilometers north of #Kyiv. No injuries." Personal place, #Chernihiv.
Good news: EU bans Russia Today, Sputnik. Russia’s two main propaganda networks are now to shut down all across the union @KyivIndependent
"The Georgian bulk carrier refused to refuel the Russian ship. The captain of the ship told them "Russian ship, fuck off!" In response to the whining about being out of fuel, the reply was: Row! With oars. #русскийкорабльИдиНахyй
t.me/vgorode_odessa…
US to provide Ukraine $54 mn in humanitarian assistance. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Twitter that the aid is meant to support humanitarian organizations working to help Ukrainians already in need & those newly affected by Russia’s unprovoked & unjustified attack.
ALERT! Unverified, from @UnianInfo Journalist reports that 11 large landing ships left @Crimea. According to intelligence information, some are heading towards #Zatoka. The aggressor will land troops, which should help the assault on #Odessa.
#Mykolaiv governor reported the downed Russian aircraft 150 km from #Mykolaiv, flying from #Crimea. #Kharkiv Mayor: "We have experienced, perhaps, the most difficult day in the entire post-WWII history of the city." #Kharkiv is still #Ukraine
It looks like it is a massive assault again [during the negotiations] A large column of #Russian heavy equipment, more than 40 units, as well as trucks and armored personnel carriers, passed in the direction of #Yasnogorodka, #Kyiv region
#Berdyansk, about 30 min ago: #Russian soldiers, shooting by the police station t.me/uniannet/33103
Another air raid alert in #Kyiv. #Belgium will send #Ukraine 3,000submachine guns and 200 anti-tank grenade launchers, info from #Zelensky.
#Kyiv Mayor Klitschko, in response to an Associated Press question about whether there are plans to evacuate Kyiv residents: “We cannot do this, because all roads are blocked. Right now we're surrounded." He confirmed that 9 civilians, including 1 child, killed in #Kyiv.
A long-awaited convoy arrived in #Kharkiv with anti-tank NLAW, SMAW-D, Javelin, Stinger MANPADS and other weapons. Heavy fights for #Kharkiv continue.
100,000 Ukrainians mobilized in 2 days. According to Commander-in-Chief, 50,000 are military reservists and 50,000 are Territorial Defense volunteers. EU imposes sanctions on Belarus, bans petroleum imports, sharing technologies.
KFC and McDonalds are opening kitchens throughout Ukraine for cooking by the military. Refugees are accepted on the borders with Romania and Moldova: everyone helps.
#Berdyansk: heavy military equipment; #Russians entered the administrative buildings. They offered the Mayor Alexander Svidlo to collaborate/work under their control. He did not agree to such conditions and changed the location, he's now performing his duties from elsewhere.
ALERT! #chechen forces near #Kyiv today
There are reports that Belarusian airborne troops will receive the order to fly to Ukraine tonight. from @DrAlakbarov
This is the historical building in #Chernihiv I reported about earlier
Re #Chechens: also information that "after huge losses of Kadyrov's personal "army" (in particular: 70 of them were reported charred alive after a single Bayraktar strike), most of the rest returned across the border.
In the last five min, I faced 3 (!) fakes/disinfo/contradicting reports 1. Chechens (see three tweets above), both from extremely reliable sources 2. A video of the capitulation of a town (didn't share as wasn't convinced) appears fake 3. The AP shared Mayor of #Kyiv statement...
about the impossibility of evaciatopm/siege: "Nonsense &manipulation,” says Klitschko’s press secretary, in a commentary to The Insider. As you can see right now EVERY SINGLE THING you see needs: Stop. Reread. Think. Breathe. Verify. Wait. Think. #informationwarfare
[it helps:i was FORCED to study #CombatPropaganda at the LeningradUniversity, alma mater of Putin, sadly. I studied Literature but HAD to take the course to graduate. I wish I paid more attention. Everything they are doing is what they taught us. I hated it then. Hate it more now
Heavy fighting in #Kahovka near #Kherson t.me/uniannet/33138
The moral & psychological state of #RussianArmy# is low. Near #Koryukovka in the #Chernihiv region, Russian conscripts are ready to surrender. Hundreds of disabled armored vehicles and tanks throughout Ukraine are abandoned @UnianInfo
Aeroflot flight Moscow - New York turned around, having approached the US. "Russian passenger plane, go f*** yourself."It could have people on board fleeing #Putin's prison. Anyone I know in #Russia is under arrest for protests now. #StopPutin t.me/uniannet/33141
From Russia, NOW: A writer, first arrested in September when I was in Odesa, doing an online literary show together: Today, arrested with her mother (73 y.o.) for protesting war, in St.Petersburg. The police just brought more; nowhere to keep us. About 1,000 detainees." ImageImage
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, 352 civilians have been killed, 14 of them children. 1684 people were injured, including 116 children; from the Ministry of Health.
#UK to provide £40m in humanitarian aid to #Ukraine, Boris Johnson's press office says. The world's reaction is inspiring.
#Canada will supply #Ukraine with $19.6 mn worth of non-lethal weapons, the country's Foreign Minister said. At the request of the UN Security Council, an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly will take place today.
And now some #Ukrainian sense of humor! The best. #Ukrainian tractor stealing a #Russian armored vehicle. I also saw pictures of Russian tanks stuck in the swamp en masse. t.me/lachentyp/170
Good job #Germany better late than never: Germany to build two port terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) to reduce its energy dependency on Russia, Scholz on Feb. 27 @politico
[taking a short break to study and verify the news and alerts]
[back; a lot of disinformation and some confusion] Meanwhile, the Bank of Russia banned foreigners from selling Russian shares. Aeroflot suspends all flights to Europe from Feb 28, the airline said.
A powerful explosion in the Cherkasy region about an hour ago. t.me/lentachold/451…
Needs to be verified: 11 #Russian ships may try to land troops in the #Odesa #Odessa region. #Ukrainian army is prepared to repel the attack.
From my sources: #Russian military is getting upset with the lack of advance and has lost communications with their deployments.
Confirming: Advisor to the #Ukrainian President Arestovich believes that the Russians will launch an offensive against #Mykolaiv and #Odesa. 11 transport ships of the Russian Federation, each containing one battalion, headed to Odesa, w/an intent to land. @UnianInfo
#Kadyrov, in response to Western #sanctions, threatened to close the airspace over #Chechnya and freeze the ruble assets of #British #PrimeMinister #BorisJohnson. He gave the West time to abandon its statements and sanctions "until February 31" !!! 😂😂😂
Samples of destroyed and captured during the day of enemy technology 🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 from Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence ImageImageImage
Arestovich's briefing summary (see above):
▪️ #Kupyansk, #Kharkiv region: clarified, to be confirmed;
▪️ #Volnovakha recaptured, #Mariupol holding on, #Berdyansk captured;
▪️ small groups of Russian reserves approaching from the #Crimea towards the #Kherson and #Odesa;
▪️ three missiles in #Kyiv: one down, no information on the other yet, the third hit #Sofiyskaya #Borshchagovka;
▪️ strikes on #Zhytomyr and #Zaporozhye;
▪️ air raid alert (some for safety)
▪️ preliminary losses of #Russian: 1.5K killed, 3K wounded, 27 aircraft, 26 helicopters,
150 tanks, more than 700 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, 60 tanks for refueling, etc.
▪️ Stay calm.
🇺🇦Glory to Ukraine!
#Ukraine officially filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, from the Center for Combating Disinformation.
Meanwhile, in #Russia: On the evening of Feb 27, on #Pushkin #Square in #Moscow, a car with the graffiti“People, rise!” & "This is War!" drove into a fence and caught fire, according to Avtozak LIVE.t.me/lentachold/451…
Unverified: street fights in #Kharkiv after explosions. If you are in #Kharkiv 1. take shelter if you are civilian 2. please confirm (important)
Unverified: #Belarus may invade #Ukraine in the morning. The head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim reports that the region is preparing for an offensive. According to him, enemy flares were seen, indicating preparations for an attack.
@UnianInfo
[i have to listen to #Russian propaganda channels. Please send good thoughts. Insanity. The Heart of Darkness.] :((((((((((
If someone in #Melitopol, pls let us know the situation. Important.
"In #Melitopol captured by the #RussianAgressor, 11 stores ATB grocery stores looted. Persons of "non-Slavic appearance" (sic!) and a crowd of the local population steal goods & destroy property. Food carts and shopping carts are scattered around."softranger.livejournal.com/1192626.html?u…
In the US, #Virginia Liquor Control Authority ordered Russian-made vodka to be removed from the shelves of liquor stores due to the aggression in #Ukraine. :D A propos, a bit about #Kremlin vodka medium.com/everyvote/devi…
In Moscow, there were harsh detentions at a rally against the war. 290 people in paddy wagons and police stations.
IMPORTANT! From @UnianInfo "For obvious reasons, part of the time, we work from basements & the Internet speed in #Kyiv is not the best right now. Some important news can be repeated. We are trying to be better!
And we work for you! Together we are strong! 💪💪💪"
1,5 hrs ago: An airstrike in the center of Kupyansk in the #Kharkiv region near the bridge over the Oskil River. Witnesses say the blast occurred on February 27 at about 11 p.m. t.me/suspilnekharki…
That was followed by another explosion in #Kharkiv by the airport about an hour ago (I referred to it above but w/o details.) Very hard to confirm events rn (see the message from journalists on locations above)
It is the middle of the night there and people are trying to get some rest after five days of hell and chaos; while the relentless aggressor keeps attacking. There is a prolonged and strange silence from #Kyiv. Can't find the info. Either it's quiet or the internet down--or ?
ALERT! #RussianTroops are trying to resume the attack on #Kyiv through #Polissya river. A pontoon crossing is being prepared near Demidov across the #Yerpen River, - from General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Air Strike in #Vinnytsia. All in the shelter Image
This is a great thread showing how to REALLY verify videos. I don't have time to go through all these steps because my goal is to cover the overall, broad picture but I turn to reliable resources to check each event. Many thanks!
AirRaids in #Chernihiv and #Zhytomyr.
From General Staff of The Armed Forces of Ukraine: "Enemy continues the air-to-ground offensive operation against #Ukraine. During the air-to-ground offensive operation, the enemy continued to inflict fire on military and civilian airfields, military control points (forces),
air defense facilities, important critical infrastructure, settlements, and units in defense areas.
In Polissya, in the direction of #Kyiv, the enemy is trying to resume the offensive by launching a pontoon crossing over the #Irpin river in the area of ​​#Demidiv
Another attempt by the aggressor to capture the city of #Irpin was unsuccessful. Ukrainian defense forces destroyed new enemy equipment. In all directions, tank and mechanized units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the support of artillery maintain the defense of some borders.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulses enemy airstrikes. The grouping of the defense forces of #Kyiv has deployed a dense and multilevel system of defense of the capital. A systematic struggle against a
small number of sabotage-reconnaissance groups (SRG) numbering 3-15 people with weapons, masquerading as the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wearing its uniform but in bulletproof vests of the Russian federation. [?!?!?!!!!-zz]
#stoprussia Image
🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine should join the European Union, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with Euronews. Also, an unverified explosion in #Kyiv. [did i really just type all this?]
[I need to take a few min sanity break. Will still be monitoring but I need some air; haven't been outside since Russia invaded Ukraine which now feels like in a different era. Will be back very soon.]
Or not.#Belarus will renounce its non-nuclear &neutral status, allowing #Russia to place nuclear weapons on its territory, as a result of the referendum today. 65.16% allegedly supported these constitutional amendments. Lukashenko extended his executive powers. @KyivIndependent
"Even expert Russia-watchers aren’t sure what changed when Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s “deterrence forces” to be put on a “special regime of combat duty” on Sunday." I'm an expert Russia-watcher... defenseone.com/threats/2022/0…
...I first was watching it from inside, and then, luckily for me &, for a long time, from outside. I saw #Putin come to power from a low-rank #KGB officer (and wrote a lot about it.) Here is what I think: he is mentally ill. He's having a manic episode of some sort (I'm not a...
... psychiatrist but I have seen enough mental illness in my life.) If you watch his "Security Council", his speech on Feb 23, his further communication, closely, you will see that. He used to have a strategic plan, a manic idea to establish #EurasianState as per #Dugin (I
...mentioned it several times before in this thread and elsewhere) but none of this is relevant and the world is fighting a mentally ill individual with absolute power (and a nuclear "chemodanchik" little suitcase.) Letters Z and V on tanks, attacks on certain dates, unfiltered
and aggressive speech (rape limericks, etc.) If we don't stop him now as a world, all together, his illness may cause us the planet.] Back to reporting.
And more good news and facts.
ALERT! The State Service for Special Communications reports that fighter jets have taken off from Belarus towards Ukraine. Video from Zhlobino, Gomel region. t.me/uniannet/33187
State of #NewYork orders state entities to stop doing business with Russia, according to the executive ordere signed by its governor
[breaking for a few]
‼️‼️‼️ Multiple sources say the decision has been made — and as soon as on Feb. 28 at 5 a.m. local time, the first Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft is very likely to take off carrying Belarusian paratroopers to be deployed against Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com/national/sourc…
They are all out now: "Russia has friends in the world, said the OFFICIAL representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova on air of state TV: "And we know them all: North Korean cannibals, Venezuelan cocaine addicts, and Belarusian vampires" ?!?! #RestrainRussia
#Putin and #Kremlin are unsatisfied with their advance in #Ukraine. They will now turn to extreme measures. Nothing is worse than the insulted pride of a paranoic with an inferiority complex. If someone as ins in @POTUS administration: time to stop them. [My two cents.]
No reason to panic and the world is in a better place than ever to push back against the violations against grave violations of international law and human rights.
In #Pisochyn, a shell fell between two apartment buildings. As a result, broken windows and damaged communication - no water in the sewer; the gas pipeline is intact (don't buy the disinfo). No casualties.
(That was in #Kharkiv). Overnight and the last few hours, in #Kyiv a couple of explosions but overall calm.
According to the General Staff of #UkrainianArmy: #Russian army lost 4,500 people in 4 days. In 2 yrs of the monstrous battles of the first Chechen war with the complete destruction of entire cities, 5,000 soldiers died. And for all 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan - 15,000.
Also, in 4 days: 27 destroyed &damaged aircraft, 26 helicopters, 150 tanks, 700 units SAS, 50 firearms, SAM BUK, 4 MLRS BM-21 Grad, 60 fuel tanks, 2 operational-tactical UAV levels, ships, 2 boats. The Russian Ministry of Defense does not provide data on the dead.
The sounds of explosions in different parts of the city in Kharkiv right now.
#Zelensky told British PM #Johnson tonight that he believed the next 24 hours would be a crucial period for #Ukraine.
A side note: It is reported that military training is being conducted throughout Russia in operationally important areas of the oceans. (Far East (Sakhalin, Nakhodka, Baltic sea, etc.) Just putting it here.
Source about the military training: vlad.mk.ru/social/2022/02…
Explosions in #Kyiv and #Kharkiv.
Unverified, from various sources: three-mile column of Russian troops and tanks 'moving towards Kyiv' Alphabet Inc’s Google has temporarily disabled some Google Maps tools in Ukraine which provide live information about traffic conditions and how busy different places are
NOW: from @unian: In #Polissya in the direction of #Kyiv, #RussianArmy is trying to resume the offensive by building a pontoon crossing over the #Irpin near #Demidov, reports UNN.
The #Ukrainian military: successful attacks against #Russian forces using drones, destruction of a Russian BUK missile system.
#EU sanctions against #Russia just started. As of today, the EU's airspace is completely closed to Russian aircraft, and all operations with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation are prohibited, as reported in the official EU Journal. @UnianInfo
Downtown #Chernihiv a rocket hit a residential building. A fire broke out, two lower floors are on fire. The number of injured is currently unknown. t.me/suspilnenews/6…
Ambushed Russian convoy today near Sribne, Chernihiv Region.
Another great breakdown of the situation at the moment. I can't verify every statement and map but a very reliable source and seems very accurate to me based on my observations. Please note that mistakes are possible at this point.
And now to put a human face on the military analysis because it is easy to get desensitized after rapid fire of "assaults", "casualties" and "damages" The #Russian aggressor troops burned down a museum in #Kyiv region. prm.ua/rosiyski-okupa…
Here how it looks...
The previous post is by a talented, creative artist who was just consumed by her art a week before #Putin decided to invade her peaceful country. Tomorrow, it could be you. #StopPutinsWar #StopPutin ImageImage
Blasts heard in #Kyiv and #Kharkiv early, on Monday morning, Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection reported.
And meanwhile, this is what is happening with refugees, fleeing the war, running to Romania, Moldova, Poland. They need food. It is freezing cold. They have kids with them. This is at the border. Some people make sure the refugees are fed.
Meanwhile, the wrath of the world is striking Russia. They can't get out to go to most places (airspace is closed, see above), the rouble will crash more tomorrow, and now the mail won't work either. Russians, your enemy is in the #Kremlin. Take him down.
Additional force may come to Ukraine from France, Ukrainians in the French Foreign Legion (ground forces). They will come fully w/ their military equipment. The Center for Counteracting Disinformation/ National Security and Defense Council confirms this fact. They mean business. Image
As if #Russian people have not been already punished enough by its government and now the world community, the #Kremlin decides to make it real. Russian providers have completely or partially restricted access to #Facebook and #Twitter. Get rid of #Putin and be free!
[just read about the animals that get lost, run away during bombings, couldn't be taken along as people flee. there is a woman in a village in Ukraine who's not going to leave because she can't take her 5 dogs and 4 cats. she just watches rows of cars heading towards the border] Image
[the woman asked to remember to put cat and dog food in humanitarian aide. she didn't ask to donate or for herself. just to remember.]
Air raid alerts in #Kyiv yet again. The aggressor is relentless and just wouldn't stop. The curfew was supposed to be over and some people were talking about going to work... the negotiations should be happening in a few hours but #Zelensky wasn't expecting much.
A horrifying read.
#Kyiv is not surrendering. From the Groud Troops HQ: "Today, the enemy continued to try to break through the defense of Kyiv. Repeatedly, deployments of Russian troops tried to storm the outskirts. Their movements were under control; timely decisions were made."
"Occupant's equipment destroyed. The opponent suffered significant losses from the personnel team. Russian troops are demoralized and exhausted. We showed that we can protect our home from uninvited guests." Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Commander of Defense of Kyiv
Yet, The Washington Post spoke to an unnamed US administration official on Sunday evening who said the deployment could begin as soon as Monday. "It’s very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin,” they said.
Russian ruble hits record low, & is now 40% against the U.S. dollar after Western nations stepped up sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. @KyivIndependent
[And the #Kremlin is not going to like any of this. I feel, finally, people can get my 2015 cartoon. Tried to explain and warn since 2012 but didn't do a great job, apparently.] Image
The National Academy of Science calls on the international academic community to completely suspend cooperation with the Russian academics as they "assist the Russian regime not only with a new arms race, but also in the global promotion of Russia's official imperial policy»
#refugees in #Lviv stay @Theater, RT From Feb 27, Les Kurbas Theatre Hall, Lesya Kurbasa st, 3. overnight; nap, hot drinks, snacks, help: nurse, psychologist, lawyer. For an overnight stay, a passport is required! Bobmshelter. ImageImage
😡The Times: more than 400 Russian mercenaries in Kyiv tasked by the #Kremlin with assassinating #Zelenskyy, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, & preparing the ground for taking the city under Moscow's control.
The Wagner Group, a PMC run by Putin's ally, sent mercenaries from Africa 5 weeks ago on a mission to behead the Zelensky government for a hefty financial bonus. Everything u wanted to ask about Wagner but were afraid to ask zarinazabrisky.medium.com/whats-cooking-…
Information about Wagner's mission hit the Ukrainian government's desk on Saturday morning, and a few hours later Kyiv announced a 36-hour curfew to clear the city of Russian saboteurs.
"My blind, 83-y.o. Mom survived the evacuation & the Nazi bombs, lost her father in 1943 (the liberator of Donbas, starved after the war), slept on the bunk bed last night, trembling, expecting the Russian fascist invaders' bombs, who came to liberate Ukraine from the Ukrainians" Image
Grocery stores and public transport will open in Kyiv from 08:00. Metro will run much less often than usual Please do not go outside and do not move around the city unnecessarily. The night was peaceful, w/several skirmishes and battles with saboteurs & reconnaissance groups
but that night the city was more prepared for defense. You will see anti-tank fortifications. Street fights continue in almost every district of the city. Leave only in case of emergency, to buy food or medicine. Join forces; help each other: ask your neighbors if they need help
especially the elderly or families whose relatives are defending Ukraine. Watch the apartments of neighbors who have left the city to prevent looting. Note that curfew is not canceled. From Feb 28, it will last, as previously determined, from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.💙💛"city channel
👉 #Ukrainian #cybertroops hacked into the #Kremlin website and leaked the contact database of Russian officials. All "elite" phone numbers and email addresses are collected in the @gov_rf_bot bot. Send them your love ;) We hear passwords are a fun read! Image
[My brain just fizzled. Taking a breathing break. Just so relieved that #Kyiv is okay but hoping everyone is careful and vigilant. Everyone is getting exhausted and that's when it's easy to make a mistake. Be safe!]
"Belarusian Foreign Ministry: "a platform for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine has been prepared, the arrival of delegations is expected" [don't drink this water] Image
"Today, since the beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar exchange rate went up to 90 rubles, Euro to 101.19 rubles. Russia, meet new historical record! And look for updates on an hourly basis" @UnianInfo [a nice souvenir photo from the 'wild 90s'] Image
The Russian Defense Ministry said the #RussianArmy took control of the Zaporizhzhia #nuclear power plant & controls the area. The press secretary of Energoatom, a #Ukrainian state enterprise, denied it & stated that the station is under the full control of Ukraine.
The negotiations between #Russian and #Ukrainian delegations are expected to start in 2 hours. I won't be able to wait till the results, so I will call it a night & hope for a miracle. Thank you for caring & following these tragic events. I will be back to report in 8+- hours.
[Hello and back online to report the fifth day of the #Russian invasion in #Ukraine.] Still, #UkraineUnderAttack, over the last 8 hours heavy blasts and bombing hit #Kharkiv that sustained at least 31 casualties and many injured, burned down houses, schools and stores; #Chernihiv
and #Chernihiv district, where two villages are reported to be destroyed; areas close to #Odesa, shelling in the #BlackSea and more. I will do the summary and then will start reporting on the attacks and events as they unroll in real time. IMPORTANT: the 1st round #negotiations
1st round of #negotiations #Ukraine / #Russia is over in #Belarus; no concrete results are reported; "2nd round to begin shortly at Polish-Belarusian border." #Ukraine demanded withdrawal of #Russian troops & restoring its territory. #Russian economy is hit by massive #sanctions
#Russia is hit by massive #sanctions & #cyberattacks; all major websites (#Kremlin, #Russian government, #FSB, all state-run mass media, TV etc) are DOWN thank u @YourAnonOne, #Ruble has hit unprecedented low; #EU airspace is closed for #Russian airplanes
Airspace around the world is also not available for #Russian flights (will specify); the property of #Russian #oligarchs, elite and #Putin is arrested and bank accounts frozen around the EU countries & #Switzerland (!), millions of $ transferred to #Ukraine from around the world
The humanitarian crisis in #Ukraine: shortages of food supplies reported in #Kyiv, problems with transportation & communication in many parts of #Ukraine under constant air attacks from #Russians (no cease fire during negotiations); but #Ukrainian moral is high
Residents walk out into streets unarmed to stop #Russian tanks and military equipment; sing national anthems in occupied squares (#Berdyansk), play it on trumpets during shelling from balconies (#Kyiv), save paintings from burning museums, & put posters
with now-iconic "#Russian ship [tank, plane, soldier, rouble] go f*** yourself" #РусскийКорабльИдиНаХуй everywhere, including road signs that now have arrows showing where the said #Russians can reach the said destination. One farmer stole a #Russian tank, using his tractor;
jets draw angels in the sky over #Kyiv. Keeping this high spirit is hard: I reviewed over 600 messages on waking up with incredibly disturbing images of death, injuries, children's suffering, bodily harm, cruelty. I'm not going to share them RN, i will document some so they can
be archived and kept for history & for the trial over #PutinWarCriminal in #HagueForPutin SOON. On the good side, a rumor circulates in mass media loud & clear:#Putin's imminent end in his bunker is near; his #oligarchs will get rid of him. Any bets on the date? ;)
[I will now check in with all my sources which is becoming hard as communication lines are often down, people are in hiding AND exhausted and, at this point, I wait for them to reach out. Worried for my friends, out in the streets fighting and in shelters hiding. Will report live
Thank you for caring, following, sending messages of support to #Ukraine. I have started this ongoing report on #russianinvasion when #Putin attacked; I use many sources in #Ukraine, reliable channels & colleagues reporting on site. From start here:
[will be back in 15-20 min, catching up, getting details, photos etc]
Good lord. A baby (I want to say donkey?) was born in the ecopark under fire "Despite everything, life goes on. "Little Ukrainians are born in shelters, and in #Kharkiv in an Ecopark under the "Hail" shelling and the howling of sirens," this happened. ... Image
The shelling started in #Kharkiv AGAIN right now. This is how it looks. The missiles like this hit houses and playgrounds. They are dangerous and explode any moment. #PutinWarCriminal #StopWarInUkraine RT! Image
Also, follow and share this account, united #Ukrainian journalists delivering images and eyewitnesses.
This is how a missile attack looks. 2022. #Berdyansk twitter.com/truth_about_war
#Kharkiv
SEVERAL LOUD BLASTS IN #Kyiv NOW t.me/vgorode_odessa…
#EU membership application
Very worried about the latest explosion in #Kyiv. 35 min ago
#Berdyansk
I see videos and photos like this by dozens. Everywhere in #Ukraine, civilians build road blocks and barricades to stop the #russianinvasion
A missile attack in #Kyiv was carried out on #Brovary, Mayor Igor Sapozhko. Six people were injured. t.me/lentachold/452…
In #Chernihiv region, the military equipment of the enemy and prisoners were seized, from General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
#stoprussia ImageImage
IMPORTANT UPDATE, RT: "While fighting is going on in #Kyiv, #journalists and eyewitnesses are DO NOT give the locations of the explosion or shooting!
#Russian army uses such info to coordinate attacks. Information about explosions & shootings will be shared after fighting stops
ONGOING HEAVY ATTACKS on #Kyiv and elsewhere [in the light of the latest request, regrouping here and figuring out the best way to report, also helping friends who had to relocate to coordinate, back in a few min]
RT to all: Departure from #Kyiv in the direction of #Brovary is limited, from Kyiv City State Administration.
#Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack #Kyivunderattack
Latest updates: #Russia is reported to attack #Ukrainian telecommunications channel and cut down #Internet and #mobile connection. #EU took an unprecedented decision to supply weapons to the "third" country (#Ukraine) [Bravo!]
This taboo is broken because of the unprecedented situation and the number of civilians killed;lethal weapon for $450 mn Euro will be delivered to #Ukraine, more funds in humanitarian aide. #Germany will be also breaking taboo and supply weapons to #Ukraine
100 bn Euro will be invested into defense industry of Germany, a big change, prompted by the #RussianInvasionInUkraine; more countries are going to supply weapons. #Hungary refused to join and banned transit of weapons through its territory
However, a no-fly zone over #Ukraine is not an option as #NATO leaders see their goal in stopping the escalation of the military conflict that can lead to triggering Article 5 (collective response of NATO to an attack on 1 country). [In my opinion, they should be more concerned
by the unhinged #Kremlin dictator #Putin who AGAIN repeated the threat of using #Russian #nuclear weapon, that is now on "high alert." I repeat, this individual is in a state of mental disorder and needs to be restrained by all means possible. RT at #psychiatrists to diagnose.]
The humanitarian crisis with refugees: over 150,000 refugees have left #Ukraine. Accumulation of people at the borders is high; all #COVID protection measures are dropped; there are shortages of water, food, and warm clothes in freezing weather. My sources report high level of
support from neighboring countries in Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, with local people providing food, transport & shelter. People drive from as far as Belgium to help the refugees. "I have never seen such help from volunteers. In Uzhgorod, all free municipal buildings
...were given to refugees, one of the restaurants was turned into a free food center for. One after another, cars arrive and deliver food and clothes." from my source who fled to Czech Republic with family. Post office is not working in #Ukraine, transportation is limited and the
delivery of goods further into the country is challenging. If you are reading in EU and want to help, find volunteer groups on FB, many people deliver first aide and food to the borders.
In #Russia, the #Kremlin is blocking Twitter and trying to limit FB, and establishes the information blockage. Help #Russians with information: "Go to Google Maps. Find #Russia. Find a business and write a review and in it explain what is happening in Ukraine." RT #SaveUkraine
HARD TO LOOK! DO NOT LOOK AWAY!!! On February 7, a 6-year-old girl was wounded by shelling by #Russian troops, brought to #Mariupol #Hospital in critical condition. Doctors tried to save her, but failed. RT!!! #PutinWarCriminal t.me/suspilnenews/6…
JUST IN: As a result of a missile strike by the #Russian military in the #Kyiv region (#Vasylkiv, #Bila Tserkva, #Kalynivka), a five-story dormitory and two five-story apartment buildings were destroyed, and rescuers are now arriving.
"I believe that in such conditions silence is a crime." #VasilStus Vasil Stus, #ukrainian poet, who 13 years in detention, until his death in Perm-36, then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, for speaking up. SPEAK UP! DON'T BE SILENT! ImageImage
[in the last post two photos: one from the border with Romania,another one is a kindergarten bombed out in #Chernihiv. Several villages around #Chernihiv bombed into the ground. Trying to find #Kulikivka, at 19, was engaged to a boy from it. Google Maps don't work. Can't find it]
FROM #Kyiv In the town of Vasylkiv, a 5-floor residential building was destroyed and is burning now. 1 person under the rubble of the building in #BilaTserkva
In #Kharkiv, a family was burnt alive in a car, people who stepped out to get water were shot, a woman lost a leg and died from bleeding, schools and kindergartens are burnt down overnight; the worst damage in modern history. #SaveUkraine #SaveUkraineNow #StopPutinNOW
🇺🇦 From Minister of Defense of Ukraine #РезніковОлексій "In 4 days, the loss of #Russian occupants: killed & wounded more than 5.300, hundreds captured. Many are very young. The #Kremlin turns them into criminals, into murderers. Some were deceived, some brainwashed, intimidated.
The morale is not high. #Russiansoldiers face our heroic defenders and #Ukrainian weapons; they see that no one greets them with flowers. They are met with shouts: "Fascists! Go Home!" For #Ukraine, human life is the highest value.
To save the lives of Ukrainians, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine support the initiative of the international IT community. We offer Russian soldiers a choice: to die in an unjust war or surrender, get full amnesty & 5 mn rubles of compensation.
Put down the guns and voluntarily surrender. Funds to secure this action are raised by global IT industry leaders. We offer the Russian military personnel a chance to start a new life. Anyone who refuses to be an occupant will bring peace closer.
For those who choose the path of the occupant - there will be no mercy! Glory to Ukraine!" From the Minister of Defense. Share this message, maybe it will reach some #Russian boys who want to escape. [Reminder: military service is compulsory in Russia, starts at 18]
In Russia, the special forces brutally arrest the protestors. One woman fainted but was carried to a police van. A few people I know in St.Petersburg were arrested yesterday and are still in prison. t.me/lentachold/452…
WARNING: #Russian troops are planning to disconnect the Internet and mobile connection in Ukraine. This will have a devastating impact as people coordinate via phones
ANALYSIS: Three main attacks right now, nighttime in #Ukraine: #Kyiv, attacked from the West and bombarded; #Kharkiv that already suffered heave losses, and #Mariupol that is now surrounded by #Russian troops. Attacks are expected on #Mikolayiv and #Odesa.
Here is the map. Air raids are announced as soon as #Ukrainian military registers an aircraft/missile heading to Ukraine as the destination is never known. The air defense force than attempts to down missiles/aircrafts. Image
Turkey will not allow warships to pass through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.
The U.S. has suspended its embassy operations in Belarus, and all American personnel has left the country, according to Special Envoy for Belarus Ambassador. "Belarus' complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine has shown the regime's loss of sovereign decision-making.
A new road sign design in #Ukraine, from #Odesa Image
WARNING: #Informationwarfare ALERT! #Cyberspace is a major #battlefield. DO NOT open attachments in emails unless you are 100% sure you know the source. Note: the source can be faked. Everyone is a target. DO NOT share locations of military operation in #Ukraine in real time.
#Kharkiv, 1 hr ago, a mother with a child is blocked under ruins. Image
8 #EU countries have published an appeal in support of the speedy launch of the process of Ukraine's accession to the EU. The appeal was signed by the presidents of Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
Writers, artists, art community: PLEASE SIGH AND SHARE Petition: Impose cultural sanctions on the Russian Federation. I signed. #GloryToUkraine #СлаваУкраїни arts.gov.ua/urge-to-impose…
#Kharkiv now Prosecutor General of Ukraine: In Kharkiv today, it’s worse than ever. Here in the photo, after eating a shell at the kitchen window, the woman kicked her leg, died in the hospital Image
Bayraktar destroyed 96 tanks, 20 Gradov, and 8 fuel trucks in the Sumy region. For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. #StopWarInUkraine #StopPutin Image
If in Ukraine: soldiers with white handbands or w/white signs on their uniform are #Russian aggressors. Soldiers in black uniform with beards: #Chechens fighting on the side of #Russians. There are saboteurs in civilian uniform and masquerading in Ukrainian uniform.
Canada plans to ban oil imports from Russia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
#Kremlin: #Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the countries supporting #Ukraine with lethal weapons would bear responsibility if they are used during #Moscow’s "ongoing offensive." #StopPutin if we don't stop him now he will start WWIII. I SAID IT. Do evthg to stop him.
This is how brave #Ukrainian people are. Young man and woman driving in a car throwing firebombs at #Russian tanks. Will we help them to defend their homes and their lives?
[veryfying a lot of information. there is a lot of fakes. beware of disinformation.]
More powerful explosions in #Kharkiv now.
THIS IS !!!! from @AVindman
Starlink hardware arrives in Ukraine. Elon Musk activated the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine following an appeal from @FedorovMykhailo, Ukraine's minister of digital transformation.
Re: Gerasimov being fired. Vindman said "reportedly" and it is impossible to verify in Russian sources. All major Russian sites (Kremlin, TV, and media outlets are down hacked by Anonymous.) A very good example.
From Security Services of Ukraine: Today, a new [Russian] fake is spread that "the occupiers are installing mobile communication equipment that could interrupt our networks." Next are the "tips" on how to choose the right network... Do not fall for fakes.
#Kyiv a few hrs ago. Explosion, most likely by #Vasylkiv
Parts of #Kharkiv disconnected from electricity. The #Russians began to blow up power stations that supply the city with electricity. #KharkivMassacre #StopWarInUkraine #StopPutinNOW
#Zelensky: In 5 days, #Russia fired 56 missiles at #Ukraine, 113 cruise missiles. This is Ukraine, this is #Europe, 2022. Evil, armed with missiles, bombs, artillery, must be stopped immediately. To destroy economically, to show that humanity is able to defend itself.
"I believe that the complete closure of the sky for Russian missiles, planes and helicopters should be considered. In 5 days, 56 missile strikes have already been inflicted on Ukraine, and 113 cruise missiles have been fired. That's what it is, brotherly friendship." #Zelensky
Just in: #Russian artillery troops & airforces shot at high-voltage lines in #Mariupol, leaving the city partially without electricity, the city council said. In freezing temperature. #StopWarInUkraine #StopPutinNOW #PutinWarCriminal #PutinHitler
#Zelensky: The talks (with Russia) took place, as our territory was being bombed and shelled. Russia is trying to put pressure. Don't waste time. We do not accept such tactics. @KyivIndependent
Russian soldier breaks into Ukraine without knowing the reason for it (English subtitles) from @UkraineNewsNow t.me/lachentyp/222
In #Kharkiv, a city that is under heavy shelling right now, and electricity is not working everywhere, food supplies are becoming short. Long lines for bread. [my great-grandparents starved to death in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad. it is very hard to report this. all of this.]
[how can you, #russiansoldiers, do this? i am out of words, out of tears and the only reason i keep writing and translating is because #ukrainian people need for the world to see this #genocide. #Russian people, rise. take down your criminal government. take it down.]
Just listening about the #combatPropaganda that i was forced to study in school: it is being used to spread rumors and sow panic and fear. When you hear that #Russians took control of this or that area etc know that 80% of times this is #InformationWarfare.
"A sabotage group of Russians tried to break into the Mikhailovsky Cathedral in #Kyiv yesterday and was disarmed by the guards of the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery. It is said that the Head of the Ukrainian Church is on the main target list for #RussianArmy Image
An interview with the Mayor of #Vasilkiv, a town burning and bombed night after night. Natalia Balasynovych, the mayor of Vasylkiv, a 37-year-old campaigner against domestic abuse now thrown into a war effort. by @shaunwalker7
[taking a few minutes to regroup and breathe. Important because there is a lot of information, disinformation, and one needs a clear head. My sources are mostly asleep for now, or fleeing. It is 1 am in #Ukraine now]
International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Karim A.A. Khan QC: “I have decided to proceed with opening an investigation... over the events unfolding in Ukraine.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.asp…
#PutinWarCriminal Putin will answer for his crimes in Hague. Not posting the photos of children and adults killed over the last five days. But every single one of them will be remembered. #Putin you will answer for each life you took. Image
Good news. Image
Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Russian rock icon Boris Grebenshikov spoke up for #Ukraine. But you know who is a real rock star now? #Zelenksy #Zelenskyy Image
Let me rephrase it, especially for those commenting. "...Does the West watch in silence as it rolls TOWARDS THE WEST?" How many years does it take for you to see what he's doing? @NATO @US wake up. #Putin is telling you what he's up to. Stop him.
The latest from @oldLentach Everyone, get a good shrink: #Ukrainian authorities: #Russians began the assault on #Kherson advancing from the airport to the #Mikolayiv Hwy & the ring at the cold storage facility. Walt Disney suspends the delivery of its films to Russian cinemas.
New satellite imagery from #Maxar Technologies shows that the #Russian military convoy reaching the outskirts of #Kyiv is even longer than previously thought--over 64 km long. Yes, we are all watching the biggest tragedy of our times before our eyes. Contact yr elected officials Image
For the name of HUMANITY, this nightmare STILL can be stopped. We, as humans, MUST stop the massacre by a bloody, insane dictator who lost his mind in a bunker. If we don't, we ALL are complicit. This is no Walt Disney. Call @biden @NATO @EU @KamalaHarris @BorisJohnson etc
I am calm and it is not hysteria. We are at the point of no return. Don't let #Putin take #Kyiv. Mayor of #Kherson says that the city is blocked by the forces of the Russian Federation, but will try to hold out until the morning.
[not posting anything unverified and don't want to emote. we all need to stay calm, think clearly and monitor every move. do not open any attachments on your devices. hacking is the word of the day. will be back when something worth reporting happens]
A journalist of #RadioSvoboda arrested live in Russia during protests. Honest people in #Russia ARE IN PRISON. This country is a PRISON. ImageImageImage
US admin officials warned lawmakers in classified briefings today that the second wave of Russian troops will likely consolidate the country's positions within Ukraine & by sheer numbers be able to overcome the Ukrainian resistance, say people familiar with the briefings @CNN
The good news, though, re: large numbers/holding big cities: being overextended is the risk; there are protests and growing rebellion at home &, dear @japan, maybe now is the time to claim #Kuril islands?
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[Checking the latest reports. Air raids in Volyn, Ternopil, Ryvne now. With the 40-60km convoy next to #Kyiv, it's nerve-breaking &, possibly, a tactic to break down morale. The dawn is in 20 min; #Russians like to attack in the middle of the night & at the first break of dawn.]
From @unian The #Ukrainian and Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Air Force overnight destroyed 5 #Russian fighters, columns of armored vehicles and air defense systems.
"During a daring air raid by the invaders on #Vasilkov and #Brovary, #Ukrainian fighter pilots intercepted and shot down 2 #Russian aircraft. The work of #Ukrainian fighters was completed by S-300 anti-aircraft missile divisions, hitting 3 aircraft of the invaders.
The Air Force shot down five fighters. According to preliminary data, these are Su-30 and Su-35. Near #Kyiv, the Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile system shot down an enemy cruise missile and helicopter. Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft worked in squads & in pairs
& delivered several missile and bomb attacks on armored columns and enemy manpower in the #Kyiv and #Zhytomyr regions."
And how did I miss this?! I'm on #Odesa channels so I see a lot of jokes but #kadyrov is the funniest, apparently.
Speaking of jokers, here is another one. Too bad #Netflix will not play Russian programs anymore (none of it, strangely. is not a joke; they were going to start & now they stopped.) Putin is dead serious, put intended.
Oh great, they ARE listening to me. I just asked for a #no-fly zone and the answer just magically appeared: "The #US will not declare #Ukrainian airspace a #no-fly zone, as it will require a U.S. military presence &effectively make the US a party to the conflict," WH Psaki said
Well, guess what. The United States IS a part of the conflict. Just listen to any Russian propagandist and you'll find out in 3 minutes that the main adversary is not #Ukraine (it's a "polygon"--heard it today). I give you 3 guesses...(I'm having a drink (much needed)...)
It's like being in a cage with a mad and hungry mandating bear and hoping it will not touch you if you look away. Guess what. Okay, back to reporting only. It's been five days of reporting about bloody war.
From @KyivIndependent More than 500,000 refugees have fled Ukraine amid Russia’s war, according to the UN Refugee Agency. At least 160,000 have become internally displaced since the Russian offensive in Ukraine. #StopWarInUkraine
More than 70 #Ukrainian soldiers killed when #Russian artillery hit a military base in #Okhtyrka, a city between #Kharkiv and #Kyiv. ImageImage
How people spend the night in the subways in #Kyiv and #Kharko. Another air raid announced in #Kyiv, #Uman #Vinnitsa #Cherkassy just now... ImageImageImageImage
ALERT! #Russian infantry has entered #Kherson from the east and is advancing deep into the city.
Video from #Kherson t.me/uniannet/33723
#Kherson is almost completely surrounded by Russian troops and military equipment on all sides, they set up checkpoints at the exits, journalist Alyona Panina said on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV, from the city. Earlier, the mayor reported he was blocked by the invaders.
Missile attack in Izmail district in #Odesa region - Mayor of Izmail Andriy Abramchenko
#Shelling of #Kharkiv overnight, March 1, 2022. ImageImage
From #Chernihiv Regional State Administration: According to preliminary data, the enemy conducted remote mining at night. Unidentified objects fell from the sky but did not explode, possibly antipersonnel mines.
#Chernihiv residents: do not touch, step, pick up; look out!
There is no more bridge to Bucha😥 Photo by Reuters. [heartbreaking to translate] ImageImageImage
In a classified briefing, House lawmakers are told Ukraine has suffered 1,500 casualties since the invasion started, reports @JaxAlemany. Sadly, numbers expected to go much higher.
New: Ukraine’s U.S. ambassador told senators tonight that her country’s military is running low on Stingers & Javelins, and wants harsher sanctions on Russia. “Russia can hold on a lot longer than Ukraine can… This is dire.”w/ @connorobrienNH
"Airstrike on Freedom Square. The heart of #Kharkiv is on fire. Burn in hell, Russian occupiers!" From Telegram channel. FREEDOM SQUARE. Video source: t.me/kharkiv_1654/2…
REPEATING THIS. SECOND MAIN CITY IN #UKRAINE. #KHARKIV. 8.35 AM. RUSSIAN INVADERS CRIMINALS EXPLODE THE SQUARE OF FREEDOM. WATCH IT. RT IT.
t.me/suspilnenews/6…
#RUSSIANCRIMINALS are bombing the city parks and a ZOO in #Kharkiv. Not sharing the videos now. BUT please share the facts. PLEASE.
Another video... t.me/uniannet/33745
EU will send space intelligence data on R#ussian troops to #Ukraine - Borel--Thank you and close the sky! #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine Demand #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow
Update: As a result of a missile attack on #Loshchinovka, Izmail district, one person died and one was injured - the head of the Public Council at the Odessa Regional State Administration Serhiy Bratchuk
#Kharkiv before and after #Putin's help. #PutinWarCriminal #Putin to #HagueForPutin t.me/vgorode_kharki…
I will have to take a break. It is unlikely that #Kyiv (and #Kharkiv) will be attacked during the day. Their strategy is to hit either in the middle of the night or at dawn. Also.
Last night in the #Chernihiv region, 3 civilians killed by #Russian shelling, according to SES Office in the region. Since the beginning of the war, 72 fires, 48 due to shelling, 4 people dead in the region.
"Warn everyone not to pick up blue matchboxes from the road, they are mines!" in #Kharkiv. Children...
Let me just finish with this. #Слава_Україні! #ГероямСлава! #GlorytoUkraine. #StopPutin Image
[Hi all, i am back; had to sleep so I can keep a clear mind and report accurately. I just caught up on the developments and will do a summary in a few minutes after verifying and translating events. For those who just joined my ongoing report: I'm an American writer/journalist
I was in Ukraine recently but reporting from USA as all my friends in Ukraine are asking me to spread the word and let the world know what is happening. I have dozens of sources in Ukraine DM with updates, and I am in Ukrainian-language Telegram chats for major cities getting
updates on a minute basis. I verify info, translate it & share. I also share reliable resources and reports by colleague journalists working on site. There is A LOT of disinformation out there and verifying takes time and MUST be done with extreme care.
#Russian Ministry of Defense OPENLY called information warfare and is asking the users of social media in Russia to bombard cyberspace with fakes. There are deep fakes videos of #Zelenskyy announcing capitulation, for instance. In #Russia, the word "war" is banned and
the outlets using "war" instead of "specialized military operation" are blocked from the Internat. Most independent outlets do NOT operate in Russia now and a big percentage of the #Russians are misinformed or brainwashed. They WILL and ARE bombarding vkontakte and odnoklassniki,
(Russian equivalent of FB) AND FB with disinformation. CHECK EVERY SOURCE for date, time, location, pixelation, source etc. There still will be errors and disinformation; all major Western outlets and reporters have already made mistakes and it can not be avoided. Therefore,
STAY CALM and wait before reacting. Your emotional response is meant to be weaponized. The main goal of combat propaganda is demoralization of the army and population of the adversary: I learned that in a classified combat propaganda class I HAD to take in university.
At this
point, the main adversary is NOT Ukraine. Shoigu, Minister of Defense, just made a speech stating that the main adversary is the West. Putin said it many times over the last few days. Demoralization of YOU is their goal; spreading disinformation to cause discord, panic and
confusion among YOU is the goal. It is a hybrid war. The #Ukrainians are being killed by over 400 missiles (@CNN) launched at the major cities but your mind is being targetted by the headlines, images and posts. SO: I am going to verify everything I am about to share, and I can
and will make mistakes; keep this in mind. I'm also emotional, cities I love are in ruins, my ancestors' graves are exploded, people I love are in the streets or basements; I do my best to separate emotions from judgement but I am human. My role models are Ukrainian journalists
reporting from the sites and Ukrainian people fighting the enemy. Thank you for following this unjust and bloody war started by the #PutinWarCriminal and help us stop it. Thank you. Back in a few min with the summary of the last few hrs and reports on the ongoing attacks.]
SUMMARY for the last 8 hours: 1. #Russian are bombing major cities. Air attack on the central #Freedom square in #Kharkiv, opera theater, zoo, other sites, killing estimated 10, including children, many injured;
in #Kyiv a missile struck a TV tower and #BabiYar #Holocaust Memorial (my great-grandparents are there in a mass grave). #Russia claimed the goal of this "military operation" is fighting“Ukrainian Nazis. In #Kyiv estimated 5 killed, many injured.
(from the latest attack); In #Kherson, #Chernihiv residential buildings are hit with missiles. #Russian troops entered #Kherson. People are seen attempting to stop tanks with bare hands. Will share videos. A large convoy of Russian troops is near #Kyiv t.me/KyivIndependen…
3. The #Russian plane responsible for airstrikes in #Kharkiv reportedly shot down by #Ukrainian forces & crashed near a market (according to authorities). 4. The first prisoner exchange took place in the #Sumy region.
4. Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine JUST IN:
▪️Defensive battles continue in the Sivers'kyi region. The task of the Ukrainian military is to prevent the advance of the occupiers in the direction of Kipti and Nizhyn.
▪️Part of the forces continues to defend #Chernihiv and prevents the enemy from wedging into the city limits
▪️In Slobozhanshchyna, units of the Armed Forces also continue defensive battles. They inflict losses on the occupiers' manpower and equipment and capture them
▪️Defense is also underway in the Primorsky direction
▪️Defense groups are fighting in #Kyiv. Assault units and artillery units occupied the defenses on the outskirts of the capital and improved the fortification equipment of the positions.
Two (!) triplets were born in #Chernihiv under fire. Babies are born in bomb shelters all over #Ukraine. In #Kharkiv, people fled shelling with kids in their arms, jumping over corpses. #PutinWarCriminal #StopRussianAggression ImageImage
#Volnovakha: thousands of civilians wiped off the face of the earth, evacuation is impossible due to merciless, incessant shelling.“A slab collapsed in one of the basements. The man's legs were broken. He was bleeding in front of his wife and child. Help is nowhere to be found.
Shelling day and night. The center is completely destroyed. No electricity, no communication, no water. Families hide in the basements of high-rise buildings for several days, food running out."head of the Prolisok-Volnovakha humanitarian mission. Image
"A 'green corridor' is discussed; w/out it, mass evacuation is impossible. The railroad was destroyed. The roads bombarded. The city is wiped off the face of the earth along with children, the elderly, the sick." This is a sample report from around #Ukraine. #StopRussia RT
In Severodonetsk, Russian invaders fired at the regional orphanage. THe video attached is in #Kharkiv. t.me/uniannet/33909
[It is hard to do the summary because there is a lot of fakes. Disinformation galore and a lot of messages are being taken back so I have to go in between channels, and fast forward the timeline to confirm. AGAIN: #informationwarfare ]
#Melitopol:
From the #Zelenskyy's aide via Настоящее Время: #Kharkiv is being bombarded, the humanitarian situation is bad but the military is good, fighting back; #Kyiv attacks in North-West; #Kherson and an attempted attack in #Mykolaiv. Overall approx.400 killed, 20 children, 600 wounded
From the #Zelenskyy's aide via Настоящее Время: #Putin reportedly gave an order to shoot at civilians and not hold back. It seems that he is taking revenge on #Kharkiv, mainly Russian-speaking city that fights so fiercely and won't surrender to Russia.
#Borodyanka near #Kyiv Image
This last report was from Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to #Zelensky. "This is a war. A real war. Rockets flew over us, shells exploded, we saw how the maternity hospital where my daughter was supposed to be born exploded," Russian actors, now in Ukraine. Image
Update now. The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a convoy of #Russian military, which set off from #Mykolayv in the direction of #Bashtanka during the day. The advance has been stopped.t.me/uniannet/34002
Reportedly: #Chechen fighters heading towards #Ukraine (from @UnianInfo) Yes, it does look like Lord of the Rings t.me/uniannet/34001
Reported now: Ukrainian intelligence informs that #Belarusian troops & tanks are on high alert at #Urkainian border despite #Lukashenko's announcement that Belarus is not joining the war.
#Chernihiv: ImageImage
PLEASE! Call and write to your elected officials in the #US and #EU and ask for a #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #Zelensky urged #NATO members to impose a no-fly zone to stop the Russian air force, as a preventative measure not meant to drag #NATO into an all-out war with #Russia. RT! ImageImageImageImage
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow ImageImage
PLEASE HELP: Google's petition to ban the placement of new tags on Google Maps in Ukraine during hostilities. These labels are used by the occupiers. [FROM MY SOURCES IN UKRAINE]
support.google.com/maps/thread/15…
#Mariupol is under heavy, incessant shelling. Residential areas, a school is bombed, 21 wounded, casualties will be verified. 500,000 population. Image
An attack on #Kharkiv NOW: residents counted at least five planes. Explosions everywhere AGAIN. #Putin is erasing #Kharkiv from the face of Earth. Call for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone WE CAN HELP!!!! RT @ celebrities you know RT @ everywhere
IMPORTANT: I listen to MANY #Russian propagandist channels/programs. They are loud and clear: #Kremlin's major enemy IS THE WEST, #EU and #US. By sitting out now, #NATO is not going to save itself from confronting #Russia. #Russia IS ALREADY AT WAR WITH NATO. RT! Fight!
@gasparov right now speaking and he says exactly the same: #Putin is at war with #NATO, he will attack, stop the denial, #Putin wants the confrontation, he IS crazy but people are being killed now, #Nuremberg in 2 yrs doesn't matter. #NATO #NATOINUKRAINENOW
Take this: 80,000 #Ukrainians came BACK from abroad since #Russia invaded further. According to the Interior Ministry, which cites the State Border Guard Service, the vast majority of citizens who returned to Ukraine after Feb. 24 were men who joined army.
[the ONLY reason I am not there with AK fighting is because ALL my friends asked me to stay in a safe place, report, spread the word & get the world to help. PLEASE HELP! Share info! Call your governments! Send humanitarian aide. Do anything you can to save #Ukraine & stop WWIII]
[you know what is scary reporting? 11 minutes dead silence on #Kharkiv chat after the last post: "We hear planes. We hear explosions." Help to save lives... why can't we do #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine ?!]
[taking a few min to share and spread the latest on other social media, waiting to hear from my sources]
#Russian tanks entered #Kherson; heavy fights in #Mariupol and #Sumy (heavy equipment destroys everything around)
#Ukrainian army is fighting in the streets for #Chernihiv now.
UK imposes sanctions on Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine. In #Kyiv, more explosions.
FROM THE LAND TROOPS OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMY
💪"We, NPU, NMU, ZSU, SBU, & other law enforcement agencies give their lives for you and Ukraine, & you do as it is written to help us to OVERCOME THIS EVIL!
1. You see a column of tanks: they'll be followed by a column of fuel trucks.
Block roads, cut down trees, stretch nets from gates, whatever way suits you. No fuel - no equipment.
2. If you see that the column has entered the forest strip - cut down trees, block as well.
3. If you know that the enemy has stopped in the forest,
and you are 100% sure that it is the enemy, do not pity the forest, set it on fire.
4. If you have EXCAVATORS, dig so that the enemy can't pass, no one will do it for you!
5. If you own WEAPONS WITH OPTICAL SIGHTS: don't shoot from the open, shoot at a distance at the wheels,
it will stop the transport, then - according to the situation.
6. Take off the road signs, you know where you are and the enemy doesn't. If they ask yu for directions, use your imagination.
7. There are marks made by saboteurs on buildings near important sites and so on.
Cover them with earth, fill them with resin, destroy them in any way you can.
8. If there is information that the enemy is approaching, burn straw, tires in large quantities, black smoke misinforms, the enemy will think that the village is already shelled, help us gain time!"
My writer friend who had to flee #Kyiv with her child, shared: "We are sitting in Lviv in the former Jewish ghetto, waiting for the Belarusian attack. Bought food and socks in a local store, called 'Brest.' Everything is symbolic. This crazy, crazy, crazy world... Image
About 6 missiles flew into #Kharkiv during the last attack. There are dead. 2 missiles hit residential houses, still waiting for details.
The only thing I was able to get from #Kharkiv in the last 20 minutes... "19-year-old biathlete Yevhen Malyshev died in a battle near Kharkiv. Glory and eternal memory to the Heroes of Ukraine!" Nineteen. Nineteen. #StopPutinNOW #PutinIsaWarCriminal Image
[Meanwhile. Odesa my love the city of my ancestors, the city of my soul: funny as hell and fearless, beautiful beyond words. "In Odesa, the military, police, municipal authorities work around the clock. The situation is under control, our city is maximally mobilized.] Image
[getting and verifying info. One of the major news sites in Ukraine was hacked but getting back to work now. Lots of disinformation. Fights are ongoing around Ukraine.]
The military hospital was blown up in #Kharkiv #KharkivMassacre
#Zhytomyr after #Russian missile hit residential buildings. Politicians not wanting #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine are myopic AND immoral. #Putin is challenging #West. #WWIII has started already. Be on the right side. Demand #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow ImageImage
In #Zhytomyr, several bombs hit a residential building near a hospital. The house was completely destroyed, all the windows and doors were knocked out in the hospital. 10 private houses were also damaged, 3 caught fire. Preliminary: 2 killed, 3injured.
Here is more about #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow @dkaleniuk asking @BorisJohnson LISTEN TO THIS.
ALERT! Ukrainian news and military sites are under cyberattacks today A LOT. Again, a lot of disinformation. #Russian combat propaganda officers amplify their campaign. In #russia, there is no access to information; "war" is banned and many websites are blocked for using it.
In schools, children are taught that Ukrainians are staging bombing of their own cities and produce fakes with graphic scenes of violence. Russian soldiers captured report that they were not informed they were going to invade Ukraine; they were told that they are doing training
These are all elements of combat propaganda, a Soviet discipline that is at the foundation of #informationWarfare, a big segment of #hybridWar. "Demoralization of the army and population of the adversary by sowing panic and discord" is the number one goal.
in @#Moscow, today, children were detained at a peace rally. 2 women went with their children (5-11)to the #Ukrainian embassy w/flowers & a poster "No to war". They were all detained, phones taken away from their parents were threatened their parental rights would be take away. Image
The Ministry of #Defense of #Ukraine: #Belarusian troops on alert in areas adjacent to the border of #Ukraine. Over 24 hrs significant aviation activity recorded. A convoy of vehicles w/food & ammo in the area of Baranovichi, Lyakhovichi & Pinsk noticeable.
In #Russia, radio Echo of Moscow & TV channel Rain websites blocked, radio station taken off the air. Prosecutor General's Office accused journalists of "systematic dissemination of false information" abt the Russian military "operation to protect the DPR and LPR."
The #Russian watchdog #Roskomnadzor threatened to block Wikipedia (formally, for the article "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (2022)"; support #Wikipedia and independent journalists, by the way. W/o journalism, democracy suffocates.
Not critical under the circumstance..."Just a nuisance, but how nice" as they say in Odesa Image
This is how civilians were getting ready today. #RussianUkrainianWar The caption at @UnianInfo: "We are getting ready to welcome you, invaders. we will not let you bring your dirt & your concentration camp to our land. Take your corpses & go home." t.me/uniannet/34074
And this the concentration camp they are referring to. #Moscow, 3 kids/2 moms from, reported above. The poster reads: "No war." Decent people in Russia? In prison, in exile, dead. Share. #PutinWarCriminal Image
According to the Center for Defense Strategies, citing their sources among the marine personnel in Crimea, members of Russia’s 810th Detached Marine Brigade in a “demoralized state”& have refused to take part in the conflict. @KyivIndependent [note DEMORALIZED, critical in war]
From a friend: Find your Senator:
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Find your Congress Representative:
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Write to the White House:
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Demand #StopWarInUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine
A sample message (not by me): “I write to you on this grim day to ask that you move swiftly to act against the unprovoked and unjustified war Russia is waging on Ukraine. As your constituent, I ask that you speak for me in the halls of Congress and say that we will not tolerate
this violent assault on Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. I need you to speak out against a war in Europe in the 21st century. Impose the strictest sanctions possible, targeting the Russian elite. Send as much humanitarian, financial, and military aid to Ukraine as
you can.NATO needs to close Ukraine’s skies ASAP. A #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine must be established over Ukraine to save millions of lives. We all understand that Putin’s goal is not to simply wage war against Ukraine, but to destroy the world order, & the entire world in the process.
The United States provided security assurances to Ukraine in 1994 with the signing of the Budapest Memorandum. As a constituent, I request your support for Ukraine in Congress, to uphold our obligations by suppressing the Kremlin’s destructive actions against Ukraine.” #NoFlyZone
Demand #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA This is #Kharkiv. Being bombed around the clock. Now. t.me/lachentyp/266
[taking a few min break to clear my mind and regroup to continue with minimum inaccuracies. Many thanks for caring and helping to stop this tragedy. ]
ALERT. #Russian troops landed in #Kharkiv. The invaders attacked a hospital. A battle is ongoing.
"There is hardly a place in #Kharkiv that was not bombed." Heraschenko. #KharkivMassacre Don't tell me you are praying or lighting a candle. Call your Senator. Call White House. See info above. If we don't stop this we are complicit. #StopPutinNOW #StopWarInUkraine
ATTENTION #journalist: careful with phrasing. tweets & headlines are being translated, often by Google translate not sensitive to nuances. One wrong tweet can lead to WWIII today. #readers before retweeting and reacting STOP & CHECK. We all are tired. Image
Ukrainian Health Minister: in contact with the Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to organize the delivery of medicines & food to the most heavily affected areas. Russian occupying forces have not been allowing deliveries of medicines & foods using private transport.
3 Russian convoys entered #Trostyanets from different directions & completely occupied the city. They demolished the gates to the Round Yard with a tank, smashed the art gallery. Almost all power lines have been damaged, all roads have been broken, the governor of #Sumy region Image
There’s no TV or radio in Trostyanets at the moment and the internet is unstable. The "Round Yard," 1749. #Russian liberators. #StopPutinNOW #StopWarInUkraine #StopRussia RT Share! ImageImage
#trostyanets now. The head of the community reports that the #Russians are going door to door, getting people out of their basements and forcing them to sit outside at night, fearing Ukrainian airstrikes and artillery. But local authorities work even in such conditions. ImageImageImage
[Everything is quiet and no information is coming in. It's 4 am in Ukraine, and #Biden is about to speak. I would not rule out an attack major attack, knowing the strategy of the #Kremlin & its predilection to shallow symbolism. Monitoring & breaking.]
#Biden starts by quoting #Zelensky, quoting his speech "Light will win over darkness" & there's a standing ovation to the #Ukrainian Ambassador family. America stands with Ukrainian people. Putin's war was premeditated and unprovoked... but we are ready, prepared, we stand united
to confront Putin. "We knew what #Putin was planning"and countered his lies w/truth...Putin is now isolated from the world more than he's ever been (APPLAUSE!) Together, with our allies, we are pushing powerful sanctions, choking his access to technology and shutting his war fund
The #US is saying NO MORE! I mean it! (APPLAUSE) We are going after Russian oligarchs. We are closing the US airspace (don't make a mistake the UNITED STATES not Ukrainian) to Russian aircraft--well, that's not what will make the deaths stop...
We are prepared to send a lot of help. BUT--our forces are NOT going to Ukraine, we will protect NATO allies and the US and our allies will defend each inch of NATO territory--every single inch. "Ukrainians are fighting back with courage and the next days and months (!) will be
hard for them. They will be fighting for their freedom...I am just going to stop here because the subject of this report is not the US economy or foreign policy (there are plenty of journalists covering it.) I will now follow the invasion of #Ukraine as it is left
to defend democracy on its own... #Putin may circle #Kyiv with tanks but he may never get the hearts of the #Ukrainian people... [break]
The Ukrainians were warned that the abandoned military equipment of the enemy could be mined. Center for Counteracting Disinformation: a mined combat vehicle found in the #Sumy region. A local resident was killed. Warning to stay away from any objects left by the Russian military
The #Odesa #Museum handed over the money collected for amphoras to the #Ukrainian army. [I took these pictures in September... Odesa has amazing museums. Amazing.] ImageImage
[I just posted and deleted information. even though i marked it as unverified, i don't want to spread anything that is not confirmed in at least three reliable sources. so far i find sources not reliable enough.]
Here is a good example of misinformation 1. Kurt Volker, an American diplomat, a former US Ambassador to NATO who served "a volunteer capacity as the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine" gives a A CSPAN interview archive.org/details/CSPAN_… Image
This piece appears in translation in several Russian-language sources (and possibly Ukrainian) but some sites then are hacked. Then it appears in Hindustannews hub, with the wrong name as it was translated twice... glad we caught it here. CHECK EVERYTHING!!!! Image
[will be now taking a mental health break before checking all my sources and verifying information. everything i see now needs verifying. the only thing i can confirm now is air raids in #Kyiv, #Chernihiv, #Dnipro and more cities]
[back to update on the last 2 hrs. needed to clear my mind to report properly; not used to report massacres/destruction of a country with family history, childhood memory and dear friends. only reported on a birth country being brainwashed and imprisoned by a dictator before.]
This is #Kharkiv today. This mostly #Russian-speaking country is being bombed for the last 24 hours non stopped. The number of casualties is growing, will verify.10 min ago there was a new air raid. Image
Don't pray or light a candle for #Kharkiv. It is a #KharkivMassacre. Help to stop it. Ask for a #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine. #NoFlyZone. #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow World, you can do it. Find your humanity. ImageImageImageImage
Overnight in #Ukraine, the #RussianTroops attacked the residential areas of #Mariupol, #Kharkiv, #Zhytomyr , #Kyiv, #Kherson, #NovaKakhovka, #Chernihiv and other cities. A labor and delivery hospital in #Zhytomyr hit. Call for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone ImageImage
In his latest speech, #Zelenskyy said that occupants killed #Holocaust victims for the second time by shelling #BabiYar Memorial. During #WorldWarII, #Nazis killed 100,000 #Jews here, including my great-grandparents. This is my great-grandmother, Rosa Yampolskaya, in BabyYar. Image
This is #Chernihiv oblast, region. My first fiance was from there. I can't even find this village in the news. Maybe it is okay. Maybe it is in this photo. ImageImage
I haven't heard from my dear, dear friend who was busy making #MolotovCocktail yesterday in #Odesa. She's got to be okay, I think, because they are only shelling around Odesa, not in the city yet. I can't even think. Odesa is my love. Image
Just as I wrote this, now, in #Odesa: "An enemy ship was spotted from the coast (information confirmed by headquarters). Please don't leave the house." This is #BlackSea. It is beautiful. Image
#Chernihiv, now: call to be preparedd for street fights.
#Odesa Explosion
SO forgive me all the good people I screamed at today--but not the #Russian people calmly talk about a politically difficult situation, their internal fear to speak up and their anxiety about future financial difficulties.
Look at these photos. And then call for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine time.com/6150858/russia…
Air aids NOW in #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, #Lviv, #Odesa, #Izmail, #Vinnytsia, #Zhytomyr, #Zaporizhia, #Khmelnytsky, #Chernivtsi, #Volyn, #Khmelnytsky, #Rivne, #Kirovohrad and #cherkasy oblasts. NOW. 30 minutes ago, in #Nikolaev #Mykolaiv a landing party landed.
In #Kharkiv and the region, the numbers are in: at least 21 people killed, 112 injured in Russian missile bombings, according to the Kharkiv Civil-Military Administration. Search and rescue operations & firefighting are underway, so the number of dead and injured may increase.
An endless line of foreign students leaving #Kharkiv on foot. "I forgot the nasal drops..." "God, so many. How horrible..." t.me/uniannet/34150
In the morning, the left bank of #Mariupol again came under fire from the occupiers. The maternity hospital was damaged. [Do #Russians have a special kink for maternity wards?] Yet, the Left Bank Maternity Hospital continues its work! "We have three babies today! Life goes on!" ImageImage
#Bucha near #Kyiv. Caption in chat: "Occupants got stuck in traffic." There are many jokes in these chats. Image
This used to be a beautiful town of #irpen
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[A Russian lady today tried to tell me there are two sides to this story. Most #Russian independent newspapers and media are blocked and banned; not allowed to use the word "war." Yet, some dare to cover the events.
I reported this before; but once again: In #Russia, even small children are arrested for anti-war protests.
This is happening NOW. #Russian troops are moving towards a nuclear station in #Energodar. The staff and locals are running out on the highway to stop them. No firearms. Share. t.me/uniannet/34209
The #Mayor of #Kyiv, NOW, addressing the residents: "Friends! Dear Kyivans! The enemy is gathering forces closer to the capital. He fired on the #bilatserkva at night, and fighting continued in #Bucha and #Hostomel
We are preparing and will defend #Kyiv! I urge all Kyivites...
...not to lose endurance. Do not believe in misinformation. The enemy is spreading many lies to break the #Ukrainians. Trust only official resources!
#Kyiv stands and will stand.
We will fight!"
🇺🇦Almost 90% of Ukrainians believe that Ukraine will be able to repel a Russian attack as stated in the results of a survey conducted by the Sociological Group "Rating" on March 1. This figure is growing almost every day. Only 10% today do not have such confidence.
The mayor of Konotop says that the #Russians (aka everywhere as #Orcs have issued an ultimatum: either he surrenders the city, or the city is smashed with artillery. The mayor and the residents at the meeting decide what to do: Fight. t.me/vgorode_odessa…
#Mykolaev: #Russian paratroopers have landed, from the Regional State Administration
#Russian opposition leader #Navalny, from prison and while under another trial that might end with 15 more year sentence, addressed #Russians (via his lawyer):
“We - Russia - want to be a nation of peace. Alas, few people call us like that now. But let's at least do not become
a nation of frightened silent people. Cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war unleashed by our obviously insane Czar against Ukraine. I cannot, do not want and will not remain silent, watching how pseudo-historical nonsense about the events of 100 years ago has
become an excuse for Russians to kill Ukrainians, and those, defending themselves, kill Russians. The 20s, the 21st century, and we are watching the news about people burning in tanks and bombed houses. We watch on TV the real threats to start a nuclear war. I am from the USSR.
I was born there. And the main phrase from there - from my childhood - "struggle for peace." I call on everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace. Putin is not Russia. And if there is anything in Russia right now that you can be most proud of, it's those 6,835 people who
were detained because - without any call - they took to the streets with posters "No war." They say someone who does not go to it and does not risk being arrested cannot call for a rally. I'm already in jail, so I think I can. You can't wait a day. Wherever you are.
In Russia, Belarus or on the other side of the planet. Come out to the main square of your city every weekday at 19.00 and at 14.00 on weekends and holidays,” the politician’s telegram channel says. [Every word. You ask are there decent people in Russia? Yes, in prison. or dead.]
Meanwhile, #Putin's press secretary: The Russian delegation will arrive at the site of a new round of negotiations on March 2 and will be ready to meet with representatives of Ukraine
Just in from @KyivIndependent and other sources: #Putin wants to reinstate Yanukovych as president of Ukraine. Yanukovych is allegedly in Minsk, and the Kremlin is preparing an operation to replace Zelensky with the ex-president ousted by the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014.
#Kherson. Now. WATCH IT. A man is flying Ukrainian flags in front of the tanks. [Take this, #Kremlin] #GloryToUkraine #славаУкраїнi #ГероямСлава t.me/suspilnekherso…
#Lysychansk. The city tower is hit. t.me/lentachold/454… Image
[Contact your elected officials. Don't be silent. #StopPutinNOW #StopPutin #StopRussia #StopWarInUkraine #PutinWarCriminal #PutinIsaWarCriminal]
#Kherson now: unknown persons on buses through a loudspeaker urge people to come outside for free bread. ❌This may be a provocation of the occupiers‼ ️
Follow the reports only on official sources
#stoprussia
Meanwhile in #Russia, authorities: "The Russian Federation is under enormous pressure, but it will stand because it has historical truth and justice on its side." [awwww...poor little federation. don't you feel sorry for such suffering?! No more Walt Disney! No more Apple! OMG!]
[Oh, no! What a bummer!] Nord Stream 2 files for bankruptcy. "According to local officials, the Swiss-registered company responsible for the Kremlin’s energy project has filed for insolvency and laid off all its staff. @KyivIndependent
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This is great: that's what you see and hear in #Russia. (except there is still the Internet and VPNs...)
[Oh this is a lovely little visual here] Sberbank share price today. Image
My FB friend just now: "My neighbor's nephew, who was born and lived in our state, New Jersey, had Ukrainian roots, went to protect Kyiv and was killed on Sunday.
Mykola Zhdanyanchin, rest in peace." #GloryToUkraine #GlorytoHeroes
More from #Moscow: March 2, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that if a third World War were to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive, the RIA news agency reported. [don't we all just LOVE hearing from Mordor? Sorry. Moscow] reuters.com/world/russias-…
[Forgive me, it's the 7th day of reporting and 2.46 am at my location.] Image
[I might take a sleep break. I will need a clear head to report tomorrow. I would like to end today on this note. #GloryToUkraine ] ImageImage
[back online and catching up on the last few hours. didn't sleep till 4 am my time because there was a threat of bombing Odesa but couldn't report accurately. now talking to my friends on sites, will sum up the [horrid] situation in the cities, and will continue updates/reports]
[delayed because I am helping to coordinate humanitarian aid delivery to #Odesa #Kyiv and #Ukraine East of #Kyiv. if you know people there volunteering, PM. if you speak Ukrainian/Russian and want to help coordinate,PM]
SUMMARY: Overnight, #Russians kept bombing #Kharkiv: schools, church, an orphanage for blind children, downtown area damaged/destroyed/on fire, # of deaths to be confirmed, among them reported parents of twin boy and girl born yesterday; ImageImageImageImage
#Borodyanka near #Kyiv. This is #TarasShevchenko, a great Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. Photo by Pozdniakov Vadym via my friend. #SaveUkraine #StopRussia #StopWar Image
#Kiyv: Up to 15,000 sheltering in metro, many moved permanently. Air aids non-stop [I'm on Telegram channels so I get them. 24/7, non-stop] According to head of the Kyiv metro, it can host up to 100,000. The stations have water, bathrooms, food, &medicine at their disposal.
#Irpin, a satellite city on the western outskirts of Kyiv, has suffered multiple Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale offensive. A bridge that connects the city to Kyiv was blown up by the Ukrainian forces to block Russian troops.
#Russian parliament proposes imprisonment for spreading 'fake news' about war. Writing about Russia’s war against Ukraine can lead to up to 15 years in prison. The crackdown may be an attempt to prevent facts about the war from reaching the Russian public.
On March 2, Air strikes hit 3 TV towers: TV towers: near the #Kharkiv, #Korosten and #Lysychansk. On March, #Kyiv. At around 8 am, a shell hit a house in ##Irpen, the district hospital in Chernihiv was shelled, the attack on #Kharkiv continues.
#Russian military bombed 3 kindergartens, 6 schools, a vocational school in the #Kherson region. 3 million chickens in the #Kherson region may die due to lack of food and electricity in the village of Vostochny. This will lead to environmental catastrophe.Director of Agroproduct
An air alarm continues in #Kyiv, the sounds of explosions in different parts of the city, people are urged not to come out of hiding. The President's Office reported a missile strike, but did not specify the location. THIS IS NOW. 11.50 am PST. as you read it...
IMPORTANT!!! SHARE! WARNING! #Russia might throw in a #deepfake video of #Zelenskyy 's Surrender Speech & pass it off as a real statement by the President of #Ukraine. Deepfake is NOT a real video, it's created through algorithms. DF videos are almost indistinguishable from real.
IMPORTANT: the biggest #nuclear power plant in #Europe, in #Energodar north-west part of #Zaporizhzhia Oblast, staff and residents went out on the hwy to stop #Russian occupants from seizing the plant. They were shot at, grenades thrown. #Ukraine Image
now watch carefully. these people are throwing their life on line to save YOU. #Russians already captured #Chornobyl. #nuclear radiation level in the area increased dangerously. The staff is heard on one of the videos talking about the danger. #Enerhodar
People in this video were injured, killed. What will you do? Call your elected officials & ask for #NATO to step in & protect you & #Ukraine. #NoFlyZone #StopPutinNOW
Former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite wrote that sanctions alone can’t stop Putin; NATO should intervene militarily. In video: "Russian world is coming! Russian world is coming!"
[taking a break to coordinate help with volunteers, if you know people who can help deliver food and medical supplies around #Kyiv/#East of Ukriane, PM. Need help with coordinating, will connect w/people]
[back, going back and forth, some harsh news coming in all the time, and many people need help. if you want to help PM. reporting now:]
JUST IN! Data on the crimes of the #Russian Federation in #Ukraine were submitted to the International Criminal Court by 38 countries, the British Foreign Minister said. #Kharkiv now Image
So many corpses of #Russian soldiers that they are buried in mass graves in order to avoid unsanitary conditions, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko. Not sharing the photos I just saw. You have seen them from 1939-45. HORROR #PutinWarCrimes
"Necessary to turn to our European allies so that in the interests of humane treatment of the corpses of #Putin's dead slaves, we will receive mobile refrigerator mortuaries to preserve the bodies of the dead. More & more such mass graves every day in all parts of Ukraine."
In #Enerhodar home of the biggest #nuclear plant in Europe, people built barricades and reinforcement and fight #Russian troops. Many were shot and injured. #Enerhodar #Energodar is still standing. #Urkaine #StopPutinNOW #StopWarInUkraine #StopRussianAgression
In St.Petersburg, #Putin's security services arrested the WWII and Leningrad Siege survivor. My great-grandparents starved during that siege (on one side, on the other side shot in #BabyYar that the #Russians exploded yesterday, with 100,000 #Jews killed by #Nazis) Image
A building in #Kharkiv today...Just in: Two cruise missiles hit one of the territorial defense headquarters. Image
In #Kyiv, #Zhytomyr and #Chernihiv, #Kirovohrad, #Poltava and #Kyiv regions, air raid alarms.
Negotiations underway in the #Kherson region to provide a green corridor for humanitarian aid. "Another Russian air defense system for Ukrainian farmers for the sowing season." [Jokes galore. You have no idea. #Ukrainians are laughing.]
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I am verifying a lot of information. There is a lot of news coming in only to be immediately refuted. #Ukrainian authorities also ask to NOT share the locations of bombings and objects hit by missiles; so will be sharing w/o location or after some time.
Marina Fenina, an employee of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, was killed during the shelling of Kharkov, the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna said.
The #Kyiv railway station: during a missile attack by the Russian army, the shell fragments fell near the South Station, the city central heating system damaged [it is still snowing], some platforms were temporarily closed, a suburban train w/o passengers damaged,Ukrzaliznytsia
Russian military rob stores, shoot at civilian and municipal vehicles in #Trostyanets, #Sumy region, according to Military Administration of the region.
"The National Agency for the Protection against Corruption has stated that captured #Russian tanks and equipment do not need to be declared to tax authorities. The value of this “crap” does not exceed 100 living wages," the agency joked. War trophies: not taxable. #Ukraine
[The spirit, resilience and courage are insurmountable. I also see grace, empathy and overall the greatness of spirit. There are exceptions, and I see them. But the ratio is 1000/0.5]
"In #Kherson, the occupiers are in all areas of the city, they are very dangerous. Residents are asked to stay at home and not go outside - the head of the regional state administration Gennady Laguta."So far. The flag above us is #Ukrainian. And to keep it that way, we will have
to comply with these requirements. I can't offer anything else yet," the head of the city authorities said. There is a Ukrainian flag over #Kherson. Verifying.
URGENT: A new address by #Zelenskyy [excerpts]: "Every occupier should know that they will receive a fierce rebuff from the Ukrainians. They will forever remember that we will not give up our people! Our people broke the enemy's plans. In one week!
"We broke the plans that they had been preparing for years. The morale of [enemies] is deteriorating. Even more invaders are running away from us back home. I sincerely admire the Ukrainians who go out with their bare hands and drive the occupiers out of their cities!
"We will drive them away, they will retreat in disgrace! Just like when they're trying to procure food! These are not state warriors! These are lost children who have been used! Almost 9,000 Russians killed in one week.
"In the #Mykolaiv direction, they have to pick up their 200s and 300s, with dozens of helicopters. 19 year olds, 20 year olds...
For us, Ukrainians, this is the Patriotic War. We remember how such wars start. And we know how they end for the invaders!
"Wherever they go, they will be destroyed everywhere. The invaders will be defeated by the Ukrainians!" The president awarded the title of #UkrainianHeroes #HeroesOfUkraine to 15 servicemen, some of them posthumously. #GloryToUkraine
I want to share this:
"Ukraine is not yet dead, Nor its glory and freedom,
Luck will still smile on us, brothers Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.
We'll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we'll prove that we brothers are of Cossack kin.
We'll rise up, brothers, all of us, from the Sain to the Don,
We won't let anyone govern in out motherland.
The Black Sea will smile yet, grandfather Dnipro will rejoice,
Yet in our Ukraine luck will be high.
Our persistence, our sincere toil will prove its rightness,
still our freedom's loud song will spread throughout Ukraine.
It'll echo over the Carpathians, will sound through the steppes,
and Ukraine's glory will arise among the people." #GlorytoUkraine #славаУкраїнi
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Five minutes ago: Loud explosion heard in #Kyiv and #Chernihiv. As a result of the air strike in Izyum in Kharkiv region, 4 adults and 3 children were killed in a private house, Izyum Deputy Mayor Volodymyr Matsokin told the Public. #StopPutinNOW #PutinWarCriminal
#Kherson: eyewitness report in English, by a Pakistani businessman fearing hunger for his whole family
From @1mHussain, a father of 3 y.o.girl: "I don't know if Russians will kill us or not but hunger will kill us for sure" no money in ATMS, stores closed "I hope that #Putin will think about civilians as a human, for one time...we need your prayers...#Kherson
The lucky ones have fled their homes leaving everything behind. UN High Commissioner for Refugees: over 836,000 people have left Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24. Lviv train station & one of the border checkpoints @KyivIndependent Image
A third and fourth explosion have now been heard in #Kyiv. Very worried about amazing people I know who are still there... [breaking to check and to breathe]
Explosions in #Kyiv. Location not specified--never reveal the location soon after missile attacks. the adversary uses this information. t.me/lentachold/455…
In total, four explosions are reported in #Kyiv @unian with reference to eyewitnesses
To reach audiences across #Ukraine and in parts of #Russia, the BBC will start a daily shortwave transmission to ensure access the “resilience of its news operations.” Listeners can tune their receivers to 15735kHz from 18:00-20:00 and 5875 kHz from 00:00-02:00, Kyiv time.
NOW: Air raid alerts in #Kyiv and #Kyiv Oblast, #Mykolaiv, #Lviv, #Zhytomyr, #Ivano-Frankivsk, #Chernihiv & #Chernihiv Oblast, #Volyn Oblast, #Cherkasy Oblast, #Kirovohrad Oblast, #Poltava Oblast, #Khmelnytskyi Oblast, #Zaporizhzhia and #Odesa. To shelter. #StopWarInUkraine
#Izum. 6 adults, 2 children killed. Now. #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow #NoFlyZone HE WILL COME FOR YOU NEXT! Demand #NoFlyZoneUA Image
"We do not count. During this time, 7-8 missiles fell on #Chernihiv, all of them were launched on the city infrastructure - this is #genocide, " the secretary of the Chernihiv City Council commented on the bombing of the city by Russian troops. Are we still just watching this?
SHARE "The enemy is an animal. We can't agree on a humanitarian corridor for cut-off facilities (a psychiatric hospital in Khalyavin). The occupiers fired at ambulances and the State Emergency Service throughout the region. We are working! Victory will be ours!” #Chernihiv
There is an eerie silence on ALL Telegram channels. Are they hacked? Am I hacked? Live camera shows #Kyiv still there after a series of loud explosions. Will keep looking. Meanwhile, #Kherson is still unclear.
You kidding?!"In a post on the official Canadian government site, Western nations have called on Russia to stop state-sponsored disinformation campaigns in Ukraine. The statement endorsed by Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, the U.K. & the U.S." Image
Call your government or recall the government! I am out of words. New Time cover. Oh how pretty. Applause. There are CHILDREN DEAD AND MASS GRAVES. Call for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA Stop this show. Have decency. Explosion heard in #Kyiv. Image
Seriously. This is not a game. It is not a show. This big flash is a bomb. This whole thing is a war. #StopPutinNOW #StopWarInUkraine
More explosions and street shooting now in #Kyiv
#Kharkiv now Image
[For everyone who has followed the events of the last seven days, the last hour just slipped away from me. Between talking to friends and contacts in Ukraine, and all the wonderful people in the West who try to help...]
Summing up the last few hours: Important: 1. At the request of 38 countries, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into #Putin's and #Russian Federation's alleged #WarCrimes in #Ukraine
The ICC will look into possible #WarCrimes [how can it be "trending"?!], #crimes against #humanity or #genocide in #Ukraine starting in 2013 and including the war #Putin started a week ago. #PutinWarCriminal
"#ICC Chief Prosecutor #KarimKhan went directly into the investigation, no judicial approval needed after receiving a state party referral from the largest coalition of countries in ICC history.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
I hope that facts I have collected in this -days thread, with photos, videos and eyewitness stories can be used in one way or another to bring justice to #Putin. #PutinWarCriminal, and he needs to answer for his horrendous #crimes against humanity. #HagueForPutin #PutinsWar
2. Situation in and near #Kyiv is still reported entirely. Here is the photo of the destruction in #Hostomel from @UnianInfo Image
3. I am in awe of the spirit, courage, and love of life I see as I go through the records of terrible suffering. Today, there was a wedding in a bombshelter. in #Avangard. @Суспільне новини. Image
4. #Kherson: not commenting. Many outlets jump to conclusions for a juicy headline. Warning fellow #journalists: your sensational snappy one-liners might mean loss of lives and loss of wars. Words are weapons. In war, morale of the army is the most important factor.
5.From General Staff @Ukrainian Armed Forces, reported this morning: #Russian forces, "having failed in almost all areas in which they were advancing, resorted to tactics of night shelling of residential areas of large cities."
"In the northern direction, the Russian invaders, w/o success in #Chernihiv, #Nizhyn and #Sumy, #Lebedyn and #Okhtyrka, trying to avoid clashes with the #UkrainianArmy, are trying to reach the northern outskirts of #Kyiv."
"In the #Volyn direction, #Russian troops continue its demonstrative advance along the state border. In the #Polissya direction, the enemy is trying to carry out offensive operations in the area of the #Kozarovychi, #Vyshhorod, #Fastiv, and #Obukhiv. "
"Further deployment of field logistics camps in the #Borodyanka, #Katyuzhanka and #Gavronshchyna districts was noted. Enemy units&subdivisions were concentrated in the areas of #Baryshevka, #NovaBasan, and #Lyubech. "
GENERAL STAFF OF UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES: "In the #Slobozhansky direction, the enemy is conducting offensive operation in #Zolochiv, #Kharkiv, and #Balakliya, trying to continue the offensive in the direction of #Lozova,&in dire need of replenishment of lost equipment &personnel."
"In the Donetsk direction, the invaders of the 1st&2nd AKs, with the support of artillery, continue their offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of #NovyAidar, #Volnovakha and #Mariupol.
"The enemy did not achieve the main goal of capturing #Mariupol & reaching the administrative border of #Donetsk & #Luhansk regions. In the #Tavriya direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to conduct an offensive operation."
"After regrouping and introduction of a part of operational reserves, it concentrated the main efforts in the direction of #Mykolaiv - #Voznesensk. In the #BlackSeaOperationalZone, naval groups of the #BlackSeaFleet continue to fire on civilian ships and capture sailors."
"For the first time, #Russian #war #criminals have acknowledged the #mass deaths and wounds of their own soldiers. During the evening briefing, the official representative of the #Russian MOD published his # of the losses: 498 dead and 1,597 wounded."
[Note: the real number of losses is never admitted to keep the morale up. Thousands of deaths of Ukrainian civilians, defenders AND thousands of Russian conscripts, 18-21 y.o. Military service is obligatory in #Russia. Thousands. In one week. #PutinWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal]
FROM GENERAL STAFF OF UKRAINIAN ARMY: "Part of the enemy forces continues to operate in the areas of settlements #Enerhodar, #Vasylivka, #Tokmak, #Novopetrivka. After regrouping & introducing part of the operational reserves from the 205th separate motorized infantry brigade..."
"...of the 49th General Army of the Russian Armed Forces, it continues the offensive in order to reach the outskirts of Zaporizhia and Mariupol. To ensure further landing of tactical airborne troops from the 10th special brigade of the RF Armed Forces..."
"...in the area of ​​Balovnoe, the invader deployed a small landing party, which was destroyed. In the waters of the #BlackSea a movement of the landing detachment of the #Russian Black Sea Fleet: 4 large landing ships accompanied by 3 missile boats in the direction of Odesa."
The total estimated losses reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation if #Ukraine: Image
I translated the whole military summary to give an idea of the scale of the operation. The POV of #Russian MOD is quoted in the above document. Not referring to any documents produced by #WarCriminals. This is not a war. This is #genocide. [see my thread above for evidence]
IMPORTANT. This is an #informationWarfare. The cyberattacks continue. #Kremlin webiste is down :D and major #Russian media outlets; many #Ukrainian outlets were attacked. I see that "trending" is weaponized like never before and Prigozhin's trolls push their parallel reality.
Please DO use hashtags. They are not innocent and annoying gimmicks. They form collective mind, shaping it inconspicuously: an ideal combat propaganda tool. They tell people not WHAT to think but what to think ABOUT. Try typing in Standwith + #. It's a tactic called:
"Influence by suggestion" mixed w/other tools. Group environments, such as online forums, create the effect of “psychological contagion”. A refresher on #Kremlin disinformation techniques. IMPORTANT. THIS A #hybridwar
bylinetimes.com/2020/03/04/big…
If you don't think these tactics & strategies work, please take a look at the #Russian and #Ukrainian people. 30 yrs ago both crawled from underneath the ruins of the USSR. #Russians were subjected to 30 yrs of state-funded propaganda. #Ukrainians had democracy, albeit imperfect.
There are decent people in #Russia protesting the horror. Most of them are in prison already or facing up to 15 years in prison for donating money for humanitarian needs in Ukraine or writing about "war" on social media.
#Kremlin knows the importance of #informationwarfare. Russia's Ministry of Education announced an ‘All-Russian Open Lesson’ on “the liberation mission in #Ukraine” on March 3: why “NATO posses a threat to Russia” & etc. Most independent outlets are banned.
I honestly do not know how to cover what has happened to #Kharkiv.
No, not what happened. What #Russian invaders, what #Putin did to #Kharkiv. My dear friend just sent me a video of what left of a school number 134 and I just can't...
This is 2022. Not 1941. #PutinWarCriminal #PutinIsaWarCriminal #WarCrime Refugees in arrive to #Lviv from #kharkiv t.me/suspilnenews/7…
[i will stop now and either take a break or a sleep break. i need to clear my mind in order to report accurately. I just realized that the text I thought was in Ukrainian was English, whatever this means.]
[p.s. I saw this article before & wanted to share. I was thinking about this, too. It is different for me because I'm writing about my ancestral/brith/childhood lands. Hard to stay w/o bias writing about places familiar and filled with memories being ruined. Another type of bias]
[My body shut me out: blackout for 10 hours. Just woke up & afraid to check the status or what might have happened. Tons of messages from friends in Ukraine & 348 messages on Telegram channels. Will catch up and continue covering. Hope everyone is okay & thank you for following]
URGENT, EXCLUSIVE, ALERT: RT: From my sources: "MANY bodies of #Chechens & #Dagestanis soldiers in the #Gomel morgue. Information from local residents to me personally. They say that it is necessary to make it known until they are all burned" #WarCrime #Ukriane
"Their relatives should come & take the bodies. They say do it quickly before they all are cremated there. No photos. If you take a photo they will immediately understand who did it." #Gomel,#Belarus, border w/#Ukraine SHARE! #WarCrime #Hague
#Russian casualties situation: #Mozyr hospital in #Belarus is out of capacity. The corpses of the #Russian invaders are loaded onto wagons at night, secretly, & sent somewhere. Hospital is under the KGB control to prevent information leakage.
#Russian captured soldier: “We were just allowed to be cannon fodder. The bodies are not taken out, for the third day without food, without water, we sleep on the floor. We are required to sign non-disclosure papers retroactively and say that we were not here.”
Re the bodies of #Chechen soldiers in the tweet before: "The units of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine defeated a column of #Kadyrov soldiers (Chechen)."They blew up a column...I don't tell you the location...they scrambled!..."t.me/uniannet/34707
SUMMARY,March 3, #Kyiv time (last 11 hrs): 1. Aleksey Arestovich,adviser to the head of #Zelensky office: 1. #Ukrainian forces strengthen position in #Makarov north of the #Zhytomyr highway).
2. Near #Kharkiv, #Russian troops suffered catastrophic losses, offensive slowed down.
3. #Zaporizhzhia and South Ukraine are safe.
4. Approx. 3.500 #Russians liquidated yesterday. In a week: 9,000.
5. #Mariupol is holding on, the situation is under control. In the direction of #Kherson-#Mykolaiv, the #Russians tried to advance but suffered crushing defeats.
6. The direction of #Zaporizhzhia is controlled by the #Ukrainian. #Odesa is holding on, in #Mykolaiv the landing deployment was destroyed yesterday.
7. In #Odesa, the #Russian ships are approaching; city is ready.
8. #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, #Zhytomir, #Chernihiv heavily bombed
IMPORTANT: Trolls factories at work, the information warfare is ongoing: over the last two days, I see that #Russians are trying to push their narrative by using Russian spelling of Ukrainian cities and confuse the international community. Please share the following:
THE CORRECT, UKRAINIAN SPELLING FOR HASHTAGS:
#Kyiv (not Kiev) #Odesa (not Odessa) #Kharkiv (not Kharkov) #Chernihiv (not Chernigov) etc This is language weaponized and the war for your opinion (see my tweets regarding this strategy above.) #informationwarfare
#Kremlin will use the #cyber army to push this narrative; today #Putin summed it up in his talk w/ #Macron: The war is "disinformation campaign":"shelling of Ukrainian cities is a lie""Russia does not bomb Ukraine" "the rocket attacks on Kyiv not true" "neo-Nazis" rule in Kyiv."
Today, #Russians hacked the websites of administrations in many cities in Ukraine, posting a fake #Zelenskyy appeal to surrender. A deepfake video of the same appeal is expected to appear soon. These are all strategy of the information war they FORCED ME TO STUDY in university--
Never used it, never worked for #Russians but I remember it and have been alerting the West about this forthcoming situation since 2012. I see all the elements used in this war and I am here to fight it by revealing their strategies and tactics.]
#Chernihiv: bombing and shelling of residential areas and downtown. Evidence present, coming from sources on the ground and Telegram channels. Share so everyone can see what is really happening. t.me/uniannet/34620
#Chernihiv watch it. spread it. Hard to watch? yes. [Hard for me. My first fiance was from there. Doesn't matter. No matter where you.] Let the world see the truth about #PutinWarCrimes are.t.me/uniannet/34628
#Chernihiv 33 dead. This one is especially hard. Dead children. From bombing. Drugstore exploded. Fire. Smoke. Apocalypsis. 77 km from #Chornobyl. SHARE t.me/vgorode_odessa…
#Chernihiv PLease share this. No dead bodies here. Just what happened. How the residential house hit by a bomb looks in 2022. #Russians did this in #Syria and nobody listened. Listen now. Or it will happen to all of us. #Putin is not going to stop. t.me/KyivIndependen…
#Kharkiv t.me/vgorode_kharki…
#Kharkiv. Share. #PutinWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #SaveUkraine #SaveUkraineNow This is happening now as you are reading this: air raids do not stop there. People are hiding in bomb shelters around the clock. t.me/vgorode_kharki…
#Zelenskyy at press conference today: "The end of the world has already arrived. Ukraine is now a "fence" between civilization and non-civilization; it will be continued: #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Estonia, #Moldova, #Georgia, #Poland. If NATO doesn't have the courage to close the sky
give us the planes. "If I weren’t president, I would be in territorial defense, fighting but wouldn't lay down my arms" #Zelensky "I don’t understand: what kind of a person can plan such acts of genocide and Nazism."
Demand #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow. Procrastination with #sanctions on #Putin and #oligarchs led us to this. Further procrastination will lead us to demise. #StopWar
THIS: "The Russians are carrying crematoria for themselves along with them." Yes, they have crematoria wagons that arrive with them. [This is all you need to know about Russians for now.] "Even #Ukrainians treat the captured soldiers better than their leadership,” #Zelenskyy
Meanwhile, I see the humanity in so many reports on #Ukraine. In bombed to the ground #Kharkiv, the pet stores are trying to work but getting short of supplies. In #Odesa preparing for paratroopers landing, "More than 70 pets brought to the zoo in a day, to shelter."
Rabbits, chinchillas, bee-eyes, degus, parrots, tortoises, chameleons, one snake. We can keep an eye on everything. We continue to take the creatures," Igor Bilyakov, director of the zoo, said. Image
Latest from #Sumy: The head of administration: “The entire #Sumy region is now hell, crushed and bombed by #Russian troops. The bombing of the city of Sumy began at about 18:00. No heating & electricity in #Okhtyrka in the #Sumy region."
"Thinking about how to get people out of #Sumy, because in a day the apartment buildings will turn into a cold stone trap without water, light, & electricity. Nedrigailov, Boromlya, Bezdrik, Lebedin are being bombed. They just kill civilians.This is no longer Putin."
"...today, ordinary Russians are killing our children, the elderly. They are just destroying our country. For no reason." Many Russians are arrested for protests; many were photographed storming #IKEA stores that are about to close. Many have no access to information.
#Putin to #Hague for his crimes against humanity. #PutinWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #PutinsWar This is a thread with a lot of evidence for the ICC. I will forward it to the prosecutor's office otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int. They call for photos, videos, documents, eyewitness.
[a short break to coordinate, but a lot to share so stay with me and thank you for following and caring. Please help the heroic people of Ukraine and my amazing friends stay alive. THANK YOU]
Aleksey Arestovich, sums up March 3: A tough day, ending on a positive note. #Russians driven near #Mykolaiv, grouped up in the east & hit with truck-mounted multiple rocket launchers Grad. #Kherson: #Russian 1000 aircraft, 20 helicopters, 200 cars destroyed at an airport.
In #Gostomel: #Russians caught in street battles the second time, attacked with armored vehicles, grouped up and hit w/"Grad". Their ammunition burst so hard that the doors in the bomb shelters in the neighborhood jammed." (Never thought I'd write a sentence like this)
#Kharkiv & #Izyum are under fire as reported by local residents. In Izyum, mobile communication was lost. #Kiev under shelling.
IMPORTANT: #Enerhodar 1.5 hr ago: the mayor reports that a convoy of #Russian vehicles has set off in the direction of the BIGGEST IN EUROPE #nuclear #power plant. Loud shots were heard in the city. 4 hrs ago:
THIS IS THE BIGGEST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN EUROPE. Will you ask for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine? #NoFlyZoneUA. don't think it is just Ukraine. Don't. #StopWarInUkraine #StopPutinNOW
Unverified but sounds like it is correct as there are no updates from #Enerhodar currently. Will report when I hear updates.
A big explosin in #Kyiv is reported.
SHARE: #InformationWarfare On March 4, near #Kherson, #Russia plans to stage action, paid actors delivered by buses: reported by the Center for Prevention of Disinformation at the National National Security and Defense Council of #Ukraine. They will try to sway YOUR opinion.
[repeat, misplaced tweet] a phone convo between a #Ukrainian and his friend/relative in #kaliningrad, #Russia (in the midst of Europe): 600 troops to be sent; 200 forced to go, mobilizing policemen & untrained personnel; choice: war or prison; mobile crematorium mentions again.
Many thanks to all who helped to find the sources. Now can read the updates from the Mayor of #Enerhodar in real time [still need to be verified because the #russians are known to use cell phone/impersonate]
No updates from the Mayor of #Enerhodar for the last 1.5 but here is the last video with artillery being used. t.me/orlovdmytroEn/…
[I just was at this museum a few months ago. it is an amazing place, so full of soul and incredible, precious, rare art. hard to report and not emote.] thathttps://t.me/vgorode_odessa/33693
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#INFORMATIONWARFARE: . They will now target #Ukrainians' brains. Incepting ideas under stress when the part of the brain responsible for critical thinking is shut down. In Kherson, propaganda videos with Russian voiceover are played. Be vigilant! Do not fall for propaganda!
"Attention manipulation! In Kherson, a mass representation of the occupiers is being prepared!
The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine reports on the spread of a new wave of disinformation by Russian info-terrorists.
🔴 On March 4, on the Kherson Freedom Square, the Russian invaders will wave their flags & shout that Kherson is the "Kherson People's Republic".🔴2 large buses, 20 cars, 2 sprinters and 7 GAZelles are brought to the city.‼️ Don't be fooled! ❌ Don't believe the fakes!
Meanwhile, #Kherson region is on the brink of ecological catastrophe. Europe's largest #poultry farm "Chernobaevskaya" (company "Ukrlandfarming") is de-energized. It is impossible to deliver food. There are 3 million chickens that cannot be fed or disposed of.
#Russians began to mine #Kherson, from the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration. With reference to eyewitnesses, he reports that they put marks in the city center. THis is #Kherson before and after #Russian invasion. Please watch it. t.me/suspilnekherso…
#INFORMATIONWARFARE: unrolling before our eyes: In #Kherson community Viber groups fake information & videos spread disnfo that the #Kherson residents "ask to join #Russia." #Kherson authorities: FAKE, be careful. [This is what happened to #Russians. WEST! DO NOT FALL FOR FAKES]
Reality in #Kherson: meds, baby food running out. More than 30 civilians killed by the #Russian troops. Families, women, children, people just riding in a car; a husband of a pregnant woman who ran out of a bomb shelter to get her things.
You can help #StopPutin by sharing facts, evidence, eyewitness stories from verified sources. By not reacting immediately but using critical thinking. #Kremlin is bombing #Kharkiv and #Chernihiv and their trolls are bombing our brains. #informationwar #hybridwar
#Chernihiv is being bombed again now. 11 patients of the oncohematology department need sterile conditions due to low immunity, forced to hide from explosions in a shelter for a week, do not receive proper treatment from oncology. immediatelyhttps://t.me/suspilnechernihiv/6673
#Chernihiv According to the SES, 28 people died and 18 were injured today. The bombing continues as you are reading this now. #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA Image
[taking a break, need to work on an urgent piece, verify etc. Stay vigilant. If you are seeing #Zelenskyy speaking about capitulation--it is a deep fake. It is expected to appear soon. Share this information so no one falls for it!]
Had to share this from my literature student: "My friends in #Sumy have been in basements &bunkers for the past few days. They're posting goodbye for nows in Instagram stories because #Putin has bombed power plants and other infrastructure.
"They're without heat, water, power, intermittent access to internet and mobile networks... International students studying at the universities in my town are without help from their embassies. The school I taught at is acting as a bomb shelter."
"I can't quite put into words the pain and helplessness I feel knowing my friends are in this terrible danger, that this extraordinary country I called home for over two years is being destroyed. That the welcoming, friendly, loving, beautiful people of #Ukraine are being killed"
"Я люблю тебе, Україно," says Jenny. Other friend, Anya, 19 y.o. literature student, writes to me: "I can't believe that it's happening in my country. It's like a nightmare and I can't wake up. Thousands of people are killed by this tyrant." Us, happy, in Sept2021 in #Kyiv. ImageImage
Anya, 19:"The light, kindness, & mercy will conquer loathing, dishonesty, & cruelty. I hope it'll be a great lesson for other folks & the last war in the world. every evening cries air alert and we stoop in the bomb shelter, but I live in a small town meaningless to conquer..."
You see where Anya and I stand in the picture one Tweet back? This is how it looks now. Can you help save Anya? And everyone else? #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #StopPutinNOW #StopWarInUkraine ImageImageImage
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow #NoFlyZoneNow Please RT if you can. Image
IMPORTANT! LIKE LIFE AND DEATH IMPORTANT: Russian troops shelled the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe, causing fire. Share this live feed with as many people as you can, the consequences of such an assault can be CATASTROPHIC FOR AN ENTIRE WORLD!!!
This is loud and clear, in Ukrainian, there is a fire at the BIGGEST NUCLEAR PLANT IN EUROPE as a result of shelling by the Russian army. t.me/vgorode_kharki…
Zaporozhye NPP reports a threat to the first power unit of the station! Russians do not let the firefighters approach the fire; shoot them point blank HELP!!!!! t.me/orlovdmytroEn/… Rus
ENglish subtitles t.me/lachentyp/401
Update on #nuclear: National Rada of Ukraine: the first power unit was under repair (that is, not in working condition). However, nuclear fuel was not removed from it (therefore, the danger remains). #Enerhodar #Energodar
I just took this screenshot from the live stream. We are looking at #Chornobyl. [and i was near it at the time so i know what it means. don't tell me i am overreacting, put definitely not intended.] Image
It is important to keep calm and act in the most effecient way. Consulting with nuclear experts to access the risk. Here are some facts:
IMPORTANT: On Ukrainian video announcements by Dmitro Orlov, it is clear that #Russian soldiers do not let #ukrainian firefighters to approach the burning reactor. It is lost on many translations/messages. Please share. @DmytroKuleba asks to let firefighters to the reactor.
UPDATE JUST IN: The representative of the press service of the #Zaporizhzhya NPP Andriy Tuz: no threat of radiation spread has been recorded, the radiation background has not changed. (from info service LENTACH).
[I would also watch for everything else happening in the world. This could be a distraction; if it is an accident and not planned it will be used as a distraction and blackmailing maneuver.]
#Putin has threatened #nuclear weapons twice this week. #Chornobyl's radiation has increased already. Several oil depots & gas pipelines exploded/on fire. Now, the biggest #nuclear plant in #Europe is burning. Demand #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow #StopPutin
UPDATE: Firefighters were allowed to the scene of the fire, says the head of the #Zaporozhye Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh. #Enerhodar
As of 02:26 in the city of Energodar at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the third power unit was disconnected from the single power system (only Unit 4 is operating).
Meanwhile, not to distract from the gravity of the fire at the nuclear reactor: this is how the rest of #Ukraine looks now. #Mariupol t.me/lachentyp/404
As of 02:26, the State Emergency Service reported that the fire situation at the station was within the norm. The wind from the side of the NPP blows towards the south-eastern part of Ukraine and in the direction of the large Russian Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar #EnergoAtom
This is NOW in #Mariupol. Everything is on fire. It is hell. Demand #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #StopPutinNOW t.me/lachentyp/408
WH Press Secretary at a briefing today said Russia is “continuing to take aggressive steps and move towards their ultimate objective, which is taking over Kyiv and taking over the country.” You don't say.
ALERT The #Chechens broke into the #Zaporizhzhya #nuclear plant. The UP publication, citing its sources at the station, reports that the soldiers of the National Guard continue to defend the facility. Sources say they intend to mine the nuclear plant & blackmail Europe😰
Verifying the above but #UkrainskayaPravda is a fairly reliable source. These days, nothing is 100% reliable. The live stream is over so can't see. No panic. Will be back with an update.
Update the live stream is back and #Zelenskyy is speaking now
#Zelenskyy speech: briefly, #Chornobyl only had one reactor, #Zaporizhzhia has 6. First time in history, we are dealing with a terrorist country that seizes nuclear resources. He already spoke to EU leaders. More soon. t.me/ukrpravda_news…
The shelling at the nuclear power plant has stopped, but the situation is uncertain, ZNPP spokesman Andrey Tuz said in a commentary to the BBC Russian Service. “They bombed everything they could, including blocks and everything else.
Now the information is being clarified, it is difficult to say everything. [To the station] a white car drove out, representatives of the Russian military. Flashing lights. Now it is being determined whether they will be negotiations, or how to proceed further.”
The Hague Tribunal left for #Ukraine. A group of investigators from the International Tribunal in The Hague (ICC) will conduct an investigation into a class action international lawsuit against Russia accused of possible war crimes.
Stop #Putin now. Do Hague Tribunal later. @NATO You need to stop the terrorist state of the Russian Federation. 1. Establish #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine 2. Stop the genocide of #Ukraine. 3. Prevent nuclear threat to #Europe and the #US.
President Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a video message about what is happening. According to him, there are Russian tanks equipped with thermal imagers near the nuclear power plant, which means that the invaders know where to shoot in order to provoke a tragedy.
Meanwhile, the #US announced more sanctions. Please take some measures to stop the serial killers in the Kremlin. They are going to close Russia holding the wretched and brainwashed people of Russia as hostages and explode us all if not stopped. Don't you see it?
People in Russia are unaware. The following sites are not working there: • Facebook, Twitter, Medusa, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Liberty, Google Play, Apple Store. Not clear if Russian watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked them, but the probability is high. #informationwarfare
Biden had a telephone conversation with Zelensky - Reuters reports. Blinken and Kuleba discussed Ukraine's needs for additional military, economic and humanitarian assistance
JUST IN: ALERT! Igor Murashov, Acting Director General of the #Zaporizhzhya NPP, said that nuclear safety at the plant violated. At the moment, the fire continues, and firefighters are not allowed in. There is a huge threat. Fighting at the station. The reactors are insecure.
What can you do? Call your reps NOW. Demand immediate #NATO military intervention. Terrorists are holding hostage a #nuclear reactor in #Europe. I repeat: tanks and firearms-armed terrorists are holding hostage.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi spoke with PM of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal about the situation at the #Zaporizhzhia The Minister of Energy of #Ukraine spoke with the US Secretary of Energy.
#Ukrainian side asked to prevent a nuclear catastrophe and close the flight zone over #Ukraine. SUPPORT IT!!!! USE YOUR VOICE! CALL YOUR REPS!!!! #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone
Johnson, in a conversation with Zelensky, said that he was convening an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in the near future due to the situation around the #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Downing Street reports.
!!!The city head of Energodar Dmitro Orlov about the situation at the ZNPP as of now: No shelling at the moment. Last night, around 16:30, #Russian troops broke through to #Enerhodar, immediately went to the nuclear power plant & began to fire at the buildings.
As a result, a fire broke out. The aggressors fired directly at the power units. There are wounded, numbers TBC. 2 wounded taken to the hospital. No way to hospitalize the rest. Firefighters not allowed to extinguish the fire. The situation is extremely critical. #Enerhodar
NOW! CONFIRMED VIA 3 SOURCES: the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Galushchenko confirmed that the Russian military is shelling the station from the air and tanks, the fire continues, rescuers not allowed. Demand #NATO military intervention.
Unian: as a result of shelling on the territory of the nuclear power plant, one of the buildings of the training complex continues to burn. Fire engulfed 3, 4, 5 floors of a 5-story building. ..
...The #Russian military CONTINUES TO PREVENT firefighters from starting to eliminate the consequences of the fire. # Zaporizhzhia #nuclear #plant operates one power unit out of six. The overall fire safety condition of the nuclear power plant is within standards.
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Firefighters were finally allowed into the territory of the #Zaporizhzhya NPP. No radiation leaks at the station. Andriy Tuz, a spokesman for the Zaporizhzhya NPP, said that there was no threat of radiation spread.
This is confirmed by specialists from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations). Firefighters started to work on the nuclear power plant to put out the fire in the administrative part of the station. PHEW!
[Going to take a few min off. Really hope the Apocalypse doesn't happen. I was working at an important story before this whole nuclear reactor episode. WE ARE NOT IN NETFLIX. Is anyone still watching it? I guess not in Russia... They were cut off.]
Here is the only video I want to play now. Слава Україні!
[back and will be updating. I am sorry that I cannot answer 90% of your comments and most of the time can't read them. I have dozens of sources (Ukrainians, expat journalists on-site) contacting me via various media and they are my priority. My sources are also Telegram channels
and other social media accounts of reliable outlets and persons, including Ministries and Administrations of Ukraine. I also rely on a few publications, mostly in Ukrainian. Translations often distort things; Google translate is being used for speed and it does not
have the capability to pick up on slang, grammar deviations, etc. I verify news coming in, checking the reporting from other sources. DISINFORMATION is abundant to say the least. I include tips on #informationwarfare as I have been analyzing it for the last few years
it is an important aspect of modern warfare. I am not in the conflict zone although I have recently returned from Ukraine and am familiar with many locations there; as well as with several cities in Russia. I have answered a few questions so now back to reporting.]
As of 06:20, the fire in the training building of #Zaporizhzhia #nuclear #plant was eliminated. It is reported that there are no victims or injured but earlier Dmytro Orlov informed about several wounded. This information needs to be verified.
40 people and 10 units of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire at the #Zaporizhzhia, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of #Ukraine reports. The radiation level in the area of the nuclear plant is lower than in nearby settlements. Image
Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko notes that we are on the verge of the largest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. "This is a war of annihilation of humanity and our planet. The enemy does not care about nuclear and radiation safety."
"[the #Kremlin] is indifferent to the human lives of Ukrainians, Europeans, and their own citizens." It is also important to report from all areas in #Ukraine where #Russian troops continue the relentless attack. #Russian artillery targets residential areas of all major cities.
I will add reports from the regions where the bombing continued last night but want to bring attention to the information warfare again as it is becoming more prominent front. IMPORTANT:
In #Kherson, a staged rally is planned at which a crowd bussed from out of town will be demanding to announce #Kherson a separatist state similar to LNR and DNR.. KHNR to destabilize the situation in the region. The #TV station is seized & started to broadcast Russian propaganda.
Other regions: #Severodonetsk a few hours ago. t.me/uniannet/34873
#Ukrainian army liquidated a convoy of #Putin's army in #Voznesensk , #Mykolaiv region today. I have to add that comments on these videos are artful. [#Russia is referred to as #mordor and #Russians as #orcs.] t.me/uniannet/34882
in #Russia, the search for "how do they live in #NorthKorea was popular today t.me/uniannet/34880
@UnianInfo informs that the main efforts of the invaders are focused on the encirclement of #Kyiv & the weakening of resistance in the blocked settlements. The #Russian Army exhausted the main part of the operational reserves
& began preparations for the transfer of additional forces and assets from the Southern and Eastern military districts. The second echelons and most of the operational reserves of the Russian groupings were put into operation
From the General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine: Operative information as of 06.00 04.03.2022 regarding the #Russian invasion:
The 9th day of the resistance of the #Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion. As of 06:20 am, the fire in the training building
of #Zaporozhia #nuclear power plant eliminated. No victims.
2. The main efforts of the occupiers are focused on surrounding #Kyiv and weakening the resistance in blocked settlements. Trying to accomplish this task, the #Russian Armed Forces exhausted a big part of the reserves.
3. In the #Volyn direction, the aggressor moved two BTGR to defensive actions in the areas of #Poliske and #Kukhari settlements. It might carry out armed provocations at the border in order to involve the armed forces of #Belarus into the war against #Ukraine.
4. In the #Polisk direction, during the fight, the #Russian enemy partially lost the offensive potential and the main forces were blocked and stopped in the area of Makarova. The occupants left #Bucha and #Gostomel Airport.
5. On the #Siversky front, the #Russian troops focus their efforts on planning the offensive on #Kyiv and is conducting a regrouping in order to continue the attack towards Brovary. Other operations include: blocking #Kharkiv from the north, surrounding #Mariupol.
6. From the Russian-occupied #Crimea, a large number of vehicles transport convicts used to organize disturbances in the #Mykolaiv region. In the Black Sea, a #Russian maritime group advanced from the marine bases.The landing of marine paratroopers in Zatoka, Chornomorsk expected
[For a full and detailed operational report in Ukrainian with AI-[bad] translation: facebook.com/MinistryofDefe…. also someone tell Google translate that "territorial defense" is not "terrorist defense." and #KyivNotKiev
[I will now take a break as my Ukrainian friends appear online after the night [thank god!]]
I am back for the last update of today [it is actually tomorrow March 4, 1.30 am.] Here is how #Kharkiv looks today. The city was bombed for days on end. In some areas,Internet is not working so it is harder to get videos and photos. People spend most of their time in basements. ImageImageImage
From residents of #Kharkiv: there are no #Russians in the streets, and the morale is high. People are helping each other with food and resources. There is still heat, electricity, and internet. #Kharkiv stands strong.
Some pictures. Beauty salon in the background. The caption reads: "Golden Age" #Kharkiv. from Vgorode.ua ImageImageImageImage
#Kharkiv. Please please share this. These are peaceful cities. Russian-speaking, by the way. People still can't believe that "Russian brothers" can do this to them... ImageImageImage
In #Chernihiv, another tragedy. Hard to report. Due to damage on March 3, there are problems with the water supply in the city. The reason is large-scale damage to networks and power supply facilities by #Russian troops.
Pictures. #Chernihiv, 3 March 2022. "#Russian world" has arrived. #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia #StopRussianAggression #PutinWarCriminal ImageImageImage
#Chernihiv, 3 March 2022. Video of the residential area bombed. People were standing in life to a pharmacy. t.me/suspilnecherni…
#Zaporozhye #Zaporozhia #Energodar #Enerhodar UPDATE: Losses of the #Ukrainian military after the night assault on #Zaporizhzhya #nuclear power plant: 3 dead, 2 wounded, including 1 in critical condition. The heroic defenders of the station neutralized 1 tank w/crew. NOW, !!!:
IMPORTANT: According to the #НастоящееВремя, Dmitro Orlov, the head of the city administration of #Enerhodar (#Energodar) is being kept hostage and was forced to make the last video speech at gunpoint. Therefore, the video will not be shared. ImageImageImage
Just confirming, that Mayor of #Enerhodar can be held hostage. His video messages currently cannot be relied upon. #Russian troops control the biggest #nuclear plant in #Europe. Also, a lot of residential buildings, including a school, bombed to ground in #Enerhodar
#Russian tanks hit the staff entrance of #Enerhodar; then two rockets hit the plant. Firefighters were not allowed inside. #Russian troops hold #Chornobyl staff hostage for several days. reported by #CurrentTimes livestream
#Kherson: unclear situation at this moment. Disturbances w/connection. According to the Security Service of Ukraine, 60-80 Crimean people have settled in the Frigate Hotel in Kherson. Today they might go to a rally w/#Russian flags & "gratitude" to the Russian "liberators"
In #Kherson, a convoy of trucks carrying people drove along Perekopskaya towards the city center, Public correspondents report. #Russians seized TV tower, and reportedly cut Internet. DO NOT FALL FOR FAKEs
#Mykolaiv. The Mayor ordered all women and children to shelter. #Russian troops are expected to attack.
#Zelenskyy in his latest speech, on #Russia's attack on #Zaporizhzhia #nuclear plant: People of Russia, how is it even possible? We fought the consequences of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster together. Did you forget? ...you can't stay silent. Tell your leadership you want to live."
[I was close to #Chornobyl around the time the explosion happened. Here is a compilation of memories by eyewitnesses, including mine, of what happened then and the consequences. All of this is so personal, so lived already...ironedcurtains.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/bri…
#Mariupol might be in the worst situation. According to an interview given by a resident who managed to escape the besieged city, to #CurrentTimeTV, there is no heat, water, electricity and internet; it is freezing, and the food was running out; bombed around the clock
[My great-grandparents starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad, my grandmother was the only survivor, & I grew up with the shadow of the Siege, like most people in Leningrad. No, it's the other set of ancestors-the ones murdered by the Nazis in Baby Yar are grandfather's.
I cannot believe that this is possible, that this is happening again. Putin's parents survived the Siege, his younger baby-brother died... psychologists of the world, can someone explain this to me? It's 2022 and we are living in 1942. Siege, Baby Yar, tanks, bombs.
Can someone stop it? @NATO you are not going to stop them by waiting out. We are dealing with a mental disease of a person who is in charge of nuclear weapons and has been unwell. Stop it in the name of humanity. I hear my ancestors howling in their mass graves. #StopPutinNOW]
[I have to break to sleep. Thinking of all my dear friends in #Ukraine. Thinking of Odesa]
[Back & processing information; will share a summary & keep reporting. Ukraine lived another 7 hours of war. #Zelensky just made a powerful address: a minute of silence for all perished defenders, a minute for all peaceful people killed, and a minute for you--support @Ukraine.]
SUMMARY. I will start with stories from my friends and personal contacts, as usual. 30 y.o. Julia from #Kyiv "Sharing what's happening is so important. Please let everyone know. It's very hard. These creatures attacked the nuclear power plant...
and they captured #Chernobyl earlier, workers taken hostage, the level of radiation increased. Today they bombed a nuclear power plant in #Zaporizhzhia. It could be a global catastrophe if they don't stop. My mom & I leave for Romania but my husband and brother stay to fight."
My friend Maria, from #Kyiv: "My son & his friends made HQ of the defense in our apartment. They were given weapons. The district is not bombed, they only shoot regularly." My friend Tania, an American living in #Kyiv: "A total disaster. Like 9/11 all across the country.
A poet and literary translator Olga Bragina keeps writing and translating while staying in Kyiv w/her parents. "I tell my mother: "There was again a battle near Kruty, as in 1918." Mom says: "It seems that this is a program that has been launched and it works in cycles,
it will work until ours win." now we have won. Mom says: "Here they are, bombing #Kharkiv - and there, after all, many were for Russians before." I say: "It's like during the Albigensian uprising, the archbishop said:"Kill everyone - the Lord will distinguish his own,"
Mom says:" Yes, this is from the same opera."... Olga Bragina shares her poetry about from #Kyiv on FB.
#Chernihiv: #Russians methodically shell the south-eastern and south-western districts, targeting residential houses and infrastructure. Rescuers and firefighters cannot work properly, as rocket fire and airstrikes are ongoing. The first page in #NYT today.t.me/suspilnecherni…
#Chernihiv carries out heroic defense, holding positions on the frontiers. In the region: a convoy of up to 200 units of equipment & manpower stopped in front of the river. The bridge across the river was destroyed.
In #Chernihiv, on March 3, killed 47, 18 injured--the #Chernihiv Regional State Administration. More than 50,000 households in all districts of the region remain without electricity supply.
#Zaporozhija #Enerhohrad (this is an update, see above for the seizure, shooting and fire at the biggest #nuclear plant in EU) A section of the main pipeline is damaged, the supply of thermal energy to the city is cut. Emergency recovery work is carried out.
#Mariupol The Mayor asked for help and said that the city is almost erased from the face of Earth. No heat, no internet, no telephone, no power, freezing temperatures. 300+injured, hospitals are being shelled; food and medical supplies are almost exhausted. HELP! #StopRussia RT
RT at @NATO @WhiteHouse #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA #StopRussia #StopPutinNOW
Demand #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA This is from Ukraine
Meanwhile, in #Russia: Facebook and Twitter are blocked. YouTube is still working. It is possible to reach banned sites using VPNs. All liberal sites are closed but Nobel-prize-winning Novaya Gazeta complied w/the Kremlin guidelines, removing all mentions of war
#Kharkiv: bombed, in ruins but #Russian troops' offensive stopped. #informationwarfare: Mayor denies fakes of surrender: "Believe me, this is a brazen lie! No one will ever surrender the city of #Kharkiv. We hold on. We will win!"
#Kharkiv RT #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone
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Read the letter from an academic fleeing #Kharkiv #KharkivMassacre now:
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA
Sculpture by Rene Collet, Netherlands. Demand @NATO to stop the #genocide of #Ukrainian people. Image
[need to take a few minutes to help friends in Ukraine, will be back w/more critical coverage on the #RussianWarCrimes in #Ukraine. Thanks for caring and joining voices with all feeling and thinking humankind. This must be stopped.]
Back. #Odesa Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that #Odesa will definitely stand. Verifying some good news from there. Image
#Odesa Emergency Rescue Squad of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Odesa region neutralized the shells that ended up in the village of Belenky and the resort of Zatoka after yesterday's airstrike. ImageImage
#Odesa: #Russian aggression united people. People are sowing national flags and decorating their homes w/#Ukrainian symbols. Important because #Kremlin propaganda manufacturers fakes about Odesa welcoming Russians. My friends are prepared to welcome invaders w/ #molotovcocktail ImageImage
#Kherso region: in the Askania-Nova reserve these days the kid of the Tibetan yak was born. It was named "Bayraktar" (unmanned combat aerial vehicle) said the director of the reserve. Image
[sorry, the crisis is getting closer to home. Emergencies in Ukraine w/close friends/family, plus fundraising, back to reporting now]
RESOURCE (will start sharing here in addition to FB, please RT): @fightforrightua Leslie Templeton @Somesaylezzels arranging to transport people with disabilities out of Ukraine, provide humanitarian aid, seeking volunteers in Kyiv or other highly dangerous areas for disabled
Let's look at #Russia. Good news. There are decent and honest people. Bad news. Everything else: They are in minority, and are either in prison or trying to flee but it is hard to get tickets at this point, most countries are closed, taking more than $10K is illegal and
any mention of "war" or "aggression" or anti-war protest leads to 15 y.in prison. Yet, I know 2-3 people who are staying to fight the fascist regime, they tell me. 2 people I know are in prison. The majority is silent, or complicit, unfortunately. This is not
the time/space to analyze the mass psychosis; I wrote about it ad nauseam and Hannah Arendt did a much better job; but multiple interviews w/Russian people on site show that they are either deprived of information or brainwashed. The former is possible, especially older folks.
At this point there are NO independent media operating in #Russia, Facebook, Twitter are blocked, YT is about to be blocked (need to confirm, maybe already is) and there no other sources of information. BBC and Bloomberg are closing their offices, all major mass media are moving
offices out of Russia. Liberal publications are either closed or complicit and agree to censor all info on #Ukraine. One RT journalist quit in protest; the exodus of Margarita Simonian, CE of RT is not expected. The general population, thus, is left in parallel reality.
The #Kremlin #informationwarfare also involves the West but I focus now on the situation in the country of aggressor, #Russia, now referred to exclusively as #Mordor in #Ukraine. Hardships coming on all fronts, most companies leaving #Russia-apart from #CocaColaSupportTerrorism
There are long lines seen in #IKEA that is about to close. The Kering group of companies (Gucci, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent) is closing--a blow on the elite.They might not be able to afford luxury goods, anyway, the focus now is on "socially significant goods" (hello, Orwell)
Restrictions are now introduced: under 10 kg of sugar, 10 bottles of vegetable oil, 5 packs of flour, 3 packs of salt, 10 packs of pasta, rice and other cereals per person. They forgot matches. [Do I remember the ratio cards, lovely reader, and oh the sweet flashback
I must briefly note that Putin started his career in St.Petersburg by stealing natural resources intended for barter. As a result, the city that survived the Siege, was left w/ratio cards & no food. I WAS THERE. I know. Details: gregolear.substack.com/p/know-your-kg… and zarinazabrisky.medium.com/putincon-post-… Image
Breaking from #Zelensky, a new address: he condemned the #NATO decision to not close the sky over Ukraine. “the NATO countries have created a narrative that the alleged closing of the sky over Ukraine will provoke direct Russian aggression against NATO. self-hypnosis of the weak
#Zelensky: #NATO assistance is limited to the purchase of 50 tons of diesel fuel for Ukraine. “Probably so that we could burn the Budapest Memorandum. To burn better. But it has already burned down for us”
#Zelensky: “Today, the #NATO leadership gave the green light for the further bombardment of #Ukrainian cities and villages, refusing to make a #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine. You could close our sky... Only... I do not know who you can protect and whether you are able to protect...
...your countries - the countries of the #NATO. You will not be able to pay us off with liters of fuel for liters of our blood.” Demand #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow #NoFlyZoneUA
Back to report: [A couple of honest voices that came to me from Mordor are now silent. In prison or blocked, I don't know. I mourn for #Ukraine but I mourn for fighters in Russia.] On a positive note:
[breaking to analyze and prepare an important piece that i have tried to cover since yesterday. hoping no nuclear reactor fires next 30-40 minutes]
IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE🚩Quick research; needs details, expert opinion (awaiting).Three purposes to share: 1. Informing general public 2. Calling the risk. 3. Calling for action. #Chechens #kadyrovtsy #Nuclear #Plant # Zaporizhzhia Please RT at journalists for in-depth research
WARNING: DO NOT JUMP TO ANY CONCLUSIONS. It is a complicated, nuanced, and dangerous subject that needs a) educated analysis b) understanding. Subjects: nuclear radiation, terrorists, jihad, ethnic conflicts, potential WWIII. This needs to be brought to light &carefully studied.
#Chechen fighters, so-called #Kadyrovites, are present at the captured #Ukrainian #nuclear facility #Zaporizhzhia, according to David Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction. " gordonua.com/news/war/zahva…
"Since 3 am, when the attack on [#nuclear] facilities began, we have been telling the entire international world that we cannot-& #Russia, we believe, can't-know what's in the head of the Chechen fighters...they can then blackmail Russia and say "let's give Chechnya independence"
"...specific #terrorist groups seized #nuclear facilities". According to the politician, the #Kadyrovites killed several employees. Energoatom and the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine reported: no injuries/victims."
gordonua.com/news/war/zahva…
[I noticed the discrepancy in reporting in real time. Dmytro Orlov's account in a telegram published several videos that I have shared. The visuals and information differ in these videos. A report confirming the fight and shooting at the station pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
Why does it matter and who are #Kadyrovtsy and why it is not accurate to say #Chechens. I am not an expert on the subject but here is a very basic breakdown for this context. #Chechnya is a constituent republic of Russian Federation, situated in the North Caucasus.
Chechens are NOT ethnic Russians and have a long history of wars w/Russia. The predominant religion is Islam. The president of Chechnya is Ramzan Kadyrov, also a leader of a large private militia referred to as the "Kadyrovtsy" (plural, "Kadyrovets" singular, hence the hashtags.)
[Stay with me, important] In addition to the Russian regional government, Chechnya has a separatist Ichkeria government not recognized by any state. Important because both sides are involved in the war in #Ukraine.
"It is unknown how many soldiers Kadyrov has sent to Ukraine, (10,000-70,000? see the article.) On the other side, anti-Russian Chechen units, including many veterans of the first and second Chechen wars, are fighting with Kadyrov’s loyalists." newlinesmag.com/reportage/chec…
Today, Kadyrov said in a video that his soldiers are waging jihad in Ukraine.“Don't interfere with us. We won't stop. We have an order, we have jihad!”The video was circulated in Russian media [that was not hacked by @YourAnonOne
"Kadyrov said that the Russian Armed Forces, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, will find everyone who killed civilians in Donbas and was involved in the crime in Odesa. “We have the addresses of all shaitans and their families. The Nazis know this,” he said.sm.news/kadyrov-nazval…
I also attach a long(ish) article lining up the nuances, disinformation and more about #Chechen participation in the war that the Russian Federation continues in #Ukraine. [Google Translate+patience for some, or skip] kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/37365…
So: we have a pro- #Putin #Kadyrovits #Chechen who called the jihad fighting against #Ukraine and now controlling the biggest power plant in Europe, #Zaporozhya. (Not to be mixed up with the anti-Russian, pro-#Ukrainian #Chechens.) NOW, the last thing in this mini-research--
WARNING! We had jihad, terrorists, fire at a nuclear station, hackers but the next subject is GRUESOME. If you are suffering from PTSD--skip a few tweets, maybe three of four. I will not include any really disturbing photos, PG-13, but the subject is upsetting.
So: The bodies of allegedly killed Kadyrov Chechen soldiers overfilling the morgues in Belarus at the border with Ukraine AND mobile Russian morgues following the Russian army. Ready?
There are many reports in #Ukrainian media and #Telegram channels alleging that "In the Belarusian Mozyr, the morgues are filled with Chechens" "Russia is afraid to report the losses not only to Russian citizens but also to Chechnya." source: ukraine.segodnya.ua/ukraine/v-belo…
Some reports do not specify the ethnicity of the killed Russian Federation Army personnel. Headline: "The Bodies of Dead Russian Soldiers Are Brought to the Mozyr" morguehttps://charter97.org/ru/news/2022/3/2/457092/
“In Mozyr (Belarus), all morgues are packed, mostly w/ ethnic Chechens, instructions given for long-term storage of bodies; so no info on the real losses of the RF Armed Forces gets to in Chechnya” Anna Krasulina, a rep of the Belarusian opposition,
But the information does travel: audio of a Chechen woman mourns a soldier killed in Ukraine. She cries and says that there are many corpses, they are not brought to Russia, and kept in the morgues of Belarus until the end of the war.t.me/uniannet/33764
As warned, evidence; graphic. casbt1osint.blogspot.com/2022/03/in-bel…
In addition to these stationary morgues, the Russian army is reported to use "mobile crematoria." ImageImage
They are not a novelty and have been in use for a while. Here is an article from 2013 describing the features. After a negative reaction from the public, the signs were removed, and it is impossible to tell it from a regular vehicle. Image
Here are the descriptions of types and use: Ministry of Defence for "medical waste" and Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation, Military Hospital, "receiving, processing and shipping of the dead" ImageImageImage
Again, all information needs to be verified and analyzed. There are also reports stating that "The use of mobile crematoriums by Russians during the current war in Ukraine is yet to be verified." france24.com/en/tv-shows/tr…
To sum it up: the presence of #Chechen #Kadyrov militia in #Ukraine needs to be covered. The risk of the biggest nuclear reactor being captured by armed terrorists who announced jihad, AND overflowing morgues in a densely-populated part of Europe cannot be underestimated.
This is the end of this sub-thread. Please RT to experts/researchers/people with a deeper knowledge of the subject & feel free to use it as a starting point for in-depth research. Most importantly, the horror of this story should be enough to demand to #StopPutinNOW #StopPutin
[Now, two things: 1) I hope that a mobile Russian morgue is not parked outside of my humble abode and 2) I need a drink. Will be back reporting in a bit. Thank you for not being indifferent to this horror and let's keep our humanity, compassion and hope.] #StopPutin
[back, had to buy some food, ran out of everything, in 3 hours, so much destruction happened that I can't believe my eyes. The monster is relentless. The war never stops. We got to stop it. #StopPutinNOW #StopPutin Back to reporting]
#Odesa region. This is what they did in the last two hours. At 5:00 am March 5, an air strike was launched on the village of Velikodolinskoye (Bolshaya Dolina). Local residents report two powerful explosions. There is no information about the victims yet. ImageImageImage
#Zaporizhzhia According to the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadym Denisenko, the management of the #Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in the city of #Enerhodar "is in Ukrainian hands" but the Russians control the perimeter of the plant. 3 Ukrainian fighters killed
IMPORTANT: The situation in #Energodar #Enerhodar is changing dynamically. The information is constantly updated, Denisenko reported.
There seems to be a pattern: #Putin is attracted to all things nuclear. ☢️
JUST IN: from #Enerhodar It seems that the biggest nuclear plant in Europe is locked and the employees have to find a different place to ensure safety. [!] #nuclear #Zaporizhzhia #Zaporizhzhya t.me/orlovdmytroEn/…
Comment to the video from #Energodar #Enerhodar: At 8.00 am, the city authorities came to work; could not get into the city hall; door locked. We'll work elsewhere to run Energodar under occupation. Nevertheless, Energodar was and remains #Ukraine. Even when we are in isolation.
[While I am trying to understand the situation with the second biggest nuclear plant, this is a great piece of conceptual art:] Image
PLEASE watch this. Everyone has to see this. RT #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA #StopWarInUkraine

t.me/uniannet/35313
This was #Kherson. If you couldn't watch the video: Ukrainians lying down in front of #Russsian military vehicle, do not back off as they are being shot at, and do not budge with a military truck moving on them, trying to stop it with bare hands, men and women. #GloryToUkraine
IMPORTANT, #NUCLEAR: Staff of #Chornobyl kept hostage.“We cannot replace people...They are divided in 2 groups, replacing each other, they are tired mentally physically, emotionally. Limited nutrition, medicines; it is difficult for them," Yury Fomichev, the mayor of #Slavutych.
#Kharkiv... impossible. Unspeakable. t.me/kharkiv_1654/2…
#Kharkiv #KharkivMassacre #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone t.me/kharkiv_1654/2…
#Kharkiv, Klochkovskaya. My friend Lina just sent me this, saying--I grew up around here. Imagine this? t.me/kharkiv_1654/2…
If you can't open the video and for #Hague #PutinWarCriminal #StopPutinNOW #KharkivMassacre t.me/kharkiv_1654/2… ImageImage
840 (possibly more) children were injured in since the start of the #Rissian aggression against #Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
This is great news! 74% of Americans said the #US &#NATO should impose a #NoFlyZone over #Ukraine,(the poll by Reuters/Ipsos found.) 80% said the US should stop buying #Russian oil. 81% think the US should impose additional sanctions on #Russia. #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone
In the #Bucha district near #Kyiv, #Russian forces opened fire on a car with civilians. 2 people were killed, including a 17-year-old girl, and 4 injured. The prosecutor’s office in the Kyiv region has launched criminal proceedings over the shelling.@KyivIndependent
[If I don't specify the source: private source or Telegram channel confirmed or verified vs.other channels, social media & groups. I have many sources on site: people want the world to know about the war and help to stop it; so many send videos, photos or just a couple of lines.]
[break, talking to sources]
A remarkable statement by Dmytro Orlov, #Enrhodar Mayor: "Afrer a few days of forced contact w/representatives of the #Russian military, I want to draw my own conclusions." I am sure that despite the fact that today there are [Russian] tanks in town...
...and a nuclear power plant is under the control of #Russian troops, we have already won this #war. I'm convinced: #Ukraine will always be #Ukraine. Today, #russiansoldiers fear [our] civilian population more than they probably fear even #Putin. They came with confidence...
...that they had come to liberate us from #Nazism... Mainly, they are afraid & hate us because they can't afford the #freedom & freedom of thought that we can. A slave will always be afraid & hate a person who can think about freedom and be free. ... Victory will be ours."
Good news from #Mariupol: Humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians will open from #Mariupol & #Volnovakha, said an adviser to the head of the Public Administration.The Ministry of Defense of the Russia stated that a silent regime will be in effect from 09:00.
#Kherson: water supply and central heating restored in the city center.
estimates of Russia's losses as of March 5, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by @KyivIndependent Image
This is a must-watch video of #Borodyanka, close to #Kyiv. Please pass it on. Please demand to stop this. I just was in #Kyiv. It was a beautiful, lively city... Before they erase the whole country... #NoFlyZone
CORRECTION: Green corridors for bringing food and supplies, not for evacuation. #Mariupol
[Will stop my report today. Please share verified information. CRITICAL-that's why #Kremlin bans all independent press. Use best judgment & check & then think. We are in shock, tired & are getting desensitized to horror. Take breaks. Breathe. #Ukraine needs strong support.]
[hi all, back on w/two delays: my body shut me off for 8 hrs and my devices shut me out for 3--either a hack or memory filled w/photos&videos or both. Body--fixed, devices--50% fixed, will do a summary now and try to fix the 50%of devices. WAR NEVER STOPS.]
#Zaporizhzhia #Zaporizhzhya This is the view of the plant after the attack by #Russian troops and #Kadyrov #kadyrovtsy #Chechen soldiers who called jihad on #Ukraine (see above) t.me/uniannet/35536
The reports from #Zaporizhzhia #Zaporozhye change every hour or so, and differ from various sources. "the information that Russian troops have completely left Energodar is not true, according to the mayor of the city Dmitry Orlov. #Russians control the perimeter of Energodar. TBC
#Putin made a speech: No need for the martial law in #Russia. Consequences of the conflict between #Russia and #NATO are “understandable for everyone”. #Russia will consider attempts by other countries to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participation in hostilities;
#Putin in his speech: "Our military destroyed the entire military infrastructure first. The work is almost complete; guys who fight and lay down their lives are fighting for our future; there are also neo-Nazis in Russia, but not in the government, as in Ukraine; etc
#Putin in his speech--IMPORTANT: "Those sanctions that are being introduced are akin to a declaration of war, but this has not yet come to that". PAY ATTENTION TO THIS.
Reports from #Ukrainian cities. Earlier today a temporary ceasefire was supposed to take place to create humanitarian corridors and allow civilians to leave #Mariupol and #Volnovakha. #Russian troops’ shelling halted the evacuation, fighting then resumed.
#Mariupol's Mayor, now: “#Mariupol is under blockade, we are being killed as a nation, as the people of #Ukraine. #Russian occupiers are now shooting at residential areas. Planes dropped bombs today. I got as mayor to organize transportation and locations for people to evacuate.
At that moment, as we were leaving, the #Russian troops broke the silence & began shelling. Miraculously, no people were hurt, equipment was damaged. We need security guarantees. Shelling has been going on for 6 days. We hope today there is a corridor.”
#Kharkiv: As of 10 min ago, 10.40 pm: Shell explosions are heard in the area of ​​Northern Saltovka. A high-rise building is on fire. A powerful explosion near the city center was also heard by correspondents of "Suspilny".
In #Balakliya region cut off from #Kharkiv, from the City Council: "Today...lot of panic, despair, fear. I ask everyone to show humanity, first of all to pay attention to the elderly, to the needy. Food, medicine etc are not supplied to Balakliya and the villages."
188 people, including 122 civilians, including 5 children, died from injuries resulting from shelling and fighting in the Kharkiv region, regional police said at 18:00 on March 4.
#Kharkiv A depot after #Russian shelling t.me/suspilnekharki…
About 30 houses on fire in #Kharkiv as a result of shelling by #Russian troops on March 4. This is the data of the SES at 16:00. According to the report, most shells flew into high-rise buildings & private houses in #Saltovka. This area was shelled the day before. Image
#Chernihiv: Mayor: a "green corridor" is needed. There is no guarantee to leave the city without shelling. Cars attempting to drive out are at risk; they are fired upon. No gas, water supply, hot water, electricity at many addresses.
17 people died in #Chernihiv region over the past 24 hours as a result of shelling, 1 person due to fire.
Due to damages, the Gas Transmission System Operator of #Ukraine had to shut down 16 gas distribution stations in #Kharkiv, #Mykolaiv, #Zaporizhia, #Kyiv, #Donetsk and #Luhansk oblasts.
In #Irpen, the #Russian military blew up the railway tracks & an empty evacuation train that was going to pick up people from the city. Residents are being evacuated by buses. t.me/lentachold/458…
Russian troops have launched an air strike on #BilaTserkva: almost 20 houses have been damaged and injured, #Kyiv Region police said.
#Kherson: The #Russian military opened a warning fire on people at a rally in Kherson but this did not stop the protesters. One man jumped on a Russian armored vehicle and rod it carrying a Ukrainian flag. t.me/lachentyp/483
#Kherson: video of a Ukrainian protestor riding a Russian armored vehicle during a protest in #Russian-occupied #Kherson.
In #Melitopol unarmed protestors push back against the Russian soldiers, shouting GO HOME! #Russians fire AKs. GO HOME! t.me/lachentyp/473
#Ukrainian parenting these days. #русскийкорабльИдиНахyй t.me/uniannet/35480
Deputies of local councils of #Kherson region appealed to #NATO & other countries in support of the request of the President of Ukraine #Zelensky for #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NOflyZoneUA #NoFlyZone over #Ukraine. For 10 days, peaceful cities have been under air & missile strikes.
#Kherson appeal: "The price of procrastination with #NoFlyZone is thousands of dead and injured children, women, the elderly, destroyed hospitals, schools, kindergartens." Residents of the region also join in signing the appeal. "You need to act immediately!"
My friend Anya, a 19 y.o.literature student, forwarded me some pictures from around Ukraine and this: "My mom wants to go abroad. She is concerned about the war. But I don't want to escape from my country, I would rather die here." #StopPutinNOW #PutinWarCrimes #SaveUkraineNow ImageImageImageImage
Anya: "It's a shame not only for #Putin but for all humans who refuse to help #Ukraine. #NATO rejected a proposal to close the sky scared of the military alliance. I know that a lot of people help us, but the government of another country is just closing the eyes on this war" ImageImageImageImage
Anya: "My mum is angry, but I will believe and pray to the end." Call for #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NOflyZoneUA #PutinWarCrimes #StopRussia #StopPutin #StopWar #UkraineUnderAttaсk ImageImageImageImage
"Whatever is being now, it is not enough," writes Irena on FB. [I'm not sharing graphic images of violence. There are many. I don't use a shock factor. Yet, do know there are many and they are terrible.] ImageImageImageImage
American expat writer from #Kyiv Tatiana Retivov: a diary-essay of her fleeing last week. An account of a great crime against humanity. I stayed at this house in Sept. More than 1.2 million people had left Ukraine in 9 days.eastwestliteraryforum.com/world/tatiana-…
[When not reporting, I help a network of people all around Europe helping to get people out of Ukraine and get food and medical supplies to those who can't get out. If you want to help and KNOW people on-site please PM. We need help. There are other ways of helping. PM me.]
I have many friends and extended family who have older people in #Kyiv, #Zhytomir, #Vinnitsy, all over Eastern Ukraine. Many can't go down to the basements because of physical condition and can't go outside and stand in line for bread/milk and run to shelter during air raids.
Explosions in #Kyiv, an air raid alert. Not going to cover the situation in #Russia no time. It's bad: economically, politically, culturally, Russia is cut off the world. Decent people flee, some walk across the border. Flights are being canceled. Food is starting to get rationed
Face recognition camera installed in Moscow/St.Petersburg to monitor protestors. 15-20 yrs prison for mentioning war. Propaganda hysteria on TV/media, no access to any other info. Many brainwashed.
#Nuremberg Trials prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of #Nazis officials at the 1945-1946 trials, told the Mirror that “those responsible should be held accountable for aggression, crimes against humanity and plain murder.” #Putin should be 'behind bars.'
General Staff of the Ukrainian army, Russian private military company #Vagner #WagnerGroup set up a base in Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, from which they are recruiting mercenaries to fight in the war against Ukraine. I wrote about Wagner here zarinazabrisky.medium.com/whats-cooking-…
#Wagner group: if you have no time for the whole article, here is a glimpse:
#InformationWarfare continues. Security Service of Ukraine thwarted attempts by Russian proxies to organize a so-called “Federal Republic of Ukraine.” According to SBU, the supposed republic would have included Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi.
#Russia supports separatists movements worldwide (Ukraine, California, Texas, UK, Catalonia, Kurdistan) A long history of funding separatist groups &movements around the world through business companies & installing puppet regimes. Details here zarinazabrisky.medium.com/california-spl…
Thousands of #Ukrainians are at the #Krakovets checkpoint: some have fled shelling in their cities, and people are waiting to cross the border into #Poland. 5-8 hour lines. Foto Oksany Seniv, Suspilʹne. ImageImageImage
[tech break, need to adjust my memory/anti-virus. Warning: DO NOT OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS before double-checking the source. I don't, so if all those sending them to are reading- #русскийкорабльидинахуй]
From a friend, now, remarkable. "#Ukraine has changed a lot.. people discovered the pleasure of solidarity. Huge traffic jams, roadblocks, air raid alerts, closed shops & cafes. Yet, no panic, no road rage on the roads, for the entire journey from #Mykolaev to #Chernivtsi
we met only one accident. Territorial defense fighters, checking documents at checkpoints, wish you a happy journey, suggest which gas station has gasoline. In every small town, under the city councils, refugees are received, settled for the night in schools,
kindergartens, hostels, and boarding houses. People are fed free of charge. I am amazed. Refugees are mostly Russian-speaking - #Kharkiv #Mykolaiv #Kherson. The #Ukrainian-speaking #West is absolutely tolerant of this. {NOTE THIS!]
Many go to the borders, men send their wives and children to Poland, Slovakia, Moldova, Romania, the Czech Republic. Everyone is accepted, free of charge, supplied with food and medicines. The borders of Ukraine with Poland, according to eyewitnesses, are practically gone.
"For the first time since Feb 23, I'll sleep on a bed, not on a mattress in the basement. The reaction, the obscurantism, the violence of the old world, the dying bloody age is opposed to humanity, tolerance, dignity & freedom. A new, better world must win. It's a turning point."
USEFUL from Yuri Savchenko, ex-MFA of Ukraine: wartime mental health for all. read carefully and keep a cold mind. An important component of warfare is information and psychological attacks. Analysis and some tips for surviving; can be useful to people everywhere.
The first stage that we [in Ukraine] have survived was a euphoria strengthened by wild rage against the invader & pride for our victories. During the euphoria, we were united to the maximum, charged with the fighting spirit. We could not sleep, eat & function: combat readiness.
The brain can not sustain operation in such a condition. It turns on a protection mode. The exhaustion phase follows. There may be signs of depression due to constant anxiety. The aggressor knows this and it is a part of the strategy: to break the country in a state of exhaustion
The aggressor's strategy is to intimidate, fool and do the damage. So: we need to help our brains survive the exhaustion and it will then return on to "ready" mode. [This applies to the world community. As the first shock is gone, we want to switch off the war & not see it.]
TIPS TO SURVIVE THE WAR EXHAUSTION:
✅Get sleep. Take naps. Rest.
✅Drink water. A dehydrated body cannot deal with stress.
✅ Eat healthy food. Stress leads to indigestion.
✅Take breaks from reading news;
✅ Laugh. Joke. It's a way for the brain to lower cortisol
✅Turn off the pity for material loss. The enemy is counting on it.
✅ Make a plan "what will I do after the war". Your brain needs to be in a rescue mode, not self-destruction;
✅ Hug people;
✅Tell your loved ones "I love you"
✅Verify information.
Demoralization is the main factor in warfare. While #Ukrainians fight and survive the #russianinvasion, the world needs to support them by staying engaged and compassionate. #Putin relies on your wartime exhaustion and withdrawal. It is a part of the strategic plan.
A powerful image for both believers and everyone else. The statue of #JesusChrist removed from the #Armenian Cathedral in #Lviv for storage in a bunker. The statue was last removed during #WorldWarII. The cathedral is a UNESCO monument, built in the 14th century. #StopPutinNOW Image
Following on the tips above (how to survive the wartime exhaustion, see above) some #Ukrainian humor. I was avoiding jokes for now but there are so many--by #Ukrainian people. Image
#StandWithUkraine️ #UkraineWillResist #UkrainiansWillResist Image
True! #Mongolia, check this out. Image
This is not a meme. The second army in the world uses logs... t.me/uniannet/35491
FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE OF UKRAINE, NOW: Situation on the Russian invasion of Ukraine as of 00:00 06.03.22. Ten days since the aggression has started in #Ukraine. All this time, the #Ukrainian people have been heroically resisting the invaders. The current situation:
🔹The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on the surrounding of #Kyiv, #Kharkov, #Nikolaev, as well as near the borders of the #Luhansk and #Donetsk regions. In addition, #Russian troops are trying to create a land corridor from the occupied #Crimea.
🔸 From #Belarus airfields, airstrikes carried out on military and civilian infrastructure facilities in the #Kyiv and #Zhytomyr regions (Su-35S, Su-34, Su-25 aircraft were involved). From the #Buturlinovka airfield, bombers launched airstrikes on infrastructure near #Sumy.
🔹In the #Polessky direction, in the areas of the settlements of #Polesskoye, #Kukhari, #Borodyanka, #Byshev, #Gorenichi and #Demidov, the #Russian army uses about 18 armored personnel carriers.
🔸After regrouping, units of the Eastern Military District and #Russian paratroopers move from the #Gostomel airport area to the direction of #Belogorodka. The enemy is still trying to reach the southwestern outskirts of #Kyiv.
🔹 With forces of up to 12 armored personnel carriers, #Russian troops are conducting an offensive in the northeast of #Ukraine.
🔸About 100 units of #Russian weapons & military equipment are moving in the direction of Kozelets and regrouped in the Brovarsky direction.
🔹#Russians are trying to approach the #Brovary-#Boryspil highway, planning to attack #Chernihiv & #Nizhyn.
🔸The enemy is regrouping to go in the direction of #Lubny, #Poltava and #Kharkiv.
🔹#Russians intend to seize the dam of the #Kanev hydroelectric power station.
🔸In the #Donetsk direction, Russians are trying to continue the offensive in the direction of the #Dnipro and #Zaporozhye.
🔹With forces up to 2 armored personnel carriers, #Russians try to resume an offensive in the direction of #Izyum.
🔸Mariupol is under blockade & shelling
🔹 On the #Mykolaiv direction, #Russians moved towards the city but suffered significant losses.
🔸With up to 3 armored personnel carriers and with the help of aviation, #Russians are attacking #Zaporizhzhia.
[Note: from Kharkiv.Vgorode.ua, translated from Ukrainian]
A bit of #Russian humor. #WhoDiedinMarch trivia. Stalin, March 5. Ivan the Terrible, March 28. Pavel I, murdered, with a snuffbox, March 24. Nicholas I, March 2. Alexander II, killed by terrorists, March 13. Nicholas II, abdicated, March 15, Chernenko, March 10. Who's next? Image
#Russian occupying forces are planning to seize an important infrastructure facility - the dam of the #Kaniv hydroelectric power station, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Kaniv HPP is located in the #Cherkasy region, 132 kilometers from Kyiv.
A great thread and resource for all who is interested in military strategy details. @DrAlakbarov
Meanwhile, a heartbreaking reply from #Kyiv. An 80+y.o.man's daughter: "Thank you for help contacts. Grandpa says he's a man & warrior. He is volunteering, & so do I. He's very proud of it & I can't take it away from him, or stop him from helping others."
Sheer insanity and more humor, but it is all real. #Zelensky shared expert analysis of the #Kremlin video of #Putin's press conference. #Putin is shown surrounded by people. It is fake. The video is edited. t.me/uniannet/35571
📌 #Putin's hand passes through the microphone;
📌 according to the metadata, the video was edited a few days ago in Adobe After Effects;
📌details in the foreground disappear and appear
📌 people are not reflected in the teapot in front of Putin;
📌 microphones are translucent;
📌 people are staring into the void instead of looking at Putin.
📌 Zelensky ended this demo by pushing the microphone away with his hand at the end of his speech. t.me/uniannet/35571
Laugh and lower your cortisol level!
[taking a few minutes to drink water, eat healthy food, breathe and follow all the advice here and recommend that you do it. #Ukraine needs us strong and clear-minded. "We feel your support," wrote my friend today. Back soon.]
[back and hope for the better briefings. Nights in Ukraine are the hardest. The aggressor is bombing and shelling cities and villages so people cannot sleep: even if they manage to close their eyes in basements with no heat, light, and, often, Internet]
Doctors Without Borders: the humanitarian situation in #Mariupol is “catastrophic”, Hromadske reports. Residents do not have access to drinking water, food is running out there is no electricity and energy supply. Yesterday, #Russians prevented the evacuation of civilians.
Explosions in #Kharkiv are heard in six districts, including downtown, "Suspilne" reports. In this video, the man says, "Camera doesn't capture this right." t.me/uniannet/35591
#Kharkiv region: 194 people, including 126 civilians, including 5 children, died from artillery shelling and fighting, regional police said. This data is as of 18:00 on March 5. 433 people were injured, 312 of them civilians
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A bit of #British humor. Remember, we need to laugh to lower cortisol, get our brains to ready mode and #StandWithUkraine️ #SaveUkraine #PutinWarCrimes Image
This young man in #Russia is risking 15 years in prison by inviting people in the street to give him a hug if they are against war. A mention of the word "war" is banned by #Putin's government. t.me/uniannet/35588
#Chernihiv: #Russian troops are dropping bombs for fortifications and military-industrial facilities on residential areas, said the chairman of the #Chernihiv regional military administration.
"Unable to overcome the resistance of #Ukrainian troops, the #Russian army commit terrorist acts against #Ukrainians. For 3 days in a row, they attack residential areas of the city, using FAB-500 unguided bombs for military-industrial facilities & fortifications."
"3 FAB-500 bombs that did not explode were found today at the crash site of a #Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, which was shot down near #Chernihiv by #UkrainianArmy"
#UkrainianArmy is fighting fierce battles to defend #Chernihiv in the #Siverskyi region, reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces as of 6:00. In total, as of now, the losses of aircraft of the Russian occupation forces amount to 88 aircraft and helicopters.
"🇺🇦💪 #Mykolaiv is liberated from #Russian invaders" announced by the head of the military administration Vitaly Kim.t.me/vgorode_odessa…
100,000 men and women joined the territorial defense throughout #Ukraine. After the war, the defense will become part of the defense system, the National Guard of Ukraine.
Residents of #NovaKakhovka asked to make an ANNOUNCEMENT 🇺🇦"Dear #Ukrainians! Today in a rally against the occupation of the city will take place. Problems with communications; tell your acquaintances in #NovaKakhovka. 11am, Youth Cinema
Nova Kakhovka is #Ukraine!"
A briefing, as of 6 am March 6, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine. #RussianArmy sustains losses and constantly attempts to evade direct fire contact with #Ukrainian troops. The joint forces conduct a defense operation in the eastern part of the Donetsk area.
"The main efforts: defense of #Mariupol and inflicting fire damage on superior #Russian forces. Other groups are conducting a defensive operation, including battles in the Slobozhansky and eastern parts of the Tauride directions.
#Russian forces were stopped in the advance towards the #Dnipropetrovsk region from the direction of #Balakleya. In the #Seversk region, an operation is being carried out to defend the city of #Chernihiv. In the #Volyn direction, the defensive zone is prepared.
"In the coastal direction, the defense of the Black Sea seaports is carried out. In the #Mykolaiv region, a significant amount of armored & automotive vehicles was captured. #UkrainianArmy repels air & missile strikes, provides air defense cover for critical facilities."
"The losses of aviation equipment of the #RussianArmy: 88 aircraft & helicopters. Some #Russian pilots who ejected and survived were found by Ukrainian soldiers. They have received medical attention and are testifying about the #PutinWarCrimes against humanity."
"#RussianArmy is trying not to lose its offensive potential, but in the current situation, it is suffering heavy losses in weapons, equipment and personnel. Due to the resistance of the entire #Ukrainian people, it is demoralized."
"The reserves of the Russian occupiers, coming to resupply units, have extremely low morale and psychological state due to awareness of the real state of affairs." [THis is a translation of the briefing from @UnianInfo
#Odesa: Women's civil mutual assistance team is formed. With the help of city restaurants, volunteers provide food for the defenders of Odessa. Every day they deliver 1,000 servings of hot food, help evacuate families, provide transport, and deliver refugees to the border.
#Ivankovsky district, #Kyiv region, controlled by #Russian troops. Cell towers blown up, no cellular connection. Residents checked for tattoos (looking for nationalists)!!! ATMs out of money, people w/diabetes cannot go to the hospital to get the meds: reported by Bogdan Aminov.
Hundreds of #Ukrainians were hiding under the ruins of the bridge from the air strikes and artillery of the #Russian troops, who did not provide a "green corridor" yesterday. #Irpen. Image
#Chernihiv, from last night, but probably still IMPORTANT: explosive objects in the form of children's toys are scattered in the city. If you see something like this, don't lift anything, don't touch it! This is extremely dangerous! #PutinWarCrimes t.me/uniannet/35442
Just in... #Hostomel. The firefighters could not get to the residential houses. There was no place to hide women and children. t.me/KyivPolitics/8…
About 15 people protested in #Khavarovsk, #Russia. The moment one raised a poster, arrested. In 5 minutes, all, arrested. An older woman,"Don't touch children. Let them go." What good can possibly happen on a square named after Lenin, in 2022? Heart dead. t.me/lentachold/459…
[Sorry. Need a break.]
The word "war" is now banned in #Russia. By #Roskomnadzor. Tolstoy would be facing 15 years in prison. Introducing: #militaryoperation and Peace. By #PutinWarCriminal. #StandWithUkraine️ #UkraineUnderAttaсk #StopPutinNOW #PutinsWar ImageImage
[back for the last round before I get some sleep to report tomorrow--and each day, I hope it would be the last day. But the #informationwarfare is intensifying. There are more people fooled by the combat propaganda even in the West. I share eyewitness stories: from friends,
families of my friends, colleagues, fellow writers I used to interview for my literary YT channel, people I met in September in Ukraine, and also Telegram channels in Ukrainian where people share their stories, their pain, their screams. It is real and we need to see it.
#Putin does not want YOU to see what his troops are doing in #Ukraine; there are trolls working now creating trending hashtags to counteract every organic trending hashtag. When you write #IStandWithUkraine, they push hashtag "I stand with R..." (check it now and you'll see).
People in Russia are banned from Twitter, so these are not armies of brainwashed patriotic Russians. This an army of paid trolls from Prigozhin troll factories, working away now, it is daytime there. Be vigilant. theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
I wrote about it and taught about it for years--not enough. We are entering a critical phase of #Informationwarfare. Stay on top of your information. Here is how it works: zarinazabrisky.medium.com/caution-trolls…
[Back to reporting]: Town #Ovruch destroyed by #Russian bombs in #Zhytomyr region - 15 private houses, 5 completely. No casualties, injuries. ImageImageImage
#Korosten. As of 8 am on March 6, the police have information about an elderly man who died and 4 injured, including a child. A 2.7-year-old boy is in serious condition. #PutinWarCrimes #Putin is a criminal #PutinIsaWarCriminal #Ukraine️ #StopPutinNOW
t.me/uniannet/35634
From #Bucha City Council: #Russians mercilessly continue to shell #Bucha: Every day is a struggle for survival. No electricity, heat, communications, Internet for several days. Thousands of requests for food, water, communication. Residents ask to help sick people.
Some can't find their relatives for several days. Many live in basements. #Russians continue to fire at houses, cars, kill civilians, children, rob shops. Delivering humanitarian supplies is impossible: the community is under siege. We need support to survive! Help save us!"
This is #Bucha. From @UnianInfo Image
#Kharkiv: At night, the shells of the invaders destroyed the Novosaltovsky market. There is nothing left. In the video, about to share, you can see candies spilled out, there is fish... Markets in #Ukraine are wonderful, bright, full of flavor and color. Were. #StopPutinNOW ImageImage
#Kharkiv. #PutinWarCrimes #Hague #HagueForPutin #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia #StopRussianAggression It has to be stopped. If we don't we all are complicit. t.me/uniannet/35641
Please watch this video after reading about the shelling and bombing. About living with no heat, water, electricity, for days. In the snow. You'd want to leave, right? You can't. They stop every car. Cut the tires. Rob the cars. #Ukraine t.me/uniannet/35653
"In the #Sumy region, the mayor of #Trostyanets said:
"You ask me: how can you leave #Sumy? From #Akhtyrka, #Trostyanets, #Lebedin & other cities of the region. I answer: Safely? You can't. #Russian military loot, rob, and in some places shoot the cars of #Ukrainian civilians."
#Yuzhnoukrainsk took to the streets to protest #Russian occupation. #NATO: #natoclosethesky #NoFlyZone they say. "Urgently: there is another nuclear power plant in the city."
#Russians still occupy #Zaporizhzhya #Nuclear #Power Plant. No change in the radiation state was recorded. Occupation negatively impacts the work of personnel. The nuclear &radiation safety of nuclear power plant is at risk. #NoFlyZone
#Irpen: #Russian troops opened fire on civilians during an attempt to evacuate the city. At least 3 people killed, including two children. One injured, condition serious.
#StopPutinNOW #PutinWarCrimes #PutinIsaWarCriminal #StopPutinNOW Image
#Chernihiv. Just watch it. All of this, what you are seeing here: in 10 days. t.me/uniannet/35675
A TV-host of "Eagle and Tails" Anton Ptushkin published the last text from the chief director who's been hiding with his family in a basement in #Kyiv region for 5 days. "There is hell around. A missile destroyed the neighbours' house. Street fights outside." Since then: silence.
This is what is happening in #Russia where the brave and the decent are trying to protest. Arrested people can be sentenced to 15 years in prison. t.me/uniannet/35681
#Ukrainians protest in #NovaKakhovka occupied by #Russians. t.me/uniannet/35686
#Zelensky's new address. I just listened... "We've been fighting for 11 days now. For freedom. For the state. We resisted. We understand how we will restore our country" "Russians, go protest. You are standing up not just for Ukraine but for yourself..."--also--
#Zelenskyy: "#Russians bombed #Kharkiv, #Chernihiv, #Mariupol, many, many more cities and villages, killing in a beastly, inhumane way--and they are planning to bomb #Odesa...our #Odesa." [Many have "their own" Odesa. This is mine. I just can't] Image
Good news: #Mariupol Evacuation has started. t.me/uniannet/35697
Just look at what is happening to the country in 10 days. Watch it. I just was in this country. It was doing fine. Living its life. Working. Figuring things out. Having lunches. Grocery shopping. Buying gas at a gas station. Look at this. Don't look away. t.me/uniannet/35699
#Odesa residents leave their signatures under an appeal to #NATO #natoclosethesky to close the airspace over #Ukraine. "This is the main step that will allow us to protect our city and our country from bombing." #StopPutinNOW #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone #StopRussia please ImageImage
#WHO recorded at least 6 attacks on doctors &hospitals. The organization has confirmed several air attacks on healthcare from the air that caused deaths and injuries, according to UN chief. Attacks on medical facilities violate medical neutrality & international humanitarian law.
In #Russia: brutal arrests started in Siberian cities where people dare to step out to protest despite potential 15 years sentence. #PutinWarCrimes #Putin is erasing the best that exists in this world. Don't wait for #Mordor to come to you. t.me/lentachold/459…
That was #Novosibirsk. This is #Ekaterinburg. t.me/lentachold/459…
[Before I crash, as it is past 3 am, something positive. All real. Till tomorrow.]
[I'm back and didn't get much sleep but focused and ready to cover: I had to read and catch up on what had happened in 3 hours for 2 hours. Most of the news is hard to write about but absolutely necessary.YOU can help by being informed. Share facts.]
CRITICAL INFORMATION: #InformationWarfare is getting as dangerous as bombing: our brains & our collective mind are under attack. Look at trending # s. Lots of patriotic Russian hashtags like "Russiophobia" "Stand w/Putin" etc. Twitter is banned in Russia. These are paid trolls.RT
I monitor it and I see an exponential increase in activity. Other #InformationWarfare tactics: fakes (#Putin's altered video released by #Kremlin); smear campaigns (dissemination of compromising info on #Ukrainina government and local authorities in social media);
#InformationWarfare: disinformation about #Ukrainian capitulation (fake addresses to the population); provocation/masquerading (a plan is prepared to shell #Russian town by #Russian troops from occupied #Ukrainian territory, see next tweet) and more. I will be sharing as I report
#InformationWarfare "IMPORTANT! #Russian authorities are preparing to implement a possible scenario involving shelling residential areas of #Russian cities near the #Ukrainian border and further blaming the #Ukrainian military for this."Center for Counteracting #Disinformation UA
"This will be used as a basis for declaring a #general #mobilization in #Russia. Taking into account the actions of the #Russian army in #Ukraine, provocations in Russian cities will be accompanied by numerous casualties among the civilian population.
Casualties are needed to create a “beautiful picture”. #Russia has repeatedly used such scenarios as a pretext for hostilities in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Abkhazia. Trust only verified information! Here is a brief history of this tactic: medium.com/mosaic2/terror…
#informationWarfare Here is my interview w/@DavidSatter, Hudson Institute, Johns Hopkins University expert on #Russian #Terrorist attacks. Succinct & exhaustive.
From #Odesa: "Information discrediting the leadership of the city/region is disseminated on social media. It's meant to destabilize society and sow panic. The owners of these Internet resources are not in #Ukraine. They work on the information front." [These are classic tactics.]
#Kremlin targets TV-towers and communication lines to cut #Ukrainians off national TV and free media and expose them to #Kremlin propaganda. They broadcast #Kremlin state channels. #Ukrainians are bilingual & fluent in #Russian, it's being utilized. #Kharkiv TV-tower was just hit
From #Kharkiv vgorode.ua: "The purpose of such strikes is to leave #Ukrainians w/o communication & means of signal transmission. To further impose their propaganda. We warn you again - do not believe in fakes. #Ukraine will not accept any conditions of capitulation.
In #Russia, all independent media outlets are closed. Journalists are arrested at protests; many have left #Russia asap, some crossing the border on foot. #Kremlin understands the critical importance of #InformationWarfare. Ideas turn into actions. The war is in your brain.
[I explain it again and again because it needs to be clearly understood. It is not "all media is propaganda" thing. This is a centralized, multi-billion military operation carried out by the former KGB personnel. bylinetimes.com/2020/07/28/rus…
In #Russia, the population is bombarded with fake information and specially created videos for each demographic segment. #inormationWarfare
This has nothing to do with (trending) "Russophobia." Take it from me: I'm Russian-born, trained in this matter (forcefully) by them. The videos, photos & eyewitness stories from #Ukraine️ are real; the deaths and suffering are real. I don't share graphic images but I see them.
#Kharkiv. Locals report that a shell hit a shop w/residents standing in line. An aerial photo shows injured bodies and traces of blood. No one was killed. People with injuries of varying severity are hospitalized t.me/suspilnenews/7…
The #Russian military fired on the #Vinnytsia airport and the military unit in #Havryshivka, setting it on fire. Rescuers are working on the spot Image
#informatioWarfare "A large network of bots is trying to sow panic and despair of the people of #Ukraine. Messages "Everything is gone!", "Help Kyiv (Kherson, Chernihiv, etc. )", "We were all abandoned!", Etc. in Ukrainian and Russian are fake. Filter the information!
#Vinnitsya airport "was NOT attacked from the territory of Transnistria. Probably from Russian ships in the Black Sea" says Ministry of Defense of Moldova. They claim that on the territory of Transnistria there are only Grad multiple rocket launchers with a firing range of 20 km.
The missiles fired at #Vinnitsya from #Russian ships in the #BlackSea, and their trajectory actually passed over the territory of #Transnistria, which has been under #Russian occupation since 1992.
#Ukraine’s Security Service reported that #Russia used #Grad multiple rocket launchers to shell the #Kharkiv Physics and Technology Institute, where the nuclear installation "Neutron Source" is located, in the active zone of which 37 nuclear fuel elements are loaded - SBU.
500 #Russian troops are at the nuclear power plant in #Enerhodar, 1,000 in the city. The invaders use the nuclear power plants as military bases, said the head of the NNEGC Energoatom, because security at the facilities makes battle impossible. No shelling is allowed. #NoFlyZone
#Mariupol: Evacuation blocked by #Russian shelling. Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said evacuation from Mariupol was disrupted for the second time due to the continuation of Russian attacks on the city.
Since the beginning of the war in #Ukraine, 38 children died, 71 injured. This is only preliminary data, as it is currently impossible to determine the exact number of victims of the shelling in #Mariupol and #Irpen - Ombudswoman Denisova.
[will continue after a short break to catch up with my contacts on site.]
Over 4,300 people detained at anti-war protests in #Russia. Most arrests took place in #Moscow and #StPetersburg, where at least 1,620 and 1,170 protesters were detained, respectively.
8 civilians killed during evacuation from Irpin near Kyiv. An entire family of four, including two children, was killed when Russian troops opened fire at civilians who were trying to evacuate from Irpin by buses, according to Irpin Mayor @KyivIndependent
#Kyiv #Irpen t.me/KyivPolitics/8…
#Kyiv #Irpen A church of the village of #Bobrik in the #Brovarsky district after the shelling by the #Russian invaders. Please RT. Image
Another video from #Kyiv #Irpen t.me/KyivPolitics/8…
The mayor of #Bucha Fedoruk is wounded by #Kadyrovtsy #Chechen pro-#Putin soldiers.
Irpin. Evacuation of civilians and journalists under the shelling of the occupiers from @UkraineNewsNow
t.me/lachentyp/527
Mikhail Podolyak, the adviser to the head of the #Ukrainian President's Office: a request to #CloseTheSkyUkraine,"Our proper Western partners! While you're thinking, #Russian troops are trying to destroy all our airfields. So that we don't have any planes..."
"#Russians are trying to destroy all airfields. So that #Ukraine doesn't have any planes and can't close the sky on its own. So #Russians bomb more cities and kill civilians. Are you sure you want to watch this on TVs?" #CloseTheSkyUkraine #CloseTheSky #NoFlyZone #NOflyZoneUA Image
Vadym Denysenko, advisor to the interior minister of #Ukraine: "#Russian occupiers gathered sufficient troops near #Kyiv and will try to seize the capital in the next few days."
Famous #Ukrainian actor Pasha Li, 33, was killed by #Russian shelling in #Irpen. Last Instagram post: "First time in 48 hours, a chance to sit down and post a photo: we are being bombed, and we are smiling, because we can handle it, & #Ukraine will overcome. We are working!" ImageImage
Fragments of cluster bombs and rockets "Smerch" fired by #Russians in residential areas of the city of #Mykolaiv were found today by rescuers. ImageImage
More than fifty #Ukrainian public organizations call on the #UN to create a tribunal over #Putin and the top leadership of the #RussianFederation.
Demand #NoFlyZone #NOflyZoneUA #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine to #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia
IMPORTANT: #Russian Ministry of Defense said that the use of the airfields in countries sharing borders w/#Ukraine for hosting #Ukrainian military aviation with subsequent use against #Russia can be regarded as the involvement of these states in an armed conflict.
[My comment: #Putin invaded #Ukraine after claiming non-existent provocation and aggression. Russian propaganda channels openly speak about #NATO, #EU and #US being the adversary of #Russia, and #Ukraine being a training #polygon. Precautions do not work. #NoFlyZone]
#Kharkiv. NOW. #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia #SaveUkraine #NoFlyZone t.me/vgorode_kharki…
Latest from @KyivIndependent: Russian invaders failed to break through the eastern front in the #Luhansk direction, according to Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation. On March 6, Ukraine’s military destroyed a significant amount of aggressor's military equipment.
[back, needed to breathe and regroup. more alerts about massive disinformation campaigns; please do verify everything. I try my best to verify and share from reliable sources, people I know on site, Telegram channels in #Ukraine where news are shared by city administration.]
Starting with a good update, #informationWarfare front. Warriors from #Anonymous hacking group interrupted #Russian state #TV programs. Showing #Russian invasion in #Ukraine.
Now #PutinWarCrimes, this is for #Hague. Minister of Education and Science of #Ukraine said that during the hostilities after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 211 schools have already been completely destroyed or partially destroyed. ImageImageImageImage
#Kharkiv: Within the last two hours, Consequences of the Russian air raid: the regional defense HQ recorded the shelling of houses in for districts and damaged/destroyed two markets.
In #Donetsk region, #Russian troops fired on ambulances transporting wounded servicemen, said the Prosecutor General's Office. "They opened fire on two regular ambulances w/crews evacuating the injured near Zlatoustivka-Khlibodarivka," 2 killed, 1 injured.
From a Ukrainian acquaintance: "1. Ukraine must declare war on the US. Surrender in 30 min. Sell them Crimea. In a year, take it back.2.If #NATO doesn't #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine, capitulate. Hello, #Putin’s missiles! Welcome to the #EU border.” #NoFlyZone #KhvilinkaHumoru(a joke)
#Chornobyl. Worth repeating."The staff at the nuclear power station captured by #Russians works for the 11th day on end. Roads are blocked, no medical help. No food. The staff looks for wheat in villages, makes flour & bake bread." #NuclearPowerPlant #NoFlyZone
From FB friend Julia Tribukhina: "in #Uman, in central Ukraine, #Jews converted the synagogue into a bomb shelter & invited the residents to shelter there from the #Russian bombs. This world is out of joint: #Jews sheltering #Ukrainians from the #Russians." My ancestral town. Image
Russian troops launched a missile strike near the village of Tuzly in the #Odesa region. There is currently no information on the dead or injured. Whoever is listening out there... for the name of humanity... HELP! HELP! #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine Image
This is my favorite street in the whole entire world. #Derybasivska in #Odesa. Odesa-mama. These anti-tank hedgehogs cut into the heart of the country. Please ask for #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine Please help save Odesa Image
This is important. #Moscow is recruiting #Syrians skilled in urban combat to fight in #Ukraine, according to #US officials. #Russia offers volunteers $200- $300 “to go to Ukraine and operate as guards” #Chechen forces also deployed to #Ukraine
If you missed my mini-research on #Chechens:
“The #Russia deployment of foreign fighters from #Syria into #Ukraine internationalizes the Ukraine war, and therefore could link the war in Ukraine to broader cross-regional dynamics, particularly in the Middle East,”national security fellow at the Institute for the Study of War
From #Russia: As of March 7, in 11 days, the police detained abt 12,724 people in more than 100 cities for #AntiWarProtests. According to OVD-Info, just on March 6, more than 4,906 protesters detained in 69 cities. The police, riot police & patrolmen severely beat the detainees. ImageImageImageImage
Photos from LETA, TASS. Sources: Medusa and OVD-Info. 4th photo: sweatshirt caption: Putin is a thief. My full report on #Russian protests against #Putin and brutal impression in 2021: bylinetimes.com/2021/01/27/spe… ImageImageImageImage
An audio leaked from a police station in #Moscow: a 26 y.o. a woman is being beaten up: legs, head; hair pulled; intimidated sexually; water poured over her."#Putin is on our side. You are the enemy of #Russia, enemy of the people." #AntiWarProtests t.me/lentachold/460…
#Mykolaiv hit with multiple launch rocket systems, Suspilne reports
#Luhansk A powerful explosion. Eyewitnesses report a fire at the oil depot. Information is being specified. #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia
#Luhansk t.me/uniannet/35914
#ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine #NOflyZoneUA #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine
Shelling of #Chernobaevka airfield near #Kherson
t.me/uniannet/35913
Consequences of night explosions in #Kharkiv. According to preliminary information, as a result of an airstrike, the private sector is on fire. Information about the dead and injured is not yet available.
t.me/vgorode_odessa…
Consequences of attacks in #Mykolaiv. According to preliminary information, the city was attacked by MLRS "Tornado". Photo/video: Public Mykolaiv t.me/suspilnekherso…
Briefing as of 6.00 am from the General Staff of #Ukraine: 12th day of the #Russian military invasion. #Russian army carries out rocket, bomb & artillery strikes on #Ukraine and continues using #Belarusian airfield for these airstrikes.
#Irpen is left w/o electricity, water & heat for more than 3 days. No food & water delivery. #russiansoldiers ban the residents from leaving houses.#Ukrainian military carries out a defensive operation in all directions & #RussianArmy continues to suffer heavy losses.
#InformationWarfare: #Russian TV stages reports about the alleged humanity of the invaders. On social media, #RussianArmy continues to distribute content negatively covering the activities of the #UkrainianArmy. From #GeneralStaffofUkrainianArmedForced
#KhvilinkaHumoru Image
#ThisIsNotNormal #Mykolaiv! "Rescuers warn: there are many shells in the city that did not explode. Do not approach, lift or remove it. Services are working to eliminate the consequences of the shelling." #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia #StopPutin t.me/suspilnenews/7…
#Mariupol: OSCE mission's office damaged by shelling by the #Russian military; the evacuation of observers was postponed. TODAY, "at 10 a.m.,#Russia announces a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors from #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, #Mariupol, and #Sumy."-- #Russian TASS.
This is an aerial view of #Mariupol.
"#Russia utilized 95% of its invasion potential. The 64-kilometer convoy near #Kyiv is not moving. As expected, it got stuck in the mud 😂 and likely ran out of fuel." (translated from @antiputler_news, @BBC/ Pentagon)
[back with an update] First, from my sources. A friend of a friend is looking for urgent help for her 70 y.old mom who had to flee from Kharkiv to Lviv, is in shock, and lost her memory & her ID; doesn't know exactly where is now.
A social media contact is mourning a 26y.o. woman, a family friend, shot yesterday delivering food to a dog shelter in #Kyiv. It's hard to reach friends. Some are fighting. Some are fleeing. Some are silent. One shared these images. This was the funniest person I met in #Kyiv. ImageImageImageImage
Hearings are underway at the International Court of Justice on the suit of #Ukraine against #Russia in the case of allegations of #genocide. Live broadcast on the website of the court: icj-cij.org/en/multimedia-… #PutinIsaWarCriminal #PutinWarCriminal #Putin to #Hague ImageImageImageImage
Fierce fighting continues near #Kyiv. #RussianArmy destroyed #Bucha, #Gostomel, #Vorzel, #Irpen, killing civilians. The head of #Gostomel administration Yuriy Prilipko was executed by #RussianArmy distributing bread & medicine to people, said #Kyiv Mayor.
In #Enerhodar, residents are attending the funeral or the heroes killed by #Kadyrovtsy, pro-#Putin #Chechen military, during the storm of the Nuclear Power Plant, #Zaporozhja Image
More than 5,000 people were detained at #AntiWarProtests in #Russia, on 6 March. According to OVD-Info, arrests took place in 69 #Russian cities.
#Moscow - 2394 people
#St. Petersburg - 1263 people
#Novosibirsk - 225 people
#Yekaterinburg - 120 people
Photos: Avtozak Live ImageImageImageImage
In #StPetersburg. This IS IMPORTANT. A criminal case, the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Criminal Code) was opened. The detainee is 29 y.o.#БейИх, #БейГадов. ❤️t.me/lentachold/460…
In #Kharkiv, several residential buildings, medical and educational organizations in a "massive bombardment" were destroyed on March 6, in the evening. 8 people were found dead under the rubble, reports the state service of Ukraine for emergencies. The number of victims is TBA.
#Zelensky: «At night, invaders attacked residential areas of #Mykolaiv, #Kharkiv, other cities... [There was] no military sense - just terror. Residents of #Irpen, #Bucha, #Gostomel, many other cities, towns, villages, captured temporarily... are being held hostage. "
#Zelensky to #Europe: "How many more deaths are needed to secure the skies over #Ukraine? How do peaceful people in #Kharkiv or #Mykolayiv differ from Hamburg or Vienna? We are waiting for a solution: clear the skies with the power you have, or give us fighter jets & air defenses
...that will give us the strength we need. This is the help that the world should give not just to #Ukraine, but to the world itself. In order to prove: humanity will win as soon as possible. #Mykolaiv, today. #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZone t.me/suspilnekherso…
Evacuation continues from #Irpen in #Kyiv region: people are being transferred under a collapsed bridge. In two hours, up to two thousand people left the city. Video of the СУСПИЛЬНЕ correspondent. t.me/suspilnenews/7…
Poet Vera Polozkova left #Russia: “Too many points of no return have been crossed in 11 days. There is no more politics in my country, no journalism, not a single working legal institution,” Polozkova wrote.
[I will now have to sleep even though the war never stops. Important messages keep coming from all fronts because the "the monster is fat, nasty, huge, of one hundred beastly hungry mouths and is barking." Here are the tips for surviving wartime exhaustion by #YuriySavchenko Image
[back but helping to coordinate help for refugees from #Ukraine and fundraising for supplies; will catch up here in a moment; THANKS for being engaged and staying informed; it is so important. As was over million #refugees from Ukraine flood #Europe, more help is needed]
First, from my sources. My friend shared from an artist from #Kyiv: "I am screaming!!! My friends sent a son to grandparents. #Russians entered the village, shelled it, their son died. Parents & aunt tried to take the body to #Kyiv but got shot at, aunt killed, a dad injured.
He ran through the forest, wounded, w/#Russian fascists chasing & shooting, escaped and found the mother who broke into the village via the forest. They buried their son in that village. Russians did not give the aunt's body. This is #Ivankovsky district. Help us!"
The artist says: "I watched a winged rocket...flying so low... I couldn't stand the first one because I was very afraid of the whistling... and then seven more..." My journalist friend writes: "On the 6th day of the war I left #Kyiv. The desire to stay always came at dawn,
...& at sunset, at the sounds of a bomb, & another choking thought, "what are you waiting for? "You start running from a room to room, and you want to disappear so much, from the excess of news, from the sounds of missiles flying, from the briefings distorted in your mind... and
"and then it's no longer possible. Time is up. Curfew.
I spent all my days in the apartment. The bomb shelter was too far from home, the metro is even further, but in my region, it didn't work. But at some point my inaction got me and I ran away..." From Alyona, a journalist.
Meanwhile, in St.Petersburg and Moscow, the last opposition members are trying desperately to escape. People are arrested for posts on Instagram. My friends, a gay couple, leading publisher & blogger, can't take their dog out: stuck because a rabies vaccine required 1 month prior
[a horrid flashback, when I left just as #Putin came to power, I couldn't get my cat out and a kind bandit w/gun helped me to obtain the document. Nothing ever changes in this god-forgotten empire of Evil. Nothing. Ever. Bandits w/guns & nuclear button now rule it.]
For Russians, the question is how to run. Some say, passing by foot around Estonia works... How do I verify it? Meanwhile, a close friend from #Odesa called: her 83 y.o. blind mother just walked over swamps, Molova, Romania...it goes on and on and on. "Help, my mother is
is in a basement in #Sumy. Help, my sister with a handicapped child is in #Uman." #Sumy: street fights. #Uman: shelling. #Kadyrovtsy on video: it is jihad. Talk of "beheading." Videos full of blood and flesh that I don't share but watch. A friend who was shopping for flip-flops
with me in October, now is shopping for devices that can locate a moving body in the dark, by heat. 600 messages unopen on Telegram channels, with "Air Raid! Shelter!" and "Big explosion", can't read because on the phone helping to find people to save mothers, children...
And from everywhere: Help us! Help us! (and some: We don't need your help, we're proud and don't accept help, we can do it, we will win.) I am determined to report & help. But please know that for people from this part of the world, life as it was ended on 24 Feb 2022. By #Putin.
Results of an airstrike by #RussianArmy on a residential building in #Kharkiv on March 6; 2 killed, 2 wounded, TBD prosecutor's office t.me/suspilnekharki…
#Dergachiv. #RussianArmy is shelling the city and other settlements. At least 3 dead, 15 injured, including a 4-year-old child, major parts of the town without electricity, said community leader Vyacheslav Zadorenko
#Kharkiv Image
#Russians shell schools, hospitals, churches, museums. They shoot children and women. #Kharkiv Art Museum. The glass in most windows was broken, films and plywood are needed, the exhibits are not damaged #GenocideOfUkrainians #StopRussianAggression #StopPutin before it's too late Image
This is all from the last few hours. #Russians are bombing as I'm typing. #Kharkiv appellation court building. #Kremlin disinformation campaign pushes the narrative of #Ukrainians doing this to themselves. Yes, you read it right. Image
#Izum. Volodymyr Matsokin, Deputy Mayor of Izium:
▪️The city center - from the market to a school - is a complete ruin. Piles of stones, funnels, mutilated trees, fires, shell holes in high-rise buildings. Destroyed: bus station, court, railway station, administration,
No more: medical college, police, military registration and enlistment office, dozens of shops and offices, no windows in the hospital, a shell hit a children's sports school. Central Park is a place of bloody slaughter. #Izum Ask for #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneUA #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine
#Izum is a city w/no military presence. Now, people are out of food, even bread. No water, no light, no gas, no heat, no connection. No chance to leave. In the hospital, mothers with babies hide in the basement. No medicine. #NoFlyZone #StopRussianAggression
#Izum: No humanitarian aid due to continuous artillery shelling. The Mayor: "I ask everyone who makes decisions! Make a green corridor for departure! Make a humanitarian corridor for the delivery of humanitarian aid!" #StopRussianAggression #StopPutin
In #Makarov, #Kyiv region, as a result of #Russian airstrikes, a shell hit the territory of the bakery/breadmaking plant, rescuers found the bodies of 13 dead and pulled five people out of the rubble - the SES.
My friend from Ukraine just sent me this. An interview (in Russian) with 92 y.o. Rakhil, who ran from #BabyYar in 1942 from the #Nazis and in 2022 from the #Russians. #Russians bombed #BabyYar this week. [My great-grandparents are there, in a mass grave.]
facebook.com/watch/?v=65172…
"Please tell them [#Russians]: are you not ashamed? How can you be not ashamed? Every day I am afraid that Hitler will come back..." #Kremlin claims "de-Nazification" as the main reason for bombing & shelling civilians and #Urkainian cities and villages. #NoFlyZone
The #Russian Ministry of Defense announced the provision of humanitarian corridors for #Ukrainians tomorrow, March 8, at 9 am; #Russia will announce a "silence regime" and will make it possible to create humanitarian corridors from #Kyiv, #Chernihiv, #Sumy, # Kharkiv & #Mariupol.
The scale of the environmental disaster caused by the #Russian invasion is to be determined. Multiple oil depots & gas pipelines are on fire after airstrikes. The wildlife loss is not to be overlooked. Today, oil depots in #Zhytomyr & #Chernyakhiv.t.me/vgorode_odessa…
From #Odesa channel, this is a marriage proposal in #Ukraine today. t.me/vgorode_odessa…
#Russians tried to recruit a #Kharkiv official. "Please do not let the situation grow into a humanitarian crisis. ...For guarantees of security please contact." Answer: "Go f*** yourself." #русскийКорабльИдиНаХуй #русскийоккупантидинахуй Image
Russia has already fired 625 missiles in Ukraine - Pentagon. "We are informed about explosions in Odessa. Probably, this is our air defense. Air raid warnings are not issued. Don't panic!" - Odessavoroge.ua
#InformationWarfare #Russian propagandists made another failed fake: after the staff of the captured #Chernobyl nuclear plant refused to accept humanitarian aid from #Russian #military, they wore the uniform of the company that stopped working there in 2020 to impersonate locals.
#Kremlin creates the narrative "#Russian "peacekeepers" & "defendants" protect #Russia from #Nazis in #Ukraine." In #Russia, struck by sanctions and panic, propaganda is the main tool of control for the government. In the West, it is used to undermine the support for #Ukraine.
Senior Pentagon official: Nearly 100% of Russia’s combat power is already in Ukraine. @KyivIndependent
Today: Chaplinka, the border with #Crimea. More than 3,000 protested #Russian occupation.
Two are injured. "Glory to the Nation! FXX the Russian Federation!:" From Ukraine: News Now t.me/lachentyp/559
#Russians destroyed #Kharkiv completely.

#ICC #PutinWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #Hague t.me/lachentyp/560
#Kharkiv. Residential building.

Don't get desensitized. This is 2022. #GenocideOfUkrainians #StopPutinNOW #StopRussianAggression
t.me/lachentyp/563
#RussianInvaders destroyed 202 schools, 34 hospitals, more than 1,500 residential buildings, including apartment buildings. - Podolyak. You might hear the term "Russian world" or "Russian peace." Explanation is in place.
The idea of “#Russian World,” Russky Mir has many angles. It's an agency created by #Putin’s decree in 2007, funded by the Kremlin and aimed at forming “a Russian world”, a unity of all Russophones that follow traditional Christian values as opposed to the Western decay and chaos ImageImage
You can read more about #RusskyMir "Russian World/ Russian Peace" and on troll farms, ideology and #InformationWarfare in an interview with #Russian leading experts on cyber warfare & security @AndreiSoldatov & @irinaborogan
bylinetimes.com/2021/03/02/put…
The Russian word "mir" means both "peace" & "world" so "peacekeepers" can be interpreted as "the creators of the world." The pun sums up today's folly. #Putin is creating the world a la Putin, "Russian world." This 2018 article goes into the concept.zarinazabrisky.medium.com/sealed-in-bloo…
In this video of a completely destroyed shopping mall, the man is saying "Here it is, #RusskyMir. Russian World, Russian Peace looks like this. Destruction and death. t.me/lachentyp/581
#RusskyMir in #Mariupol. "#Russian world". "#Russian peace." Don't stand by and watch. Call for #NoFlyZone #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA Image
[Taking a break here to help coordinate aid and refugee rescue and do a bit of research. If you want to help, PM. Will update with important news. Online.]
[As usual, one hour away to coordinate urgent needs for people I love-->explosions, destructions, deaths to cover on all fronts. Burn in hell, #Putin. Mussolini treatment for you.]
Another explosion in #Sumy this evening. A private house is hit, see the next video. t.me/uniannet/36171
#Sumy. Note: the flower pots what was someone's home just one hour ago. "I slept here," says the person taking the video. Note: #Russian TV claims that all these destructions are a) made by #Ukrainians by themselves b) stages. t.me/uniannet/36174
In 24 hrs, #Russia regrouped troops for an assault on #Kyiv and plans to use the most combat-ready units in the assault: the private military company Liga (formerly Wagner)& #Kadyrov #Russian Guard special regiment of the named after. General Staff of the Armed Forces, #Ukraine
More on #Wagner (#Vagner - and yes this was a reference to the composer in question and not because of the preferences in the opera but due to predilection to Hitler. Not convenient when you claim #denazification.
For #Kadyrov special regiment of #Russian National Guard also known as #Kadyrovets (singular) #Kadyrovtsy (plural) & #Cadavertsy ;) #Chechen military (not to be confused with Ichkeriytsy fighting on #Ukrainian side), see (if you missed)
Freezing temperatures -7C (19F) and snow in #Kyiv. "Bring warm clothes to shelter." The cities bombed by #Russians have no heat, no electricity. And this is near #Kyiv. "RussianWorld" Zavorochi, Brovarsky district, #Kyiv region. The church is burning. t.me/KyivPolitics/8…
#KvilinkaHumoru I didn't verify this and it's okay. But a fun read. I have met many a woman in #Ukraine who would not hesitate to do this. life.liga.net/istoriyi/artic…
#Kyiv. Discharge from #Kyiv Maternity Ward. 07 March, 2022. #StopPutin #StopRussianAggression #Ukraine Image
In the #Seversky direction, #RussianArmy is conducting an offensive operation in order to block #Chernihiv and prepare for the attack on #Sumy. This is a good map from #AlJazeera Image
Another good visual. #Sanctions. #Russia leads. In destruction, evil, and sanctions. A popular bitter joke in Russia today, "Let's destroy Voronezh!" (Voronezh is a Russian city.) Image
Here it is: the glorious #Russian world of #Putin, #Russian peace, shooting peaceful #Ukrainian people who want to live their life, grow wheat, build houses, get married and not answer to #Putin. They want their land and freedom. Watch. RT. t.me/suspilnekherso…
Good news: Another 18 #Russian channels banned in Latvia. About 230 companies already left #Russia or announced their departure, the BBC reports.

Second slide: "How to bring down-" "fever", "fever, at home, DIY", "blood pressure", "AIRCRAFT, AT HOME, DYI" ImageImage
#Russian MOD announced plans to destroy all buildings associated with the activities of the security services of #Ukraine. HQ is a few meters from St. Sophia Cathedral. Any attack on the SBU will damage it. The Orthodox Cathedral in #Kharkiv has already been damaged. #NoFlyZone ImageImage
[break. logistics, research.]
In #Kharkiv #RussianArmy shelled an animal shelter, killing five dogs, wounding others. Volunteers reported the destruction of the enclosures. There are almost 300 animals in the shelter. #Putin's armed forces destroyed hospitals, kindergartens, schools & churches today. Image
Australian government sanctions 10 individuals for legitimization of #Russia’s war in #Ukraine & imposes sanctions on “propagandists & purveyors of disinformation” pushing false narratives about #denazification of Ukraine” & supporting #Russian atrocities. @KyivIndependent
Alert. From International Atomic Energy Agency #IAEA.
twitter.com/iaeaorg
On March 8, a "silence regime" is introduced and humanitarian corridors are agreed upon. The exact itineraries to be confirmed.
Consequences of the #RussianArmy airstrike in the city of Sumy. 9 people died. t.me/lentachold/461…
IMPORTANT! The Department of State Protection of Ukraine asked to NOT publish information on social networks about the explosions at night. "Please refrain from panicking and spreading of information on various messengers and social networks."
More #Russian military personnel & equipment are being transferred to #Ukraine from the Far East. Experts comment that #Russia might be exhausting its resources & the morale; training of the personnel is low. Two next week might decide the outcome of this invasion. #CurrentTimeTV
From the #US and #EU around 17,000 units of military equipment were delivered to #Ukraine. The #RussianArmy answered by increasing the number of airstrikes. #Zelensky demanded to #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine. #Russia responds by threats to the West. Image
In general, #Kremlin's rhetoric is getting more belligerent by the day. ImageImage
#Kremlin uses threats, blackmail, & bribes to intimidate & recruit the administration of the #Ukrainian cities. The mayor of #Irpen received texts in Russian, "Dear Alexander, you have a chance to save your life and health, and maybe improve the standard of living. 24 hrs to act" Image
#Russian military strategy is also terrorism: having failed with the land maneuvers, #RussianArmy turned to heavy bombing and shelling of #Chernihiv, #Kharkiv, #Mariupol, and other cities and towns, similar to Chechnya and Syria #CurrentTimeTV
[Unfortunately, I have to take a sleep break, the brain says. I really hope that the people make it to a safe place through the green corridors. And that there are no victims overnight. Many thanks to all who just joined--your collective voice means so my to Ukraine.]
Before I go... just got it from a friend. This is my friend's coach who just had a baby (5 months now) and "they are going into the complete unknown, her husband stays in Odesa. Who knows if they will see each other? It hurts" 1.7 mn refugees in 12 days. #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia Image
[back, and starting my morning with too many things that are hard to believe and need verifying. 7 hours during the war are like seven months. Breathing, drinking water, and taking short breaks: all crucial for all of us now.]
IMPORTANT. From @DmytroKuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Verifying. irishtimes.com/news/world/uni…
Source, with the visual, from @theirishtimes @NaomiOhReally
IMPORTANT. #InformationWarfare: ⬆ the language is being weaponized by the #Kremlin to form a #Russia-positive narrative & spread it in the international community. Creating concepts and altering reality are the #InformationWarfare strategies. RT WIDELY.
bylinetimes.com/2020/07/28/rus… Image
[What I just shared is critical and needs to be shared, understood, discussed and changed. I'm catching up on my loved ones. Many made it out of the war zone. Many are still there and fighting back. For many of us: Image
Cats in #Odesa during air raid.
Today is the 8th of March, International Women Day, a big holiday in #Ukraine. 7,000 women serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces right now. 16 awarded state awards for their heroism & courage. 13 female servicemen died at the hands of the #Russian invaders. Image
#Izum: "I thought the gates of hell were closed, but it turned out that it was only the first floor. This is the admission department of our Central City Hospital. Another NATO secret base? Patients were being rescued from underneath the rubble when possible." #CloseTheSkyUkraine Image
Two volunteers of the eco-park in #Kharkiv were killed by mortar and machine gunfire trying to feed animals. They attempted to feed the animals at least once every three days. Previously, I shared a photo of some animals from this park. #StopPutinNOW #StopRussia
In between mass bombings of #Kharkiv, rescuers, volunteers & communal workers are working to clear the rubble of destroyed residential buildings & office buildings. Bombs hit 2 residential high-rises and an administrative building. One woman is dead. ImageImageImage
Yulia Zdanovska, 21, killed in #Kharkiv, studied computer mathematics (Faculty of Mechanics/ Mathematics of Shevchenko National University). Her last message,"...will stay in Kharkiv until victory." #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine #CloseTheSkyOverUkraineNOW Image
Thousands of #Kharkiv residents signed a petition to #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine in basements, bomb shelters, subways, hospitals & street protests. No light, heat & water: it's not possible to print a document everywhere. @NATO #CloseTheSkyUkraine ImageImage
Russian invaders shelled #Saltovka in #Kharkiv again - floors collapsed in a nine-story building. Image
#Zelenskyy in front of his office: "It's snowing... The spring is like the war this year. We will be okay." This is a very personal message. t.me/vgorode_kharki…
A must-read from a young woman from #Kyiv, Ekaterina. "I always try to look at everything in a calm, balanced way & take into account all sides of the conflict. I train myself to be Swiss in any situation. I can no longer be neutral Switzerland. They spread blatant lies.
... Lies so brazen that sometimes you start to feel like a victim of gaslighting. When rockets fly before your eyes in the center of #Kyiv, and #Russian representatives say: “it seemed to you”, “we are not here”, “Ukrainians shoot down their own planes”. #InformationWarfare
"Did we suddenly all lost our minds here in Ukraine? #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, #Kherson, #Chernihiv, #Sumy, other #Ukrainian cities, it all seems to you that there is war. In 2014, the Russian presence seemed like a temporary misunderstanding to me. I speak Russian anywhere in #Ukraine.."
"I am friends with Russian citizens throughout the country. I have never experienced or heard of any aggression against the #Russianspeaking or #Russian-born population. Before the invasion of Russian "liberators" on our lands. I do know a huge number of people who fled in horror
from their homes in the #Donetsk& #Luhansk regions. Many families had to seek shelter and start all over again. Yesterday, my friend and I decided we do not need to switch to Ukrainian. Today, I feel injustice so strong, I can hardly write this text in Russian, my native language
"Friends, neither we nor you can be neutral anymore. This outright evil must be stopped. No one deserves such injustice. Please don't be inactive & silent. In such a situation of overt aggression, the Swiss regime no longer works."
"Any country can be in the place of peaceful Ukraine, now targeted by Russia's aggression. No one is safe." Happy International Women's Day. #StopRussia #StopPutinNOW #StandWithUkraine️ #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #SaveUkraineNow Image
Your voice makes a difference. Don't be silent. After the boycott, #CocaCola leaves #Russia. Previously, the company expressed a desire to continue its work in Russia. Sanctions are important because the collapse of #Russian economy means the collapse of #Putin's regime. Image
Elena #Zelenskyy, President of #Ukraine's wife asked to #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine: "Pro-#Kremlin propaganda outlets assure this is a “special operation”: it is a massacre of civilians in #Ukraine. Perhaps the most horrific & devastating part of this invasion is the child sacrifice.
"8 y.ol Alice, died in Akhtyrka; her grandfather tried to protect her. Polina from #Kyiv died in the shelling along with her parents. 14 y.o. Arseniy was hit in the head by debris, the ambulance could not reach him due to a strong fire." #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #SaveUkraine
"When Russia says it 'does not wage war against civilians,' I first give the names of those children who were killed. Our women & children now live in bomb shelters and basements. Ukraine wants peace but Ukraine will defend its borders, protect our identity. No compromise there."
"We need to close the sky over #Ukraine! #CloseTheSkyUkraine, we will deal with the war on land ourselves. The war in #Ukraine is not a war "out there". This is a war in #Europe, close to the borders of the EU. Ukraine is holding back forces that may enter your cities tomorrow...
"Ukraine is holding back forces that may enter your cities tomorrow under the pretext of rescuing civilians. This may have seemed like an exaggeration to me and my people last week, but this is the reality we live in today. And we don't know how long it will last."
"If we don't stop Putin from threatening to start a nuclear war, there will be no safe place for any of us in the world." Elena #Zelenskyy. Happy International Women's day. Help save Ukrainian women and children, all people #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSky Image
Meanwhile, in #russia. #KhvilinkaHumoru Some humor to lower our cortisol & stress so we can be strong & support courageous #Ukrainian people. I speak to many friends. They sound resolved and dignified. #Putin, in the bunker. Note the keyboard positioning. He doesn't use computers Image
#Military update. Oleksiy Arestovich, #Ukrainian presidential adviser, today, now: "As a military man, I don’t see any chance for the #Russian army in #Ukraine. They are still moving (orders!) but they are trying to surround 4 large urban areas (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv)
"#Russians are trying to surround 4 large urban agglomerations (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolaiv), 200,000 troops spaced at a distance of 500 km. Only complete idiots can do this. They will try to call on reservists, scrape together troops in the Caucasus, & throw them here..."
"There will be some kind of attempts to "storm Kyiv", to cut off Kharkiv and Sumy, to surround Mykolaiv, but this is all inertia...Some #Russian general should tell Putin: "- the only chance for us not to become Napoleon's army that almost completely disappeared in the fields,
is to immediately retreat from Mykolaiv beyond the Dnieper, to try to hold the coast up to Enerhodar. Withdraw troops from Kyiv, Chernihiv & Sumy, from under Kharkiv, to the defense north of Kharkov along the border. Be on the defensive in the JFO zone.
"'Bargain, look for a way to get out of Ukraine, save your face, minimally. No such general exists. A sick old man with Botox, locked himself in a bunker and no longer listens to anyone, bending lower and lower under the weight of his crime, first of all, against his own people."
"And, our land itself will cut, pull them in, dissolve them. Partisans and volunteers, special forces and infantry, aviation and paratroopers, artillery and missile troops will finish off those who have become defensive and those who are trying to break out."
"Russian troops are still moving by inertia. They have not yet realized that they had died. They were swirled with whirlwinds, marred, lost - eaten by our steppes and gullies, our shadows and ghosts. Our very earth rebelled against them; the fate is against them." #StopRussia Image
"They end here. Terrible, devastating, shameful. Such end that history itself will shudder. And this will be the natural finale of this musty, leaden, inhuman regime. We still have to shoot. It will still be scary, they will advance, & still there will be a threat to Kyiv...
"...& there will be more air and missile strikes, and our warriors will fall. But this zombie offensive is the inertia of the army of the dead.

And we are alive. And we fight for the living. In the name of life.
"The end of the army of the dead. The end of Koshchei the Deathless is near. The green sprouts of their defeat have sprouted. They are raised by the sun of a new world that we build, closing forever the millennial gestalt of a fetid, inhuman swamp that imagined itself an empire." ImageImage
[These were excerpts from Oleksiy Arestovich's "Russian troops have not yet realized that had died already", in a hasty translation. A remarkable text that deserves good translation, with references to Nikolay Gogol and Slavic folklore. Outstanding.]
And now a hilarious video, watch WITH sound. #denazification, indeed. #Putin called "denazification" a reason for the invasion of #Ukraine. Democratically elected President #Zelenskyy is Jewsih.
t.me/uniannet/36508
Following the request of #Ukrainian Armed Forces, not posting the location/videos/photos of air strikes at night. But do know that a few hours ago, ... as a result of an airstrike, 7 private one-story residential buildings were destroyed, 5 dead, including 2 children born in 2021
#InformationWarfare According to Adviser to the Head of the Office of President, the UN internal email is another fake and provocation by the #Kremlin. A perfect example of disinformation at work. Also to be verified.
Verified. #Zelenskyy had to contact UN to verify, actually. t.me/uniannet/36528 "I quickly received assurances that there would be no lies in the UN structures. There will be no playing along with the aggressor. The word "war" will be heard on this site. We'll see."
ALERT. The IAEA reports lost contact with remote data transmission from the safety control systems of the #Chernobyl that is currently not operating. the handling of nuclear materials has been stopped. The facility houses decommissioned reactors & w/radioactive waste.
Communicating w/plant is only via email. 200 staff work for almost 2 weeks in a row since the capture of the facility by #Russian troops, w/limited access to food, water & medicine. The situation is deteriorating and there is a potential risk for nuclear safety. #StopRussia
The official websites of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Energy and other departments are hacked. Instead of the main page, an image appears with two pictures. Top: Russians running from 1 security guard. Bottom. A Ukrainian stopping a tank. Image
[Taking a break. I need to work on two articles and coordinate some logistics with people in Ukraine.]
An update. #Mariupol 500K town without heat, water, food, light, phone, internet. Freezing. Under bombs. Corpses in the street. Children dying of dehydration. #Russians won't let humanitarian convoy in. apnews.com/article/russia…
Convoy shot again today. Very little news can be found as there is no connection. "No help in #Mariupol. No hint of a green corridor. Another Moscow trap...The air raid/the targeted bombing of the Red Cross office (deliberately classified)" From facebook.com/profile.php?id…
"But we do not lose hope.
Hard. Pain. Rage.
We stand.
Fuck them, they won't get #Mariupol!"

Петро Андрющенко.
[Reporting on the Seige of #Mariupol by #Russians. I was born in Leningrad. My grandmother was the only survivor in her whole family. They starved to death in the frozen city w/o heat, food, electricity. Beseiged by the Nazis. We played on mass graves in Victory Park. This?]
The 6 y.o. girl Tanya died alone in #Mariupol yesterday, of dehydration. Her mom was killed by a #Russian bomb. (@KremlinRussia_E, remember, Tanya Savicheva? She wrote in her diary till everyone died, and then she died in Leningrad.) This is a #Genocide of #Ukrainians.
[Reporting a genocide that is carried out by your birth country on the country of your ancestors, while being from a Holocaust/Siege family. I reported protests, clashes with neo-Nazis but never a war. Learning.]
A 16-year-old #sambo champion of #Ukraine Artem Priimenko died with his father, mother, grandmother and two younger brothers during airstrikes by #Russian troops on residential areas of the civilian population of the city of Sumy. Announced by coach Yevgeny Leonenko. DO SOMETHING
UN Office for Human Rights: 474 civilians have been killed and 861 injured in #Ukraine during the #Russian invasion.
[Break to work on an article. I will update, and watch Mariupol. Found a Russian propaganda Telegram channel on Mariupol. It is insane. Mirror land. Basically, "Ukrainians just decided to do it to themselves."]
BREAKING: Two stages of evacuation from #Sumy completed. 5,000 people (mostly women and children), 1,000 cars safely arrived in #Poltava, said the head of the Poltava admin. Turkish citizens are among the evacuees. From Poltava, rescued headed for the West. Some stayed.
IMPORTANT⬇️You can help. #InformationWarfare. Recently, David Gilbert @daithaigilbert reported for @VICENews, a "Kremlin-backed media outlet Redfish masquerading as a left-wing news source has been racking up likes and shares on its posts about Ukraine." vice.com/en/article/wxd…
I researched this and other media companies working for the Kremlin. So did others. Elizabeth Cocker, better known by the moniker Lizzie Phelan, is the only name listed on redfish. media. Before Redfish, Cocker worked as a reporter for RT (Russia Today).
thedailybeast.com/grassroots-med…
@thedailybeast: "Cocker, working for RT, filed a story suggesting that 2017 sarin attack in rebel-held Idlib (carried out by the Syrian regime, a Russian ally) was a false flag" & dismissed reports of rebel advances on Tripoli, Libya as a “massive psyop.” The city fell in 48 hrs.
Other journalists also were employed by RT (Russia Today) in the past. Even more simple, it is clearly marked by Facebook as "Russian-state controlled media." Only very few look at it. Here it is. Yet, 14 of my friends are following. All nice and smart people, I'm sure. Image
It the last 12 days it is pushing, yes, you guessed it, the Kremlin narrative. One of them: a subtle one, designed to appeal to people with big hearts and lots of compassion. 40/60 tactic plus whataboutism. abcnews.go.com/Business/wireS…
Redfish reports: discrimination; social injustice; and pushes anti-Western, anti-imperialistic narratives. The basic tactics are, as usual, here: bylinetimes.com/2020/03/04/big…
#InformationWarfare. Currently, #Kremlin increased its online military campaign. It's important to increase awareness of these strategies and counter the attacks. RT: Redfish is a #Kremlin-funded media that spreads #Kremlin narratives to hijack the collective mind in the West.
According to the #Ukrainian authorities, last night during an airstrike in #Sumy, 22 people killed, 6 houses completely destroyed. The #Russian Defense Ministry does not comment and continues to claim that Russian troops are not bombing civilian facilities and residential areas.
[break, article writing, monitoring]
but... #KhvilinkaHumoru "I watched the whole movie, they sink at the end." (@UnianInfo: are we there yet?) Image
#Russian military fired on civilians in the village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region. The incident occurred after the military looted a village store, consumed alcohol, shot at homes, and killed local men who got into an argument with them. Locals hide in basements. @UnianInfo
10 dead, 9 wounded as a result of #Russian shelling on March 8 in #Severodonetsk, the head of the Luhansk YEAH reported.
Briefing from the General Staff, Ukraine. 6.00 am, March 9.
#Kyiv defense forces repel the offensive of the #Russian Army.
#Ukrainian Air Forces repel missile and bomb strikes.
#Russians continue to carry out covert mobilization under the guise of military training.
"#Kremlin might recruit up to 800 servicemen from unrecognized Transnistria.
In Berdyansk, the enemy began to distribute propaganda materials aimed at discrediting #Ukraine.
In #Chernihiv region, #Russian army continues to hide weapons and military equipment among the houses.
In #Kherson region, #Russian servicemen masquerading as civilians, advanced in the direction of the city of #Mykolaiv.
Panic is spreading among the #RussianForces due to huge losses in manpower and equipment.
From #Vorzel, #Borodyanka, #Irpen & #Bucha, a humanitarian corridor opens to #Kyiv, from #Mariupol to #Zaporizhia, from #Volnovakha to #Pokrovsk, from #Izyum to #Lozova and from #Energodar to #Zaporizhia - Minister Vereshchuk. #Russian side promised to adhere to the ceasefire.
#InformationWarfare. Another fake from Russian Ministry of Defense: They now claim that the National Guard of Ukraine planned an attack on Donbas in March 2022. The "special military operation" of the Russian Armed Forces prevented and thwarted a large-scale offensive." Image
This is a good thread, with some good news and insder's information.
[I have to stop now. I'm losing focus. Each time I sleep, sense of dread. Sleep is heavenly. Waking up is horrifying. Odesa, Kyiv? Still there? My friends? Still there? Then, with horror: Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol. I'm an atheist. I don't pray. If you do, pray for Ukraine.]
[can’t sleep. Talking to my friend in Ukraine. @johnsweeneyroar said it the best. From #Kyiv, now. Listen. Ask for help.
[Back to reporting. A hard update to write; hard to read. Updates are coming in as I type. My approach: I have a map in front of me and check on each area via my contacts onsite and Telegram channels, verifying.]
In #Mariupol the children's hospital & maternity hospital bombed after the airstrike. Preliminary: 17 injured, dead verified, people are still under rumble. ImageImageImageImage
#Mariupol #Zelenskyy: "#Russian troops strike maternity hospital. People, kids under the rubble. This is an atrocity! How much longer the world stays an accomplice? Close the sky immediately! Stop the killing immediately! You have the power. You seem to be losing your humanity." ImageImageImageImage
In #Sumy: no heat, no water, no electricity, no connection. People in basements. Many are dying, no opportunity to bury the dead. Bodies in the street.
My #Ukrainian family member translated this. This is from people in #Ukraine, from me if you are reading me, from all of us. It doesn't matter if you have family there. #CloseTheSky #CloseTheSkyUA #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine Image
My #Ukrainian family member translated this. This is from people in #Ukraine, from me if you are reading me, from all of us. It doesn't matter if you have family there. #CloseTheSky #CloseTheSkyUA #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine Image
#Irpen Same as in #Sumy, #Mariupol, many more: no heat, water, food, gas, connection. The evacuation from Irpen continues - Mayor Alexander Markushin. 2 ways: the bridge across the river; a" green corridor ", buses. Evacuees from Bucha, Vorzel and Irpen arrive in Kyiv
#Izyum The evacuation thwarted due to non-compliance with conditions by the #Russian side. The shelling continues all day in the city - the head of the Kharkiv YEAH Sinegubov. Dozens of buses that followed the residents did not reach the city. 6 vehicles evacuated, 250 people.
#Izyum. A humanitarian convoy with food, water, warm clothes did not arrive. The city is destroyed. No electricity, gas, heat, water, communication, internet, radio/TV. Everyone is in hiding. 5,000 people need to be evacuated! Help. #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA
#Kharkiv #Russian tropps are regrouping. #Ukrainian army is in full combat readiness. Bombing continues. Photo: Zoo after shelling. From Telegram. Image
#Bucha #Vorzel #Hostomel The Russian military in Stoyanka did not allow the convoy to pass. In Bucha and Hostomel the evacuation was canceled. It was not possible to reach an agreement. 50 evacuation buses are blocked. The evacuation from Vorzel continues.
IMPORTANT FOR ALL [in a sense: it can reflect on YOUR life.] #Chornobyl #Chernobyl We only have 48 hours: a note from the acting Director General #Chornobyl. Diesel fuel will only last for 48 hours. After that, control over nuclear-hazardous facilities will be completely lost. Image
#Chornobyl: After 48 hrs, control over nuclear-hazardous facilities will be lost. The cause of the power outage: break in the power line, location unknown. Provide access for repair crews ASAP to restore power. #Chernobyl nuclear power plant was de-energized at 11:22 on March 9. Image
Now: The village of #Dinets, Chuguev district, after a meeting with the "Russian world/peace" See above in this thread what "Russian world/peace/mir" means. #Putin's ideology.- @UnianInfo Image
#Enerhodar ️More than 1,000 people evacuated today along the "green corridor" from #Energodar to #Zaporizhzhia, with the help from the Ukrainian Red Cross.
#Chernihiv: 2/3 w/o heat - Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko.
In some areas: no water. Repairs of the main network not possible.
#Donets village, #Kharkiv region. #RussianArmy killed a young girl and her grandmother, their bodies found under the rubble of the house. Not sharing photos for shock factor but I see them. Please help. Contact your elected officials. #NoFlyZoneUA #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine
#Kherson: #Russia introduced an "administrative-police regime", 400 people detained (from the General Staff of the APU).
More on #Chernobyl❗️The risks: from Energoatom
🔻20K used fuel units stored at the storage facility need constant cooling;
🔻w/o electricity, the pumps do NOT cool down, temperature increases, evaporation and release of radioactive substances into the environment will occur;
🔻Wind can transfer a radioactive cloud to Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Europe;
🔻Ventilation doesn't work. Staff faces radiation;
🔻The fire extinguishing system doesn't work. High risk in case of fire, caused by shelling;
🔻Fighting is ongoing. Repairs impossible.
RT #Chernobyl
#InformationWarfare continues. The SBU reports another fake from Russian propaganda: info on the alleged persecution of #Jews in the #Zhytomyr region is spread in the West. #Kremlin is sowing interethnic discord and discredit #Ukreain. The chief rabbi of Zhytomyr refuted the fake
#Odesa #Odessa prepares to defend its cultural monuments from the #Russian invaders. One of the symbols of the city, the monument to the Duke de Richelieu lined with sandbags. I am fundraising for #Odesa, my friends are there ready to fight. PM if you want to help. ImageImage
#Russia #Kremlin spokesman acknowledged that Russian conscripts were sent to Ukraine & Russian armed forces were told not to involve conscripts. It's the first time that Russia admitted sending conscripted soldiers to fight in Ukraine. #Putin said conscripts were not sent.
My several sources from #Rurssia [opposition]: people avoid going outside as snow/ice not being cleaned off the streets; food supplies are still in place but there are fears of them dwindling. Arrests for posts on Instagram in the past. All decent people try to flee; many can't.
[I stop here and will do an update later. Writing two articles, helping to coordinate refugees aide, fundraising etc. If you want and can help PM. Thank you for being there for #Ukraine. It is for humanity. No pathos. Just world gone mad.]
BREAKING [NEEDS VERIFICATION] Zakharova #Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in briefing broadcasted hours before the attack on the hospital in Mariupol spoke about the attack. If someone has seen confirmation, pls share. YT video of the briefing: Image
Photos from #Mariupol [there is some connection today and people are sending photos]. I am not sharing graphic pictures here. There are photos of mass graves. ImageImage
IMPORTANT from the White House. From me: It could be the nuclear provocation, too. See my updates on #Chornobyl and #Enerhohrad / #Zaporizhzhya
#InformationWarfare: ALERT! In Russia:
#InformationWarfare: ALERT! In the West:
#InformationWarfare: A mix of the brainwashed Russian population w/the acute financial crisis &complete information blockade is going to be weaponized by the #Kremlin to create a multi-million army of online trolls. They will be using the Soviet textbooks to shape YOUR opinion.
This is a must read update directly from the online meeting of all the cities mentioned before. Please act. #NoFlyZoneUA
The UN Secretary-General: “Today's attack on a hospital in Mariupol, where a maternity and children's ward is located, is horrifying. Civilians pay the highest price for a war that has nothing to do with them. This senseless violence must stop. Stop the bloodshed now." Thanks.
[What is "complicit"? If you watch people being killed and you can stop them--and you don't--are you complicit? How do you sleep at night when you know that children, babies, innocent are being killed by hundreds, you can stop it, and you don't? What happens to your soul?]
[this is a 13-day long war thread. It includes a few logistics tips, answers, etc. so i separate them by [].If you are joining me for reporting, please skip [] I am grateful for every single person who cares about #Ukraine's fight against the aggressor & appreciate your time.]
In #Kharkiv, #Russian bombs/shells destroyed: 281 buildings, including: the State Administration, police, university, the city hall, the building next to it, (built in 1894, survived Hitler); 26 schools, 23 kindergartens, 53 administrative buildings.
#Russians shelled a zoo, killing two kangaroos. [denazification.] Two volunteers got shot yesterday during an attempt to feed animals. Some animals ran away, others the owner took to his residence. Image
This is a building in #Kharkiv, at Friendship of Peoples street. Image
[taking a break and will give an update from my sources in about 3-4 hrs. Leaving w/this. This is Duke, in Odesa. He says: "Russian military ship, well ya know." The seagulls say: "Go f****yourself" This was drawn today. Duke is Odesa's symbol & guardian. Odesa is Ukraine.] ImageImage
#InformationWarfare Many thanks to new trolls who provide excellent illustrations to the points I made. They are new, they are dumb, and their name is legion, for they are many. Beyond cynical so one wants to think it is actually AI, but it is also a scary thought. Image
10 March update. #Mariupol just in: "A friend called just now. A shell flew into her yard, hit the car but everyone is alive, and cooking in the yard, with the neighbors. [no heat in the house] A "humanitarian" convoy gave 12 packs of pate&2 sticks of sausage, frozen like a brick
"all the shops are destroyed, empty, only one store in the whole city, security guarding it. long lines. Pharmacies are empty. A shell hit an ambulance. No electricity, no water, no gas. They collect snow & put the food in it so it doesn't spoil.
#Mariupol: "She said that one part of town is taken but I didn't get by whom. There are street fights. Planes circle. As for the green corridor, they don't see the point in it. constantly canceled, & only for the elderly
& kids. She doesn't have a car, the bus is dangerous."
#Mariupol: "9.30 today my sister called. Everyone is alive. There is food, they get water from the river. Two stores next to them got burned down. The post office is looted." "Son-in-law called. Alive. He says they are bombing non-stop, leveling all the houses, many dead,
#Mariupol: "not a question of any corridors, people have are left to the mercy of fate. In Yuzhny village, lots of destruction, fires. These Putin's fascists destroy everything." "it hit people who were in life for the water. many died." ImageImage
#Mariupol Please RT these eyewitness stories and photos from #Mariupol Telegram chat at @jensstoltenberg @PressSec @NATO demand #NoFlyZone t.me/mariupolnow/18… ImageImageImageImage
The Ministry of Defense UK announced that the #Russian MOD confirmed that they use thermobaric missiles in Ukraine, often referred to as "vacuum bombs" and known for creating a high-temperature vibe and more destruction.
57% of Ukrainians surveyed believe in the possibility of winning the war w/Russia in the coming weeks: 18% -- in a week, 39% --in a few weeks. 18% -- several months, 9% -- six months or a year. There is practically no one who does not believe in victory. 16% difficult to answer. Image
Of course, #Ukrainians will win! Russians are fighting for the president of Ukraine, after all! Just don't tell anyone: it is classified information. #KvilinkaHumoru. Image
[And leaving to get some sleep. Hoping to wake up to okay news. To some good news, actually. #славаУкраїнi #ГероямСлава]
A brief update is coming; working on an urgent rescue situation. For now: Humanitarian crisis in #Mariupol requires urgent attention & help from all.
URGENT: 1. Russia might explode ammonia warehouses in Kharkiv Region and will blame it on Ukraine. 2. Russia mined the water reservoir by #Energodar nuclear power plant.
catching up in bits and pieces; a lot of urgent work. Here is an upbeat image because #Ukraine is just that awesome.
UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS: In 2 days, evacuated:
From #Sumy, #Trostyanets, #Krasnopolye in the direction of #Poltava - more than 60,000;
#Izyum, #Kharkiv region - 3,000
#Bucha, #Gostomel, #Irpen, #Vorzel & #Kyev region - 20,000
200 tons aid to #Energodar,#Izyum;
#Mariupol: a humanitarian catastrophe. People are not allowed to be taken out. Same situation in #Vorzel in the #Kyiv region. #Russian troops shoot at the transport with the sign "Children" and "people".
A person from #Russia: "Most people don't know what is happening in #Ukraine. The ones who do feel chthonic horror."
A new #Russian tactic of disrupting the evacuation: residents who want to leave the occupied cities and towns are not allowed to leave; fake information that #Ukrainian buses arrive the next day and documents are being processed. Ukrainians remain hostages in their homes.
#Kharkiv Mayor said the #Russian army destroyed 400 multi-story residential buildings in the city. “Many people ask the question, Where will we live?"
#Mariupol continues to live. Since yesterday, 24 babies have been born in the city w/o heat, electricity, connection, and water--the snow is being melted to make water. Food is cooked on fire, in the yards that are incessantly shelled.
Irpen. A family is trying to escape, under bullets. From @UnianInfo Image
#InformationWarfare The #Russian MOD issues another mind-blowing fake: "laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa intended to spread dangerous infections through migratory birds, including the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza. The routes would pass mainly through Russia
@UnianInfo Image
Arestovich, a briefing:
After the attack on the maternity hospital in #Mariupol, it is clear the #Russian army had switched to the so-called "Syrian option", i.e. the encirclement &terrorizing the cities & towns, to bring suffering to the civilian population, w/elements of psy-op
The most fierce fighting is taking place in #Mariupol, #Kharkiv, #Akhtyrka and #Mykolaiv;
Every day there are attempts to establish humanitarian corridors, but so far the enemy is consciously disrupting the evacuation from #Mariupol.
Over the past day, #Ukraine Army inflicted at least 7 powerful blows on the enemy, 2 regiment commanders of the RF Armed Forces were destroyed. This happened in the directions of Brovary, Izyum, Mykolaiv, Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih, where the enemy sent separate battalion groups;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine took the settlement of Dergachi near Kharkiv, thus cutting off communication between the northern grouping of Russian troops near Kharkiv and the one that remained in Izyum;
#Ukrainian aviation, rocket troops, and artillery continue to strike at the #Russian army. It is predicted that in the near future the situation will change in favor of #Ukraine.
#Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov confirmed that Russia deliberately bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol. "It was the base of the ultra-radical Azov battalion. These data were presented three days ago. Therefore, draw your own conclusions"
[stopping, back with update when I can. Support #Urkaine. Demand #StopRussia #StopPutin #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow ]
Share! Lots of people are banned now; my account on FB is limited, too reuters.com/world/europe/e…
❗️ On the evening of March 10, #Russia again hit the research nuclear installation "Source of Neutrons" of the center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology"
At least, it is de-energized, surface damage to the building reported. It was already bombed on March 6. The State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation called the new attack an "act of nuclear terrorism"
#Russia calls UN Security Council to discuss... the United States endangering the world. It is funny but the reason: #informationWarfare. Trying to reshape the narrative washingtonpost.com/politics/live-…
Ukraine’s military: Two columns of advancing Russian forces (airborne troops and tanks, IFVs, and Grads) and 10 enemy aircraft(Su-25s and Su-34s) were destroyed on March 10. The columns were Russian. from @KyivIndependent
#Zelenskyy stated that in a day, 40,000 people were evacuated but #Mariupol and #Volnovakha are still besieged. The convoys are being shot by the #Russian troops. There will be more attempts to deliver additional help.
#nuclear #Russians exploded a research institute in #Kharkiv #Pyatikhatki, the first one to split the atom in the USSR, built the most powerful Van de Graaff generator in the world and has an experimental nuclear unit, w/37 nuclear fuel elements loaded in its active zone.
Yulia Koval, 23 years old, was killed by #Russian shelling while volunteering and waiting for people to take her to the station. Image
On March 11, at about 06:10 am, in the Novokodatsky district of the city of #Dnipro, #Russian invaders launched 3 air strikes on a kindergarten, an apartment building, a two-story shoe factory. A fire ensued. 1 dead.
#Mariupol: Petro Andruschenko, City Council: "Almost 16 hours of bombing of residential areas. For the first time, a 1000 kg air bomb was used in the city center.
The purpose of the bombing: the destruction of road infrastructure to prevent evacuation."
"...The Russians have no plans to control #Mariupol and use it as a springboard. This is a sacred sacrifice for disobedience to the "#RusskyMir" ("Russian World/Peace) in the heart of the #Ukrainian Azov region."
Explosions were reported in #IvanoFrankivsk and #Lutsk this morning.
Near #Kyiv, special forces of #Kadyrovtsy do not allow the Russian military to retreat, threatening death. Fedor Venislavsky, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security & Defense, said during a TV appearance. [more on #kadyrovets in this thread 2 days ago]
Explosion in #Lutsk this morning. Image
#Briefing of MOD Ukraine: as of 6:00 am on March 11. 16th day.
Defense forces of #Ukraine restrained the #Russian offensive operation on all fronts.
#InformationWarfare: Aggressive Russian propaganda work began in the temporarily occupied territories.
In the #Kherson region, #Russians introduce an administrative-police regime & create a system of paramilitary administration to maintain "order".
In the #Chernihiv region, #Russians suffered significant losses.
#Russian commits robberies, hostages and executions of civilians
IMPORTANT: In a Russian #Rostov region, close to the Ukrainian border, correctional colonies offer #prisoners to join the occupying forces in exchange for an amnesty. More details on this hardly-covered aspect of the war from Gulag.net, Vladimir Osechkin.
"The Department for the Execution of Criminal Sentences of Ukraine lost control of more than 30 penal institutions. In some colonies, convicts were able to partially or completely leave the institutions, sometimes with the help of the #Russian army and special services;"
"The source reports on the release of convicts sentenced to life imprisonment from a number of institutions in Ukraine after the territories go under the control of the Russian army (it is difficult to even think about the consequences);"
"A number of institutions not controlled by #Ukraine have been taken under the control of the #Russian army, Rosguard, FSB and FSIN and are being prepared for various usage (the reception of prisoners, work at concentration camps, etc)
"Special services of #Ukraine and #Russia are attempting to use some of the convicts for fighting.
In some correctional institutions: lack of electricity, heat, water, food delivery; hunger riots possible. the situation is aggravated by #Russian propaganda,pro-Russian convicts"
"Russian special services through undercover agents in the criminal world continue what started on 19.02.22 in order to destabilize the functioning of a number of #Ukrainian correctional institutions." from #Gulagu.net.
To make it a bit more clear: #Russians set up a "temporary administration" headed by a local criminal authority in the Kakhovka City Hall, Kherson Region. The latter promised massacres of pro-Ukrainian residents of the city!
The control of the populations through terror, enforced by the special forces and criminals has a long history in Imperial Russia and the USSR. A long account of the criminal background of Putin's closest allies. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/putinism-intro…
“Each country has mafia; only in Russia mafia has the country.” In the 90s, Russian organized crime, law enforcement, secret services & government structures merged & created a criminal syndicate: Russia.
byline.com/2018/11/30/the…
"Russia-2022. Anti-utopia. Police in the Moscow metro,
stop subway passengers and demand to show correspondence in messengers. This was reported by one of the readers of ATS-Info." from gulagu.net"
In #Chernihiv, the #Russians bombed the stadium and a library. Photo: Vyacheslav Chaus. ImageImageImage
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A good explanation of #EU state application situation.
[Back online for an update. I'm working on three articles to be ready by Sunday; still coordinating some help for people onsite although most of my friends who wanted to leave have made it out of Ukraine; opposition in Russia is still stuck. I will do several updates t/o the day]
[Thank you to all who joined me recently. I'm covering the #Russian aggression in #Ukraine, focus on war events, disinformation. Sources: my friends, colleagues in Ukraine, local Telegram channels in #Ukrainian & #Russian. I covered #Putin's crimes for 10 yrs, Google-able.]
Yesterday, #Russians fired at the Oskol psychoneurological boarding school in the Izyumsky district, #Kharkiv region. 330 people, 50 w/difficulties walking, 10 in wheelchairs. 73 evacuated to the next boarding school. The number of victims is being determined."
In #Odesa, an animal shelter is evacuated as the city prepares for #Russian air attacks. Love for their animals is palpable in #Odesa. Workers sleep at the zoo to protect the animals. ImageImage
In #Odesa, people are hiding in catacombs during air raids. 15 m deep, air is very damp. The #Odesa Catacombs, a labyrinth-like network of tunnels, are located under the city: a network of basements, bunkers, drainage tunnels and storm drains as well as natural caves, 3 levels.
My friend send me photos of people hiding there; infamous Moldavanka. 15 m deep, up to 300 people, toilets are holes/boxs. Children are playing. Most people left. A photo of a building--where very few people now stay. #Odesa tries to stay upbeat. Image
Meanwhile, rare pelicans came to #Odesa from #Romania. Wildlife suffers, too. [Hopefully these won't] Photo: Ivan Rusev Image
#Russians killed the Mayor of #Brovary (#Kyiv region) Alekesey Zdorovts [photo]. He had a young child. In occupied #Grodno, a man who was pressured to take upon Mayor's position, shot himself yesterday. Image
In #Pologi, #Zaporizhzhia region, many civilians injured by the shelling of residential buildings, including children. The representative of the regional military administration Ivan Arefyev said #Russians kidnapped 2 children with torn-off legs, possibly to use for photo-ops
According to Mikhail Podoliak, Russian officials want to use 16,000 ex-ISIS fighters against the civilian population in Ukraine. The aggressor can repeat the Syrian scenario of war. This is also evidenced by the #Russian propaganda statements on using chemical weapons.
IMPORTANT. ‼ ️The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that Russian military aircraft entered the airspace of #Ukraine, striking #Belarusian territory in order to accuse the #Ukrainian side and draw #Belarus into the war. Yesterday, #Lukashenka met with #Putin in #Moscow.
#Lukashenko & #Putin planned an armed provocation against #Belarus in order to accuse #Ukraine of attack and involve #Belarusian troops in the war against #Ukraine. It is a deliberate provocation.- The Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
#Russians kidnapped another mayor: Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov. According to Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Interior Minister, Fedorov refused to cooperate with the enemy and was abducted today by a group of 10 occupiers.
IMPORTANT #Chornobyl operates at a diesel power unit, providing emergency power to facilities. According to the information (facebook.com/permalink.php?…) of management, this allows cooling hazardous residues with electric fuel. Attempts to get the external power supply continues.
#Chornobyl facilities continue to be controlled by the #RussianArmy. Regulatory control of the state of nuclear and radiation safety at the site of the #Chernobyl NPP and in the exclusion zone, as well as control of nuclear materials at the enterprise, is not possible.
#Belarus ❗️The military department of #Belarus states that the information about the air strikes on its territory is a provocation. [will post updates as they appear]
Armed Forces of #Ukraine states: a high probability #Russia will intensify terrorist methods: rocket-bomb attacks on civilian infrastructure, residential areas, intimidation, informational & psychological acts aimed at undermining confidence in government, taking hostage.
Wagner's Russian private military company began a large-scale recruitment of mercenaries to be sent to war in Ukraine. The organization has lifted most of the previous restrictions and accepts almost everyone.
People hiding in #Kharkiv metro, from @UnianInfo #kharkiv has been bombed almost to the ground by #Russian Air Force. ImageImageImageImage
Mayor of #Kharkiv, today: "Severe frosts on the way. Citizens whose homes have been left without heat due to the shelling of #Kharkiv: go down to the subway, basements, and bomb shelters, to schools and kindergartens that are heated. city provides hot meals"
#Belarus Tikhanovskaya has publicly confirmed that the Lukashenko regime is shelling Ukraine from Belarus "Tonight, a civilian was killed in a bombardment of Ukrainian Korosten, 2 critically injured.2 out of 3 are Belarusians."
[I have to stop to work on other projects for Ukraine. As usual, if you want to help, PM. Mainly, verify, verify, verify and share verified information. Stay informed and don't look away. If we don't stop the mass murder, we are complicit. #StopPutin #StopRussia #ClosetheSky ]
This is #Kharkiv. NOW. What if it were your house? #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneInUkraineNow Image
#Russians are using the #Zaporizhzhia #nuclear power plant as a military base, #Energoatom reported. It is the biggest nuclear plant in #Europe. t.me/uniannet/37479
#Mariupol now. A man in a video says, "Pray. Pray." People are in basements, no water, food, light, heat. Corpses everywhere. 1,700 dead. #Russian mass media: this is all staged; done by #Ukrainians. #GenocideOfUkrainians #StopRussia #StopPutin ImageImageImage
#Foreign Minister of #Ukraine to #CurrentTimesTV today [I agree 100%]: #Putin is erasing #Kharkiv & #Mariupol to show his macho strength to the world [I also believe it is revenge to Russian-speaking cities for refusing to join #SovietUnion 2.0]
"We cannot analyze #Putin's strategy or predict steps; he is a madman & we cannot use logic [I add: he is a bandit who went mad; the criminal law is different; no morality]. He is demonstrating on #Ukraine what he wants and can do to the rest of the world."
"Another #Putin's idée fixe is changing the world to his vision [See my articles & blogs on #Eurasia empire idea, inspired by #Dugin]." This is the answer to "Why? Why is #Putin trying to #invade #Ukraine" from Boris Avakov, former Minister Interior Affairs, #Ukraine, w comments.
#Zelenskyy "I have to say this with pain: #Mariupol remains blocked by the enemy. #Russian troops have not allowed our help into the city and continue to torture our people, our Mariupol residents." From #Mariupol: "The news is not making it through today. No connection."
"Kirill Budanov, head of the intelligence department of the MOD of #Ukraine: "18 battalion tactical groups completely lost their combat capability, 13 have been destroyed. 31 battalion tactical groups lost their combat capability in 2 weeks: losses the Russians never had."
Acting head of #Energoatom Petr Kotin said that representatives of the so-called #Russian military-civil administration came to the #Zaporizhzhya station and kidnapped the management. They did not give their names and said that the station was now owned by #Russian #Rosatom.
Today, #Russian Air Force shelled the oncology hospital in #Mykolaiv, the chief of regional management of health care Maxim Beznosenko reported. Yesterday, it was a psychiatric boarding school. The day before, Labour and Deliver Department. Denazification.
#Russians use the #RedCross sign to cover the Russian armored vehicles with weapons. @UnianInfo ImageImage
"The International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said #Ukrainian technicians have started repairing damaged power lines to #Chornobyl power plant site to restore electricity supply that was entirely cut off earlier in the week." @KyivIndependent
Some phone calls that made it from #Mariupol today: "Called relatives, at 5 pm, on the street Zelinsky (kindergarten Yasochka). The bomb hit the house, broke the windows, they cook on fires outside, drink water (snow). The conversation ended with the plane dropping bombs again."
#Chernihiv today Image
And to this myopic statement:
I say this: "After WWII began in Sept 1939, most Americans hoped the US would remain neutral... the United States would not enter the war until it was attacked directly." From @HolocaustEncycopedia History teaches us nothing. Image
#Chernihiv today. This used to be a hotel "Ukraine." Someone said today, "It's war. That's what happens." Not when it happens to you. Don't normalize it. This shouldn't be happening. Image
1582 civilians from Mariupol were killed by #Russian occupation forces in 12 days of blockade of the city and ruthless shelling of residential neighborhoods. "Mariupol demonstrates to the world that Ukrainians are a nation that never gives up." People are singing in basements.
[Have to share: A #Ukrainian kid I know had a hard life in emigration & didn't have much. At 12, someone gave her an iPod. Once, on a bus, two big teens, 19 or so, grabbed her iPod and jumped off the bus. She ran after them, got her iPod back, & called the police on them.]🇺🇦
In the #Brovary district of #Kyiv region, as a result of shelling by the #Russian military, a fire broke out in a warehouse for frozen products. [There are shortages of food supplies.] Image
#Kyiv. A drone was shot down in #Podil, #Kyiv. A fire started. #Podil is a historic neighborhood. ImageImage
According to the Police of the Kyiv region, today at about 7 am the enemy dropped at least 6 missiles. A fire broke out. Rescuers are working on the spot. Police are finding damage to nearby homes. Information about the victims is being clarified.
In #vasilkiv after airstrike the oil depot is burning [again], - the head of the Kyiv YEAH Alexey Kuleba
#Chernihiv has almost no electricity supply, no water supply, no gas supply, &no heat supply--a video message by the head of OVA Vyacheslav Chaus. Problems w/mobile communication and mobile internet in the city.
#Kharkiv region, Slobozhanske village. 2 days after the bomb hit a two-story apartment building, rescuers found 5 people under the rubble: two women (35-45y.o.), a man (under 40) & 2 children (2 yrs & 12-14 yrs). During the day, abt 200 rescuers put out fires more than 40 times.
In #Mykolaiv at night, the #Russian military fired at hospitals of the city, a boarding school, hit the boiler room. 2 wounded, no information on the dead at the moment - the head of the regional state administration Kim.
According to the head of GUR Budanov, #Russia considers two options for a possible terrorist attack on the #Chornobyl nuclear PP: the burning of radioactive forests or the use of artillery in a nuclear storage facility. This endangers Ukraine, Russia, Belarus & other countries.
As I have reported earlier today, the Mayor of #Meliptopol was kidnapped by #Russians today from his office, after refusing to cooperate. There is a protest in the occupied Melitopol now: Freedom to the Mayor! Bring him back! ImageImage
On March 12, at 7:35 a.m., locals in #NovaKakhovka recorded a convoy of #Russian vehicles moving toward the #Dnieper River, Serhiy Tsyhypa said. "08-00 Dnipro residents called: 'the orcs left, they first stopped near the church & walked around the village, looking for something."
The drone in #Kyiv contained a kilogram of explosives with metal balls. ImageImage
[I will prepare the full report for the last 10 hours from sources but for now BREAKING and terrible, from #Kyiv region.]
#Russians shot women and children evacuating in the #Kyiv region, the village of Victory. 7 dead, 1 child, the number of wounded is TBC. After the shooting, they forced the convoy to return to the village. No communication; humanitarian and medical assistance can't be provided.
#Kadyrovitsy, #Chechens military that is a part of #Russian army, shot 12 wounded #Russians in Borodyanka. [Yes, you read it right. Russian army shooting Russian army.] The injured were waiting to be evacuated to #Belarus for treatment.
#Kharkiv: #Russian troops were ordered to shoot at civilians in Kharkiv. The State Security Service of #Ukraine published an intercepted phone call indicating that #Russian soldiers received an order from the command to shoot at everyone, including children.
The next country that #Putin wants to capture if he wins the war with Ukraine will be Lithuania, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov, citing Ukrainian intelligence. "The Baltic states & Poland will follow. Everything will depend on "how NATO will behave." @UnianInfo
Two photos: 1. A young woman arrested in Russia for holding a bland sheet of paper. Nizhny Novgorod. 2. Hundreds kneel in #khmelnytsky region to honor the fallen #Ukrainian soldier. #StopPutin Act. ImageImage
#Volnovakha doesn't exist as of now. #Russians razed it to the ground, destroyed communications, now it is uninhabitable. Terrible photos of the destruction of the "Russian world" @UnianInfo ImageImage
Evacuation, humanitarian situation: Irina Vereshchuk, Saturday, March 12, EOD: Out of 12 "green corridors", 9 worked. #Energodar did not work. #Russians did not let the humanitarian column into the city. #Kyiv region: from Vorzel, Irpen no corridors, Bucha-1K evacuated
evacuated 12 March:
✅ Sumy - 8K
✅ Krasnopole, Konotop, Lebedin, Bolshaya Pisarevka - about 3K
Gostomel - 600
✅ Kozarovichi and Borodyanka - did not work;
✅ Nemeshaevo - 1264
Corridors for tomorrow:
✅ Luhansk region and Kyiv region;
✅ Zaporozhye - Mariupol via Berdyansk.
At least 80 Russian Marines refused to fight in the Kherson region, Grati reports. Some units suffered losses after mortar shelling by Ukraine. They realized commanders lied about it being training. Among the servicemen were conscripts, “who had served no more than a few months.
Those who didn't take oath refused were returned to Crimea. The contractors continued to take part in the war. The military threatened to open a criminal case. The pressure stopped after Putin's speech ["#Russian military conscripts would not be involved in the war." They are.]
#Mariupol: from a resident: "The fighting is almost near the house, I do not understand what weapons they are using.. but it feels like a tank battle in the city center… Am I scared? Scared, very scared." (screenshots from a video) ImageImage
There are street battles and explosions in #Kyiv now. Pray for #Kyiv. I don't pray but I do now. I cannot disclose the locations; please do NOT share the photos or videos of explosions or military equipment that just happened. The information is used by the #Russian military.
[I have to step away for a few hours and will do my best to update from the phone as I move but can't do it while I am driving. Consider asking your elected officials to #CloseTheSky #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine It will save thousands of lives from massacres.]
[still on the go but can anyone explain this??
UPDATE. Briefing, 06:00 am #Kyiv, March 13, Russian invasion. 18th day of the war.
#Russians fire at the civilian population, conduct illegal searches of personal belongings & searches of local residents, operate in disguise, wearing civilian clothes &Ukrainian military uniform
The moral & psychological condition of #Russian troops continues to deteriorate; the number of cases of desertion and refusals to carry out orders is growing.
A large number of wounded #Russian soldiers are treated in hospitals in Belarus. Not enough blood supplies for surgery.
Doe to the losses, the #Russian Army is forming new units. Plans to attract about 1,500 people from the 40th separate brigade of marines (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Pacific Fleet). Russian eqpt losses are large, e.g.2 helicopters,@ fighters (one Su-34), 2 UAVs
#Lviv: explosions reported in the morning, the Ukrainian air defense counterattack on Russian missiles.
All units are working in full military mode, details TBA.
ATTENTION! Please DO NOT share videos/photos w/the movement of #Ukrainian troops on the territory of #Ukraine. Do not uncover the positions of the military. Do not publish the photos/videos of explosions immediately. Do not specify addresses.
❗️ In #Popasna #Luhansk region, #Russians used phosphorus ammunition, prohibited by international agreements. Ingested through the mouth, phosphorus causes burns in the mouth & gastrointestinal tract, vomiting, diarrhea & severe abdominal pain. @UnianInfo Image
#Russians bombed a monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region.
The blast in the monastery knocked out windows, doors, damaged buildings & the living quarter of monks & 520 refugees (200 children). Several wounded. No military units at the monastery. ImageImage
I verified this. It is confirmed. #RusskyMir bombed the Cristian Monastery with hundreds of people hiding in it. They hit the nuns' building. ImageImageImageImage
#Russians bombed the Holy Mountains Lavra of the Holy Dormition is a major Orthodox Christian monastery by the town of #Sviatohirsk, #Donetsk region, Eastern #Ukraine. The name comes from the surrounding Holy Mountains. Dates back to the 15th century. ImageImageImageImage
A quick reference. "Russky Mir" (#RussianPeach/#RussianWorld doctrine is built on the principles of the Russian Orthodox Church. Here is a little peek at #Putin weaponizing religion, too: zarinazabrisky.medium.com/priests-and-or… ImageImageImageImage
In another church, in #Bucha, 67 civilians killed by the #Russian invaders were buried in a mass grave. Some could not be identified. [ALERT: VIDEO IS DISTURBING. Also, the person in this video states 33 bodies]t.me/vgorode_odessa…
Over the night, in the Donetsk region, a passenger train was hit by debris during a shelling. It was to evacuate residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions from the area of fierce fighting to the city of Lyman. One conductor killed, one injured.
#Irpen. The victims of the #Russian shelling are buried in the yard of an apartment building. Image
[The list of crimes, murders, shootings of women, children, and elderly committed by #Russians--just from a few hours that I have not been tracking--is so long that I cannot reflect it here. I didn't even get to the hell of #Mariupol. The horror. The horror.]
#Mariupol Street fighting and shooting. Armored vehicles with the letter Z seen in the city. People are hiding in the basements. More buildings shelled and burned. ImageImage
The humanitarian caravan of 60 vehicles with 90 tons of food and medicine is moving to #Mariupol along the green corridor. 400,000 people are under siege. + 50 buses to begin the evacuation of the civilians.
Due to the #Russian invasion of #Ukraine, food prices began to rise in Africa. #Russia and #Ukraine are key exporters of wheat in the region to Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, as well as several other Arab countries, in particular. Locals stocked up on flour, semolina, etc.
#Kherson will celebrate the 78th anniversary of liberation from the Nazis & will hold rallies on March 13. The City Council opposed the formation of the "people's republic". The green corridor not allowed. The city needs food & medicine, insulin specifically.
More than 3,000 dogs &cats in a shelter in Kyiv Region are under siege due to shelling. Supplies for animals will last a few more days. The shelter is asking to create a humanitarian corridor so that animals can be taken out.
This man went to see his mom, sick with COVID. #Russian invaders shot his wife, 2 kids, and 2 dogs in #Irpen. He saw the bodies on the TV. Recognized them by clothes, the dogs' carrier and the scream of a dog. Nothing's left. He's seeking justice.
"History repeats itself. #Kherson is occupied again. Now, #Russian fascists bomb our land, occupy cities, loot and shoot villages, kill civilians. But we will not give up! We fight for a life in a peaceful, free and independent Ukraine."Yuri Sobolevsky, Kherson regional council Image
RFE/RL: #Russian soldiers killed in #Ukraine are being brought by truck to the morgues and then sent back to #Russia by train or plane, according to residents who talked to RFE/RL. The morgues in Belarusian cities of Mozyr, Homel and Naroulia are reportedly full.
Briefing, #Ukraine, 8 am, March 13
🔻 #Kyiv region #Bucha district - battles in #Irpen, #Makarov. movement of the enemy in Gostomel, Borodyanka, Bucha. #Brovary district - the movement of Russian vehicles. Fights in 3 communities, Brovary district. Humanitarian catastrophe.
🔻 #Chernihiv region
At night - three air raids on Chernihiv. Destruction and casualties TBC. Defensive battles around #Chernihiv. Yesterday 2 settlements in the #Kyiv direction were liberated from #Russians.
🔻 Sumy: 2 air raids. Artillery fire at villages in the Okhtyrka district and Okhtyrka. Attacks mainly from Trostyanets, occupied by the #Russians. They used the period of silence of the past few days to strengthen its positions and move troops.
🔻 Zhytomyr: Air-raids. No loss.
🔻 #Kirovohrad region: Air raids, calm.
🔻 #Dnipropetrovsk Air raids, calm.
🔻 #Kharkiv: air raids, battles in the #Izyum region.
🔻 #Zaporizhzhia region
A massive offensive by #Russians, w/artillery, tanks, grenade launchers and mortars.
🔻 Rivne region: Air raids, calm.
🔻 #Volyn, #Poltava, #Chernivtsi; #Vinnytsia; #Transcarpathia; #Khmelnytsky; #Ternopil: #Cherkasy: Air raids, calm.
🔻 #Lviv region: an air strike on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security. 8 missiles. TBC
🔻 Ivano-Frankivsk: A missile strike on the airfield.
🔻 #Luhansk region: The residential sector of Severodonetsk, Rubizhne Lysychansk and Popasna under constant fire. Casualties among the civilian population. Despite the constant shelling, power engineers managed to connect 13,000 subscribers, gas companies - 7,000.
🔻 #Mariupol under siege, fighting on the outskirts of the city. The humanitarian column is advancing - slowly but surely.
#Kramatorsk: air raids. Planes over the Estuary, Sloviansk, Svyatogorsk. Strikes in the area of ​​Svyatogorsk Lavra.
🔻 #Mykolayiv region: defensive
🔻 #Kherson region: #strong explosions near the airport.
🔻 #Odesa: Air raids, calm.
JUST IN: #Russian troops are trying to bypass Nikolaev to advance towards Odesa, - the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain reports. Image
This morning, March 13, in #Dniprorudny, #Russians abducted Mayor Yevhen Matveev. It seems to be the pattern. #Melitopol Mayor was abducted yesterday, followed by the abduction of the protest organizer.
In the last three days, in #Urkaine, #Russians bombed: a theater, library, university, schools, kindergartens, maternity hospitals, a boarding school for disabled kids, an oncological ward, a monastery, and killed dozens of women, children, old people, and animals. #StopRussia
And the online army of trolls is pushing a hashtag Stop Hating Russians. #InformationWarfare continues. Brainwashed #Russian people who lost their jobs due to sanctions are being hired by FSB to work as online trolls. This army will grow. Share facts. Stay vigilant.
The war never stops. It's been 17 days of war and trying to report the war. So the world can see the suffering, the pain, and so that humanity wins. This is not Netflix. Not a game. We, as a world, need to stop it. Otherwise, how are we human?
[sleep break]
A brief update of the last 7 hours: 2,187 civilians dead in #Mairupol total; in the last 22 hrs--22 airstrikes, 100 bombs. Last food supplies about to end. Streets fights. #AmericanJournalist killed in #Irpen, Brent Renaud, w/@nytimes ID, but not working for @nytimes.
#kadyrovtsy in # Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant beat civilians. #Russians hire mercenaries in Syria, Serbia and other regions. #Kadyrov might have arrived in #Ukraine. More updates in a few hours.
❗️#Russians are preparing for a landing in Odesa. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said that the threat of invasion from the sea has increased, but the paratroopers will be met with a fight.
"Humanitarian cargo has not arrived in Mariupol again," said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk.

"The evacuation convoy remained in Berdyansk due to the fact that the Russians attack on the humanitarian corridor from the air. There are many civilian casualties."
Russia completely destroys 7 hospitals, damages additional 104.
Moscow’s forces killed 6 medical personnel, severely injuring 12 more since the start of the war Health Minister Viktor Lyashko. @KyivIndependent
At least 756 anti-war protestors detained in #Russia on March 13.

Independent monitoring group OVD-Info said police had arrested protestors in 37 Russian cities during demonstrations, with half of them in Moscow. journalists are among those detained. @KyivIndependent
#Russia. @WSJ: #Russian prosecutor's office threatened #Western companies w/arrests and seizure of assets. Local company executives could be arrested if they criticize the Russian government. Last week, warnings have been sent to McDonald’s, IBM, and Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut).
[In the 90s, I worked for a Swedish businessman in St.Petersburg. Thugs/KGB from Putin's office demanded to pay "krysha" (protection $). He refused. Threats, kidnapping of family ensued; he left his job & Russia. Putin didn't change. The West stopped paying "krysha" now: voila.]
In March 2018, the world's top Putin opposition gathered in NY to warn the world of the danger. #Putincon, organized by Garry Kasparov & Bill Browder, covered all risks and aspects, w/special focus on criminal mentality & mafia state dangers. P.1. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/putincon-farce…
Poignant re-reading. We warned, loud & clear: “#Putin is waging a war on the Western democracies.”“The #Russians want to install post-Western world order, in the words of Sergey #Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.”Part 2, the day of Putin's "re-election."zarinazabrisky.medium.com/putincon-post-…
#InformationWarfare. 1. #Zelenskyy thanked #Meta / #Facebook for its active position.
Meanwhile, a whistleblower alleges #Meta violated US sanctions law by permitting pro-Russia rebels' accounts. My account, as well as many others, is limited; many are banned. AI allegedly suppresses posts about the war in #Ukraine. #InformationWarfare: thehill.com/policy/technol…
The complaint includes concerns about a pro-Russian biker named Aleksandr Zaldostanov who promoted the invasion of Ukraine on Facebook despite being sanctioned in 2014.facebook.com/hirurgnw Who is he, Putin's biker? zarinazabrisky.medium.com/bikers-for-thu…
#Zaldostanov on #Facebook TODAY: "We all need Russia today - the defender of the weak and oppressed...consciously defending the Biblical view on the world." Yesterday, #Russians bombed a monastery w/monks & refugees. Today, killed a priest. Over a week, ruined several churches. ImageImageImageImage
Moral consideration never was #Meta forte. However, in the face of the new (and old) sanctions law, should not the individual funded by the #Kremlin & openly calling for joining #Russian massacre in #Ukraine be banned from FB? ImageImage
A question: FB is officially blocked in #Russian by the watchdog #Roskomnadzor. How does #Zaldostanov post on FB?! Shocker. Even a known fascist Alexander Dugin, known for his call "Kill!" (3 times) #Ukrainians in 2014, left FB today 'cause "it's blocked." He wasn't banned, btw. Image
A video from #Moscow, #Russia. Two segments. 1. A young woman shows a piece of paper with "Two Words" written on it. ["No War" is illegal.]❤️ She is arrested in 20 sec. 2. Another young woman wants to speak up FOR the military operation. She is arrested in 20 sec. 😂 ImageImageImageImage
And here it is, #RusskyMir (#RussianWorld/#RussianPeace) that #Ukraine will not have. Many choose death over this life. I would, too. In the 2nd video, the protestor is being kicked, while on the ground, in the snow. ImageImageImage
[I get stories from the last opposition members/activists who managed to flee #Russia. A gay couple flew to Tbilisi, Georgia, and from there to Brazil where they don't know a soul. Some cross the Estonian border on foot. Those who can't leave get letter Z written on their door.]
Yet, the majority is pro-Putin and pro-war & demonstrate the lack of moral standards & compassion to an inconceivable degree. The same goes for the #Russian soldiers in Ukraine. In #trostyanets, they do not allow to bury the dead. People keep their loved ones' corpses in garages.
#CurrentTimesTV reports today: In #Sumy region, #Russian soldiers are not fed. Tey loot stores & pharmacies, get drunk/high on drugs, and last night got into drunk shooting fights with each other. They also steal psychotropic drugs from residents in the occupied territories.
#Zelenskyy warns: #Russia will attack #NATO. “Now I repeat again: If you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory, on NATO territory, on the homes of NATO citizens.” Some confirmation from the #Russians.
#Putin's mouthpiece, on the main state channel: "With sanctions like this, who said we should stop by #Ukraine's borders? The answer: The whole world--into sawdust. We'll blast, for sure, just not yet."
"When they understand that Ukrainian borders matter nothing, and we will not stop unless they capitulate on our terms, not about LNR & DNR, Crimea... a completely different story"
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Earlier, I shared a photo of graves in a yard. Here is the photo of a mom, Marina, and 12 y.o. son, Ivan, killed in #Irpen. #Russians do not not allow residents in the occupied areas to bury their deads properly, and sometimes at all. Image
So if you think, attacking #NATO is unthinkable, think again. How many things inconceivable, inhumane, and lacking any logic did #Putin and his army do in the last 18 days? Putin WILL attack a NATO country if he is not stopped.
According to the UK MOD, #Russian troops blocked the Black Sea coast and thus cut off #Ukraine from international maritime trade; the #Russian navy "continues to carry out missile strikes against targets throughout Ukraine"; carried out 1 landing in the Azov Sea & may carry more. Image
The pregnant woman carried out on a stretcher died along with an unborn child, @nv.ua. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine #CloseTheSkyOverUkraineNOW Image
#Russian troops robbed a museum in the Zaporozhye region.“Everything that could be picked up was taken out. Office equipment was smashed and trampled, all doors & windows broken, everything destroyed,” said the director of the museum. They even stole a marble toilet bowl.
Today, 1,600 people have been evacuated from the Luhansk region - they are safe and are on their way to western Ukraine. Evacuation continues but many don't make it. What happens is impossible to watch. IT MUST BE STOPPED.
This is a video from #Irpin. People like you and I running under fire. facebook.com/qirim.news/vid…
The man who lost his whole family. His dogs were found. The wife was an employee of a Silicon Valley startup. None of these words make any sense. How does one go on? You know who took them. Putin. And we didn't stop him and we are still not stopping him. How many does it take? Image
#Mariupol: stories shared by relatives: "today, they are sitting in the basement, there are fights outside. It's scary." "building #XXX-- no windows, next to it hit a long time ago. The rest of the houses okay. Otherwise, like everyone else. Almost no water, food is running out."
#Mariupol: stories from eyewitnesses: ...everything rumbles around, from the conversation I realized that there is some kind of destruction in the house, maybe the windows flew out, they didn’t answer my question, most likely they are not saying much, don’t want to upset us."
Non-stop artillery strikes. Also, unverified reports that #Russians are evacuating people to #Russia against their will. ImageImage
Here it is again, the faithful #RusskyMir. Еhe church of St.Theodosius, in #Chernihiv, was on fire on March 13, after the #Russians fired on the Yatsevo cemetery (!) People were hiding in the basement of the temple from the shelling. Image
The temple burned down. Approx. 100 people were evacuated under the shelling of the Russian artillery that also shelled the city hospital today. The hospital now has no roof.
#Kyiv. About 2 hours ago, a #Russian artillery shell hit the 9-storey building. Destruction from the 1st to the 3rd floors and a fire in the apartments on the 3rd and 4th floors.
In #Kyiv: 2 dead, 3 hospitalized, 9 people received help on the spot. The State Emergency Service rescued 15 people and evacuated 63 people, the search continues. ImageImage
UPDATE: The State Emergency Service now says one person was killed in the early morning shelling of the apartment block in Kyiv, not two as it earlier reported. Image
#Mariupol eyewitness: "No more tears."
[sleep break]
[Update, March 14. Had to help w/other urgent tasks. Reporting is everything but real people are more important. If you want to help, PM. #Ukraine needs the world's help: time, hands, money, pens. But just staying informed is also critical so thank you for staying tuned.]
❗The International Court of Justice in The #Hague is ready to decide on the case of Ukraine against Russia. The decision is expected on March 16 at 17:00 Kyiv time. #PutinsWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal
#Russia has announced new strikes against defense industry enterprises in #Ukraine and at the places of "location of foreign mercenaries." As expected, #Russian accused #Ukraine of allegedly shelling its own territory in Donetsk today. @UnianInfo
@FT quoted unnamed officials, writing that “the U.S. has told allies that China signaled its willingness to provide military assistance to Russia to support its invasion of Ukraine. Details are not known. @KyivIndependent
In #Ukraine, #humanitarianCatastrophe. #Russian invaders disrupted humanitarian corridors in the #Brovary district, #Kyiv region. The columns of buses could not reach 3 villages due to shelling from the #Russian side. In #Luhansk region evacuation happened, under #Russian fire.
#Russians purposefully destruct agricultural equipment to jeopardize the sowing campaign in the spring, adding to a humanitarian crisis worldwide as #Ukraine supplies crops to Europe, China, Africa.
Systematic cases of destruction of agricultural equipment noted in the Brovarsky district (Kyiv region), Melitopol district (Zaporizhzhia region), Prylutsky, Nezhinsky, Novgorod-Seversky districts (Chernihiv region), in a number of districts of Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
#Russians requisition agricultural machinery for their engineering work, building fortifications and using to move/pull armored vehicles. The local population in the occupied settlements is forcibly involved in these works. 30 units destroyed in #Sumy region.
#EnvironmetalCrisis: #Russians fired at treatment facilities in the #Zaporizhzhia region. Wastewater now enters the Dnieper River without treatment.
#environmentalCrisis: #Energoatom reports that #Russians are planning to dispose of ammunition at the site near the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe, #Zaporozhia.
#environmental #catastrophe: #Russians have damaged the power line feeding the #Chernobyl #nuclear power plant and nearby city Slavutych after it has been repaired by #Ukrainian #Ukrenergo. #Ukrainian repair team is going back to the occupied area near #Chernobyl.
#Humanitarian crisis. In #Donetsk region, 11 settlements remain without water after #Russian shelling of infrastructure. In #Kharkiv, #Russians destroyed about 600 buildings; damaging water and power supply.
#KryvyRih, #Dnipropetrovsk region. Fighting for 3 days on the border of #Kherson & #Dnipropetrovsk regions. #Russian troops arrive from #Crimea, suffer losses. 3 evacuation trains daily. #KryvyiRih has one of the world's largest iron ore deposits, allegedly one of #Russian goals.
#Mykolaiv Mayor, when approached via text w/offer to surrender the city advised #Russian authorities in charge asked them if they know the status of the #RussianMilitaryShip & offered help w/getting award if they surrender military equipment. #RussianShipGoF*Yourself Image
#Mariupol #Russians stopped blocking the work of the "green corridor" and several dozen cars have been able to leave the city (the exact number TBC.) The situation in Mariupol is getting worse every day. Constant shelling, incessant airstrikes, street fighting within the city.
People are cooking outside on fire. No power, water, little food. Many are starting to get sick with w/respirtatory diseases. More photos are available from those who managed to escape today. Image
Again, #RusskyMir (#Russian World/#Russian Peace), with its raging Orthodox Christianity, bombing churches, killing "Christian brothers". "Liberators." Protectors of "family values" killing children and not allowing burial. Photos by #RussianTroops, via #Ukrainian channel. #Hague ImageImageImage
[Please share the photos and stories, verify and share. #InformationWarfare is ongoing. Russians are losing their jobs and the troll army is growing by a day. The Kremlin will continue its work on swaying the international community's mind. They will flip narratives.]
In #Chernihiv region, March 10 or 11, at night, #Russians broke into the house of the Head of Hunters Club demanded the list of local hunters. Anatoly Kulgeyko said "Russian military ship, go * yourself" and exploded a hand grenade, killing himself and a few #Russian soldiers. Image
#Putin underestimated the morale of the local population in #Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine. It was one of the main mistakes of the #Russian military. For this, they are punishing these areas with Syrian/Chechen model: urban fights with aviation, artillery, rocket launchers.
#Kremlin compensates w/ #InformationWarfare campaign. TV towers are destroyed. Journalists are threatened & coerced into collaboration. In #Ryvny, 9 dead after TV tower strike. In #Berdyansk, journalists & their relatives threatened, forced to work for Russian propaganda."
Inside #Russia, the war on its own people continues. Many fled, walking through the border. Many anti-war protestors are arrested and targeted. A theater critic had to flee after starting a petition against war. Her story: facebook.com/ignatson/posts… Image
From #Russia, my sources:"TV is fake. Darkness, lies, zombies. They explain to us that to oppose the massacre is to wish defeat for your country, betrayal of Motherland. I say: my Motherland has betrayed me. For saying this - 15 years of prison. Say it without a mask, it's 20."
Another #Russian source: "We hear from sources close to the #Kremlin: it's beyond dark there." Another: "People are depressed. No panic, no cheers of patriotic enthusiasm. Angry, cursing. Prices are skyrocketing. Queues, people buy everything, w/doomed mood."
From #Russia: "They say the economy will die by winter. Many do not understand this, but will feel it. Discontent among young people & those used to normal life is growing. For now, they are busy saving $, businesses. Everything is buried in asphalt. Life smells of shit and war."
In #Kyiv, during the shelling of a house in Obolon, a turtle flew out of the window. Fell behind the fence of the football field. Its foot was wounded. It was handed over to the doctors of the Red Cross. #Ukrainians consistently show humanity & the beauty of spirit beyond words. Image
Another building hit by #Russian missile in #Kyiv. A trolley bus destroyed, building damaged. In Velyka Dymerka near Brovary, #Kadyrovets fired at a bus stop with people waiting, aiming for fun [watched a video, too disturbing to share here] Image
[stopping for a mental health break which you should do, too. Breathing, taking care of the body, drinking water is crucial to stay sane and fit to help fight this massacre. Thank you for following and helping to #StopPutinNOW]
IMPORTANT. @NATO #Solovyev: "And when you threaten Russia w/more sanctions, shove them up your a**, roll them up & shove it. Putin told you: the infrastructure of NATO-to the borders of '97. Nuclear weapons-to the countries they belong to. 1/2--
@NATO #Solovyov: "if you think we will stop at #Ukraine, think 300 times. Let me remind you: #Ukraine is just an intermediate stage in ensuring the strategic security of the Russian Federation. t.me/uniannet/38338
#Solovyov Since September 2, 2018 — host of the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the channel "Russia-1"; guests: the president's press secretary Peskov, State Duma deputy. On 23 February 2022, Solovyov was sanctioned by the EU (assets frozen 9over 8 mn$) Image
#Pentagon briefing today, "A Russian airstrike on the Yavoriv training facility near Lviv where Florida National Guard members trained before leaving Ukraine-3rd airstrike in western Ukraine " “it certainly appears as if the Russians are broadening their target set.”
[not sure about the avatar next to Pentagon hashtag, not intentional.] Here is the link to the CNN article: cnn.com/europe/live-ne…
#KhvilinkaHumoru You'd think it is a joke because it is funny but it is a dead serious CNN article. I explained about #RussianWorld #RusskyMir idea. [see below] Gay parades: I recently came from #Kyiv & #Odesa. As much as I LOVE Ukraine, gay parades are NOT popular there. ImageImageImageImage
Basically, #RusskyMir is a Trojan Horse. Russian-speakers around the world are brainwashed and programmed by the mightly propaganda machine to implode the Western culture. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/hybrid-war-str…
More here:
I emphasize #RusskyMir as 1. You hear #Ukrainians talk about it in every video of the destroyed houses or killed children. 2. It is critical to understand in order to comprehend the tragedy of #Putin's war against #Ukraine. More here: zarinazabrisky.medium.com/sealed-in-bloo…
#Zelenskyy, in a new video, announced the beginning of tax reform: simplified accounting will be introduced for businesses, and the payment of a single tax will be voluntary for the first and second groups of sole proprietors in order to support the economy during the war.
#Russian army is trying to capture #Mariupol. Attack was rebuffed, losses: 150 soldiers, two tanks, seven infantry fighting vehicles and one armored personnel carrier. Offensive stopped. #Russian troops retreated, the General Staff of the #Ukrainian Armed Forces.
#Russians abducted mayor of #Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov; he was taken to occupied #Luhansk and accused of terrorism. The mayor of #Dniprorudny, Yevhen Matveyev, is also in captivity, details unknown. On March 14, the priest of PCU Oleg Nikolaev was abducted from Berdyansk.
In #Trostyanets in the #Sumy region, the #Russian military is luring locals into fake "green corridors" and taking away their mobile phones, said DIA chief Dmytro Zhyvytskyi. Negotiations on the opening of humanitarian corridors in the Sumy region are ongoing.
Courageous people even at the #Kremlin-sponsored, most pro-Putin Channel 1. A woman interrupted livestream with "NO WAR, you are being told lies and propaganda" poster" and was immediately arrested. Her lawyer is not allowed to see her.
[As I'm reporting the 19th day of war; & Putin's propaganda (and crimes) since 2012, I'm trying to see where was the line when the wrong turned into absurd, and absurd into unspeakable. I watched, studied, and reported it for a decade, & even I'm at loss.]
#Chernihiv, humanitarian aide from Poland, with love (to #Ukraine). #KhvilinkaHumoru Image
More than 40,000 Syrian fighters registered to go to #Ukraine to fight, following Putin’s call for foreign “volunteers” to join Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. No Syrian fighters have left the country as of March 14, the group says. @KyivIndependent
CNN: Russia requests ready-to-eat meals from China to feed troops. This "raises questions about the fundamental readiness of the Russian military.” #RussianWorld bombs Orthodox churches, Russian-speaking #Kharkiv #Mariupol. Syrian volunteers. Chinese meals. Don't look for logic.
[break to focus on two articles. will do another update tonight. take a mental break from news. drink water. stay strong. #Ukraine needs you balanced and calm so you can help fight this horror. #CлаваУкраїні ]
Heavy explosions in #Kyiv. We should not specify addresses or share photos until later, as per the request of the Ukrainian Army General Staff. Early morning is the time the #Russians bomb residential areas of #Ukrainian cities. People are asleep.
From MOD of Ukraine: 🇺🇦 Briefing as of 06:00 am, March 15
▫️Today, #Ukrainian Air Forces downed 4 RU helicopters, 1 RU plane; 1 fighter shot down an #RussianArmy cruise missile.
▫️#Russians continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip firing positions, deploy weapons/eqpt.
From MOD of #Ukraine:
▫️The #RussianArmy morale & psychological condition: low. Many soldiers refuse to carry out orders. Mobilized residents from #Luhansk region are sent in to replenish the losses of active units of the #RussianArmy.
▫️#Mariupol: #Russians attempt to capture #Mariupol. The #Ukrainian soldiers successfully pushed back attacks. #Russian losses: 150 personnel, 2 tanks, 7 infantry fighting vehicles & 1 armored personnel carrier. Offensive stopped; aggressor retreated.
▫️#Ukrainian artillery & aircraft inflicted fire damage on #Russian military equipment and convoys on the advance routes. 12 units of motor vehicles destroyed w/artillery fire.
#Russian Marine Brigade/Separate Assault Brigade suffered losses. No landing in the Black & Azov Seas.
As of now, the power supply at #Chernobyl nuclear power plant restored, after the second damage caused by #RussianArmy, IAEA reports
In the Podilskyi district of #Kyiv, ammunition hit a ten-story building, 1st and 5th floors caught fire. The fire was extinguished, 1 hospitalized. Image
#Kyiv. Residential house. #Russian "liberation," today. ImageImageImageImage
In, #Kyiv a metro station building and office space are damaged by a blast.
During the night in Kharkiv, shells hit residential buildings and several commercial premises. The fire was extinguished by 20 fire departments. Later, 7 victims were rescued from the rubble. Image
In #Luhansk region, #RussianArmy destroyed the Khrustalik ("Little Crystal") boarding school for visually impaired children, a city hospital, and three schools. Four people died. Are we still just watching and saying, "Oh, no!"? #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine Demand it! ImageImage
IN #Kharkiv, #RussianArmy destroyed 600 buildings. Image
During the day #RussianArmy fired at #Kharkiv 65 times, two missiles fired downtown. Head of the regional admin: "I will say this: the enemy has no chance to enter the city and take the city of #Kharkiv. This is the position of the military, this is the position of civilians."
#Mariupol. The 15th day of the Siege. The situation is getting worse by a minute. The shelling by the #RussianArmy is incessant. To date, at least 2,187 civilians have been killed. No heat, no water, no food.
On Jan 27, 2020, #Putin laid flowers at the mass grave in which his brother is buried, starved to death in the Leningrad Siege. From Sept 1941, it lasted 900 days. According to the Nuremberg Trials, 632,000 died. 3% from bombings; 97% from starvation. My family starved there, too
For anyone from Leningrad, the word "Siege" is traumatic. Kids grew up playing on mass graves. In spring, when the snow thawed, rusty bullets were still in the soil. Photos of starved relatives. Who, in their sound mind, would besiege a city, repeat the horror tales of childhood?
No one. This man is insane. Here is his "article" he wrote for a children's magazine (!) "Russian Pioneer" in 2015 (a reference to the USSR Young Leninist obligatory group!) This is the game he's re-playing, in his delirium. rbth.com/politics/2015/… Image
Here it is, the whole opus. Run it through a translator, ain't translating this crap. He's been retelling this story forever. If there are psychiatrists reading, please take a look. The last paragraph, notable. He says the Nazis were just "working lads" ruspioner.ru/cool/m/single/…
#Mariupol: Eyewitness: "A neighbor called. She said everything was fine. Cooking food on fire outside. Lots of shelling today.""Everyone's alive, some in the basements, some in the apartments, there are no windows in the house. No shellings yet, no evacuation news, scared."
DNR authorities threaten the doctor from #Mariupol who told the story of the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn child in a maternity hospital after the shelling. Monsters.
In #Energodar, #RussianArmy turned off the warning air raid system and attacked the civilian population. They around the city during the day, check cars, break the front glass if it is tinted, take away mobile devices. Complete anarchy - the mayor Dmitry Orlov
[sleep break.]
UPDATE 03/15/22. Starting with a briefing by MOD of #Ukraine as of 18:00 #Kyiv time:
📌 Fights for the liberation of the environs of #Mariupol continue. The fighters of the #Azov unit defeated one of the formations of the 22nd separate special forces brigade of the #Russian army
📌 In the #Luhansk region, #UkrainianArmy destroyed 5 MLRS BM-21 "Grad" w/ammunition, 3 T-72 tanks, 1 BMP-3, 15+ personnel;
❗️The #Russian army continues to carry out missile/bomb strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure, civilians, residential areas, schools & kindergartens.
Commander-in-Chief of #UkrainianArmy Valeriy Zaluzhny on 20 days of the war: fulfilling tasks, stopped the aggressor, deployed parts of the reserve & going on a counteroffensive in certain areas. Ukrainian military suffers losses but they are smaller than #RussianArmy losses.
Latest briefing by Arestovich:
#Russian army focuses mainly on #Donetsk/#Luhansk, #Mariupol, #Mykolaev
For the 3rd day, #Russians use little aviation in #Kyiv, #Kharkiv, #Sumy.
#Ukrainian air defense systems work well
#Russians focus on ballistic missile strikes.
ALERT: #Zaporizhzhia: 500-900 invaders at the biggest nuclear plant in EU. The head of the State Enterprise "NAEC" Energoatom": “#Ukrainian personnel still manages the plant but must coordinate all actions with #Russian military ignorant on the safety/operations.--
"--We are forced to follow their orders. Yesterday, they surrounded an area in front of the nuclear power plant, close to power unit No. 1, shot guns and blew up a metal box. Loud explosion. The consequences of these actions can be horrifying.” #enerhodar
#Kharkiv: #UkrainianArmy destroyed a #Russain convoy in the #Kharkiv region. Burnt equipment stretched for kilometers. [not specifying the location as per request of the MOD of #Ukraine. It is important to not give any addresses unless publicly announced by #UkrainianArmy]
#Kharkiv. More bombing. Image
#Kharkiv This building dates back to 1911. It survived two world wars and the Nazi bombings. It did not survive Putin's Russia. @UnianInfo Image
#Kharkiv: #RussianArmy suffered significant losses attempting to storm #Kharkiv from #Pyatikhatki direction. The attack in #RusskyTishki was repelled in an hour. Russians retreated. - Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.
#Mykolaev. Over three days, the bodies of 7 dead people found under the rubble of a school in the #Mykolaiv region. Three victims rescued. Search and rescue operations are officially closed.
#Izyum: The Deputy Mayor of Izyum: #humanitarianCrisis in #Izyum. Open humanitarian corridors. "The city of Izyum has been under siege for two weeks. Without water, light, heat, food, medicine, communications. The situation is no better than Mariupol," he said.
#Dnipro Two rocket strikes recorded, the runway of the local airport destroyed. The terminal damaged. - the head of the #Dnipro OVA Valentin Reznichenko
#Luhansk #RussianArmy disrupted the evacuation from the Lugansk region. Silence regime broken. Humanitarian corridors not possible. The Russian army wants more war hostages among the civilian population. The shelling does not stop.
#Luhansk region: yesterday the evacuation by buses from #Popasna took place during the battle in the city.
Today another evacuation train is expected for residents of the #Luhansk region. Transportation of people from Severodonetsk and Rubizhne organized. Waiting for cease fire.
#Mariupol: Humanitarian corridors for private cars open from #Mariupol to #Zaporizhzhia. People are recommended to remove messengers and photos. 160 passenger cars left Mariupol yesterday; as of 10:00, there is information that about 300 Mariupol residents arrived in Zaporizhzhia
#Mariupol. UPDATE: According to Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, green corridors didn't start and #Mariupol didn’t receive humanitarian aid today.
[160 cars from #Mariupol left on March 14. March 15, no green corridors.]
#Kyiv. A metro station and residential areas damaged by #Russian shelling in the last 12 hours. ImageImageImageImage
#Kyiv. Vova is 13. Together with his family, he tried to escape from #Kyiv in a car on fire. #Russians killed his father and younger brother. Vova was seriously injured.
Milana is 6 years old recovering from surgery on her legs. Russian# shelling killed her mother. ImageImage
#Kyiv. Today. March 15, 2022. ImageImageImageImage
#Kyiv Mayor Klitschko: 4 people killed in #Kyiv by #Russian airstrike. As a result of shelling, a fire broke out in a 16-story residential building in #Kyiv’s western Sviatoshynskyi district. Several other buildings were also hit, including the entrance to the Lukyanivska metro
The losses from the war started by #Putin's #Russia in #Ukraine amounted to at least $500 billion [not yet final] "Many supply chains completely broken, many enterprises destroyed, & some cannot work; their employees have left," Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.
#Russia plans mass cutting of #Ukrainian forests. Russian MOD asked Putin for permission to cut down Ukrainian "forests, trees, shrubs and green spaces""of any intensity and age, regardless of the form of ownership & category of land with the right to use the wood."
The wood not used for the needs of the #RussianArmy will be sold, and the funds received will be used to support the occupying army. #Ecocide. The last time something like this happened on the territory of Ukraine was during the Nazi occupation. @UnianInfo
#Refugees. According to UN estimates, 3 million people have already left #Ukraine. The #Czech Republic, one of the countries where #Ukrainians arrive en masse, can no longer cope with the flow.
More crimes: #RussianArmy took hostage doctors & patients of the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in #Mariupol - reported by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavel Kirilenko. A message from one of the hospital staff: “Impossible to leave the hospital-
Intense shooting, we hide in the basement. Cars can't drive to the hospital for 2 days. High-rise buildings are burning all around... The Russians drove 400 people from the neighborhood to our hospital. We can't go out."
The hospital is practically destroyed by #Russians.
More from #Kharkiv. #Russians bombed the drama theater and a park with playgrounds. Denazification continues. This is #RusskyMir. #Russians fired cluster bombs at the center of the city and residential buildings from a multiple launch rocket system "Smerch". Image
Meanwhile, in #Russia. #Moscow. At the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a girl with a poster “The 6th commandment. Don't kill" is detained. The prosecutor asks Navalny to be sentenced to 13 years in prison and a large fine for "fraud and insulting the court". No one pays attention Image
Bloomberg predicts #Russia's #default tomorrow. The external debt $150 billion, 3 scenarios:
it will pay the debt in $. Then,the default is delayed until April 4;
it pays in rubles, only in cash
it does not pay. Failure to pay triggers a grace period of 30 days, then default.
Witnesses and POW: #Russian soldiers wanting to desert are shot by their own, often by #Kadyrovtsy, #Chechen soldiers loyal to Kadyrov, Putin's puppet in #Chechnya
This is a dog named Patron (cartridge). He looks for mines in #Chernihiv area. Image
We need some humor. It lowers cortisol and helps us stay strong and positive and help #Ukraine. So, #KhvilinkaHumoru: #Kremlin imposed personal sanctions on Biden and Blinken, etc. Poor folks can go fishing in Siberia. Bummer!
#Kyiv. Also, just watched a video of a tank firing at a civilian, seemingly an old man, in the street of #Mariupol. This is #RusskyMir (#RussianWorld/#RussianPeace.) Image
[End of update for now. The war never stops. I break to do a podcast to tell these stories and share what I know about #Putin's crimes, #InformationWarfare and more with my favorite fellow writer @gregolear; and working on an article for @byLine-subscribe! Back soon]
#Russia was expelled from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. No one voted against this decision.
#Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy PM Yaroslav Kaczynski, #Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala & #Slovenian PM Janez Jansa visited #Kyiv. #Zelenskyy: "Your visit at this difficult time for #Ukraine is powerful evidence of support. We really appreciate it." Bravo.
In the #Kherson region, #Russian soldiers fire heavy artillery at new agricultural equipment, destroying it. "No rhyme or reason. Vandals." Sergey Rybalko, People's Deputy, Kherson
There are heroes in #Russia. They are dead, in prison, or in exile. #Navalny, today, is facing 13 more years in prison. He, like #Ukraine, #Ukrainians, #Zelensky, is also proclaimed a "fascist." Putin's definition of a "fascist": whoever does not obey Putin. His address follows. Image
#Navalny, Instagram: “The prosecutor requested 13 years in a strict regime colony for me. If the term is the price for my human right to say what I think is necessary & the civil right to fight for a better future for Russia, they can ask 113. I won't give up my words & acts.
My friends won't give up either. Today I announced: the Anti-Corruption Foundation will not only not die, close, stall, but will enter a new global level of work, becoming an international organization. And it will keep its focus on investigations against the #Kremlin thieves.
#Navalny: Don't worry about me. I am completely ok and I only worry about others who worry about me. I even asked my wife Yulia not to come to the verdict on March 22, but to spend the day with our son Zakhar so that he would not learn the news from classmates or teachers.
#Navalny: In my last speech, I spoke, of course, about the war. About how it became a direct consequence of corruption and degradation. A bloody cover for the failure of #Putin's regime. We all shouldn't just yell, sigh, repent and lament. Everyone must act. In their own way...
#Navalny: Clearly, as Leo Tolstoy, one of our great writers, with whose quote I ended my speech, told us: “War is a product of despotism. Those who want to fight war must only fight despotism."
Today is the birthday of my dear friend Evgeny Avilov who had to flee #Putin 6 years ago after protesting the regime and the war in Ukraine in 2014. Here are his five seconds protest and the arrest. After two arrests, he was hit on his head w/brick, too.
When #Putin annexed #Crimea, Avilov painted a series of art with his own blood. #Putin first invaded #Russia and the mids of the majority of #Russians. Now he is out to invade #Ukraine. And his propagandists promise: #Europe is next. ImageImage
Today, in occupied #Kherson region, residents of #ZaliznyPort held a peaceful rally against the #Russian invaders. "Zalizny Port is #Ukraine."No #Russian World” will pass! We are Europe. We have a democratic world here,” Olena Lahtadir wrote on FB. facebook.com/OlenaLakhtadyr…
#KhvilinkaHumoru This is how disinformation appears at times. I saw the report on a fairly reliable Ukrainian channel and after five minutes of verification, this. Check your sources. Verify. And mistakes will happen. As long as we find them.
#InformationWarfare by Rene Collet, the Netherlands. (Collet's fiancee, novelist and publisher Elena Mordovina, just fled from Kyiv, with many obstacles.) [For me, Collet's sculptures capture the essence of our lives today better than words.] ImageImage
I got exclusive footage of #Ukrainian biological weapon. Borscht, syrniki, galushki. Caption: WARNING! An indescribable desire to fall in love with Ukraine can appear. Image
#Kherson city head Igor Kolikhaev, asked the local population to verify all information. The #informationWar led by #Russian propagandists is intensifying. [same goes for the international information space.]
Just #FYI: Sirens in regions: Cherkasy, Dnipro, Lviv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi & cities: Kyiv, Izyum, Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Nikopol, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Izmail, Odesa, Poltava, Kryve Ozero. Loud explosions in Kyiv’s suburbs & Kharkiv. NOW. Image
Please see these pictures. Then will tell more than anyone can. Support these journalists. They are working from #Ukraine. @KyivIndependent kyivindependent.com/national/20-da…
#Russians kidnap authorities, activists, journalists, often with bags over their heads, threaten them: collaborate or die. In Berdyansk, a director of a local travel agency, captured at a cafe after an anti-Russian protest, few more. Putin's bandits did this in the 90s. Mafia. Image
#Russian invaders began rocket and artillery shelling of the coast in the #Odesa region--the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko. They fired a large amount of ammunition from a long distance. In all likelihood, this was done to feel the coastal defense system.
The book's title: "The End of the World."(first photo) Photos by Vladislav Kulish. facebook.com/vladislavkulis… Some incredible photos from a local photographer. ImageImageImageImage
A building in #Irpen. A friend's friend lives(d) there. Image
[A new wave of people trying to escape so focusing on helping people now, will do an update before going to sleep]
CNN: #Ukrainian military strikes number of #Russian military helicopters at #Kherson International Airport. According to new satellite images from Planet Labs, the strike set on fire/destroyed, at least 3 helicopters &military vehicles at the airport.
In the #Odesa region, #Russians are trying to identify the #Ukrainian air defense system--spokesman for the Operational HQ of the regional military administration. The #Ukrainian defense reacted accordingly. #Russian ships remain in the Black Sea, regrouping by the Odesa coast. Image
From the General Staff, #Ukraine Image
#Zaporizhzhia Explosions at the railway station. t.me/uniannet/38676
#Kyiv. Now. #Russians shell a 12-story residential building and damage the neighboring 9-story building. Rescuers fight the fire and evacuate. "They are trying to cause panic but only cause hatred and the desire to take revenge," said #Kyiv Mayor. Image
#Kyiv. Monsters. Monsters. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyOverUkraineNOW #NoFlyZoneUA ImageImage
Another church shot at. #RussianWorld. #RussianPeace. #RusskyMir. These are the Christian values they bring to Europe. Europe: stop them. They will not stop at #Ukraine. ImageImage
#Mariupol: Eyewitness story: "Small shops were all demolished. No garages. No water, even technical water, anywhere. The houses were on fire, but they were quickly put out." Image
Briefing from General Staff #Ukraine, 6.00 am, 16.03.2022, 21st day.
The state, position & nature of the actions of the defense forces: same. #UkrainianArmy inflicts blows on groups of #Russian troops. #Ukrainian Air Force destroyed 3 planes (2 Su-34), 1 helicopters...
...3 operational-tactical UAVs, 2 cruise missiles were shot down.
#Ukrainian Air Force aircraft continued to launch missile and bomb strikes on #Russian ground targets. 9 airstrikes were carried out on #Russian convoys of equipment and units.
#RussianArmy continued to launch missile and bomb strikes on the infrastructure and densely populated areas of #Ukrainian cities.
#RussianArmy continued to bear losses in certain areas. They focused on consolidating & maintaining the previously occupied borders & areas.
A hacker placed a message calling for the impeachment of Putin on the sites of Russian arbitration courts, addressing #Russians: "the war in Ukraine & the economic decline of Russia are your fault. How I hate you,"dear" compatriots. [Verily, verily.]
[On this cheerful note, I must sleep. I wish #Putin, #Kremlin and all #Russians supporting the mass murderers go join the Russian Military Ship. It would be nice to wake up to some good news. One day. Thank you for caring for #Ukraine.#всебудеУкраїна]
UPDATE, March 16. A lot of developments on the international level and too many atrocities in 9 hours. Summing up and will skip horrendous images. The shock factor is high so will just share the facts, no images for the worst.
Briefing of the GS of #Ukraine. as of 18.00 on 16.03.2022, 21 day of the war.
The offensive operation against #Ukraine continues. The fierce resistance of #UkrainianArmy. #RussianArmy suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment.
In last 24 hrs, anti-aircraft missile units of the #Ukrainian Air Force destroyed 2 Su-30SM aircraft in the Odesa region, a Ka-52 helicopter near #Mykolayiv and a Su-34 aircraft in the #Chernihiv region. Data on enemy losses are being clarified.
#RussianArmy launches missile strikes on critical infrastructure in #Ukraine, residential areas, firing artillery & rocket-propelled grenade launchers at columns of civilians during evacuations from active-duty areas. Civilians hostage, robbery, looting & kidnapping are recorded.
Due to the forced mobilization of men in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the region is close to a humanitarian catastrophe. In #Makeyevka, catastrophe in local hospitals; unable to provide medical care to civilians due to lack of qualified medical personnel.
#UkrainianArmy units regrouped and counterattacked.
Measures are being taken to cover the state border of #Ukraine and the sea coast. A stabilization operation is being carried out in some areas and territorial defense tasks are being carried out.
In #Luhansk, #RussianArmy is secretly burning the corpses of the killed soldiers to hide their losses Also, in #Luhansk the bodies of the dead "mobilized" locals are returned to relatives in a grocery store and no compensation for death is paid. - from #Ukrainian intelligence.
More from the GS briefing, as of 12.00 on March 16
#RussianArmy failed to reach the borders of #Donetsk and #Luhansk regions and establish control over the left-bank part of Ukraine. Attempts to move additional reserves of the Eastern Military District.
Due to significant losses in the southern direction, #RussianArmy HQ refused to strengthen the grouping of troops in Polesie. An attempt of the #RussianArmy to resume the offensive in the direction of #Vyshgorod and advance towards #Kyiv failed; they switched to defense.
In the direction of #Brovary, small groups of #Russian vehicles moved near the occupied villages of #Bogdanovka and #BolshayaDymerka. They conducted reconnaissance of #Ukrainian positions with the Orlan-10 drone.
In the #Volnovakha direction, #Russians attempt to advance in the direction of #VelikayaNovoselka.They resumed the offensive on #Kryvyi Rih, #BolshayaKostroma, #MalayaKostroma but were stopped with fire and pushed back into unfavorable borders by #UkrainianArmy.
#Russian aircraft continue to bomb military and civilian infrastructure in #Kyiv, #Chernihiv, #Zhytomyr, #Vinnytsia, #Sumy and #Donetsk regions, and use airfields in #Belarus and #Crimea.
In the #Odesa region, #Russian ships shelled the coast.
Adviser to the head of the MOD Markiyan Lubkivsky: "I confirm that the aggressor is trying to get closer to #Kyiv from the northeast (#Brovary), the Ukrainian army is defending, carrying out a counter-offensive. #Russians are stuck, big problems w/logistics & morale"
#Mariupol #Russians bombed on the #Mariupol Drama Theater. Hundreds or thousands (TBC), mostly mothers with children sheltered there from #Russian shelling. The number of dead is TBC. Due to the constant shelling, impossible to dismantle the debris.
#Russian trolls are spreading fakes that #Mariupol theater was, like the maternity hospital, HQ for "nazis". Notably, some of this disinformation appeared before or simultaneously with the explosion.
#Mariupol. #Russians bombed 66 schools, a building Neptune Basin that served as a shelter for pregnant women and mothers with children under 3 years. One pregnant woman is covered with debris; rescuers are trying to get her out from under the rubble.
#Russian troops near #Zaporizhzhia fired at a convoy of cars moving from #Mariupol to #Zaporizhzhia.
#Kyiv: The attic & upper floors of a high-rise in Kyiv destroyed by a cruise missile "Caliber" shot down by #Ukrainian air defense. If the air defense had not shot down a cruise missile in the air, the consequences could be much more tragic.
https: //t.me/uniannet/38770
#Bucha City Council writes that their employees and volunteers were abducted by the #Russians and taken away in an unknown direction.
#Irpen Image
Artillery fire in #Vinnytsia at night. Residents heard several explosions. The authorities have not yet announced which object was attacked, so as not to inform the #Russians. No victims.
#Luhansk. A nursery bombed by #RussianArmy. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine Image
In the #Kyiv region, #UkrainianArmy destroyed a column of #Russian artillery. Do not share details unless they are shared by the General Staff of #Ukrainian Army, #Zelenskyy office, or other military authority.
ALERT: #Russia mines #Ukrainian agricultural lands. Demining will take years. On the way from #mariupol to #Zaporozhia, lots of mines and the refugees advised to take caution and not step out of the cars.
#Kharkiv. Bombing, shelling continues. The city is destroyed. Will be sharing photos later after verifying and making sure information can be shared. Fires caused by shelling kill more civilians.
#NATO rejects Polish Deputy PM Jaroslav Kaczynski's proposal to launch a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine. "We support peaceful efforts; call on #Russia & President Putin to withdraw their troops, but we have no plans to deploy NATO troops on the ground in Ukraine," Stoltenberg
The International Court of Justice has ruled that #Russia must stop the war in #Ukraine. [Do these people have any connection with reality? Someone, please forward them reports. Today, #Russians shot people in line for bread in #Chernihiv. They kill babies. Step up your act]
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague Karim Khan arrived in Ukraine and spoke to #Zelensky. The purpose of the visit is the official start of the investigation of war crimes by the #RussianArmy. #StopPutin #StopRussia #GenocideOfUkrainians
A video #Zelenskyy showed the #US #Congress during his address today. I have seen all of these episodes as they were arriving in Telegram chats, w/o music. This is the reality. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #SaveUkraineSaveTheWorld
#Zelenskyy: "Today it is not enough to be a leader of the country, it is necessary to be a leader of the world who seeks to establish peace. I do not see the meaning of life if it is impossible to stop death. Are we asking too much: to make Russia stop terrorizing our free cities
#Zelenskyy: "If that's too much and we can't ask for it, here's an alternative: you know we need S-300 defense systems & more. You know how much depends on the battlefield on the ability to use aircraft. Powerful aviation will help protect our people, our freedom and our land."
#Zelenskyy: "Planes will help us protect #Ukraine and #Europe. You have them. But they are on earth, not in the #Ukrainian sky." #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA
#InformationWarfare ALERT: #Russian trolls are hard at work here on Twitter, pushing hashtag #Zelenskyy "War Criminal" [not kidding, look it up]. This is their tactic. #PutinWarCriminal has been around; #Zelensky and #Zelenskyy are trending; so they are riding it.
[break to connect with people in #Ukraine but more updates on the way. thank you, everyone, for following and caring about #Ukraine. I'm reporting the war updates from sources and Ukrainian/Russian language verified sources that get lost in the information flow.]
ALERT. Unverified. CAREFUL ABOUT DISINFORMATION. IT IS MOST LIKELY A PROVOCATION (of some sort.) Multiple reports of explosions in #Belarus. Need to find out the details. Ukrainian channels have not commented on this yet.
#Ukrainian Army destroyed #Russian SU-25 and lined up the SU-35 over the #Kyiv region said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Zaluzhny. In total, more than 10 Russian air targets were destroyed in one day. [NOTE: Okay to share w/this source]
#Melitopol Mayor Fedorov, earlier abducted by #Russians, was exchanged for nine captured Russian conscripts, the OPU reported.
15 evacuation buses from #Berdyansk arrived in #Zaporizhia. Among them, #Mariupol residents, #Berdyansk boarding school and #Berdyansk residents.
More good news. Hackers hack. This time, the website of the Ministry of Emergencies of #Russia. Hyperlinks posted: "Do not believe the #Russian media - they are lying" "Full info on the #war in #Ukraine" "Default is near." etc. Gotta love those hackers. Image
UPDATE #Mariupol Approximately 11,000 people left #Mariupol for #Zaporizhia in one day - the Mariupol City Council. #славаУкраїнi
Another hostage: In #Mariupol, #Russian troops took hostage a paramedic, Yulia Payevska, and her driver as they were treating wounded civilians. In #Chernihiv, the number of people killed by shelling in line for bread: 13. #StopRussia #StopPutin #PutinIsaWarCriminal
#Russia: after the country left the Council of Europe, the LDPR fraction in State Duma asked to initiate a referendum to “reintroduce the death penalty for the most serious offenses.” #RusskyMir
According to satellite imagery taken on March 14 by the private U.S. company Maxar Technologies, “children” had been written in #Russian outside the #Mariupol theater where hundreds of civilians had taken shelter, before #Russians shelled it. @KyivIndependent Image
WARNING. Extremely disturbing. Traumatic. Putting it here for documenting and to make a statement. This war must be stopped by those who can do it. NOW. Otherwise, they are complicit. #Mariupol #MariupolHospital #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine
A friend: "My 6y.o.niece arrived from Odesa to Paris via Chişinău and Bucharest. We went to see Notre Dame de Paris together. I explained that the fire burned the roof down. She asked me if the fire was due to the fact that Russia dropped a bomb there."
#stopwar #StopPutin
#Putin's speech, translation: "blablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablablabla
#Putin's speech: blablabla But any nation, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scoundrels and traitors and simply spit them out, like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths, spit them out on the panel. I am convinced
#Putin's speech: that such a natural and necessary SELF-PURIFICATION OF SOCIETY WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges. BLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLABLA"
#Putin's speech: "...we will pay mothers with multiple children from poor families $127 (not clear if it is per month, year, or one-time payment, not specified). [Good deal. Then mothers could send their kids to war. Funerals in a mass grave on the state.]
#Putin's speech: I got it. He wants to kill us all with his droning. The best comment from YT: "It's like a parallel world where everyone's crazy." [Okay, I did it. Someone pointed out that I missed this. Voila.]
From #Mariupol: "Today, they destroyed the heart of our city. Our Drama Theater where kids, students, & adults watched plays. The home of the most beautiful Christmas tree in #Ukraine. How we laughed at that "failed" fountain. Hard to count how many stars performed there...
From #Mariupol: #Mariupoltheater, a place that has become a meeting place for many. The aggressor killed the heart of Mariupol. It is never forgiven like everything they do with our city. We continue to fight. We believe that all our relatives are alive & will get in touch soon🙏🏻
This is #Mariupol, before #RussianWorld. I'm going to share some good images now--in its memory. ImageImageImageImage
#Mariupol Drama theater, aerial view. #Mariupol Theater park. #Mariupol mosque. A street downtown. Found in 1779, by Greeks settlers, Mariupol "is known as a large and wonderful balneological health resort with many springs with therapeutic mud, sanatoriums, resorts & clinics..." ImageImageImageImage
From NYT, CNN. #Mariupol now. #StopRussia #StopPutin #StopWarInUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA ImageImageImageImage
From #Kamensk, #Mariupol region, #Russians are abducting people and forcing to evacuate to #Russia. They are not allowed to stay. The footage, the carnage. The sound of broken glass being crushed under the feet of people who take videos of their homes burning. The horror. ImageImageImageImage
Thank you @UnianInfo for incredible reporting, being on top of all of it, keeping cool, &--finding the strength to smile through the tears. And for the cats. #Ukrainians & their cats. In #Kharkiv, people were still concerned about cat Stepan (everyone's sweetheart.) Stepan's ok. ImageImageImageImage
Meanwhile, in #Mordor. State employees across #Russia are being forcibly driven to rallies on March 18 in support of Putin and the war. Rallies will be held across the country in honor of the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea and in support of the war in Ukraine.
@UnianInfo: The "celebration" will be held under three slogans: "For the World", "For Russia" and "For the President". According to Kommersant, #Putin is expected to take part in the rally in #Moscow. [Drone, anyone?]
#Luhansk Sergei Gaidai said that on the night of March 17, at least 27 houses were on fire in Rubezhnoye. At least five more fires occurred in Popasnaya, one - in Severodonetsk. The number of casualties TBD."Dozens of broken lives in one night…"
“The villages where the #Russians stay overnight suffer the most: Russians break into houses, drive people out into the streets and steal the food. Cattle and poultry are slaughtered. They are looting. They outdid the Nazis,"- said the head of OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky
Briefing, General Staff, #Ukraine
▫️During the day, #UkrainianArmy destroyed the command post and units of the 35th All-Army Army of the Eastern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, their losses are being clarified.
▫️In the last 24 hours, 10 #Russian air targets were destroyed: 2 Su-34 fighter-bombers, 3 Su-34SM fighters, 3helicopters and a UAV.
▫️#Russian troops continue to launch missile and bomb attacks on the infrastructure and densely populated areas of #Ukrainian cities.
▫️#Russians continue #informationWarfare. They carry out #cyberattacks, physically destroy TV and radio towers, carry on a mass information campaign.
▫️#Russian troops continue to suffer casualties. Big problems with the staffing of combat units & support units. Demoralization.
Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Russian military has fired rockets at 3 Panama-flagged ships in the Black Sea. One ship sank. The other two remain afloat with damage. No casualties were reported. Reuters. [wth?]
#Mordor news. #Moscow activists Dmitry Ivanov and Olga Misik oppose the war in Ukraine. These are their apartment doors. Lately, the letter "Z" is used to mark the doors of the "5th column" that #Putin intends to "spit out like a moth". [If not for Zelensky, I'd change my name.] ImageImage
Here is Olga Misik @thorkiman reading the constitution 2019. You can see the rest of this thread for the brutal suppression of the protests in #Russia.
I also recommend reading her last word. On May 4, 2021, in Moscow, the prosecution requested 1-2 years of penal colony for teenage activists for attaching a banner and dousing the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office with pink paint.
zarinazabrisky.medium.com/the-last-word-…
[stopping here for a sleep break. I see a deep fake video of #Zelensky is floating around, and #Kyiv is being bombed but I will tell this sad story tomorrow. It's been 21 days. I'm not in the war zone. My heart is in Odesa.]
[UPDATE later today as I worked on an urgent project. Starting now and will do my best to cover 12 hours (feels like 3 months). Thank you, all the new followers, I'm reporting on #Ukraine, with resources from the site and Ukrainian local channels]
Briefing of the General Staff at 6 pm Kyiv, March 17.
📌 #RussianArmy lost their offensive potential in all directions. Logistical problems; losses reported;
📌#RussianArmy used almost the entire set of Kalibr naval missiles & operational-tactical missiles (Iskander complex) &strikes at residential areas w/inaccurate weapons;
📌 #RussianMilitary violates international law by firing at civilians; obstructing humanitarian corridors;
📌 In the #Kherson region, #Russian police arrived from #Crimea and #Krasnodar, also FSB units perform punitive functions. Local population invited to join the occupying "police";
📌 On March 20, #Russians will start mobilization in the occupied territory of #Donetsk region due to heavy losses at the front;
📌 #Russian pilots suffer losses & demoralization. Desertion;
📌#UkrainianArmy inflicted serious losses on the #RussianArmy near #Izyum.
From #UK #MOD
Briefing 12.00 March 17 GS of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine
▪️ #RussianArmy attempt to reach the borders of the #Luhansk and #Donetsk regions, fail.
▪️ In order to constrain #UkrainianArmy, #RussianArmy is trying to block the settlements north of the capital.
▪️In the #Volyn direction, intensive use of the territory and infrastructure of #Belarus by a group of #Russian troops deliver strikes on #Ukraine. Logistical support was delivered to the Polesye direction.
▪️ In the #Polesie direction, #RussianArmy attempted and failed to re-seize the lost, previously occupied lines, Suffers losses.
▪️ #Russians did not conduct active offensive operations in the #Seversky direction, continues to prepare for the offensive to further blockade Kyiv
▪️ In the #Slobozhansky direction, #RussianArmy tried and failed to carry out offensive from #Izyum. THey strengthened the grouping with additional units of the 1st Panzer Army and coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.
▪️ In the #Donetsk and #Tauride directions, #RussianArmy carried out offensive operations w/partial success in the #Rubezhnoye area (fixed on the western and northwestern outskirts of the city, moving towards the southern part of the city).
▪️ On the #Popasnaya & #Volnovakha directions, #Russians conducted unsuccessful assault operations in Verkhnetoretsk and Marinka areas. Losses. Conducts regrouping of troops, replenishes supplies.
▪️ In the #Mariupol direction, the assault on the city continues.
▪️ In the #Zaporizhzhia direction, no active offensive operations.
▪️In the #Yuzhnobuzhsk direction, #Russians carried out reconnaissance, attempted to carry out offensive actions in the #KryvyiRih direction, took control of the settlement.
▪️ In the #Taurida direction, #Russians continued to build up the system of logistics for the group of troops. A collection point for damaged equipment has been deployed at the Dzhankoy airfield.
IMPORTANT #InformationWarfare
▪️ #Russians are trying to spread disinformation through all available communication channels both to the population of the temporarily occupied territories and to its own population in order to form a myth about #RussianArmy "invincibility"
IMPORTANT #InformationWarfare ❗️ The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeals to the media community with a request to limit the coverage of personal data, photographs containing the face of officers (unit commanders), geolocation, visual, addresses.
IMPORTANT FROM GS of #Ukraine: DO NOT SHARE photos & videos of accurate territorial reference of bomb shelters for the civilian population. #Russians obtain information from open sources for launching missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure.
#INFORMATION WARFARE #Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on TV that the Russian Armed Forces do not bomb Ukrainian cities, “no matter how many videos are edited by NATO, no matter how many video and photo fakes are thrown in now, the truth will still break through”
#InformationWarfare "The Defense Ministry published documents proving that the US conducted research in Ukraine into ways that migratory birds can carry dangerous infections and the use of bats as biological warfare agents." from TASS, official #Kremlin news agency. :D ImageImage
In Belgorod, #Russia the residents of high-rise asked neighbors to stop feeding pigeons. Allegedly, birds are infected in the #US biological laboratories in #Ukraine i and aim to kill "Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, and Jews." Image
#InformationWarfare. There is also a deepfake #Putin video (declaring the end of the war) circulating and a deepfake of #Zelenskyy was expected (I didn't see it yet but it might be there.) Check your sources. PS. the pigeon and bat in my previous tweets are shallow fakes.
#RussianArmy update from #Arestovich: Russia's offensive on #Kyiv, #Sumy, #Chernihiv and #Kharkiv is impossible without a significant supply of reserves. #Russians "are not withdrawing troops, but they had 6 operational areas, now just 3. They have exhausted their forces"
#Swiss banks have up to $213 billion of #Russian capital. Sanctions on #Russia provide a rare opportunity to recognize these assets.
#Kremlin has refused to comply with the order of the #UN International Court of Justice. #Putin's spokesman Dmitriy Peskov did not explain the exact reason but noted that "the international court has such a concept as" agreement of the parties ", and there can be no agreement."
#Russia abducts #Ukrainian mayors, officials, journalists, doctors, activists. Today, they abducted Viktor Tereshchenko, head of a community in the #Kharkiv region from his workplace, said Oleg Sinegubov, chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.
#KHARKIV #Russians are shelling #Kharkiv with rocket launchers and trying to move forward through #Izyum - head of UVA Sinegubov. "For the 22nd day, #Kharkiv is holding the line. The enemy has not reached its goal, not a single offensive operation has been successful."
#Kharkiv. #RussianArmy fired at the Kharkiv market "Barabashovo", one of the biggest in Eastern Europe.
#Kharkiv region: 15 killed, 25 injured, 10 in serious condition as a result of the shelling of #Merefa at 3:30 on March 17 - regional prosecutor's office
#Kharkiv. Another kindergarten bombed. "de-Nazification." Demand to #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #closeskyoverukraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA STOP KILLING CHILDREN ImageImage
#CHERNIHIV is on the verge of a #humanitarian #catastrophe. No heat, electricity, water for several days. little food & medicine. #RussianArmy shoots at civilians in the residential sector.
#Chernihiv. #US citizen from Minnesota killed. He taught English, philosophy at the university. One of his last FB posts: “We could try to break out tomorrow but Ira's mom doesn't want to. Every day people die trying to escape. At night bombs fall here. Risk either way…”
#KYIV In the cities near #Kyiv, #Russian systematically rape and kill the local population - Oleksii Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the President's Office, said this at a briefing at the Ukraine media center on March 17. Image
#Kyiv region: During the evacuation of civilians, #Russians hide behind the "green corridors", redeploys forces and equipment. All rescue operations in the Kyiv region took place under fire. Announced by the head of the police of the Kyiv region Andrey Nebitov
In #Kyiv region, there are many hospitals, schools & kindergartens. During evactuation of children and other civilians in the Buchansk region, #Russians fired at the evacuation columns from tanks. 1 policeman killed, 1 injured. Same situation in Irpin, a police car was shelled."
#Mariupol #RussianArmy is abducting residents in the region and forcefully take them to Moscow @UnianInfo
#Mariupol In #Zaporozhye doctors at a hospital are working on saving children evacuated via "green corridor" from #Mariupol yesterday. Civilians w/children, in their own cars, left in a large column. #Russians opened fire, wounded several children. Several amputations reported.
#VYSHGOROD As a result of the shelling of private houses, & a store in Novye Petrovtsy near Vyshgorod, a two-year-old child was killed, 4 more people were injured.-the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police, the Kiev region Andriy Nebitov.
#ODESSA volunteers stole a #Russian tank between #Mykolaiv and #Kherson. #SUMY region: 4 #Rusian tanks got stuck in the mud. [Flying the flags of collapsed empires doesn't work, apparently. By #Kherson, via livestream] Image
#NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #NoFlyZoneUA #NoFlyZone #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSkyUkraine
Following the Estonian #Parliament, the Seimas of #Lithuania, The Seimas of #Latvia voted for an appeal to introduce a no-fly zone over #Ukraine. They know this Gulag flag. No more Gulag.
Latest update from #UK #MinistryofDefence mobile.twitter.com/DefenceHQ
#Belarusian conscripts wash tanks from the remains of #Russian soldiers--The Belarusian edition Nasha Niva
In the Komarin area, near Gomel conscripts repiar wrecked and broken Russian equipment. They ask for anti-nausea medicine. unian.net/world/soldaty-…
Briefing, GS of #Ukraine 24.00, 17.03.2022, 22nd day of war.
#Russians continue offensive operation against Ukraine. The strategic goals of defeating #UkrainainArmy, reach the borders of #Donetsk and #Luhansk regions, establish control over the left-bank part of Ukraine not met.
#RussianArmy HQ recruits foreign solders to make up for the loss of personnel and recruited 1,000 volunteers from the so-called army of Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah. The main requirement: urban combat experience....
#Russians did not carry out offensive operations in the Volyn direction, but continued to strengthen the Ukrainian-Belarusian border by units of #Belarusian Army. High probability of #Russian army provocations.
#Russians did not carry out active offensive operations in the #Polissya direction, the main efforts of the occupiers were focused on maintaining the previously occupied borders and carrying out measures to prepare for a possible attack on #Kyiv.
The losses inflicted on #RussianArmy, the low moral and psychological condition of privates and sergeants, as well as the lack of experienced commanders of tactical units make it impossible to resume their offensive operations in the near future.
In the northern direction, #Russians are trying to stay on certain borders, restore the combat capability of units and replenish supplies. They continue to partially blockade the city of #Chernihiv and carry out artillery shelling of the city.
In the direction of #Brovary, no active hostilities but around #Brovary periodically carry out artillery shelling of the positions of the #UkrainianArmy.
In order to resume offensive operations on #Sumy & #Kharkiv, #RussianArmy attempts to replenish stocks of ammunition and fuel
#IIzyum,#Russians attempting to resume offensive operations. In the #Luhansk and #Donetsk directions, the enemy focused its main efforts on preparing for the attack on Severodonetsk and the encirclement of #Mariupol.
[#Izum, typo, previous tweet]
#Pivdennobuzsky direction: no active action; #Russians moved on to the defense and engineering of the occupied frontiers and tried to regroup and replenish supplies.
#Russians continue to try to detect and destroy the air defense system along the #Black Sea coast, as reported previously.
Did you ever wonder: how did #Russia turn into the nightmare? Some images from #Russia. This is how brainwashing and propaganda work: it starts at a very young age and it never, never, never stops. [I know because we had Lenin and sickle and hammer in the kindergarten] ImageImageImageImage
Orwell has nothing on the teachers of these nurseries. The captions above the tanks and guns: "We are for peace!" With a Latin "Z" instead of a Cyrillic letter З. #RussianWarCrimes ImageImageImageImage
This madness didn't come out of nowhere. It has been prepared. Engineered. Orchestrated. In 2015, I worried a lot about the militarization of Russia and its dangers. At the time, it was dismissed as another "Russianness". from Novaya Gazeta. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/khaki-babies-o…
#Russia wants to discuss "US biological laboratories in Ukraine" at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, March 18. Again-- ImageImageImage
#Russia does not want to discuss this: As a result of #Russian aggression, as of March 18, 2022, 109 children were killed and more than 130 were injured. As a result of the bombings and shelling, more than 439 educational institutions damaged, 63 completely destroyed.
#Lviv, in the morning a missile strike hit a building, it was destroyed, - the mayor Andrey Sadovy. No victims reported. IMPORTANT: do not specify addresses, etc.
On the night of March 18, airstrikes in #Severodonetsk and #Rubezhnoye in the #Luhansk region. 20 houses were destroyed, 2 dead, 6 injured. Some houses were left without gas and water. At the moment, the number of victims and destruction is being clarified. ImageImage
On Thursday, March 17, the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 14 air targets of the Russian Army: 7 planes, 1 helicopter, 3 UAVs and 3 missiles.
#Mariupol The shelling in the city takes place 24/7, some people do not have the opportunity to leave the shelter. #RussianArmy is seen in different parts of the city. "There is very little water, collecting rainwater. Never seen such horror. Helicopters were firing and firing." ImageImageImage
The missiles that hit the area near #Lviv were fired from the Black Sea. According to preliminary data, there were six cruise missiles, two of which were destroyed by the Ukrainian military, according to #Ukrainian Air Force.
Another airstrike in #Kyiv; fire; 1 dead. Rescuers at work now. Again, early morning. To make sure to kill people.
[A sleep break. Jokes sent from #Odesa:
Imagine an idiot condemned by both the Pope and the Taliban.
What do Ukrainians call the Russian special forces? "Chicken Kyiv".
A country with a chicken on its coat of arms will never defeat a country with a fork on its coat of arms.]
[Update, 23rd day of #Russian war against #Ukraine. Greetings to everyone who is joining: I'm not in a war zone, reporting from talking to many sources on-site in Ukraine, local Telegram channels. Focusing on details that fall through the cracks or don't make it to the public.]
The second phase of the war started: #RussianArmy starting to fight like they normally fight: concentrated artillery strikes to flatten cities, kill a large number of civilians ( as in Chechnya, 1999; Aleppo, Syria, 2016).- Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute
#Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that #Russian military will strike allies' shipments carrying weapons to #Ukraine. "It would be fair game." Third warning in three weeks.
Today, at a stadium in Moscow, #Putin addressed a "patriotic" rally dedicated to the 8th anniversary of the annexation of #Crimea. "We know what we have to do next, we'll definitely carry out all the plans we have made," he said. ImageImage
Journalists from SOTA, in #Moscow, in front of the stadium: "Why did you come?" "No comments." "Don't want to talk." Someone, in the background, "They pushed us in the bus and brought here." «Запихнули в автобус и привезли». t.me/lentachold/470…
A picture worth one thousand words. Medinsky, in the past in charge of the army of trolls, is now in charge of the negotiations with #Ukraine. "RT" means Russia Today, #kremlin-sponsored outlet. negotiahttps://mobile.twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1042956081364750337 Image
[will be back with the overview of the airstrikes and military operations. it takes a while to review and sum it up. also checking on with my friends in Ukraine.]
Briefing, GS of #UkrainianArmy, as of 18.00 on 18.03.2022 (just in), 23rd day of #Russian invasion in #Ukraine.
To restore the combat capability of some units, #RussianArmy HQ plan to transfer to #Ukraine units from the 102nd Russian military base in #Armenia.
Due to poor morale/psychological condition after the battles,#RussianArmy servicemen refuse to fight. . At the permanent deployment point of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District, 130 servicemen refused to fight.
#Russian soldiers are demoralized. Suicides/self-mutilation became more frequent. Due to the lack of results and inability to fulfill the set tasks, plans to remove Colonel Vadym Pankov, commander of the 45th special brigade of the special purpose air force of the #RussianArmy.
#InformationWarfare: #Kremlin media spreads disinformation about the war. The distribution of staged propaganda videos through all available information channels, including the EU & US, to discredit the military-political leadership and the Defense Forces of Ukraine continues.
In #Dzhankoi, the city in #Russia-occupied Crimea, training in local secondary schools suspended. Premises used to accommodate #Russian soldiers arriving in the city.
In the #Chernihiv region, #RussianArmy intimidates locals to quell civilian resistance. #Russian Army continues to defiantly violate the norms of international humanitarian law & destroy the infrastructure of cities, deepening the humanitarian crisis.
"The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue step by step to liberate the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in all directions. Believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let's win together! Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦" General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine
ATTENTION❗️#InformationWarfare From the GS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: #Russian propagandists are disseminating massive disinformation via bots/trolls in comments about the #Ukrainian Army allegedly throwing untrained soldiers into battle--this is a fake.
General Staff of #Ukrainian Army requests to contact them if "your relatives and friends are called up for military service without proper training or proper equipment."
#Russians continue the practice of abductionsDmitry Vasiliev, secretary of the council of #NovaKakhovka is abducted, held in the city police building, and is being pressured to collaborate. Physical & moral pressure, including elements of torture, is used, according to his wife.
#Russia is planning to cut down the telecommunications infrastructure in #Ukraine in order to sow panic, fear, and spread disinformation, reports the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
IMPORTANT. This is a #hybridwar. #InformationWarfare, or mind war, is a critical part of it. I was forced to study the course of combat propaganda. Demoralization of the army and population of the adversary is the primary goal. Disinformation campaigns are meant to sow panic.
From a Soviet textbook: "#Disinformation (deception)
Psychological warfare is impossible without the widespread use of special methods and techniques of influence, which include #disinformation (deception), manipulation, spreading rumors and myths."
"Disinformation is a method of psychological influence, which consists in deliberately providing the enemy with information that misleads them about the true state of affairs. It involves the use of knowingly false data & information. In this case, it becomes a deception."
"Disinformation activities should be carried out according to a single plan; with careful coordination of the proportions of truth & falsehood (w/maximum use of credible information); with the obligatory concealment of the true intentions, goals & tasks of your own troops."
"Disinformation is widely used in all types of psychological operations. In strategic operations, the main areas of disinformation are usually as follows:
· Misleading the future adversary about the true time of the start of hostilities and their nature;
· Creating the illusion of preparing large-scale operations in false directions;
· Wide coverage of "difficult to overcome" problems in the formation and combat training of headquarters and units of troops;
· "Leakage" of knowingly inflated (underestimated) data on the transfer of your own troops to various operational areas;
· Exaggeration of the negative impact of climatic and living conditions on the moral and psychological state of your own troops;
· Criticism of the "low quality" of weapons and equipment of your own troops and their combat effectiveness;
· Significant exaggeration of the combat capabilities of the enemy's troops and weapons (to form the unjustified self-confidence in their command and personnel);
· Demonstration on TV of video materials on the course of combat training in the "necessary" operational areas.
The main tool of disinformation in strategic psychological operations is the mass media - print, radio, television.[the textbook is pre-Internet]
In operational and tactical psychological operations, the main areas of disinformation are as follows:
· Dissemination of false information about the places of deployment & the nature of the actions of your own troops, their professional training, moral & psychological condition;
· Spreading false information about the demoralization of enemy military units;
· Leak of false orders, false orders, commands, etc.
In this case, the tools of disinformation are mainly radio and print." [Shelling TV towers and cutting down the communication lines are planned.]
[Have to take a break and will do an update/brief and more on the #disinformation, #informationWarfare, #HybridWar later. It is crucial. The fight is for YOUR brain. Combat propaganda changed #Russians into Zis. It works. But you can be immune to it if you know about it.] Image
Here is more about it from 2015. An article about combat propaganda that I translated. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/rotten-herring…
A professor of #Kyiv University (a friend of my friend) is telling about life in #Mariupol now. His mother, sister, and other family members are in the besieged #Mariupol. He can't reach them for 3 weeks. A friend got the connection and called: story.
#Mariupol: no water, #Russians polluting the local river, don't let humanitarian aide in. People eat raw spaghetti, melt snow for water if they can step outside. There is constant shelling; they sit in the dark basement. Corpses are left outside. The disease will spread.
#Mariupol. We must make it stop. This is real: my great-grandparents starved in the siege of Leningrad in 1942, buried in mass graves. How can it be happening again? Are we all mad? Stop genocide! #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #CloseTheSky #StopPutin Call your elected officials.
Defenders of #Mariupol refuse #Russia's proposal to surrender. The Russian Defense Ministry: #Russian military will spare lives of surrendered #Ukrainian soldiers. Azov Battalion Captain refused, responding, “#Mariupol will remain a #Ukrainian city.” @KyivIndependent
#Zelensky: #Russian occupiers are deliberately blocking the supply of humanitarian goods to Ukrainian cities. It's a tactic: they have a clear order to use the humanitarian catastrophe in Ukrainian cities for bargaining, to force #Ukrainians to collaborate. #Hague awaits.
Briefing, GS, #Ukrainian Army. 24.00, 18 March,
Today, #Russians launched 14 missiles & 40+ air raids.
🔺#Donetsk area, #Russian troops cut the access to the Azov Sea. By #Mykolaiv, they were stopped.
🔺Partial blockade of #Chernihiv, shelling civilian neighborhoods continues
🔺#Russian attempts to block $Sumy & #Kharkiv & attempts to resume the offensive in the direction of Pokrovsk continue.
🔺#Luhansk direction, the invaders are trying to establish control over the settlements of Rubezhnoye and Popasnaya, as well as the blockade of Severodonetsk.
🔺In the #Rubezhnoye area, the enemy has established itself on the western and northwestern outskirts of the city, making unsuccessful attempts to reach the southern part of the city. Fighting continues for the city of Popasnaya.
🔺#Donetsk direction, #Russian troops are fighting in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnetoretskoye, Krymskoye, Avdeevka, Taramchuk. The blockade and attempts to storm #Mariupol continue.
A sad comment to #Ministry of #Defense update: "A zoo in #Kyiv region needs help! Open green corridors! Help the animals. They do not understand that this is a war, they are hungry, they are freezing, they are dying." Animals and people. This doesn't have to be. We can stop it.
#Moscow: attendance of #Putin's "concert" was obligatory. Notices (schools; companies): "Everyone must be present. No exceptions (except for vacations/sick leaves.) "Only Slavic-looking attendants. Make lists ASAP." "Dress code: casual. No blue/yellow colors." @UnianInfo ImageImageImage
#Mariupol fighting for Azovstal, a metallurgical plant, is ongoing in Mariupol. Russian troops virtually destroyed the plant by shelling. Last night in the #Luhansk region, 4 civilians killed, 10 wounded by shelling of the Russian military - the head of the OVA Gaidai.
[break. I was trying to find "a lighter note" as advised by psychologists. I'm sorry but there is no lighter note. I have been reporting for 24 days. This is a genocide. The world has to stop it. Praying and crying are not enough. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine ]
A man got out of Irpen and saved two cows. [I think I'm going to stop reporting for tonight. I love Ukraine. Don't leave it alone in this immense suffering. People there are proud and stoic but they can't defeat this evil by themselves. We need to help, for the sake of humanity.] Image
[UPDATE, March 19. Thanks to everyone just joining me here. I'm not in the war zone; getting information from friends in Ukraine and local chats plus official Ukrainian sources; focusing on events and details that fall through the cracks. This thread is 24 days long.
[Every morning, I first check w/all my friends/loved ones to see if they are okay; then go through close to 1,000 Telegram updates from various areas to make a summary & an update. It takes several hours. Today was especially long. Too many Putin's crimes one person can cover.]
March 19. #MILITARY updates. Briefing, GS of #Urkaine, 24 day. No significant changes. #Ukrainian Army holds on to the frontiers of defense, concentrates main efforts around strategically important cities - Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolayiv.
#Russian Army failed to: encircle #Kyiv, access borders of #Donetsk & #Luhansk regions, establish control over the left bank of #Ukraine, enforce pro-Russian rule in the occupied territories due to strong Ukrainian opposition.
#Russian Army continues to launch missile & bomb strikes on military objects & densely populated Ukrainian cities & villages, critical industrial infrastructure, schools, hospitals, etc, using high-precision weapons, unguided aircraft bombs and high-impact munitions.
#Russian troops suffer heavy losses. In ocupied Crimea, some marine units have lost up to 90% of their personnel, and there are no reserves to recover. Up to 20 soldiers refused to take part in the war against Ukraine, repressive methods of influence were applied to "deniers".
In recent days, #Russian units in the #Mykolayiv direction, manned by mobilization in the occupied Donetsk region (forced mobilization of the population in the occupied territories is a direct violation of the Rome Statute and the Geneva Conventions), suffered big losses.
Unsuccessful in open combat, #Russians continue to terrorize the local population. With the help of propaganda stories, they are trying to form a picture of the loyal attitude of the local population to the Kremlin. [details/examples on that to follow]
In #Chernihiv, #Kyiv and #Kherson regions, #Russians try to distribute "humanitarian aid"[to make propaganda videos]. The locals refuse to accept it, even under pressure. [This is the end of the General Staff of Ukraine briefing from 18.00, March 19, 2022.]
#MYKOLAIV #Russian troops are retreating and continuing to fire on residential areas with jet artillery and rockets, doing so from a distance of 50-70 kilometers. Every day, at 12:00 a musician plays the Ukrainian anthem on his saxophone from his balcony.
#Luhansk The National Guard of Ukraine stopped the attack on #Rubezhnoye and #Popasnaya. All cities in the region under fire; victims # TBC. More than 50 buildings damaged. Fighting continues. 40 min shelling w/mortars & artillery-the head of the Luhansk OVA Sergei Gaidai.
#CHERNIHIV The partial blockade of the city continues, the enemy is carrying out artillery shelling of densely populated areas. Unmanned aerial bombing destroys mostly civilian infrastructure. #Humanitarian #catastrophe: no food, water, electricity. ImageImageImage
#ODESA #RussianArmy mined waterways from the Bosphorus to Odesa and blamed it on #UkrainianArmy. This was announced by the head of the project "Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies" Andrei Klimenko. #InformationWarfare #HybridWarfare
#Zaporizhzhia As a result of yesterday's two missile strikes on the suburbs of Zaporizhzhia, 9 killed, 17 heavy injuries, 3 light injuries.-- the speaker of ZOGA Ivan Arefiev.
#Zaporizhzhia #Putin's tombstone was erected. Date of "death": Feb, 24, 2020. "The collapse of his political career as a leader came when #Russia attacked #Ukraine. #Putin died as a political leader. More than half the world wants him dead." It also says #RussianMilitaryShip GoF* Image
#KYIV The air condition in Kyiv has returned to normal.
In #Demidov, #Kyiv region, in the place of heavy fights, a threat of flooding. #Kyiv reservoir: dam destroyed. Flood will destroy roads & basements; evacuation, food/med delivery, sheltering will be impossible.
#KYIV ‼ Yesterday, #Russian Army used a new type of shells --Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. "The projectile released from the Russian system of volley fire descended on a parachute to the city of #Kyiv"
#Kyiv Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops, 228 killed, including 4 children. 912 injured, including 16 children - KSCA
#KYIV #Russians still want to continue active action towards Kyiv. The head of the Kyiv OVA Alexander Pavlyuk, "active hostilities continue in the region, the enemy is defending the borders, actively digging, carrying out activities on logistical routes to replenish ammunition"
#Bucha, #Irpen, #Gostomel the situation"still unchanged." 330 people evacuated from Bucha. A 106-y.o. woman evacuated from #Bucha saw Stalin's purges, Holodomor, WWII, and can not believe what is happening, her daughter said.
#Mariupol Humanitarian catastrophe continues. #Russian Troops fire at rescuers saving survivors from under the rumbles of #Mariupoltheatre. No food, water, heat, constant bombing, shelling, and now street fights. Forced evacuation to #Russia now starts (see below). #StopRussia ImageImageImage
ALERT! #Mariupol Over the past week, #Russian troops forcefully deport several thousand #Mariupol residents to #Russia. They illegally removed people from the Left Bank district, 1,000+ women & children were sheltering and took them to filtration camps for phones & IDs checks.
In camps in #Russia, #Mariupol residents' #Ukrainian passports were taken; new documents issued assigning compulsory destination/work for 2 yrs. They were transported to Taganrog, Russia, and from there sent by rail to remote economically depressed cities in Russia.
"What the occupiers are doing today is familiar to the older generation, who saw WWII, when the Nazis forcibly captured people. It is hard to imagine that in the 21st-century people will be forcibly deported to another country." Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko.
The shelling in #Mariupol does not stop, constant street fights. Getting in touch with relatives is impossible. My FB friend lost touch w/their family;no news since Wednesday. Video: "Help us! We are in the basement. Help us to get the kids out." 13 March. instagram.com/p/CbFBDdrKMMg/
#Mariupol Just in: The convoy of buses evacuating residents of #Mariupol left for the city of Berdyansk from #Zaporizhzhia, but was stopped 3 km from Berdyansk. The convoy is not allowed into the city and drivers who left #Zaporizhzhia at 11:00 are not allowed night rest.
#Mariupol #Russian soldiers wear white bandages to identify themselves. Now they put white bandages on #Mariupol residents so that the #Ukrainian Army take them for #Russians. [#Ukrainians wear yellow bandages.]
#Kharkiv The head of the military administration of the Kharkiv region Oleg Sinegubov: "We hold our positions. The enemy realized in fact that he lost the ground battle for Kharkiv, and now attacking the city w/rocket fire and missiles. They are not wanted here."
"Perhaps because #Kharkiv is located near #Russia, they expected a warm meeting here...But every inch of #Ukrainian land matters. For us, for the people of Kharkiv, & the region, Kharkiv is a matter of principle. No one is going to leave or hand over anything here"
#Kharkiv: The enemy's offensive is stopped in almost all directions. No significant changes in the operational situation during the day." said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Motuzyanik.
#KHERSON The head of the Kherson OVA Gennady Laguta stated that the #Russian military did not allow trucks with humanitarian cargo to enter the #Kherson region and did not allow them to be unloaded.
A boy fleeing #Ukraine with his family lost his cat at the border with #Poland--and then found him. There is always hope. #StopWar #StopRussianAggression #StopPutin #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine #славаУкраїнi Image
Here is a long, in-detail conversation about #Ukraine now, its fight for independence, #RussianAggression, #Putin with wonderful, intelligent, and kind fellow writer @gregolear, on his popular podcast. He also talks to @MOWNeverSleeps. Stay informed.
[I will do another update in the evening. Working on a burning issue now. Today, Lina Kostenko, a beloved Ukrainain poet is 92. Here is about her and her poem. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/a-love-poem-tr… ]
Evening update and happy but cautious to share this:
Happily share the #UK #Intelligence summary of the #Ukrainian Air Force success. This is a good resource that I found with the help from @UnianInfo, which I love (Not in English, though)
In 24 hours, due to shelling in #Rubizhne, #Luhansk region, 3 dead (including 2 children), 2 injured (incl.1 child). According to the head of the region Sergei Gaidai, in #Severodonetsk & #Rubizhny, 30 houses & infrastructure facilities damaged; 24 completely destroyed
ALERT! On regrouping: #Russian troops are approaching the border of Belarus with Ukraine and will try to cross it - Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. Belarusian diplomats also left the territory of Ukraine. Denisenko calls this a wake-up call.
Denisenko:“The possibility of Belarus joining the military conflict: 60/40. Lukashenka will do everything in his power in order not to enter into direct hostilities of the Belarusian army. His army is relatively small; the entire Belarusian army has about 40 thousand people."
The only good piece of news I saw from Mordor. Sorry. #Russia. Oops. Image
Since February 24, 2022, #Russian invaders have killed more than 200 civilians in the #Kharkiv region, including 14 children. That's only the known casualties and only in #Kharikiv region.
#Mariupul #GenocideOfUkrainians Thousands of residents of Mariupol who fled bombs are starving in the Russian-occupied outskirts, #Mangush & #Melekino. A crime against humanity. "World leaders! Put pressure on the Kremlin!"Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko
[I am not going to share completely insane information. Not because it sounds insane. Everything about this war is insane. Two sources. Verification is incomplete. One more source... I hope not. Verify info/sources. Don't just share. #InformationWarfare]
A new wave of mobilization in the Russian-occupied #Donetsk region. The age limit for mobilization... raised to 65 years. General Staff of the ZSU. [What's next?]
#InformationWarfare #Russian media continues to spread fakes about the use of chemical weapons by the #Ukrainian military. #Russian "RIA Novosti": the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly store chemicals in one of the schools in the #Mykolaiv area.
#InformationWarfare 1. #Russian disinformation "map". Note: Crimea is marked as Russian territory. It is #Ukrainian area illegally annexed in 2014. 2. BBC map. 2. CNN. [18 March] ImageImageImage
The head of the 652nd group of Information and Psychological Operations, of #Russian Army was severely reprimanded for failing to form [or fake] the so-called "Kherson People's Republic". from the General Staff of the Armed Forces
As of 2 hrs ago: Air raid alerts in almost every region of Ukraine. Sirens in the Sumy, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Rivne, Volyn, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Odesa oblasts. [Think about it...]
71 children evacuated abroad from an orphanage in #Sumy. The infants had been sheltering in basements for two weeks. Many have health problems. - Sumy Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi
US Defense Secretary: No signs of the Russian assault on Odesa or other coastal cities in the "near term." [Please whatever is out there let it be true, please]
At a news conference with Bulgarian PM on March 19, U.S. Defense Secretary said that the U.S. has not seen evidence of large numbers of foreign fighters joining Russian Army. @KyivIndependent [There is an expert opinion that #Cheches presence is a psy-op, to sow panic. Syrians?]
A rare eastern rhinoceros calf born at a Czech zoo is named #Kyiv, in honor of the Ukrainian capital and the people who heroically fight the enemy. @UnianInfo [This is silly but we need good and simple things] Image
And this, right from my beloved #Odesa. Shared by hackers, fellow cyber fighters. Thank you. Also, I saw a post from #Mykoliav mayor who was going to BBQ tomorrow, the message was "F* 'em." [I will be back tomorrow, too.]
[Hello, everyone! Before I do the daily summary. Breaking news, March 20. (I will be covering the critical situation at nuclear power plants seized by #Russians in a podcast today [forthcoming tomorrow] & elsewhere.) For now, a big sigh of relief:
The European Union has stepped up plans to improve health measures in the event of a nuclear incident. @FT The European Commission seeks to encourage EU members to stock up on iodine pills, protective suits and other medicines. ft.com/content/bb5e6f…
A major danger of a nuclear accident: radiation released. Radioactive fallout rains down from the sky, poisoning the exposed and leading to severe illness and death. Potassium iodide stops the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine. economist.com/the-economist-…
To clarify: I am not recommending taking iodine. I'm not qualified to do this. I am recommending stopping Putin. And I am fully qualified to recommend this. I will be speaking about the nuclear threat on a podcast now; will be doing a morning update later today, in 2 hours.
25th day of #RussiaUkraineWar. Main events over the last 10 hours. #Mariupol: for the first time, #Russian ships fired on a school of arts; about 400 women, children, older people are currently under the rubble. The number of victims is specified.
#Mykolaev region declared mourning for the Ukrainian military killed by the #Russian missiles launched at the barracks. 1 survivor; dozens of dead removed from the rubble at night.
#Kharkiv the Russian military shelled Kharkiv; 5 killed. Parts of #Kharkiv without water. Repair teams work on the energy supply of pumping stations under shelling, risking life.
#Kyiv explosions and shooting reported now. In a residential area, a fragment of a #Russian shell hit a ten-story residential building, a fire broke out. The building damaged, the cars in the yard burned down. No dead reported, 5 injured. ImageImageImage
In #Kyiv region, #RussianArmy objectives: to encircle #Kyiv from the north/north-west; attempt to force Irpin; regroup/rotate, resupply; arrange logistics.
▪️An untargeted, chaotic shelling continues.
Ukrainian defense is on high alert.
The situation is difficult but manageable.
Now, imagine this in your kitchen. #CloseTheSkyOverUkraineNOW #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine
Source: @UnianInfo Telegram channel t.me/uniannet/40053 #Kharkiv #Dergachi ImageImage
#Kyiv region: Buchansky, Brovarsky & Vyshgorodsky districts suffered the most from shelling. Vorzel, Bucha, Irpen, Makarov, Gostomel: the enemy is trying to wipe these settlements off the face of the earth"- chairman of the Kyiv regional military administration Alexander Pavlyuk.
#HumanitarianCrisis: Five drivers and a doctor missing from a convoy with humanitarian aid in #Kharkiv region.
Negotiations are underway to return them. 4 of 7 humanitarian corridors worked today. 7,295 evacuated. -Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories
Iryna #Vereshchuk is Deputy Prime Minister of #Ukraine and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories. She is working tirelessly on arranging humanitarian corridors, negotiating, saving people. [She is absolutely incredible and so inspiring.] ImageImageImage
[A big fire somewhere in #Kyiv region. Remember to never give any addresses or publish photos before the #Ukrainian authorities and military officials do that. IMPORTANT!]
#Chernihiv Near Chernihiv, a Russian shell hit a car that delivered water to the locals. There are dead/injured.
“Civilians, getting water to transport it to people,” an eyewitness told Suspilny. Shelling has been going on for the last few days in this area.
#Cherinihiv The last 2 days: constant shelling, "we see planes flying. We see all this. Chernihiv is holding on, no matter what. Losses… We see everything… But we hold on. Everything will be fine. We can handle everything!” Image
#Chernihiv relies only on generators for power. There is an urgent need for fuel. No food, no water. Even buying bread is a problem. In the absence of electricity, credit cards don't work, people need to be paid salaries in cash. Cash from #Kyiv (under attack) requested.
[Sharing, personal. This church behind #Chernihiv Mayor Artoshenko: he's pleading for help while #Chernihiv is being erased and starved. I drew it when I was 14, sitting right where he's standing. My dad took this photo... I'm glad my parents are not here to see this.] ImageImageImage
A story of a young man, his family, and four huskies, escaping the besieged #Cherinihiv. From the bombed city, where they hid in the basement watching their neighbors die from fragments of shelling. to a village... are they still safe? Will they survive? suspilne.media/219740-zminili… ImageImage
A Ukrainian mathematician could not leave Russia for Ukraine. Committed suicide. A death note: "...to remain silent, to lie, to pretend... dishonorable; harming another state on its territory doubly dishonorable. I'm a Ukrainian... I see no way to go on w/my life with dignity."
#Kyiv, Klitschko: Rescuers are extinguishing a severe fire on the territory of one of the shopping centers in the Podolsky district. Currently, 1 dead reported. Rescue, doctors, police are working on the spot. The information is being specified.
Ten million people fled homes in #Ukraine. UN Refugee Agency. #Kharkiv is being bombed now. Photo: #Kyiv. Photo published by #Kyiv Police. Image
[breaking now to work on the nuclear stations' report. Will do an update in the evening but will report any breaking news. You can help: G7 is coming. Demand to #CloseTheSkyOverUkraineNOW #NoFlyZoneOverUkraine]
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Reposting: "A friend, 65 years old, dies in her apartment, w/o water, food & medicine. A broken leg, can't get to shelter from the 6th floor, can't stand up, inflammation started. She lives in #Chernihiv, St. General Pukhov 115, quarter 23. The area is bombed. Can someone help?"
Just received, from #Mariupol today, from my friend's friend. ImageImageImageImage
UPDATE. ‼️An ammonia leak occurred in #Sumy at Sumykhimprom.☢️The affected area with a radius of about 5 km!-- Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. The leak happened at 4:30 pm [an hour ago].AMMONIA is a colorless gas with a pungent, suffocating odor. Explosive. Toxic.
Advisor to the mayor of #Mariupol, Pyotr Andryushchenko, told how the city authorities react to the proposal of the #Russians to surrender. Mariupol does not give up. "F*** you--and no #Mariupol." Image
25 days not enough for the Muscovites to understand they had no chance to win.
Do not disclose what weapons/how our partners supply.
No betrayal. Never will be. We are at war. 93% believe we will win. We will definitely win💪
Advisor, Head of the Office of the President Podolyak
Humanitarian corridors, March 20:
✅ 7295 evacuated via 4 corridors.
🟠 #Mariupol: 3985 residents arrived to #Zaporozhye.
Tomorrow, up to 50 buses
🔵 Kyiv region - 3310 (from Bobrik - 2000; from Tarasovka - 1310).
❌ #Borodyankua: no evacuation violation of the silence regime
Humanitarian corridors, March 20:
🟡 Kharkiv region:
▪️ aid delivered to the village of Rogan;
▪ aid delivery to the village of Malo Rogan disrupted;
▪ lost contact with 6 people (5 drivers and 1 doctor) from the convoy, heading to Volchansk.
From Odessa.Vgorode.ua Tgm
OFFICIAL: No question of #Ukraine giving up the city of #Mariupol and laying down arms, said Ukraine's Deputy PM Iryna Vereshchuk. "There can be no question of any surrender, laying down of arms. We have already informed the Russian side about this." reuters.com/world/europe/u…
More on #Sumy #ammonia leaks from the chemical plant. The governor of Sumy Oblast Dmytro Zhyvytsky: ammonia leaked from the chemical plant as a result of Russian airstrike. There’s no threat to Sumy residents.
Over 900 people detained during anti-war protests in #Russia today. According to protest-monitoring group OVD-Info, 936 people were arrested across 37 Russian cities on March 21. The total number of detained in Russia since February 24 exceeds 15,000 people. 15,000. 15,000.
#Mariupol. ALERT! Mass deportations. If your relatives were deported to Russia, report, write, call. We will return Mariupol residents home to Ukraine. Forced mobilization? Surrender. #Russian administration is going to announce forced mobilization of men. Andruschenko
#Mariupol #RussianWarCrimes ImageImageImageImage
#InformationWarfare #Russian propaganda Telegram and YouTube channels spread fake information about humanitarian aid and the willing evacuation of all civilians to Russia. Twitter and FB trolls work on trending hashtags and comments. Be aware and verify the information.
#Ukrainians love their animals. This Przhevaksky horse from #Chornobyl alienation zone orphaned during #Chornoby wildfires in 2020, is now rescued from #Russians; sent to #Poland is well. From Oleksandr Sirota FB. facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10… ImageImageImage
Briefing from General Staff of #Ukraine 06.00 on 21 March, 26th day. Overall: No significant changes
#UkrainianArmy strikes at #Russian troops who are trying to hold the captured territories. #Russians decrease the use of manned aircraft use.
To assess the effectiveness of the missile and bomb strikes, #RussianArmy used operational and tactical unmanned aerial vehicles.
#Ukrainian Air Force hit 7 #Russian air targets (1 plane, 4 UAVs, 2 cruise missiles), bombers & assault aircraft destroyed Russian equipment &manpower
#Russians continue to terrorize the local population and loot in the temporarily occupied territories, removing exports home appliances, automobiles, food and other material resources to the Russian Federation.
#Russians continue to carry out forced mobilization measures in occupied #Donetsk and #Luhansk regions. Male workers 18-60 ordered to arrive at the local police department for registration on April 1, 2022, likely for the next wave of mobilization.
#UkrainianArmy gives a worthy rebuff to the invader in all directions.
Keep calm! Let's win together! Glory to Ukraine!
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
#СлаваУкраїні #героямслава Photos from GS of #UkrainianArmy ImageImage
#Mariupol diary. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine #StopGenocide of #Ukraine Put pressure on your government. Send this to your elected officials. Our taxes can be put to saving lives.
#Kyiv. Image
Explosions and shelling of #Odesa.
Why?! Why?! In the name of humanity, can't we stop them?! As a result of the night shelling of Kyiv, 8 people killed.reported by the Office of the Attorney General. According to the mayor's office, 6 bldgs damaged, 3 are no longer suitable for life. 2schools,2 kindergartens. Image
[UPDATE:March 21, 26th day, 8th year. Focusing on the urgent nuclear safety situation now so it's taking time from reporting: midday update instead of the morning one. To everyone joining: thank you! I report on Ukrainian war from my local sources; I'm not in the war zone now.]
Here is my interview with Allison Gill @MuellerSheWrote--brilliant, formidable voice, and a #nuclear safety military expert. 18.05. I will be sharing more and I ask everyone to help raise awareness. #Chornobyl #Chernobyl #UkraineRussiaWar overcast.fm/+TNUAorOg4
MILITARY. Briefing, General Staff, #UkrainianArmy, 18.00, 21.03.2022
#RussianTroops in dire need of repairing and rebuilding their damaged weapons & military equipment. Due to sanctions, the tank/armored vehicle manufacturing & repairing plants in Russia stopped working.
Desertion in #RussianArmy continues. Example: In #Kyiv region, a group of Russian soldiers seized the cars of local residents, changed into looted civilian clothes, and drove towards the Belarusan border with the Republic of Belarus.
In the occupied #Zaporizhia region, in some settlements #Russians are making covert preparations for the elections of the pro-Russian administration of districts and cities.
To organize the so-called "Russian rubber convoys" to #Zaporizhia, #Russians moved a column of KAMAZ trucks of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations to Berdyansk. They used trucks for covert transportation of ammunition to occupied territories of Donetsk & Luhansk regions.
In #NovaKakhovka, #Kherson region, #Russians are checking documents at city checkpoints to identify & detain local residents who participated in the anti-terrorist operation/environmental protection.
"Russian troops have almost lost the opportunity to attack anywhere in Ukraine, three Russian shock armies have been destroyed in our country, said Oleksiy Arestovich, a Ukrainian presidential adviser.
MILITARY. German & Dutch troops in Slovakia operate Patriot anti-missile systems. This is not to replace Soviet-made S-300 air defense system. The German and Dutch troops are reinforcing the Slovaks as part of a new NATO battlegroup there. reuters.com/world/europe/s…
👉MILITARY. IMPORTANT! #Zelensky's office requests TO NOT upload & share videos & photos of the #Russian strikes. “About filming the results of #Russian strikes, our military, and our positions. Do not do that. You are killing your own,” Arestovich said in his address.
“Those who shoot & upload videos of airstrikes have already earned awards of the Russian Federation,” #Zelensky's office. "If you really want to, wait until the rubble has already been dismantled. The Russians will not be able to assess the effectiveness of the strike."
⚡️INFORMATION WARFARE. Head of the Office of the President: How to respond to fakes dispersed by Russian bots and "useful idiots." Recently, a huge number of disinformation and fakes are spread by Russian bots and "useful idiots" in Ukraine/ information space.
#InformationWarfare. #Russians are carrying out information & psychological operations in order to internally split the Ukrainian society. Topics:
✅ Joining NATO
✅ Army, "wrong actions"
✅ Religious conflicts. The presence of the "Russian Church" in #Ukraine. Calls for pogroms
#InformationWarfare. What to do? Verify the information, be vigilant. Analyze sources. Do not rush to conclusions. Support our warriors and Ukraine. This is a national war. Stay united. Remember that the SBU is working. 🇺🇦
#InformationWarfare in EU. #Russian propaganda in #Germany. A fake video of an allegedly fatal beating of a #Russian-speaking teen by a group of #Ukrainians in #Euskirchen, #Germany. The Bonn police have no information about a brutal attack, especially with a fatal outcome.
#InformationWarfare. I have analyzed and showed how this propaganda tactic works, back in 2017. A fake gang-rape case was spread in Germany among the Russian-speaking immigrants in 2016. zarinazabrisky.medium.com/three-fakes-an… ImageImageImageImage
#Lunansk #Donetsk Bombing/Shelling unprecedented. Forced mobilization continues. #Russian troops attacked a home for the elderly, killing 56 people. "They just adjusted the tank, put it in front of the house and started firing," from NYT
#RussianArmy attacked hospitals across Ukraine more than 50 times so far, World Health Organization officials announced Monday. At least 14 people have died in those attacks, and another 36 have been injured.
#Kyiv. Report, to be confirmed: Makarov to the west of Kyiv was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The release of Makarov additionally cuts off the #Russians from the M-06 highway and exposes the rear of the enemy troops closest to Kyiv. Waiting for official confirmation.
#Kyiv, as a result of the shelling of the invaders, 65 citizens were killed, almost 300 were injured. Vitali Klitschko, #Kyiv Mayor: #Russians planned to capture Kyiv in a few days. They failed. They are now bombing civilians.
#Kharkiv 1,000 buildings destroyed, - Mayor Sergey Terekhov. Intense bombing continues. Humanitarian crisis. Yet, this is the photo on #Kharkiv news channel in Telegram. More in detail about #Kharkiv in the evening summary. Image
A 96-year-old Nazi concentration camps survivor killed by a Russian rocket. He survived Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen, but was killed during #Putin's "denazification operation." Image
#Kherson #Russians brought 600 special forces to occupied #Kherson and opened fire on the civilians a peaceful pro-Ukrainian rally. There are wounded. #Kherson continues to resist. Rail resistance. Image
#Mykoliav Over the past day in the Mykolaiv region, 65 civilians injured, 1 child, - the head of the Mykolaiv regional council Anna Zamazeeva. In the #Mykolaev hospitals there are 268 people who have suffered from #Russian Army hostilities.
#Odesa Early in the morning, #Russians struck the residential buildings, sleeping civilians. No fatalities. The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov: "Not a single military facility nearby. Residential buildings where peaceful people live." ["Mess with mama & mama will bury you.] Image
#Zaporozhia #RussianArmy attacked cars with civilians.
In Malinovka, the Russian military shot at two cars with automatic weapons. 2 young children, 3 women and a 1 man injured. Total 4 children injured during the evacuation by shelling today, 2 of them are in serious condition
#Mariupol "The shelling in the city still does not stop. #RussianArmy destroys everything in its path. #UkrainianArmy courageously defends the city and do not allow the enemy to occupy the city. We believe that this terrible nightmare will end soon." from a Mariupol channel
#MARIUPOL "The number of victims among the civilians is growing daily, more than 3,000. No exact number. People are buried in mass graves, w/o names. Many bodies remain on the streets w/ot burial. Some people remain under the rubble, buried "alive," - commander of "Azov" Image
According to Prokopenko, There are no safe places for people, rockets hit houses, killing people in their beds.
"People cook food on the street, risking their lives, under constant shelling by artillery and aerial bombs. The temperature outside is -5 degrees Celsius."
#Chernihiv: Similar situation. Incessant and random shelling/bombing, no food, water, heat. In the occupied area of #Chernihiv region, #Russian Army delivers humanitarian aid and broadcasts #Russian propaganda targeting locals.
#SUMY region. In occupied #Trostyanets, #Russians destroyed several houses, killed 3 older residents. On one of the streets, #Russians threw a grenade, killing 2. 1 shot dead walking down the street, 1 shot driving. They killed the head of the street committee, & prevent burial.
#SUMY region. In occupied #Trostyanets, #Russians force civilians to sit near their equipment as a human shield at night. #Russians also fired on the local hospital, it was almost completely destroyed.
[break now to work on the nuclear plant reporting. 26th day since #RussianWarCrimes accelerated: the war started 8 years ago. My friends are at risk in Kyiv, Odesa; reporting & not emoting is becoming really hard. Thank you for caring, for your support to #Ukaine. #СлаваУкраїні]
#Chernihiv the invaders continue to shell the city, including residential buildings. It is practically surrounded by invaders from all sides. More than 50% residents left the city to escape the war, says Mayor Atroshenko.
#Kyiv #Boryspil There are fights around Boryspil, the airport right next to #Kyiv. Mayor of the city Vladimir Borisenko urged residents to leave and explained how this can be done. Image
Briefing, General Staff, Ukrainian Army, March 21, midnight
After fighting, #Russians hold onto the land corridor to the occupied Crimea and blocks access to the Sea of ​​Azov
Having lost its offensive potential, #RussianArmy moves reserves from Russia to the Ukrainian borders
Due to the large losses of personnel (including command), the #RussianArmy suspends the planned discharge of officers, ensigns & sergeants from service
#RussianArmy carries out aggressive propaganda aimed at the Belarusian Army regarding the need for an invasion of Ukraine.
In #Polissya, #RussianArmy tried to intensify offensive operations in several directions, suffered losses, but did not succeed. Continues to conduct air reconnaissance in order to find optimal ways to improve its position.
In the northern direction, #RussianArmy is not conducting active offensive operations, continues to restore offensive capabilities by introducing additional units on the territory of Ukraine, including a battalion tactical group from the 90th Panzer Division.
#Russians continue to shell #Chernihiv and other settlements; did not abandon attempts to attack in the direction of Brovary, but due to losses, have no success in advancing. They are trying to replenish stocks and conduct reconnaissance.
In the #Slobozhansky direction, #RussianArmy does not carry out active offensive actions, continues to partially block #Sumy, carries out artillery shelling of #Kharkiv. #Russians are trying to rebuild the railway section from Valuyki to Kupyansk to improve the logistics
In the #Donetsk and #Luhansk directions, #RussianArmy failed to advance. #UkrainianArmy repelled 13 enemy attacks, destroyed 14 tanks, 8 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 MTLBs, 3 artillery systems & 4 vehicles; air defense units hit 2 air targets. Personnel loss: 300 people TBC
Defenders of #Mariupol destroyed the patrol boat "Raptor" and the electronic warfare complex "Leer-3".
In the #Pivdennobuzsky direction, #Russians have taken defensive action, are taking measures to restore combat capability, trying to restore damaged armored vehicles.
In the #Mykolaiv direction, due to the counterattack of #UkrainianArmy, #RussianArmy was forced to retreat
#Ukrainian flag was raised over the city of #Makarov. #Russians were defeated.
#RussianArmy aircraft continue to destroy missile and bombings of infrastructure in #Kyiv, #Chernihiv, #Kharkiv and #Donetsk regions. They continue to actively use the airfield network of Belarus.
#RussianArmy will continue to launch the insidious missile and bomb strikes and carry out artillery shelling of critical infrastructure of Ukraine using jet artillery, aircraft, high-precision weapons and indiscriminate munitions. End of briefing. 🇺🇦
All the reserves of the #Russian troops formed for the first strike on Ukraine have already been introduced, said the head of the Kyiv regional military administration Oleksandr Pavlyuk. The prepared reserves are running out, #Russians create defense lines to hold the positions.
#Kramatorsk, another case of the use of #phosphorus ammunition by #Russian #Army was recorded. - First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department Alexei Beloshitsky. unian.net/war/voyna-v-uk… Image
In #Uzhgorod, #Ukrainian military counterintelligence detained a #Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group, headed by an FSB agent. The group was preparing an assassination attempt on the President of Ukraine and sabotage; headed to the capital as a territorial defense unit.
“#Putin’s back is against the wall. ... the more his back is against the wall, the greater severity, the tactics he may employ.” In Putin's own words: what to do when cornered, and how he learned it. ImageImageImageImage
“#Putin’s back is against the wall", said #Biden today. As a body, #Putin tortured rats and learned from them to attack when cornered. He loves telling this story. ImageImageImage
Psychology has everything to do with it: my interview w/one of the leading opposition bloggers (leaving anonymously in an undisclosed location) #Putin's coming of age/career. Another Putin's principle: "If a fight is inevitable, strike first." bylinetimes.com/2020/08/27/pur… ImageImageImage
From the General Staff of #Ukraine, In the Okhtirsky area of the #Sumy region, the facts of the disobedience of #Russian soldiers recorded: 300refused to comply w/orders to carry out combat on 70 units of equipment; & left the area for operation.
I reported the critical situation w/correctional facilities. Since the #Russian invasion of Ukraine, 5 pre-trial detention centers and colonies suffered from shelling. As of March 21, communication lost w/ Mariupol, Starobelsk, Kherson, Melitopol & Azov detention centers/colonies
For as long as I remember, I mourned the death of one of my favorite short story writers, Bruno Schulz, who was shot by a Nazi officer. Now. This.
#Russian Army fired at #Zelenodolsk on the outskirts of Kryvyi Rih, as well as the villages of Malaya Kostromka and the city of Zelenodolsk. There are destroyed buildings.
#Zhytomyr region, #Russians shelled the Korostensky district, 3 buildings destroyed, 10 private houses and 2 outbuildings damaged. Image
#Dnipropetrovsk region. #Russians fired on 2 settlements on the border with #Kherson region. Houses destroyed. #Russian troops did not enter #Dnipropetrovsk region. @suspilne_news
#Odesa: #Russian marines preparing to storm Odesa, were destroyed by the #Ukrainian military near #Mykolaiv and #Mariupol. - speaker of the operational headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Sergey Bratchuk. #Одеса мама
[sleep break on this note. Here is #Odesa only a few months ago... where are these happy, lovely, dancing and singing people? #StopRussia #GloryToUkraine]
[UPDATE. March 22, 2022. Day 27. Many thanks to all who joined me. I'm reporting on the #Russian invasion of #Ukraine, w/focus on the news from local sources, Ukrainian agencies and #informationWarfare. I'm not in the war zone but maintain contact with many on-site sources.]
MILITARY. GS of Ukraine. 22.03.22, 12.00. #RussianArmy doesn't succeed w/the ground operations, continues to launch missile/bomb strikes on important military & civilian infrastructure using operational & tactical aircraft, high-precision missile weapons, indiscriminate munitions
#RussianArmy is forming & moving reserves to the borders of Ukraine. A consolidated unit of servicemen of several military units is being formed at the permanent deployment point of the 200th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Northern Fleet (Pechenga settlement).
Unsatisfactory level of personnel of the 1st Army Corps in #Donetsk region. #Russians forcibly mobilize locals in #Horlivka, #Yenakiieve. After undergoing a rapid training course, #Russians plan to reinforce the units that suffered heavy casualties by #Avdiivka, #Izyum.
No #Russian offensive actions in the #Polissya direction. Regrouping, consolidation, logistical support of the troops carried out. In the northern direction, units of the Central Military District continue to regroup & concentrate forces and means to resume offensive operations.
In the direction of #Chernihiv, #RussianArmy is not conducting active offensive operations, continues artillery shelling of positions #UkrainianArmy and Chernihiv. In the direction of #Brovary, #Russians continue to regroup in order to resume offensive operations.
#Slobozhansky direction: no offensive operations. #Kharkiv & #Izyum direction: #Russians are trying to restore the units that lost their combat capability, at the expense of separate units of the Baltic and Northern Fleets. Massive artillery shelling of #Kharkiv continues.
#Donetsk direction: #Russians focused its efforts on capturing the cities of #Rubizhne, #Severodonetsk, #Popasna, #Vugledar, & #Mariupol. In the area of ​​#Kreminna no active actions. The forces of the 2nd AK continue to consolidate in the area of ​​the settlement of #Pshenichne.
By #Yampil, 150th Motorized Rifle Division unit carried out fire on #Ukrainian troops to advance to #Torske but failed. #Donetsk - #Marinka direction: an attempt to attack. Heavy losses; retreated. Artillery shelling and assault operations in #Mariupol.
#Tavriya direction: no changes. #Kherson region, #Russians search for places to store small arms. #Pivdennobuzhsky, an unsuccessful attempt to carry out assault near #Oleksandrivka. #Bereznuvate, #Russians conducted reconnaissance in battle, suffered casualties & withdrew. End.🇺🇦
#SEVERODONETSK #Russian troops fired at a grocery store, with people standing in line. There are dead and wounded, the number is being clarified. - #Luhansk, Sergey Gaidai
#Kyiv #Russian troops shelled the residential area in #Obolonsky district. 1 dead, 3 wounded, - the head of the #Kyiv city military administration Nikolay Zhirnov. One shell fell into the river Dnipro.
#Kyiv region. #Bucha, a Russian soldier shot a father in front of a 14-year-old son, firing at point-blank range, then shot the boy, injuring him. They warned they had no weapons. The family couldn't pick up the body for 2 days; had to bury it in the yard. t.me/uniannet/40548
#Kyiv 4 villages in #Kyiv region are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to constant shelling. Klavdievo-Tarasovo, Severinovka, Berezovka, Nikolaevka. Borodyanka, Dmitrov, Bucha & Gostomel: movement of #Russian troops; Zhytomyr hwy, in Gostomel & Irpen there are fights
On March 22, the occupiers fired artillery at the city of #Brovary in the #Kyiv region, the shell fell on the territory of one of the factories.
Curfew in #Kyiv region works: 159 spies from 14 #Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups already detained. - the head of the Territorial Defense of Kyiv Igor Sabiy on the air "Espresso"
#Kyiv In the eco-park "XII Months", located near Kyiv, a zebra baby is born. His mother has milk and feeds him. Earlier, the zoo asked for a green corridor. @UnianInfo Image
#Chernihiv The further outskirts are completely destroyed, the suburbs - by 60%. No power; almost no gas; repairs impossible due to constant shelling.50% of the population left the city, and of the remaining 130,000, many are sick. Residents cook on fires in yards under shelling.
#Chernihiv The city needs spare parts, tools, kits for operation and repair of equipment, cash. #Russians mined the roads #Chernihiv-#Kyiv. People use "forest trails" to flee and deliver humanitarian aid. With warmer weather, the trails will melt and the city will be besieged.
#Chernihiv region, #Ivanovka, the #Russian soldiers allowed several cars on a mined highway. 3 of 6 passengers survived. "I remember waking up on the road, seeing my mother burning. She was still alive. Then I heard artillery fire," 15-year-old Andrei. unian.net/war/videl-kak-…
#Kherson In #Kherson, #Russians used tear gas to disperse residents of the city who went to a rally against the occupation. Kherson is close to a humanitarian catastrophe. Due to the blockade, critical shortages of food/meds. Newborns lack baby food and hygiene products.
#Russians attempt to suppress civil resistance and to create occupation self-government bodies. They also kidnap local government officials. t.me/suspilnekherso…
[#Mariupol, #Odesa, #InformationWarfare and Repressions in #Russia, #Navalny's new sentence after a short break.]
#Mariupol Near #Mariupol occupiers seized an evacuation column with employees of the State Emergency Service, - Vereshchuk
It happened on an agreed route near Mangush. ImageImageImage
#Mariupol. Putin: "de-nazification" is the main goal. This text, in Russian: On the 9th of May street [the shell] hit from the side of a kindergarten (possibly, a small city park). 9th of May was/is celebrated in the USSR/Russia as the day of victory over the Nazis. Image
#Mariupol Drivers/volunteers evacuated 25 people out from the left bank. People continue to leave although #Russian soldiers shoot at cars. A #Russian plane was shot down. The shelling does not stop. "The enemy made a ruin out of our beautiful sea pearl, but we'll restore it."
The results of the humanitarian corridors on March 22:
1,100 evacuated Berdyansk-Zaporizhzhia by buses; 5926 Mariupol-Zaporizhia by their own transport. Humanitarian aid brought to Berdyansk. #Russians did not allow buses to evacuate Mariupol residents from 2 villages.
#Russians seized 11 buses and 2 vehicles at a checkpoint, by the entrance to Mangush. Currently, the whereabouts of 11 drivers and 4 passengers is unknown.
Good news from #Odesa. Another addition to the Odessa Zoo😍Eight little mouflons were born there. According to the press service of the zoo, all the babies feel great and eat well. [I'll be honest. I have never heard of mouflons before. Hooray to baby mouflons.] ImageImage
[Today, heard from a friend in #Kyiv; is a proud owner of two beautiful gray cats. They are doing well, shelter with the owner during air raids, look at what's happening "with disgust." Another cat sneaked into the house and stole dumplings. #Ukrainians love their animals.]
#Odesa Ships of the Russian Navy perform tasks in certain areas of the Black Sea. Some experts believe that the next attack could be on the Southern front. #Odesa is prepared. I speak to my friends: the morale is great. People are prepared to defend the city.
#Russia. [In #Ukrainian Telegram chats, this is labeled News from the Mental Institution; or Mordor News and for a reason. Buckle up; back to the USSR--and Dark Ages. I'm reporting this as my friend's cat: with disgust.]
#Russia. The State Duma has passed a bill: sharing "false information about any Russian government agency operating abroad" is a criminal offense. (Embassies, Prosecutor's office, the Russian Guard, etc.) 15 years in prison (same as for spreading fakes about the Russian Army)
#Russia. In the State Duma of the Russian Federation, representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party found a #Ukrainian trace in the creation of #COVID and offered to sue #Kyiv for damages. [I watched the video with my own eyes. My eyes. My eyes.]
#Russia. IMPORTANT. While you are following #PutinWarCrimes report, #Navalny, the #Russian opposition leader, was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum-security prison for fraud & insulting a judge and a fine (1.2 mn rubles/$11,320). After the hearing, his lawyers were detained.
#Russia. News from Mordor. The Investigative Committee of the #Russian Federation has opened criminal proceedings against #Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov for telling the truth about the attack of the Russian occupiers on the maternity hospital in Mariupol.
#Russia. Actually, this is Poland, #Russian Federation Embassy. See the smoke? They always do it when they are about to close. Burn documents. In SF, the black smoke was there for the whole day, on the hottest day of the year, 100F. [Burn, burn.] Image
#Refugees In occupied Crimea, #Russians confiscate #Ukrainian passports from #Ukrainian fleeing the war, and provide "certificates" that have no legal force.
3,528,346 people have left Ukraine since February 24. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
#InformationWarfare A new troll factory "Cyber ​​Front Z" #StPetersburg, #Russia. Specialty: SM comments supporting the war against Ukraine. 45,000 rubles ($424/month), quota: 200 comments/day. 100 trolls/shift=20,000 comments a day. Next time you see a comment against the war
#Russian agents have launched a special operation to incite ethnic conflict in Transcarpathia, sowing discord between #Ukrainians and #Hungarians. "Divide and conquer" is a classic strategy.
#InformationWarfare #Russian propagandists disperse a fake, citing a non-existent document of the #Odesa OVA, allegedly that schools and hospitals have been ordered to transform into anti-tank and fire fortifications. The purpose: to sow panic, break the resistance of #Ukrainians
#Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes Prosecutor #General of #Ukraine opened the first official investigation of the rape of a #Ukrainian woman by a #Russian soldier, in #Brovary. #StopRussia Image
BREAKING ☢️ #Chornobyl requires immediate attention. 1. Monitoring system broken. Regulatory control impossible. 2. No day staff, repair personnel, contractors on site. 3. Steady deterioration of indicators. 4. Fires. From State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine. 1/? ImageImage
#Chornobyl On March 21, 2022, the State Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Ukraine warned that if the current situation continues, the radiation conditions in the #Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and beyond, in #Ukraine and other states, may deteriorate significantly in the near future. ImageImage
I have interviewed an engineer from #chornobyl_npp & spoke about it on @MuellerSheWrote w/Allison Gill, a former military, expert on nuclear weapons. She has confirmed the danger. I am unable to place the interview/report in a major outlet in the US. overcast.fm/+TNUAorOg4 2/3
#Russian state-funded media referred to Putin’s statement about Ukraine developing a “dirty bomb” in cooperation with the US at Chornobyl. “Kyiv used the Chornobyl nuclear power plant zone for work on the manufacture of a ‘dirty’ bomb and the separation of plutonium." ImageImageImageImage
@iaeaorg International Atomic Energy Agency is not responding & not sending its representatives. #EU is not helping. None of @rafaelmgrossi "7 pillars of safety" are met at Chornobyl. I have the technical details from the interview. #Ukrainian Ministries/Agencies plead for help. ImageImageImage
Forest fires in #Chornobyl are acknowledged but it is only one aspect of the problem. Dysfunctions at the nuclear facilities can lead to radiation leaks that will threaten the residents of the adjacent & remote territories as radionuclides are carried by the wind. ImageImageImageImage
Radioactive rains then poison the exposed on the ground, causing severe illness and death. The wind can carry radionuclides towards Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the countries of the European Union and as far as Scandinavian countries. ironedcurtains.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/bri… ImageImageImage
I understand the importance of this to Europe because I was around #Chornobyl in 1986, 60 km away. We were not taught that it happened. The Soviet government silenced the explosion/radiation. People were exposed and died or sick w/thyroid & cancer. This needs to be know. @iaeaorg ImageImage
Another dangerous situation is at #Zaporizhzhia #Enerhodar nuclear power plant, the biggest one in Europe but I will do a separate report about the situation there. Please help us all to prevent another #Chernobyl. RT, reach out, make our governments step in. Thanks.
More from State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management: The Russian soldiers illegally seized, looted & destroyed laboratory equipment worth 6 mn Euros from the Central Analytical Laboratory in Chornobyl, including highly active samples and samples of radionuclides. ImageImage
[break, will update on the current military situation and the latest in a few hours. Thank you all--I know together we can stop it. Please consider sharing #Chornobyl/nuclear safety information above so the international community can be aware of the situation and act.]
[UPDATE. You step away for two hours to take care of something and #Russian troops managed to destroy so much that it takes an hour to catch up. How much pain, despair, grief can they sow? Ruthlessly, without a touch of humanity. What happened to these--supposedly--people?]
#Chernihiv. On the night of March 23, the Russian troops dropped air bombs on a road bridge across the Desna River, which connected the city with Kyiv. This bridge was used for evacuation/aid delivery. Seige.
the head of the Chernihiv OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
#Chernihiv is in the same situation as #Mariupol now. No water, no electricity. Authorities are trying to build a corridor but the invaders are firing artillery at all passages from Chernihiv and Kyiv. The road is mined.
#Kyiv A shopping center, private sector houses and high-rise buildings were shelled. The fire was extinguished, no victims found. The premises of the shopping center and two private houses were damaged ImageImageImage
#Kyiv Shevchenkivskyi district shelled in the morning. Rescuers and medics are working on the spot. Several private houses & high-rise buildings on fire. 4 injured. Information about the victims and the nature of the destruction is being clarified.
#Kharkiv has proved that it will not surrender its positions. A new attack pushed back today. The Ukrainian army controls the movement of Russian troops in the Izyum direction. #Russian fired on Lozova, 8 injured, at least 20 houses were damaged.
#Luhansk Three people, including two children, killed by Russian shelling in Rubizhne. The shell exploded on the fifth floor. - Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Gaidai
#Mariupol The situation remains very difficult. Street fights are taking place in the city. The positions of Ukrainian and Russian armies did not change. Humanitarian crisis.
Ukrainian Air Defense units shot down 4 Russian aircraft; a Tochka-U missile in Donbas. Ukrainian troops repelled 7 attacks, destroyed 7 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 6 artillery systems, 2 drones, 7 vehicles & 100 Russian personnel, reports the General Staff, Ukraine.
#Rivne Russian troops attacked a military infrastructure in the region 3 times. Yesterday, Russia bombed a military training area in the region twice. The Ukrainian military shot down one drone, one Russian missile. the head of the Regional Military Administration Vitalii Koval
[sleep break. СлаваУкраїні] Image
[UPDATE. 23 March, 22. 28th day. Thanks to everyone who is joining. I report the events from my local sources in Ukraine, local Telegram chats and Ukrainian State agency sites, doing my best to verify since day 1. More events, harder to verify. Focus on #InformationWarfare]
The News of Chornobyl and the Exclusion zone shared this today. It says: "March 10, 2022. I'm afraid." A friend who escaped #Slavutich, told me that in Poland, her 6 y.o. son jumped up at night & ran in circles, screaming, "What are you doing? What are you doing?" Image
#Slavutich is a satellite town next to #Chornobyl. Today, local social networks posted:"‼ WARNING !!! The real threat‼ "Parliamentarians from the army of the Russian occupiers came to the city with an ultimatum to surrender by 14:00 today, the city refused."
It is currently impossible to leave Slavutych. Mayor Yuriy Fomichov: "Today our checkpoint was shelled. Slavutych residents: milk is important but life is much more important, because w/o you, your children will not receive milk, so please respond to a siren."
#Slavutych mayor:"Bread was baked today, will be sold tomorrow. There are no corridors. It's impossible to leave the city. Delivery of food, humanitarian aid is difficult. We are cut off. We thank the Armed Forces. We hold on, Slavutych will stand, Ukraine will win."
#Slavutych bread. My friend told me: "Volunteers find grains, grind them, & make wartime bread w/o yeast. Thousands of people in six-hour-long line. 230 grams per person. In order to get bread ratios for the whole family, it was necessary to bring the whole family." Image
No connection. My full interview with families from #Slavutich coming soon. I'm doing updates for cities but
Mariupol, Vorzel, Irpen, Bucha, Gostomel & Izyum remain w/o mobile communication. No internet/cell communication with Chernihiv and Luhansk regions. - Gosspetsvyazi.
#Chernihiv: deportations. The Russians plan to deport #Chernihiv residents to Russia, Kursk region & preparing lists, according to Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova. #Chernihiv is completely cut off from the capital, they turned its residents into hostages," Denisova wrote.
#Chernihiv has no electricity, water, heat, almost no gas, infrastructure is destroyed, constant shelling. Situation is similar to #Mariupol. First mentioned in 907, #Chernihiv is an ancient town. Great architecture. Hard to report, personal. Drew this as a kid, there. First love ImageImage
#Kharkiv 998 buildings destroyed by Russian shelling from the beginning of the war, said the mayor Igor Terekhov. 24 bodies recovered from the rubble of the Kharkiv administration (shelling on March 1)--the Main Directorate of the Kharkiv Regional Emergency Situations Ministry
#Mykolaiv #RussianArmy shelled the zoo. Again. "May you be cursed, Russian World." The zoo was first shelled on March 7, hit next to the white bear and tiger. Employees can shelter only in the moat that separates the viewing area from elephants and hippos.
#Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a shelling; parking lot by a shopping center. 1 dead, 2 wounded. #Brovary "Russian soldiers undress people, take away their clothes; food, medicine. They shoot cars, do not allow corpses to be removed, unian.net/war/grabili-za…
#Mariupol. Today, #Russians destroyed an art museum (in addition to pretty much everything else.) 2,491 Mariupol residents, including 570 children, evacuated from Berdyansk to Zaporizhia. All evacuees were provided with the necessary medical care, food and accommodation.
#Zaporizhzhia A hospital in #Zaporizhzhia providing help to a girl evacuated from #Mariupol. Zaporizhzhia is also being shelled by #RussianArmy. From @UnianInfo #PutinWarCrimes Image
#InformationWarfare The Center for Counteracting Disinformation of Ukraine: Russian military provocations intensified. Russian authorities are preparing a scenario involving the shelling of Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, to blame it on Ukraine.
#InformationWarfare Kremlin's plan: provocations should be a reason to announce a general mobilization in Russia. Today, #Russia Belgorod region, two villages imposed a state of emergency in connection with the explosions of shells that "flew from Ukraine."
#InformationWarfare Not a joke. Real news piece on the Kremlin-run news program: "Mercenaries of Satan. American battalion under the banner of Satan in Ukraine ." I verified and listened. It's real. Image
#InformationWarfare To create narratives, Russians blackmail journalists. May abductions in Ukraine. Ukrainian journalist, director of the Ria-#Melitopol website Svetlana Zalizetskaya's 75-y.o. father was abducted. "They would only exchange him for me."
#InformationWarfare In #Russian schools, Z brainwashing continues. I will be talking about the information warfare with @DrAlakbarov tomorrow on Twitter space; details later. This is a really important subject. Image
#Military Sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine would lead to a direct clash between the Russian Armed Forces and NATO, said Sergey Lavrov, #Russian Foreign Minister. [Journalists noticed that he is the only person close to Putin who still makes public appearances.] Image
#Military Russia's plan to attract Syrian mercenaries to the war with Ukraine is failing, according to the Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate. Russian operatives are also trying to agree on the recruitment of mercenaries from the Syrian 16th brigade.
#Military Near Kyiv, a Russian soldier ran his tank over his commander, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, blaming him for the death of half of his 1,500 fellow servicemen. - reported by Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk.
#RussianWarCrimes In #Ukraine, #Russian Army soldiers fired at 58 ambulances and killed 6 medics
- the Minister of Health of Ukraine Victor Lyashko.
Half of the employed Ukrainians lost their jobs due to the war. Almost half (44%) of Ukrainians had to temporarily part with their loved ones. Every 5th Ukrainian (19%) forced to leave their home. 93% plans to return home as soon as it is safe. survey data of the "Rating" group.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, "Of course, I hear the voices of those who demand a no-fly zone or a NATO peacekeeping force in Ukraine. No matter how hard it is, we will not go for it." Image
"Germany is by far the biggest EU spender on Russian oil, gas and coal, paying more than €40 billion in 2021; it gets 55 percent of its natural gas, 52 percent of its hard coal and 34 percent of its oil from Russia."politico.eu/article/why-is…
#Economy Today, Putin offered the EU to buy all gas in rubles instead or Euros. I'm not an expert on the subject but I understand that it is bad for Ukraine and the civilized world. I will look for expert opinions and share.
I finish the first update on March 23 with two good pieces of news. A video of a man throwing a "Molotov cocktail" at the Kremlin wall in Moscow is gaining popularity on the Internet. Details not known.youtube.com/shorts/YEsvYbl…
#KhvilinkaHumoru Ukrainian magicians and witches are going to hold a series of rituals to remove Putin from power, as well as in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on March 31. I might fly there to join. Image
[2nd update, March 23, in Ukraine, already March 24 and one month since Russia started this illegal war against Ukraine. Many thanks to everyone who is joining me here to keep a record of Russian war crimes and to help Ukraine win as fast as possible.]
#Military. Brief. Trying this format. Let me know if it is readable and if FB machine translation gives you the idea. If not, will get back to regular Twitter format. A lot to report so trying to be time-efficient. ImageImageImageImage
#Melitopol #Russian occupying forces set up a military base at Melitopol Air Base & fire missiles to other cities. The city’s residents are essentially serving as living shields for the Russian military. Melitopol is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Mayor Ivan Fedorov
#Kyiv. As noted in the GS briefing, the Ukrainian army was able to move the front line east of Kyiv by 25-35 kilometers. A powerful speech (in English) by the Mayor of Kyiv's brother, Vladimir Klitschko today, accusing Russia of war crimes.
#Kyiv Vladimir Klitschko about Russian fascists bombing out #BabiYar, for the second time, and addressing the NATO and EU. [I sign up to every word. My great-grandparents are in the mass grave there, killed by Hitler and bombed by Putin] facebook.com/watch/?v=67755…
#Kherson region. Russian military confiscate phones, documents, do not allow to repair the power supply; arrested the director of the Music and Drama Theater. Secretary of the Novokakhovka City Council held captive for 7 days. 23-year-old was abducted in Kakhovka.
#Chernihiv Secretary of the National Security & Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that the authorities would do everything possible to deliver humanitarian aid to Chernihiv. Currently, the city is besieged, cut off Kyiv. no water, heat, electricity, communication.
#Kharkiv "We live in settlements: those who remained are united in their districts. They know where the lonely old woman is, where the woman with the children is, where the abandoned cats are...Shared food supplies, shared kitchen, shared sleep in a shelter." @suspilne_news
#Kharkiv "For those who survived the Auschwitz, and for Holocaust survivors, the death of their brother, Nazi concentration camp prisoner Borys Romanchenko in Kharkiv, was the last cry in the criminal war that Putin and his friends are waging in Ukraine every day."SuspilneKharkiv Image
The Auschwitz International Committee has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. An excellent read is attached. theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…
#Kharkiv region. Rescuers found 24 bodies under the debris, after more than 3 weeks. 2 Russian planes shot down over Izyum. 60% of the Russian units destroyed. 20 houses in Lozova destroyed completely. 16-meter monument to poet Taras Shevchenko covered w/sandbags; took 4 days.
#Mariupol "Mariupol City Hospital, 120 y.o. 130 doctors, 70,000 patients/year. Thousands of lives saved. Before the war. In the first days of the blockade, ambulances brought 10-15 wounded to the hospital, then the number of wounded grew at a terrible rate.-"
#Mariupol Ambulances couldn't bring all the injured. Then, no ambulances left, roads destroyed. Relatives or neighbors brought the wounded on stretchers, 100+ every day. Wounded by shell fragments.Heavy bleeding. All departments of the hospital switched to emergency care.
Every doctor, every nurse works to the limit. Under the shelling. Of the 6 hospital buildings, only one now survives. Medical staff works in the basement, w/candles as the only source of light. To save fuel, they only use diesel generators for complex operations and hemodialysis.
Residents of nearby houses also found refuge in the basements of the hospital. In total, in different periods City Hospital №1 gave shelter to 600-700 people. They cook on fires, outside. Doctors continue to save lives.
#Mariupol "I believe that Ukraine will win and we will return peace to our Mariupol. Together we will begin to rebuild our hometown and our hospital. And we will restore everything, ”says Larisa, a doctor at the city hospital №1." from Mariupol Miska Rada Telegram chat
#Mariupol "Now it has become more difficult to enter and leave the city, but there is still a chance. Unfortunately, the situation is not improving at all, there are very few houses left ... there are constant fights in the streets. But we do not intend to give up" Mariupol Now T
#Odesa Director of the Odesa Zoo, an interview: “Since the first day of the war, I sleep at the zoo. I'm afraid something will happen, I won't be able to get here. The animal may be injured or the enclosure destroyed. If I'm at home, how do I get here? You need to react instantly
#Odesa. Zoo. "That's why a group of people stays at the zoo overnight. Animals understand that there are no people. They remember it from COVID time, they don't like it when there are no people. The safest place for our animals is Odesa, our zoo. We don't plan to leave anywhere."
#Odesa. Zoo. "I know my animals like my family; some are old, some aggressive, some timid. Someone can be given sleeping pills, and someone can not. A trip out is hard. Hatred & a terrible urge to pick up a machine gun burn inside but I know I am needed at the zoo."
[break and will do the last update today in a couple of hours. The early morning hours are the most dangerous. #ClosetheSkyoverUkraine that's all I can say.]
A Russian opposition journalist Oksana Baulina killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv today. Her last FB post was on Stalin's birthday. The photo of a bus stop: "That one died, this one will die, too" "I don't have any other words to cheer you up." She worked with Navalny before. Image
#Luhansk At night, the region was hit by missiles and phosphorus bombs. 4 dead, including 2 children, - the head of the Luhansk regional military administration Sergey Gaidai reported. Russian Air Force dropped phosphorus bombs on Rubezhnoye. There may be many more victims.
#Luhansk region. Residents of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Rubezhnoye, Kremennaya, Novodruzhesk and Voevodovka came under fire. According to the head of the military administration, 31 facilities in the region were damaged or completely destroyed in one day
Due to the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 128 children died and more than 172 were injured.
#Khersin The situation in the southern direction remains tense but steady. To turn the situation around, the Ukrainian army needs to liberate Kherson - Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko.
#Mykolaev Failing to approach and seize #Mykolaev, #Russians shell the city. Just two days ago, airstrikes were carried out in the city center. Yesterday, with the banned cluster munitions. Many civilian casualties.-Parliamentary Committee on National Security
#Berdyansk The port is on fire. Russian fuel tank was destroyed (3,000 tons.) According to ex-People's Deputy Igor Mosiychuk, the Russians are panicking. They are trying to put out the fire in vain. The detonation of missiles and shells in a warehouse they set up nearby began.
#Berdyansk. The most surreal video I have seen: t.me/vgorode_odessa…. A woman is walking her dog while a 3,000 tons Russian fuel tank is burning right behind her.... ImageImage
The situation in the Kyiv region as of the morning of March 24. At night, air raids. Battles in Irpen, Gostomel.
Constant artillery shelling. Kotsyubinskoye in the Bucha district came under mortar fire. Information about the dead and wounded among civilians is being clarified Image
#Kharkiv #Russian Army fired at the cith center at night using a caliber missile fired from ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation - Oleg Sinegubov
Izyum remains a critical point in the region. This morning Zolochev was fired upon. Balakleya was damaged yesterday
#Berdyansk. A large Russian landing ship was destroyed. Well, we all know about the destination of the Russian military ships, don't we? Soon. Very soon. Image
[Sleep break for me and many thanks for caring for the people of Ukraine. I talk to many of my friends who are there now and it means a lot to them that the world is here to support and help. Thank you for your humanity.]
[Update, March 24, 29th day. Welcome to everyone who is joining; I cover the Russian war against Ukraine; my sources are mostly local (friends, colleagues); #Ukrainian Telegram local channels. Special focus: information warfare; &, currently, the crisis at #Chornobyl]
#Chornobyl detailed article forthcoming; the latest/important. The Coordination HQ of the Exclusion Zone warned that Russians are preparing a series of fake propaganda videos "about the stable and successful work of Chornobyl & peaceful cooperation between Russians and Ukrainians ImageImage
#Chornobyl Several dozen people came to the Exclusion Zone to pose as Chernobyl workers & citizens of Ukraine in videos. These fakes are made create a different narrative. This is maskirovka, a strategy meant to disguise reality. - Coordination HQ of the Exclusion Zone Image
#Chornobyl Reality: "an increase of radiation background; environmental pollution; arson of radioactive forest; the destruction of the central analytical laboratory worth 6 mn euros." Fakes are intended primarily for international professional organizations & the IAEA@iaeaorg. Image
#Chornobyl the State Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Ukraine shared on FB today Regulatory control over the state of nuclear and radiation safety at the Chornobyl NPP site and on the territory of the Exclusion Zone, as well as control of nuclear materials is impossible." Image
#Chornobyl ..."the Russian military continues to grossly violate the requirements of radiation safety and sanitation at the plant and in the Exclusion Zone, which leads to a deterioration of the radiation situation at the site." - State Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Ukraine Image
#Chornobyl #Slavutych Russian troops are attempting to seize the satellite town of Slavutych, home to Chornobyl personnel. They are shelling the checkpoints. "The current situation endangers the lives and health of Chornobyl NPP."
#Chornobyl surrounding area [Zone] Russians began looting villages. Mainly, cars, ATVs, generators. They break into the houses from which the owners fled, in search of valuables. No victims at the moment. No connection; no light. From Oleksandr Sirota facebook.com/aes.planca
#Chornobyl Tomorrow, at 1 EST, Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will speak about Chornobyl and Belarus & Ukraine. Open to all. Join w/questions. Talk held by @thejosevergara w/whom I had the pleasure of working on literary projects.
[a short break; will be back with military updates, city situations and more.]
[Friends, lots to report but working on an urgent article and will be talking about the nuclear plant crisis, hybrid war, information warfare new tactics and ways to help Ukraine at 11 pm UK time, 1 pm EST with @DrAlakbarov on Twitter Space, pls join us, update after that]
[Apologies: Twitter Space speaking required Twitter App on your phone, and I was tweeting from my browser. Learning. I am a Zoomer(?!) so took a few minutes. Thank you for your patience. Rescheduled for tomorrow, 10.30 pm London, 6.30 pm EST, 3.30 PST.]
[Moving on to the continued daily update on the war, so late today.]
#Military Just in. Briefing of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, #Ukraine (The UK flag is for English, just FYI) ImageImage
#Military #Mykolaiv A great development. Follow @DrAlakbarov for great military insights.
A daily update from the UK intelligence, another great source. @DefenceHQ
#Military. A good map. I recommend using maps and comparing different sources. Definitely do NOT recommend #Russian map unless to study disinformation tactics.
#HumanRightsViolations Millions of #Ukrainians are partially or completely deprived of access to drinking water. Mariupol, Nikolaev, Kharkiv, Akhtyrka, Izyum, Makarov, Polog, Vasilyevka, Orekhov, Gulyaipol, Chernihiv, Trostyanets & more. - the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada
#HumanRightsViolations "There is a threat that in the coming weeks the Donetsk region may be completely cut off from water supply," the ombudsman Ludmila Denisova. Rights to access to drinking water: UN General Assembly resolution and UN Human Rights Council resolution
#InformationWarfare #HybridWarfare The Verkhovna Rada has introduced criminal liability for filming the movements of #UkrainianArmy. 3-12 yrs/prison for publishing photos & videos with Ukrainian military equipment. Such photos are used by #RussianArmy for airstrikes. DO NOT SHARE
#Military Arestovich's new briefing: "The front almost froze. The enemy in many areas does not have the resources to continue the offensive. It is almost stationary and has problems with material supply - fuel, ammunition, other supplies."
#Military, Arestovich: "The only places Russians continue to focus efforts: Izyum, Marinka, Mariupol, some defense activities near Kherson. Post of the Russian 49th Army in the south; a large landing ship w/400 Marines, 20 tanks &45 armored personnel carriers reported destroyed."
#Odesa region. Funerals of the fallen soldiers. Eternal memory. #СлаваУкраїні #ГероямСлава Image
#Odesa Sailors of the Odesa ship "Sapphire" released from captivity, exchanged for #Russian POW Image
#Kharkiv region. #Russian soldiers stole 2 children from a man and demanded machine guns in exchange. When the father said he had only 1 machine gun, they said that would only release one son. - the State Border Guard Service [territorial defense carries guns for obvious reasons]
#Kharkiv The Russian military fired on the Kharkiv Memorial, erected on the graves of those who liberated Ukraine from fascism. "Are there still any questions, which state is really Nazi?" - Kharkivska Miska Rada t.me/vgorode_kharki…
#Kharkiv #Russian helicopter fired at the #RussianArmy, destroying a lot of personnel and military equipment in Malaya Rogany. These troops constantly shelled the city of Kharkiv with artillery and MLRS.
#Kharkiv. Fierce airstrikes continue in Saltovka. Strikes on civilian infrastructure. #RussianArmy is trying to resume offensive operations by Izyum, bears losses. The withdrawal of certain #Russian units to the territory of Russia due to the loss of more than 50% of personnel.
#Kharkiv Two pharmacy employees killed by #Rissian airstrikes. Image
#Kherson 🇺🇦 A big flag of Ukraine adorns the City Council of the temporarily occupied city once again, - the mayor of Kherson. For the tenth time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a devastating blow at Russian troops at the Chornobayev Airport near Kherson - Arestovych. ImageImageImage
#Kherson region. The Lower Sirogoz village head resigned due to the impossibility to work as a representative of the Ukrainian government. The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights: Russians are planning repressions and deportations of pro-Ukrainian activists to Russia.
#Kherson region. 2 killed in the shelling in Stanislav. Igor Prusayev from Kakhovka is a prisoner of the Russian military, no information about him. A pre-trial investigation of 2 launched over cooperation with the Russian military, the regional prosecutor's office said.
#Kyiv Due to the fires started by hostilities, according to the IQair service, the concentration of solid microparticles in the air is now 6.1 times higher than the annual WHO normative value. Residents asked to close the windows and stay inside.
#Kyiv #Russian troops pushed back 70 km in some areas. In other areas, much closer, 35 km #Kyiv is well fortified, defended by combat-ready elite units from the Land, Airborne Assault Forces, Special Operations Forces, territorial defense units. Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
#Kyiv As of evening 24 March. From Kyiv. Glavnoe Telegram Channel. Image
#Kyiv Caption [in Russian]: "Kyiv - the mother of Russian cities. Mother Kyiv [In Ukrainian]: "If only I know, I'd have an abortion." Image
#Chernihiv region. In areas, temporarily occupied by the #RussianArmy, facts of seizure of tractors from local farmers. Agricultural machinery is used to evacuate the Russian lined equipment. Information from the General Staff, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 18:00, March 24.
#Chernihiv Up to 200 civilians killed. "Chernihiv is under constant fire. People are dying. If two or three days ago I spoke about the Chernihiv Hundred, now I can confidently say that we are approaching the 200 dead civilians killed in Chernihiv," said Mayor Vyacheslav Chaus.
[By now, I know most of these cities' Mayors, Deputy Mayors by name, recognize their faces. They are speaking to their people every day, sometimes 2/day, working away under shelling, in horrifying conditions. Inspiration. Government at its best. Exceptions? Yes. Yet, admirable]
#Chernihiv. "Another military facility? Or not. Not so. 'Secret Laboratory.'" t.me/suspilnecherni…
#Melitopol A humanitarian catastrophe is approaching. "People robbed right on the street, businessmen searched, every day it turns out that someone was abducted, someone is kept in the basement. Every day someone is kidnapped," The mayor Ivan Fedorov [he was previously kidnapped]
[I have to run an errand, will be back with Mariupol and information warfare update, plus some NATO/G7 results. Thank you for being there for Ukraine; will not stop saying this. These people need us. We need them. #SaveUkraine #StopRussianAggression ]
[Back and a terrifying report from Mariupol now. One of the worst I had to do so far. More people got evacuated now, so more photos; by now it is worse.]
#Mariupol "More people die of hunger. Attempts to launch a humanitarian operation blocked by the Russians. We have reached the limit. We need tougher sanctions, closed sky, planes, tanks. Save hundreds of thousands of people from hell & an endless circle of torture."-City Council ImageImage
#Mariupol Eyewitness: "the shelling has not subsided in our hometown. The enemy still continues to destroy our pearl of the sea. There are no values, rules, norms for them. They captured the church in the heart of the city and started firing from it." [photo before, Mariupol Now] Image
#Mariupol Eyewitnesses:"We believe in our army and & defend our city! There is almost no connection, but we strongly believe that soon everyone will hear from families." "Have not eaten for 2 days. Weakness. No strength to leave the city on foot. It's good here is a little water" ImageImageImageImage
#Mariupol Eyewitnesses: "today parents called...There is no water at all and nowhere to go. The trees are all cut down. Nothing to cook. The cars in the yard smashed to pieces. They don't know about the evacuation. They only dream about humanitarian aid but holding on."
#Mariupol Eyewitnesses: "For 2 days houses were heavily shelled near the bus station. All in a row. From guns and tanks.""My mom called me, they live in basements, there's food, everything's relatively normal, people live in basements, promised to call, but the phone's near-dead"
#Mariupol Police General Vyacheslav Abroskin offered himself to the Russians as a hostage in exchange for the opportunity to evacuate children from Mariupol: "I need three days in the city. At the last checkpoint during the return trip with children, I surrender."
#Mariupol Abroshkin's letter: "Today, many children remain in the completely destroyed city. If not saved now, they will die in the coming days. Time's running out. I appeal to the invaders: give the opportunity to take the children out of Mariupol. I offer myself in exchange."
#Mariupol Abroshkin's letter, 2/3: "I'm a police general who, in 2014-18, fought against you in the Donetsk region. I am on your sanctions lists. I'm on your wanted list. You plotted to assassinate me. Dozens of you were killed, thousands were detained with my help."
#Mariupol Abroshkin's letter, 3/3: "I am the general who is perhaps closest to the famous Azov Regiment. This is my personal initiative. My life belongs to me alone and I offer it in exchange for the lives of children who still remain in Mariupol. Signed: Vyacheslav Abroskin" Image
#Mariupol Eyewitnesses from inside the Drama Theater:
"People from the houses nearby saw a bright flash, a fireball, & an explosion. It was an air bomb. The power of destruction was appalling. The blow fell on the back of the theater, obliquely, flying from the right to the rear. Image
#Mariuopl Eyewitness, the Drama Theater: "Everyone in the front of the theater & in the basement survived. Basements, built in Soviet times in case of war, withstand any bomb. Everyone in the back & in the right wing died. New moms were on the right side. No one survived there."
#Mariupol Eyewitness, Theater: “No more than 400 were in the basement. Several hundred in the front. I think about 100 died during the strike near the field kitchen... The rest - in the right wing, under the rubble, there was no one to pull them out. it's about 200 more, or more"
#Deportation The Ukraine Ministry of Defense's Main Intelligence Directorate confirms that Russian troops are deporting Ukrainian citizens to Russia en masse. After passing the filtration camps, Ukrainians are sent to economically depressed areas.
#Deportation "A number of northern regions are mentioned as the final destination, including Sakhalin. Ukrainians are being offered official employment through employment centers. Those who agree receive documents banning them from leaving Russian regions for two years."2/3
#Deportation "Intelligence reports that as of today, there is confirmation that one of these filtration camps has been established in Dokuchaevsk, Donetsk region. That's where all Ukrainians are sent, documents are taken away. After that, the FSB officers talk to them."

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nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/…
Lanny Wiles and Akhmetshin worked to undo the Magnitsky Act, a law imposing sanctions on Russian officials.

“I think he works for us. I don’t think he works for them,” said Wiles... who has worked with Akhmetshin for more than 15 years. “But I don’t know what he really does.”
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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Nov 3
🧵 Russian oligarch Petr Aven played a critical role in #Putin’s rise to power.

Reports suggest links between Aven, #Trump’s presidential campaigns, and #Musk’s X acquisition.

These connections call for further examination. Voters deserve clarity on the national security. Image
One of the entities backing Musk’s Twitter buyout employs Aven’s son.

While Petr Aven has no known formal connection to X acquisition, the nature of the Russian mafia state calls for an investigation.
dw.com/en/what-do-xs-…
Petr Aven has longterm and close ties with Putin.

In the 90s, Aven shielded Putin from a corruption scandal involving $122M in missing food aid.

Putin then rose to the presidency by 1999, consolidating power with oligarch backing.

svoboda.org/a/1983851.html
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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Oct 21
#Moldova 💥🚨🧵 With 1.7% votes of the referendum (to EU or not EU?) still left to be counted, what is going on?

In 2022, I did on the ground reporting and research in Russian interference in Moldovan politics. Good background.

With Georgia and US elections next, important ⬇️ Image
In Chisinau, I followed a crowd of bussed old ladies to an anti-government process. This is what I have found:

Following up, I spoke to experts and Moldovan government officials and residents. Banned Russian TV channels were still airing full speed:

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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Sep 18
#Disinformation #Russia 🔴🧵#Microsoft reports: “Russia pivot towards targeting the #HarrisWalz campaign, with actors disseminating fabricated videos designed to sow discord and spread disinformation about the new Democratic nominee Vice President #Harris.
1/…
🧵In late Aug-Sept, Russian actors used fake videos to discredit #Harris, generating millions of views

1. an attack by alleged Harris supporters at a supposed Trump rally
2. false claims about hit-and-run accident
3. a fake NY City billboard w/ false claims (Harris’ policies)
🧵”Russian actors to continue to use cyber proxies and hacktivist groups to amplify their messages through media websites and social channels geared to spread divisive political content, staged videos, and AI-enhanced propaganda.”
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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Aug 24
@AndrewPerpetua I have been on the ground, reporting about the "human safari" in Kherson for the last month: over 100 attacks on civilians a day. 🧵Eyewitness reports, authorities confirmations, videos: Byline Times (UK), 29 July 2024: An overall analysis bylinetimes.com/2024/07/29/khe…
@AndrewPerpetua Euromaidan Press (UA), 10 August 2024: A detailed follow-up report with multiple video interviews euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/10/rus…
@AndrewPerpetua TVP World (Poland), 13 August 2024: An overall analysis, an interview:
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