More photos from CNN report on Russians pummeling Kyiv🇺🇦 suburbs, from @fpleitgenCNN. As photos show, these are residential, civilians areas.
💔This man is Oleg Shpak, who tells CNN of finding his 2-year-old son in the rubble of Russia's attack on the Kyiv suburb of Novi Petrivsti🇺🇦. The father says the boy died, and the rest of his family is in the hospital.
Halyna from Novi Petrivtsi🇺🇦 told CNN that the Russians are worse than the Nazi fascists during World War II. She says she remembers German fascists would scare Ukrainians and shoot in the air. Not the Russians. The Russians are targeting & killing civilians point blank she said.
💔Oleg Shpak said he found his 2-year-old son Stepan under the rubble days after the attack. The father had to prepare his son's body for burial himself. As he washed his son's body, he says he saw more fatal wounds.
I'm so shaken. But I know that these stories must be told.
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😖People are seriously (seriously??) talking about splitting Ukraine in 2—like North & South Korea. A "natural division—geographic & cultural" along Dnipro River, he says.
Ukrainians know Putin's dismemberment dream well. It's based on a myth that Putin's war has obliterated.
Pro tips: 1/ Don't give credence to a dictator's dream. Putin may be turning Russia into North Korea. But he's can't make Ukraine NK or his beloved East Germany. This is an unattainable fantasy.
2/ Ukrainians no longer have a cultural divide. They are 100% united against Russia.
This is the same propaganda Putin pushed to justify invading Donbas & Crimea. "Rebels," "separatists," "Civil War." Garbage. Putin's GRU & local criminals took over govt & media to scare, divide & brainwash ppl. It was crap then as now. Infuriating dejavu. euromaidanpress.com/2016/05/14/ukr…
🔥"Be not afraid"—Biden begins speech in Warsaw, Poland quoting Polish Pope John Paul II, a message he gave in 1978, about overcoming the cruelty and brutality of the Soviet regime. "Ukraine is now on the front line" in the battle for #democracy over autocracy, by Russia again.
Biden: World democracies must do the hard work—here in Poland & my country as well. It won't be easy. There will be costs. But it's a price we have to pay. B/c the darkness that drives autocracy is no match for the light of liberty that lights the souls of everybody everywhere.
Here's the clip with Biden's exact words in Warsaw🇵🇱, on the hard work & costs of #democracy : "A price we have to pay. B/c the darkness that drives autocracy is ultimately no match for the flame of liberty that lights the souls of free people everywhere."
Russians use abduction, hostage-taking to threaten Ukrainian journalists in occupied zones | RSF rsf.org/en/news/russia…
Putin Mafia State: Terrorize, occupy, replace free press w/ propaganda: Russians are threatening journalists & local media to prevent them reporting the facts & get them to collaborate, spread Kremlin propaganda. They took hostage the 75yo FATHER of Melitopol's local news editor.
Also #Berdyansk: Russian soldiers stormed bldg housing the radio, newspaper & local TV station. Also took over local Telegram channel & Instagram. Took hostage ~50 employees, beat a few. Now News Berdyansk broadcasts Kremlin propaganda calling on Ukrainians to lay down their arms
“Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work,” Ginni Thomas says. Odd, she doesn’t say she doesn’t “discuss” her work w/ him. That would be the expected verb in this kind of parallel construction
🤯Coup-plotter SCOTUS wife Ginni to Meadows: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden & the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History”
"We have our own separate careers" - say Ginni Thomas.
Yeah, Clarence is a Supreme Court justice whose job is to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law in our democracy. And Ginni is a seditionist who plotted to overturn said democracy, constitution & rule of law.
🤭@amanpour got Kremlin spox Peskov to admit Putin is very angry. Including abt “Russian speakers not able to speak Russian in Ukraine.” This is a lie & more demonstrably false now. We hear victims of Russian bombs in Mariupol & Kharkiv tell their horror stories in Russian daily!
@amanpour I haven't seen the whole @amanpour interview. But it sounds like Peskov is just admitting that anger is Putin's motive for launching a criminal war, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. 🤷🏻♀️
@amanpour 😅Peskov not only admitted Putin's motive is revenge. He even made a Freudian slip, saying "Putin's crazy"
Here's Peskov's list of "Putin's angry w/ Ukrainians who"
-want to be part of NATO
-want to deploy American missiles in Ukr
-forbid speaking Russian
-wear Nazi symbols
I don't know what to do. So I will share some beautiful photos of my mom's beloved #Mariupol, before the fascist from Germany invaded. This is my mom's middle school. She loved to sing. Even won a song contest on the local radio. This is her music club.
A school class photo, a few years later, in #Mariupol.
This is Mom’s brother Misha’s 10th grade history class in #Mariupol. He was a history prof. at Kyiv University when Nazis invaded. He joined the fight; wrote a letter home warning not to be taken prisoner b/c he saw Germans kill Jews. We don’t know where or when he was killed.