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Mar 6 10 tweets 3 min read
I have a personal favour to ask. Those of you who have been reading me for a while will remember Valentina. We met in the Vienna airport on my way to Kyiv in early February. She gave me a walking tour on my last day in Kyiv, just because. Wouldn't accept anything for it.
When the bombings started, I reached out to Valentina. She told me how horrible it was. A few days later I wrote. She replied, "I'm alive". Her son is here in Vienna, worked like crazy to get her on one of the last buses out of Kyiv. He spent all his savings to save his mom.
Valentina is now in Vienna. She arrived with nothing but the clothes on her back and her documents. They did not ask for help, I simply wrote her son and asked how his mom is, not knowing she already made it to Austria. They need to buy food, clothes, to fund a fresh start.
If you can help, and would like to help, please DM me and I will give you the PayPal address for Valentina's son, who is a violinist / opera singer and in graduate school here in Austria. He is looking for more PT work but it's not easy now especially post covid etc.
This is the story of how I met Valentina. tanjamaier.substack.com/p/kyiv-is-so-b…
And this is the story of my last day in Kyiv and the historical walking tour she gave me. It was very special. She is very special. I would love to help her. I cannot imagine what she is going through emotionally right now. DM me pls for her son's PayPal.
tanjamaier.substack.com/p/leaving-my-h…
Thank you. I cannot myself afford to give much with 3 kids and my husband being the sole breadwinner. I will take her shopping when she is ready. I will have them over for dinner. I will try to help, but for now, they need a little financial cushion to feel less scared. Danke.
Also! If you are in Vienna and need piano violin or voice lessons, let me know I’ll put you in touch with Viktor, her son. He is working with kids & adult students in all languages! Ukrainian Russian German English.
Guys hold on he is going to send me his IBAN don't know why the PayPal doesn't accept payments. Will DM you all shortly. Apologies!
THANK YOU all so much for your generosity. Valentina is in tears. This is a photo of her showing me St Sophia cathedral in Kyiv, less than one month ago. Thank you all for your kindness. This will certainly make their lives easier in the coming months.

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Mar 6
Just read a post by a mom of a 16yo in Moscow who went to the protest today. Now the authorities are trying to scare the mom from every possible angle: calls and house calls! The other moms reassure her it’s just scare tactics. As a mom of an almost 16yo I can’t imagine.
In other news perhaps even more shocking, some ladies of suburban Moscow McMansions are apparently taking lessons on how to shoot guns and want to find out about legal ways to own a gun (unheard of this is not Texas). Mind blown.
Also none of their cards are working in Dubai (incredible number of people are all in Dubai right now)…all hopes on the Sino-Russian UnionPay / Mir card. Amazing how fast this all gets normalized. They talk like it’s the next Amex.
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I have no idea if this is really true but this says TikTok is taking a pause in Russia due to the new law that makes people liable for up to 15 years in prison for calling Putin’s war a war. t.me/realua1/6106 Meanwhile TikTok is a big part of the for profit info wars so 🤷‍♀️
Anyway let’s do an evening 🧵 TikTok thread — zucchini pancakes are a personal favorite and the secret behind soups is they feed your family for days
This vlogger is in Donetsk. He says his friend had a rocket fly into his building today so he isn’t sure if he should relocate to another town or make some tea and take the hookah and crawl into this hole
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If this was about NATO expansion, Russia would hit military targets.

Russia is hitting homes, on purpose.

Russia is cutting off water, electricity, gas, heat, communication, on purpose.

Russia is killing Ukrainians on purpose.

Putin wants to destroy the Ukrainian nation.
Therefore don’t blame both sides when a humanitarian corridor doesn’t work. The Russians don’t want it to work. They want to starve the Ukrainian people. They want them to sit cold in basements without food water or medicine. The murderous dictator wants this. It is his plan.
The western world must face the moral physical political economic and even military consequences of sitting back and watching this all happen while not getting *directly* involved. What is neutrality or no planes in Ukrainian skies when there is mass murder in your neighborhood?
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Afternoon 🧵 Zelensky on the cruise missile attack (8!) on the airport in Vinnitsa. t.me/V_Zelenskiy_of…
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In occupied Nova Kakhovka the Russians shot on unarmed civilians and wounded one woman in the leg. The video is on the link here t.me/novostiniko1/9…
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Evening TikTok 🧵 in no particular order…one of the best foreign journalists who worked in Russia for a long time
This is super important to understand the online and social media propaganda war is very real and backed up with real money
You don’t need me to explain this
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