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Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The mayor of Melitopol spoke on 🇺🇦 TV about a looming humanitarian crisis in the city, with food and medicine running out. Humanitarian aid was sent this morning from Zaporizhzhia but held up in Russian checkpoints for 8h… /1
radiosvoboda.org/a/news-melitop…
The aid is now on the way to Melitopol but the mayor in exile fears that it might be plundered by Russian occupation forces.

The mayor said that the Russian military was "behaving horribly" in the city, kidnapping people and conducting illegal searches of businessmen. /2
Fedorov also spoke about attempts by the Russians to force teachers to start teaching Russian in schools. After the local education department refused to cooperate with them, they, according to the mayor, began to put direct pressure on schools. /3
The mayor said that before the invasion there were Russian schools and classes in Russian in local schools. Fedorov stressed that before the Russian invasion, most Melitopol residents spoke Russian and were not oppressed because of it. /end
This morning, a humanitarian convoy consisting of trucks & buses reached the occupied city of Melitopol. It unloaded food, medicine, personal hygiene products.
In a video the mayor Fedorov said that on the way back, buses will take out up to 350 residents
pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/2…

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Mar 25
It is difficult to keep track of the developments in the occupied territory. Here are observations from the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which I like many others monitor closely. A thread 🧵 /1
The general trend remains the same: locals remain defiant and continue to protest nearly daily in cities in the Kherson and Zaporizhia region. Meanwhile, the occupation forces become more brutal and we hear of more abductions on a daily basis. /2
Before we get to the detention: in the past days, we hear more news of the ongoing "Russification". Across the occupied territories, Ukrainian books are confiscated and destroyed. Moreover, Russian was introduced as the local language in some places. /3
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Mar 23
Behind each Russian war crime are stories of individuals, like this one.
Together with his family, the 14-year old Yuri was in the occupied Bucha without access to food and water for two weeks. On 17 March, Yuri and his father Ruslan were on their way to collect food and aid. /1
when Russian soldiers confronted them. Both clearly identified themselves as unarmed civilians with white armbands to identify themselves as such. The Russians shot and killed Yuri's father (no warning shots, aiming for head and breast). They shot at and wounded Yuri. /2
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Mar 23
This morning, I spoke with the @bbcworldservice about abductions in the Russian occupied 🇺🇦 territory.

The number of those are rising as the local population continues to peacefully resist the occupation. A small 🧵 /1
Abductions are taking place in all Russian (!) controlled territories in 🇺🇦 from the north, east and south to the center.

Due to the nature of this war and in some places limited internet /phone connection and few reporters on the ground there the exact figures are unknown. /2
So far, there is not ONE register of those who were disappeared. But those tracking the cases (incl. me) saw local officials, city councilors, journalists, activists, priests and many regular folks who oppose the occupation disappear. /3
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Mar 22
Today, I listened to a press conference of 🇺🇦 mayors, including the Deputy Mayor of Mariupol Sergey Orlov, who described the levels of destruction in the city, and said the once-bustling city has become a city of tears and death. /1
Orlov says that Russians are pounding the city with an average of 100 bombs per day, by rockets, artillery, by tanks, by air raids, and by Russian warships. /2
About 90% of Mariupol's houses are damaged, many of them completely destroyed. More than 3,000 residents were killed but these are only the ones the city could count. /3
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Mar 22
We get more and more testimonies from the lucky people, who managed to flee from Mariupol. The account of Sergei Vaganov and his wife Irina Gorbaseva is one of them. Both are well-known photojournalists, who fled from Donetsk to Mariupol in 2014 /1
pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2…
It is impossible to summarize what Sergei Vaganov describes in this UP interview, as the suffering of the people in Mariupol is beyond what we can imagine and describe. Russians are leveling the city and systematically killing its mostly Russian-speaking population. /end
Sergei and his wife managed to catch a ride with a volunteer and friend on 14 March. They survived two weeks of the brutal siege. They saw gas, heating, electricity, and water go and they saw people being killed by Russian relentless shelling.
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Mar 22
Today, @OCHA_Ukraine published the #Ukraine Emergency Situation Report. The humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine remains the biggest concern. More than 200,000 people are now without access to water across Donetsk Oblast, with new localities being affected each day...
Some other parts from this report. More than 3.5 Million Ukrainians fled the country and more than 6.5 are internally displaced and need assistance. /1
Meanwhile, the Russian Federation reported that around 347,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine towards the Russian Federation since the escalation of hostilities, including 16,054 people during the past 24 hours. /2
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