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Olena Halushka

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May 6

Stories about #Azovstal defenders.
Oleksandr, 35, #Azov Regiment serviceman.
His mother Olena: We are from Kramatorsk. My son is a professional football player. He has 2 daughters. Younger girl was born on Jan 20 this year. He hasn't almost seen her at all (cries) /1

The connection is bad, only once a week they can send us a message. Someone sends SMS, and then the mothers and wives call among themselves to share the message. That's how we live, supporting each other /2

We think our boys are the bravest, strongest, and love Ukraine much. If they did not, they wouldn't be fighting in such conditions. This is horror. They don't tell us the truth, just write that all is ok & that they will not give up Ukraine to anyone
#SaveMariupol
#SaveAzov /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 21

"We'd love to. But..."

The delivery of particular heavy weapons, jets, air & missile defence that Ukraine requests: "we'd love to, but Ukrainians don't know how to use advanced weapons", "we don't have them", "here are your short-range weapons" etc /1

Gas & oil embargo: "we'd love to, but there are no sources to substitute", "businesses will suffer", "everything will collapse"

Stopping the genocide, mass killings of civilians, mass deportation, mass raping, mass abduction: "we'd love to help, but what can we do?" /2

The delivery of humanitarian aid to people whom russians starve to death by int'l humanitarian organizations which received blns & blns of target funds for Ukraine: "we'd love to, but it's dangerous" /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 20

One more heartbreaking story about russian airstrikes on #Mariupol hospitals.

Bombing of hospitals & ripped bodies - this is how Anastasia will remember the war. She is currently in Zaporizhzhia, receiving medical treatment assistance from the Mariupol humanitarian center /1

The war caught her in the Cheriomushki neighborhood. The basement was cold and crowded. She slept upright in the hallway.

Anastasia then moved to another shelter, but it didn’t protect her from sustaining a concussion and an open fracture of the arm /2

That day she went out to breathe, but an explosion erupted. She was injured, 4 people were torn to pieces. One child had his leg ripped off

The woman was placed in the Mariupol maternity ward. On Mar 9, they wanted to do the surgery, but an air strike on the hospital started
/3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 19

"I dug up my daughter from the stones"
"My grandkids burned alive"
"We were told not to look around as there were dead bodies"

Hundreds of citizens were killed when russians threw a bomb on the #Mariupol drama theater on Mar 16. Those who survived are sharing their stories /1

Victoria Dubovitska and her two children were in the projection booth. The blast was so strong that it hit the woman against the wall. Another wall was destroyed. Her 2yo daughter was trapped under concrete debris /2

"After the explosion, screams & moans filled the place, but my child stayed silent. This was the worst. Moments later I heard her voice. She shouted: ‘Mommy!’" - recounts the woman. Fortunately, she managed to dig her daughter out from the stones. The girl was alive /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 18

Zelenskyi on #ArmUkraineNow:

"When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before. It’s Groundhog Day. I feel like Bill Murray." /1

"I come and say that I need this particular weapon. You have it and here it is; we know where it is stored. Can you give it to us? We can even fly our own cargo planes and pick it up; we can even send three planes per day." #ArmUkraineNow /2

"We need armored vehicles, for example. And not one per day. We need 200 to 300 per day. These aren’t personal taxis, just for me; our soldiers need transport. Flights are available, the whole thing can be organized, we can do all the logistics." #ArmUkraineNow /3

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Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

Apr 11

@jakejsullivan

UN convention defines genocide as any of the below-mentioned acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.

*russians are committing almost all of them regarding Ukrainians*

cc @jakejsullivan @JakeSullivan46 /1

* "Killing members of the group"

The goal of russian war is "de-Ukrainization" as was explicitly stated by the russian propaganda mouthpiece RIA Novosti and later repeated by Medvediev. They are killing Ukrainians because we are Ukrainians, in case someone had doubts before /2

* "Causing serious bodily or mental harm to membs of the group"

russians torture, rape women, kids & men, kill ppl in front of family membs, leave booby-traps, do other atrocities en masse on the occupied terroties.
By bombing towns across UA they make everybody feel unsafe /3

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