Thread by @moved2italy2

This beautiful and helpful article was just shared with me by my Ukrainian friend Andrew (Andriy Андрій).

You might remember his email to me explaining the historic & religious motivations for the current Russian invasion.

Alas. That 🧵is now gone! 😕
ft.com/content/367fff…

I can republish that email but he (Andriy) has also sent me an amazing review he wrote of the Russian novel Taras Bulba and has asked me to clean up the English. As soon as I finish that job I will post it. Andrew's insight into the reasons Russia insists on invading #Ukraine...

..is based on history and is quite fascinating. I feel that it's important we amplify Ukrainian voices.

Now, the article in the @FinancialTimes is free so please take the time to read through. It speaks to the terror of the current war, the unity...
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..of the Ukrainian people and more. There is also an important section detailing what you can do to help in this horrendous, unjust and terrifying situation. I will leave those suggestions here⬇️with any resources I can find!

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"What can each foreign person do now? Call upon their governments to give Ukraine financial, military and diplomatic assistance. Call for the closure of the airspace over Ukraine."

I realize that this (#CloseTheSkies) is not a popular position as the fear..
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...of #Putin using Nuclear weapons is real. It will be just as real when NATO is forced to go to war because Putins army rolls onward.

atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

Here are more suggestions...
"Help with settlement of our refugees."

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worldrelief.org/8-things-you-n…

"Give maximum media coverage to the Russian attack on independent Ukraine and to the fact that Putin’s logic is beyond limits of dystopia and absurdity. This is the war that the Russian government can’t even justify to its own zombified population."

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"Organize action, demonstrate in front of Russian embassies and consulates. Use the media — every second the world needs to be reminded that a cruel and evil war against a democratic country is raging in the centre of Europe."
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https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1499855433019928583?s=20&t=zmRn_Fj_rhRz963d39M_EQ

"Donate to the Ukrainian army."

You can do that here! ⬇️

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https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1497294840110977024?s=20&t=zmRn_Fj_rhRz963d39M_EQ

"Refuse any collaboration with representatives of Russian businesses, politics, sport, industry and culture. Don’t sell Russian goods in your shops."
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#BoycottRussia
actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-wi…

"Don’t forget how Belarusian officials betrayed Ukrainians and allowed hostile forces to break the border."

While the people of Belarus, I believe, are mainly with the Ukrainians, their Russian friendly govt. is fully backing this invasion and must be...
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...censured and isolated just like the Democracies of the world are doing with Russia!!

And here are 2 more suggestions of mine...

Support Ukrainian arts and artists. There are many you can find here on Twitter...
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https://twitter.com/mason4922/status/1498614607698874370?s=20&t=zmRn_Fj_rhRz963d39M_EQ

...and make sure to follow all the accounts that are tweeting from #Ukraine as well as those that are concentrating on the war and how we can all help. There are links to four excellent accounts here on Twitter in the blog post below!
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theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/ukraine-on-a…

"Any country that sows chaos must be kept in complete isolation. People must realise that this war concerns everyone. This chaos will spread, it knows no limits."

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