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Mar 8 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🔥Irpin PhotoJournalist: Russian artillery men who fired from other side of the river definitely saw 100s of civilians evacuating. They killed a displaced family from Donetsk living in Irpin. The dead: Tatyana 43yo mom, Nikita 18yo boy, Alisa 9yo girl, Anatoly, 28yo from Luhansk.
@DubchakA @AC360 Andriy Dubchak's video @nytimes captured the depravity of Russia firing on civilians evacuating from an area already bombarded by them. Russians were targeting people—mostly elderly, families w/ cats, dogs—trying to cross Irpin bridge to escape. "100% war crime," he tells Cooper.
Here’s the @nytimes story with Dubchak’s video, capturing the mortar strike on fleeing civilians north of Kyiv in Irpin that killed an IDP (internally displaced) refugee family from Russia’s 8-yr war in Donetsk. Layers upon layers of horror seems to define this war.
@DubchakA @AC360 💔That horrific video of a Russian mortar striking Irpin as civilians fled killed a family w/ ties to Silicon Valley. Tatiana Perebeinis, an accountant for Palo Alto software company SE Ranking, didn't evacuate sooner b/c she was caring for her ailing mom. death-obituary.com/tatiana-perebe…

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“Moscow is looking for help from foreign fighters to take cities including Kyiv” - Is Putin realizing that sending Russians to kill Russian speakers wasn’t such a brilliant idea after all?
“Russia has in recent days been recruiting fighters hoping their expertise in urban combat can help take Kyiv & deal a devastating blow to the Ukraine government…It is unclear how many fighters have been identified, but some are already in Russia preparing to enter the conflict”
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🔥@KatyaYushchenko: What's happening now in Ukraine is a genocide of our people. Russia is bombing schools, hospitals, apt buildings. Terrorists put mines in a nuclear plant to force us to surrender. Putin wants to destroy the free democratic world. Free people are his nightmare.
@KatyaYushchenko #Ukraine fmr First Lady: Our family is on Putin's kill list. Our Orange Revolution infuriated him. As did Georgia's Rose Revolution & the Revolution of Dignity. When people came to the streets, it was his nightmare. Because he could then imagine protests in #Russia removing him.
@KatyaYushchenko "Putin's never forgiven the Ukrainian people for wanting freedom, for coming to the streets. He's never forgiven us for our free media, our fair elections… Sanctions can bite. But they're necy to prevent genocide & to stop war in Ukraine from becoming World War"—@KatyaYushchenko
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🔥@RepMalinowski: "There's no question Putin is losing. He is trying to rattle us; it's psychological deterrence. He knows perfectly well if he were to do anything w/ nuclear weapons, it would be the end of his country and him personally. So we need to remain confident & calm." Image
@RepMalinowski TM: Russia doesn't look like a govt where ppl are telling Putin the truth. That may be why he made this disastrously bad decision. Sanctions don't move fast as tanks, but the noose around his regime is tightening. Also boost morale for Ukraine to see Putin's ppl lose their villas
@RepMalinowski TM: I was in #Kyiv #Ukraine 3 weeks ago & tried to imagine what it would be like to look up & see a plane dropping bombs, trying to kill me. It's just impossible to imagine.

But I grew up with such stories. My family lived thru WW2, the violence & displacement & the evil.…
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Feb 25
➡️Putin’s Hitler-like tricks & tactics in #Ukraine
"The glorification of violence and the disregard for law is central to the history of fascism. Taking law seriously and preventing senseless war was supposed to be the lesson learned from World War II" bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/opi…
"Jews are the real Nazis"—historian @TimothyDSnyder unpacks #Russia's fascist anti-Semitic "denazification" #propaganda:

"It is hard to think of something darker than invading a democracy with a Jewish leader in the name of fighting Nazis."

Zelensky's family died in Holocaust.
@TimothyDSnyder 💯Snyder: Using the language of WWII, Putin imagines Russians can be mobilized thru references to historical trauma. He also deliberately trivializes the Holocaust. Invoking genocide & Nazis to justify invading Ukraine, he mocks history & insults those who survived & remember it.
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Feb 21
🚨WaPo confirms #Russia is compiling kill lists—lists of Ukrainians & exiled dissidents from Russia & Belarus—'to be killed or sent to camps’ following a military invasion & occupation of #Ukraine. Plan includes torture, forced disappearances & “widespread human suffering.”
NYT confirms jaw-dropping kill lists story—Ukrainians to kill or detain/torture in "camps" post invasion. Included: dissidents, journalists, anti-corruption & oppo activists from #Russia & #Belarus. Basically Putin & Luka would wipe out their critics living in exile in #Ukraine.
This is the letter US sent to the UN Human Rights chief about #Russia's kill lists, which would eliminate Putin's critics and decapitate resistance in #Ukraine. The lists reek of war crimes & revenge, and are right in line with Putin's assassinations & Luka's terrorist hijacking.
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❗️Blitzkrieg or Minor Incursion: The debate has shifted from IF to HOW #Russia will invade #Ukraine: “one massive nationwide attack; a series of bites that dismantle the country, piece by piece; or a cobra-like squeeze,” ⁦@SangerNYT⁩ nytimes.com/2022/02/20/us/…
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