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Olena Halushka

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Apr 8

That's what russians have left behind in the Ukrainian towns: cluster munitions, anti-personnel mines, improvised explosive devices, tripwires etc. The sappers found all this over just one day of work in #Irpin

In one village russians mined potatoes, which they deliberately displayed for hungry people. This seems like a nightmare, but it is Ukraine's reality #ArmUkraineNow

Folks here love to give English classes, so I need your help w the de-mining terminology:
- is it better to use booby-trapped instead of mined?
- what's a good alternative for sapper? De-miner?
- is tripwires the right word for the certain type of mines (розтяжки)?
Thnx

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Mar 24

For a month Ukraine has been fighting the war many had expected us to lose in 3 days.

Two weeks ago I wrote a piece "The West is not doing enough to save my homeland". Unfortunately, little has changed since then. Let me explain why /1

The democratic world provides little tangible help to Ukraine. The military assistance is slow & of short range. To protect peaceful towns we need medium & long range - this is key.
US funds allocated haven't turned into aid yet. Meanwhile,russia doesn't wait when killing kids /2

As we had alerted, sanctions imposed after the invasion would not stop putin. But even these unprecedented sanctions have too many loopholes. The blocking of russian central bank's reserves was neutralized by the EU countries' multi-billion € payments to russia for gas & oil /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Mar 18

"It is putin, not russians", right?

-> 86,6% russians support potential attacks against other countries;
-> 46% are *convinced* that russia should attack the EU;
-> 75,5% think Poland will be next target, 41% - Baltic states, 39,6% - Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia & even Hungary /1

-> 75% of russians are ok with using nuclear weapons.

And only 13,4% are against invasions into other countries.

#stophatingrussians? Maybe the first step should be for russians to stop hating the rest of the world /2
24tv.ua/ru/polshe-prig…

Folks say these figures might not be accurate as those who are against the war refused to talk.

As somedoby whose people are now genocided, let me make it clear: should I give a f*ck about what the silent minority thinks, if putin in his actions rely on this loud nazi majority?

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Mar 12

This thread was posted by Olena Zelenska on Instagram. It tells the stories of volunteers killed by russia. These brave people were evacuating those trapped in areas under russian attack or were bringing them food and medicines

Nastya Yalanska. Her car was shot while she was carrying aid to Bucha, which is currently cut off from the сonnection

Pasha Li was a Ukrainian actor and TV presenter. His mother is from Zakarpattia, and his father is a Korean from Crimea. When Russia attacked Ukraine, Pasha wanted to be helpful to his country like every Ukrainian. He took people out of war-torn Irpin and died

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Feb 15

Of course, they don't care, but I am offended by some Western "opinion leaders" who push messages "Ukraine is not democracy", "Ukraine has drowned in corruption" & other variations of bs when they try to justify Russian aggression.

These people know nothing about Ukraine /1

They don't give a sh** about the huge progress Ukraine has made over the last 8 years. They abase the efforts made by democratization drivers.

Simultaneously, they usually shy off to inform their audiences that it is Russia which is a *truly* corrupt autocracy /2

@ForeignPolicy

ICYMI, our article for @ForeignPolicy about Ukraine's democratization progress /3
foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/17/ukr…

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Jan 7

The US insists that sanctions against NS2 will "undermine united front in response to Russia." Ukraine's - frontline's! - stance is not taken into account.

NS2 is not a deterrent. On the contrary, it's an incentive for Putin to further attack Ukraine /1
reuters.com/markets/commod…

Why?
1) Putin needs Russian gas to flow to Europe;
2) Ukrainian transmission system is a route of largest capacity. It's well operational & maintained;
3) the fear to damage it & lose gas revenues/ Euro market in longer persp ties Putin in his further actions in Ukraine; /2

4) now Putin has little doubt that NS2 will be working. To speed up the process he is interested in crashing Ukraine & our pipeline. He presumes that in case UA system is destroyed NS2 will not be stopped: Europe won't have much other gas routes available; /3

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