All funds raised from the auction will go to the @serhiyprytula Foundation /1
The foundation supplies the Ukrainian Army with reconnaissance drones, army transport, communications equipment, tactical medicine and ambulances.
How to participate in the auction 👇 /2
Pink Panama: everyone who donates 200 UAH (approx. 5 EUR) gets a chance to win. The more 200 UAH donations you make, the more chances you get. The winner will be chosen randomly.
Both draws will last until 19:00 (Kyiv time) May 28. It will culminate into a joint live broadcast by Serhiy Prytula and Oleg Psyuk on social networks.
Zelenskyi is very tired. I would answer the question about corruption differently. Yes, there are still corruption-related problems in Ukraine. But it is crucial to recognize big progress made since 2014 & even since 2016 when the referendum was held. A short thread /1
Ukrainian institutions are resilient & operational despite the war. Anti-corruption agencies do their job, the court tries crooks, & money seized is sent for the military needs.
Moreover, we keep reforming - the cleansing of top judicial decision-making bodies was just revived /2
Ukraine's digitalization which is also a powerful anti-corruption tool is a regular newsmaker. Just yesterday the Ministry announced the introduction of a new online service, which substitutes more than 370 various business documents & permits /3
Iryna has survived the airstrike on #Mariupol Drama Theater that has killed a few hundred people /1
"Before Feb 24, we had an easy-going & decent life. We lived in downtown & believed all will be fine. But then this area turned into one of the most dangerous.
From Mar 11-12, we moved into the bomb shelter, and constantly woke up at 4:00 am by the sounds of explosions /2
We slept in shelters, cooked on the streets on a wood fire & went back to the apartments to eat.
On March 15, our house got shelled. I saw sth bright, my husband pushed us into the corridor, and I saw how our windows & a balcony started to crumble from an explosive wave /3
They thought russians wouldn't come here. Why do they need the small village of Yagidne of 400 residents and five streets, with simple hardworking people and a lot of old people. But the village was on the highway MO1 /1
Russians turned from the side of the forest. Professionals, conscripts and Tuvans. Tanks were placed in the yards, APC - under the windows. They settled themselves comfortably: on sofas, beds, on stoves. In the evenings - bonfires, barbecues, wine /2
People were herded into a school basement (65 m3) and kept there for 25 days. A family could hardly fit on the bench: a grandmother and grandfather, a son with a wife and 2 kids. There was no place to put the four-month-old child - he was held in the arms /3
Every Western polician who denies sending long-range heavy arms to Ukraine has to start the day w a story about a Ukrainian who survived russian occupation & kidnapping.
The head of a village in the Kherson region Viktor Marunyaka tells about tortures he went through /1
He was abducted by russians and tortured for several weeks. He recalls: "They brought me to one of the bases, I was kept there for the 3 days. The room was cement & cool. The first night we slept standing up." They beat him every day /2
"Then we slept sitting. They could only give us a cup of tea in the morning – the whole meal for the day. For 2-3 hours they were keeping us undressed. Then they say 'we will go to the river, you will swim and you will drown'. Or they would point a gun at one of us" /3
Residents of #Mariupol who didn’t pass the so-called #filtration are taken to the premises of the former correctional colony #52 in the village of Olenivka, Donetsk region, or the infamous Izolyatsiya prison in #Donetsk. This is hell #genocide /1
In Olenivka russians keep the relatives of servicemen, former law enforcement officers, activists, journalists and even people who randomly arose suspicion, e.g. by having patriotic tattoos. As of today at least 3,000 people are detained there /2
The premises are overcrowded, there's no place to lie down. The detainees are forced to stand or crouch. One bottle of water is provided to the entire group of dozens of people per day. Food is provided only occasionally. Bathroom visits limited to one per day. No outdoor time /3
Kateryna recalls her house was on the front line. It was shot at from every direction, burned multiple times, and remnants of other buildings, destroyed by air bombs, were scattered nearby /1
Within seconds, high-rise buildings were falling apart, private-sector houses were burning like torches, and people were losing their limbs amid shelling.
A 1.5-year-old child died from the explosion of Grad rocket system in her house /2
In the basement of a neighboring house, a woman gave birth. This "child of war" spent the first weeks of his life underground in unsanitary conditions.
The whole neighborhood was cut off from civilization. No communication, no information. "It's as if we didn't exist" /3