Thread by @ArmUkraineNow

#Russia's failures make them the least worthy of any nation in the world to celebrate victory today.

Over the next 12 hours, this thread🧵will provide 509 examples of why their #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач

Reply with your examples⬇️

Blowing up schools filled with civilians whose homes you've destroyed is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /1

Murdering 600 children and other civilians hiding in a building in a city you came to "liberate" is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /2

Destroying an entire city - #Mariupol - filled with Russian speakers you claim to be there to "liberate" is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /3

Ruining the lives of beloved babushkas is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /3-7

Forcing children and their families to run for their lives is not liberation.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /8-11

Killing adolescent children before they have a chance to grow up is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /12

Bombing schools into rubble is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /13-16

Turning a middling, green politician into the Leader of the Free World, rallying the world against you, is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /17

Forcing children to starve underground for months because you're dropping bombs on their homes is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /18-34

Forging the next generation of Ukrainian families into your greatest enemies is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /35-38

Losing more of your sons in two months than you did in the entire Afghan war is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /39

Revealing your "second most powerful" army to really be a *second rate* military is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /40-43

Your "second most powerful" military in the world losing so many men and hardware to a much smaller nation you thought you'd defeat in three days is no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /44

When you realize you can't defeat people you're "liberating" on the battlefield, so you tell your forces to commit war crimes on civilians... not victory.

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Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /45

Revealing a smaller neighboring state to be your better in virtually every way but numbers is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /46

Losing NINE GENERALS and SEVENTEEN COLONELS in a three-day war that's been going two and a half months now is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /47-72

"The biggest mistake he made was this notion that Ukraine was going to welcome him." -- not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /73

Children in "liberated" Ukraine playing in the rubble of their lives is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /74

The beautiful little girl half the world felt for, living in the tunnels under #Azovstal, being separated from her mother... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /75

https://twitter.com/NotJustPutin/status/1523391629146861569

The maiden of the motherland in Kyiv stands taller than ever, now a global symbol for freedom, while Russian and communist statues are being torn down around the world... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /76

Forging regular people into Ukrainian heroes is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /77-80

Revealing to those asleep around the Free World that you are this generation's Axis of Evil is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /81

Turning this girl into a refugee is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /82

Murdering these kids and their parents as they fled from liberation bombs being dropped on their hometown is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /83-86

Using children as human shields is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /87

Losing powerful warships to an enemy without a navy is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /88-89

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /90

https://twitter.com/KatyaYushchenko/status/1523424615552667648

When more people around the world respect this little dog than the leader of your former superpower... this is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /91

https://twitter.com/4nnchor/status/1523404145239404545

Spending several weeks trying to take the capital of a nation w/ a much smaller military, failing horribly, collapsing in retreat, then pretending it was your plan all along... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /92

The fact that President Zelenskyy seems stronger standing before the rubble of a destroyed apartment building than your tinpot leader does in front of a military parade... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /93

Mass murder is not liberation... nor victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /94-146

The supposedly second most powerful military in the world can't defeat a few hundred soldiers in tunnels under a huge factory... that's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /147

Murdering a mayor (and her husband, and their son) of a city you came to "liberate", is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /148-150

Becoming that which you claim to hate most in the world is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /151

When you're not only losing a war against a much smaller nation you invaded for no good reason, but the world sees you for who you are and collectively shames you for it.

#RussianShameDay

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /152

Your own people would rather risk prison to burn down recruitment centers than join your war against a neighbor that was no threat to you... is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /153

Bombing Jewish cemeteries doesn't denazify anything. It does, however, show your own country needs some denazifying... and it's no victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #FailureDay #Деньнеудач /154

Having to remove rubble and dead bodies from a city you claim to have "liberated" is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day #Деньнеудач #RussianShameDay /155

https://twitter.com/mbk_center/status/1523403798886379520

Burning people alive you've come to liberate is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /156-166

This is not what liberation looks like - part 1 - nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /167-170

This is not what liberation looks like (2), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /171

This is not what liberation looks like (3), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /172

This is not what liberation looks like (4), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /173

This is not what liberation looks like (5), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /174

This is not what liberation looks like (6), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /175

This is not what liberation looks like (7), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /176

This is not what liberation looks like (8), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /177

This is not what liberation looks like (9), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /178

This is not what liberation looks like (10), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /179

This is not what liberation looks like (11), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /180

This is not what liberation looks like (12), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /181

This is not what liberation looks like (13), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /182

Destroying this girl's life is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /183

Burning apartment complexes is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /184

Bombing neighborhoods is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /185

Bombing shopping malls is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /186

Putting old men and their pets out on the street is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /187

Destroying this market is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /188

Murdering this family as they ran across the street to try and get away from a warzone is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач :: #RussianShameDay /189

Forcing babushkas to live in squalor is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /189

Burning civilian areas is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /190

Destroying family homes because you can't win on the battlefield is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /191

Shooting at a civilian bus is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /192

Murdering this man's loved one in Russian-speaking Donetsk you say is in need of "liberating"... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /193

Your vaunted armor columns being torn to shreds by grossly outnumbered and outgunned heroes of Ukraine... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /194

Bloodied, but alive. Unbroken 🇺🇦

She'll come back to her home soon enough. 23,000 of your sons wont. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed Failure Day День неудач / #RussianShameDay /195

This woman was just evacuated out of #AzovstaI and welcomed home in #Ukraine.

Russia wont be welcome anywhere outside of their Axis of Evil for a very long time. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /196

These people survived weeks of onslaught of the formerly-feared Russian army, in #AzovstaI.

Russia's reputation, on the other hand, is dead and buried. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /197

Only a monster would see this as any kind of victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /198

Ukrainian patriotism burns brightly even in makeshift bunkers as bombs fall above them and food runs low.

Victory is brewing, but not for Russia. #BraveUkraine

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /199

#BraveUkraine will win the war, and take its rightful place among the Free World powers.

#RussianWarCrimes will define their place in the world for years to come. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /200

People fleeing from the Russian army put signs saying "CHILDREN" on their cars, and still many of them are shot and killed. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /201

Signs on cars fleeing Ukrainian forces... Oh, right... people don't run away from the Ukrainian military. They cheer and weep tears of joy.

That's what victory looks like: for #Ukraine

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /202

In Neo-Soviet Russia men dread military service, bribing to get out of it. That's not victory.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine... even old ladies clamor to join, and they have more recruits then guns.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /202

Murdering civilians in back alleys is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /203-209

When you have machine guns, but still are so weak that you tie up and strip men in the street before you murder them.... that's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /210

Running civilians over with tanks is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /211

Killing random civilian couples by shelling town squares in cities you pretend you're going to liberate is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /211-212

In Ukraine, Supreme Court justices volunteer to fight for freedom.

In the Russian army, powerful government leaders flee, and nine Generals have already died. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /213

Ukrainian daughters cry as they leave fathers to defend their homeland, and many men *and women* return to join the fight.

In Russia, daughters cry when their favorite luxury shops close.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /214

This man and his friend have not been liberated.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /214

Outnumbered, and outgunned, Ukrainian forces stand and grow more powerful by the day.

This *IS* what victory looks like: for Ukraine 🇺🇦

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /215

What Russian liberation really looks like. This isn't victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /216-221

Russian liberation in #Bucha. This isn't victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /222-225

Ukrainian civilians liberated... of their homes. This isn't victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /226

Russian liberation.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /227

Depriving this boy of his parents and home is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /228

Killing 52 people at the #Kramatorsk Railway Station waiting to flee from Russian "liberation" is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /229-280

Literally butchering and eating this family pet is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /281

Laying mass graves on the holy grounds of a religion you claim to believe in is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /282

Tens of thousands of dead comrades, tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians killed, raped, starving, tortured... and you're smiling because you stole some trinkets to send home.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /283

What's left after a woman was "liberated" of her life by a Russian heavy machinegun.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /284

Leaving boys homeless is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /285

Leaving little boys to live among the debris of their formerly happy, normal lives is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /286

Forcing little girls to duck and cover while they're fleeing for their lives is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /287

Getting absolutely hammered on an ISLAND your powerful navy took from a nation with no navy to speak of... two and a half months after you took is... not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /28

Families walking through the burnt husks of your failed invasion force to get where they're going is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /289

Forcing boys filling sandbags to protect their hometown from mass murder, rape and pillaging instead of going to school is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /290

Taking fathers from little boys in nations that posed no threat to your people, is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /291

Disrupting the healthcare of children with cancer is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /292

Forcing these newborns to live underground is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /293-294

Forcing an entire orphanage to move into a bomb shelter is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /295-328

The mother of Petro and Veronika should not have been forced to bury them so young, after watching them die from machinegun fire... right in front of her eyes.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /329

Bombs depriving girls of their limbs is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /330

Leaving grandmothers with nothing is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /331

Killing little boys is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /332

Burying little girls under the rubble of their own homes by indiscriminately bombing cities is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /333

Little kids should not have to grow up in bomb shelters... if they even get to grow up at all. This is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /334-344

New mothers and fathers losing their newborns to shrapnel from indiscriminate bombing is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /345

This is not victory.

Why Russia's #VictoryDay #деньпобеды parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /346

Is this a happy victory day, Russians?
Это счастливый день победы, русские?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /347

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /348

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /349

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /350

Another destroyed Russian BMP-2.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /351

This Russian APC decided to swim away.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /352

Another Russian tank destroyed.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /353

Behold, the vaunted Russian... scrap metal.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /354

Another donation of Russian scrap metal.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /355

Aww... one of Putin's $100,000 toy planes crashed.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /356

Modern art, or another destroyed Russian tank?

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /358

Several more donations of Russian scrap metal.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /365

More burnt Russian husks destroyed in Ukraine.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /366-374

POP goes the fascist tank.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /375

1 APC and 15 Russian sons, left behind in Ukraine.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /376-391

Russian tank... on a special campfire operation.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /392

Some Russians who tried to "liberate" Ukrainians... with their sniper rifles.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /404

Russian APC liberated from itself.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /405

Six ways Europe is liberating itself from listening to Russian BS.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /406-411

Five Russian oil trucks... in Russia... liberated from not being on fire.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /412-416

12 Russian naval vessels destroyed.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /417-428

Over TWO THOUSAND Russian vehicles, fuel tankers and special equipment trucks have been destroyed so far. We'll count 1 for each hundred of them.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /429-449

199 Russian planes destroyed so far. We'll round down to count just one per ten.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /450-458

158 helicopters destroyed by Ukrainian forces so far. We'll count it as just 15.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?
Действительно ли это счастливый день победы для России?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /459-473

Two THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED and sixty-four armored personnel carriers destroyed since the start of the war... one for each 100 = 27.

Is this really a happy victory day for Russia?

Why Russia's #VictoryDay parade should be renamed #RussianShameDay /500

Lastly... ONE THOUSAND, one hundred and forty-five Russian tanks. We'll count one per, say ~127 and make it nine.

Completely coincidentally😏, that gets us to 509 reasons Russia's #VictoryDay2022 should be renamed #RussianShameDay

I'm going to take short break, then be back to continue the "This is not what liberation looks like (#), nor is it victory" series.

Meanwhile, ladies & germs, post your own thoughts about #RussianShameDay, ideally w "С Днём Победы", "С Праздником" or #9мая, so Ivan might see it.

Important for future trivia contests.

Patron the bomb sniffing doggo is on the left. He's awesome. Positively deific.

Putin is on the right. Accurately portrayed.

This is what leadership looks like.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /510

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1523570704309899264

Ukrainian recruits are just starting to make it through training while allies' military aid is ramping up.

Ukraine gets stronger by the day. This is not what a Russian victory looks like.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /511

https://twitter.com/calxandr/status/1523546098169946112

Ukraine is seeing an artistic renaissance, while Russia sees a brain drain of intellectuals and artists.

This is not what a Russian victory looks like.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /512

Much of Ukraine lays in ruin, but they have so much that Russia couldn't buy with all the stolen grain and oil blood money in the world.

1. Hard-earned camaraderie.
2. Respect from their peers around the Free World.
3. Patriotism based on tangible, recent achievement.

/514a

Perhaps most importantly: a bright future, while Russia is ever so clearly a nation in inexorable decline.

The sun rises Ukraine, just as it sets for the demographically collapsing, Neo-Soviet, fascist Russia.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /514b

Ukraine President / Leader of the Free World @ZelenskyyUa leads justly by example, and with inspiration.

Putin leads through fear & a torrent of increasingly bizarre lies. Russia can't lie it's way out of this.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /515

@ZelenskyyUa Greatness isn't born. Greatness can't be given. Greatness is earned.

Ukraine has earned it, with sweat, tears and blood.

Russia will lose, and #GreatUkraine will rise.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /516

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (14), nor is it victory.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /517

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (15), nor is it victory.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /518

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (16), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /519

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (17), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /520

@ZelenskyyUa Families running from you is not what liberation looks like (18), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /521

@ZelenskyyUa People with babies don't run away from liberators (19), and this isn't victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /522

@ZelenskyyUa This is what heroism in the fight against fascism looks like.

/523

https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1523613510261166080

@ZelenskyyUa In stark contrast to ^^^, this is a picture perfect, textbook example of how blatant fascists lie.

/524

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1523622696386408448

@ZelenskyyUa This is how you create enemies (20). This isn't victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /525

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (21), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /526

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (22), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /527

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (23), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /528

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (24), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /529

@ZelenskyyUa You can't make people homeless at the same time you liberate them. That's not victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /530

@ZelenskyyUa This is not what liberation looks like (26), nor is it victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /531

@ZelenskyyUa I had a car just like that, years ago. People there are no different than you or me.

This is desolation. This isn't victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /532

@ZelenskyyUa This is no different than any nice apartment complex in any western city.

Russian "liberation" is a cancer.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /533

@ZelenskyyUa Right now, imagine.... really imagine, how your world would change if outside your window was THIS.

Act accordingly.

Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /534

@ZelenskyyUa Think of the same buildings, people and lives you drive or walk by in your daily life. Now, replace that with this.

Each day, more missiles fall from the sky. Each day, more of their world burns.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /535

@ZelenskyyUa Madness. Complete madness.

Human trafficking logistics at an industrial scale.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /536

@ZelenskyyUa No nice home on a choice corner, no store, no happenin' midtown watering hole, no commerce, no joy, no LIFE.

No liberation. No victory.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /537

No culture. No growth. No safety. No parking lot even.

No liberation. No victory. Just rubble. Rubble and death.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /538

This is not what liberation looks like, nor is it victory.

This is fear. This is fascism.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /539

This is not what liberation looks like, nor victory. Submit or die, it says.

🇺🇦Ukraine cedes neither🌻

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /540

Once a house and home. House gone, home moved, life goes on.

Hate destroys. Russia rots from the inside, spreads it around, but love rebuilds houses and homes, while the cancer is Moscow metastasizes.

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /541

Russian intellectuals flee their country, while the Russian military shells Ukrainian schools.

What, pray tell, might be the connection?

Why Russia's #9мая Victory Day should be renamed #RussianShameDay /542

Love wins in the end 🇺🇦