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Feb 27 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I’m alive.
I want to vomit.
This is genocide.
Putin won’t be happy until we’re all dead.
Andriy is safe. He says at least 25,000 civilians are armed and ready to fight.
Time to write what I’m a witness to. This is genocide.

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Mar 1
If you are a TV/Radio producer who is asking an independent reporter in a war zone to broadcast free for you (ME), you need to pay attention to this thread because I hope it will help you help others.

Let's discusss scheduling hit times. Prioritize reporters' safety first!
For starters, I have a selfie stick, not a 10K camera with a crew and body guard. I am in extremely hostile areas where I must focus on my surroundings. If it is dark, I have light which makes me a sitting duck, easy target. Please make the SPECIFIC TIME. Don't make me wait.
The longer I am waiting, the more of a target I am. Some producers have put me in that situation. Obviously, unintentional, but I think it also is because I am freelance and I am not their priority. Anyway, I just won't do their shows anymore.

IT CAN GET ME KILLED!!!!
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Feb 28
Thank god there were no fatalities at this Brovary strike.
Andriy and I saw the missiles zip towards the base as we were driving towards our checkpoint on the same street.
Andriy thinks it was an Su-25 that delivered the hits.
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Feb 27
I’m at a checkpoint outside of the city where a civilian group is checking all vehicles—including military—for saboteurs. There are reports of them shooting at checkpoints, keep these civilian military groups on edge.
Some of the professions of the men holding government-issued weapons at this checkpoint: shoe maker, museum director, language teacher.
Air raid sirens are going off. This is usually the time civilians are taking cover. Not these volunteer military units. They are staying put at this checkpoint in the pitch dark, at the ready, protecting Ukraine.
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Feb 26
This what it’s like to shop for basic things like medical supplies. Very long lines. And no promises what you need will be there when it’s your turn. Wasn’t like this before the war.
Let’s how long it takes for me to get inside this story here in Kyiv and get what I need. One very simple but very inconvenient aspect of living in war: long lines and limited supplies.

Note: forgot my selfie stick.
Part 1: I was in and out pretty fast. Items in short supply: water, milk and bread. And people are soooo friendly to me.
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Feb 24
To my fellow Americans:

I am gathering thoughts on how to best report what's happening. But the first thing that comes to mind is self-reflection. The fear Ukrainians and I have about Russia are the very fears many around the world have felt of U.S. invasions.
The fear I have to pray and work through and the fears and tragedies Ukrainians must endure from Russia are the very traumas America has inflicted across the world. This is a horrible feeling and I never want anyone to experience what is happening here.
My job is to report, but it is also to reflect. I have devoted my life to challenging Russian imperialism, but I cannot help, in this moment, not to reflect on peoples around the world who have lived in fear because of my country's military.
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Feb 22
For all of these people saying the West should agree to not allow Ukraine into NATO, I have a question: if Putin can force our hand on that, why would he stop there?

Even if Ukraine signed documents never to join NATO, that would not change his behavior.
You do realize that telling Ukraine that it should never join NATO is a slap in the face of 1/3 of the alliance and suggests that none of Eastern Europe should be in NATO or the EU.
You do realize that centering France and Germany's thinking (and financial interests) over Eastern Europeans is offensive and discriminatory, right? If Eastern Europe wasn't in NATO, Russia would be threatening to attack Germany (again).
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