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Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
our families in ukraine are in war zones in various parts of the country, so i log off time to time

follow these key voices on the ground:
@olgatokariuk
@ngumenyuk
@ronzheimer
@olex_scherba
@IAPonomarenko
@ChristopherJM
@KSergatskova
@lapatina_
@NikaMelkozerova
#StandWithUkriane
also:
@dkaleniuk
@lesiavasylenko
@Aly_shkrum
@shaunwalker7
@maria_avdv
@andersostlund

also for kickass ukraine newsrooms:
@zaborona_media
@KyivIndependent
@UATV_en
@ukraine_world

#StandWithUkriane
i might be forgetting someone because I properly slept more than 72 hours ago

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also. always. @nexta_tv

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Feb 20
when foreigners casually drop ‘bombing of kyiv’ these pics always come to mind. this is what #RussianColonialism did to chechnya and grozny when they tried to leave the empire in 2000. a war crime of horrific scale, but the rest of the world was like ‘meh’, so moscow continued ImageImageImage
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Oct 7, 2020
This year had a terrible toll on my mental health. I had to reevaluate my public presence. I've been oftentimes too nice and polite by surrounding myself with people and affiliations that do not affirm me, value my talents, and see my potential.

A big cleanup is coming.
I moved mountains to become who I am today, to have a chance to do what I love, to be in a position to make a difference. I started from zero, being a poor and queer kid. Often not seen, assigned no value.

Yet I've been struggling to accept that I deserve what I've built
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Aug 30, 2020
So we foreigners do not forget the real pain, humiliation, and horror that forced Belarusians on the streets, maximize reading and sharing these @euroradio interviews with torture victims of the dictator of Belarus
#FreeBelarus
euroradio.pl/en/how-special…
'People were lying on the floor in 4 tiers. The policemen were climbing on top of this human pile, they trampled us with their feet and sat on top so that nobody could stand up. I raised my head to have a look and took a blow immediately'

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Oct 4, 2019
If that's your first time diving into the English-language bubble of Ukraine's twitter (I call it the Kyiv Bubble, althou not all folks are Kyiv or Ukraine based) — beware that's truly a bubble.

Here's a guidebook how to navigate it without distorting your perspective.
I'm part of the bubble, but at least I'm self-aware that I'm not a household name for most Ukrainians, unless fine folks at @tweetsNV or @radiosvoboda translate me. Many other bubble people sell themselves as voices of national prominence — when foreigners are their only audience
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Jun 8, 2019
Surreal livestream from dark Moldova's parliament, where electricity is cut off to prevent MPs from rising up against snap elections. Wow.
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A pro-EU forces are basically joining with a pro-Putin president to topple the dominant oligarch who's running a captured state country — tiny Moldova delivers one of the most dramatic constitutional crises in the Eastern European history developing live.
Moldova's rebellious opposition in the parliament is about to vote for recognizing the country 'a captured state' — in a groundbreaking legal precedent not only for Eastern Europe suffering from toxic dominance of oligarchs, but globally, too.
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May 23, 2019
Oleksiy Ananenko, Valeriy Bespalov and Boris Baranov — three Chernobyl first-responders who decided to sacrifice their lives and prevent second explosion at the station that would make most of Eastern Europe a nuclear desert, killing millions.

Yet few know their names
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Only when I grew up did I realize that’s how all people trapped in a totalitarian society deal with a trauma: feeling shame, blaming the victim, denial.

How else do you reconcile with the fact that you are living in a place where human life means nothing?
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