A thread on what you can do to #SupportUkraine#StandWithUkraine. First things first: go out to the streets, protest, show your support. Pressure your government to provide Ukraine with more military aid and impose more sanctions on Russia: total disconnection from SWIFT, oil ban
If you want to donate, please focus on Ukrainian organizations. Come Back Alive is the most trusted Ukrainian charity assisting soldiers on the frontline. This is the fastest way to get your donation to those who need it, without too much bureaucracy comebackalive.in.ua
Leleka Foundation buys first-aid kits and sends them to Ukrainian soldiers via a network of volunteers in Ukraine. A small donation can literally save someone's life: leleka.care
Voices of children NGO provides psychological and other help to Ukrainian kids affected by war. It has been doing this since 2014. One of the founders of this initiative is a journalist and filmmaker, check out his documentary The Distant Barking Of Dogs voices.org.ua/en/
You can also support the work of Ukrainian independent media reporting the war. Many of them are raising funds to translate their brilliant coverage, full of local insight, into English, like @the_ukrainians: support.theukrainians.org/?utm_source=tw…
Here some other 🇺🇦 media you can support - and follow: @KyivIndependent
Frankly I cannot tweet all the terrible news we are getting in Ukraine every day. Each day, more and more personal stories of people who were killed, raped, tortured. All normal people, looking like next-door neighbours. It makes me feel sick, fills me with so much anger and hate
I retweet what other people tweet because these personal stories are important, they give a meaning to the numbers and statistics. Victims need to be remembered and perpetrators must be brought to justice. But it's just too much pain and my instinct is to cowardly try to avoid it
The stories about rape are the most gut-wrenching. Only those confirmed today: about a woman in Kyiv region whose husband was killed and she was gang-raped by Russian soldiers. And about another one in Mariupol, raped repeatedly in front of her 6-year old son. She didn't survive
All these sanctions are incomplete. They have been threatened, but not implemented. Now we are hearing that the decision depends on whether Russia launches a chemical attack on us. This is not the right approach.We are not guinea pigs to be experimented on economist.com/europe/2022/03…
'[Our partners]... are using Ukraine as a shield. We are the ones who are feeling the pain. It is good that they are on the side of Ukraine, but they have to stop being defensive in their dialogue with with Russia. We insist they can act offensively'
'in Melitopol and Berdyansk they are switching to roubles. They are kidnapping the mayors of our cities. They killed some of them. Some of them we can't find. Some of them we have found already, and they are dead... They are doing the same thing that they did in Donbas in 2014'
Ahead of the NATO summit and other top-level meetings today, president Zelensky calls on political leaders to show meaningful support to Ukraine and resist Russia's attempts to divide the unity of Western alliances.
More messages from his latest address in a thread 🧵
President Zelensky laments that Ukraine has not received fighter jets and anti-missile systems capable to protect its civilians from bombs falling from the sky. He says Ukraine asked for but didn't receive tanks and anti-ship weapons. He calls on NATO to provide unlimited support
Addressing the international public in English, Zelensky says that Russia launched the war not just against Ukraine, but against all free world and acts as is does because it believes people do not matter. He thanks citizens of the world for their support
Many Ukrainians have lost their jobs and sources of income due to Russia's war. Here's the latest poll from a reputable @RatingGroup: only 22% of those who had a job before the war said they were working normally. 53% of those previously employed said they were not working now
52% of polled Ukrainians said their economic situation got 'definitely worse' since the start of the war. Add to them those Ukrainians - mostly women with children - who fled abroad and became refugees. Most of them might not have savings to last for more than a month
More stats about savings of those who are in Ukraine now: the majority, 40%, have enough money to last a month at max, only 15% for six months and more
A chilling report about Ukrainian children targeted by Russians: 'Lying just a few feet away was 15-year-old Masha Feshchenko. A light sheet draped over her body clearly showed the outline of a stump where her right leg had been amputated above the knee'. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
'She had been walking with her mother, Sonia, and another girl in their home town of Polohy when a shell landed 10 feet away. Masha's right arm was also shredded by shrapnel and her shoulder broken. The blast left her deafened and she has not eaten for five days.'
“I hope this picture will create a strong impression on people,” Dr Anikin said looking at Masha's body. “Most Russian people don't believe these pictures. I would like to tell them stop killing our children. Stop shooting.But in my opinion, such a request will not be successful”
There are no international media in Chernihiv now, that's why this report by a Ukrainian newspaper is a must-read: 'Wooden Chernihiv is our pride. And our horror. The outskirts of Chernihiv – often with one-story buildings – flare up like matches.' en.lb.ua/news/2022/03/1…
'Bombs demolish houses, leaving bare walls.We saw several photos of an unexploded bomb weighing 500 kilograms.We hoped that when it fell on us, we would not feel anything.People move about in search of a safer place.Every night reveals that there are fewer and fewer safer places'
'...a strong jolt in my back knocked me to the floor. All I heard was the bang and the sound of broken glass. We were sure it was in our yard. We crawled to the cellar, and while crawling I wrote a message to my husband: “It seems to be ours.”