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Anastasiia Lapatina

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May 25

You guys all know my mom, Iryna❤️

For months, she’s been helping soldiers, kids, elderly, animals – everyone whose lives Russia ruined. She asked me to see if we can raise some money to buy her a diesel car, which is roughly $5000.

I set up her PayPal – lapatina2702@gmail.com

Ukraine now has a terrible problem with gasoline (as in, there is barely any of it), and her car consumes way too much of it. She’s been traveling around Kyiv oblast delivering aid, and going between western Ukraine and Kyiv, transporting clothes, food, generators, medicine, etc.

She sends me photos like this every day – kids who were internally displaced by war. My mom learns about these families from her friends, and does what she can to help. I’m in awe and can’t even believe this woman is my mother

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Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

Apr 3

@Podolyak_M

🧵@Podolyak_M, summing up the national mood. Excerpts:

"After all, according to our European partners, the main thing is to not provoke the Russians? The main thing is so WWIII doesn't start? The main thing is that Russians don't get offended and don't use...Don't use what? 1/6

Missiles, air bombs, tanks, don't massacre civilians, bombard residential areas, mass executions, as in concentration camps? What haven't they used yet?...Hundreds, thousands of killed, torn to pieces, raped, tied, raped again and killed again. 2/6

Very cool and all-knowing yesterday's and today's "leaders of Europe", hundreds of current European politicians, eating well and sleeping peacefully in their beds, do you have a desire to carefully look at this photo archive of hell-XXI, done by the Russians in Kyiv oblast? 3/6

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Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

Mar 29

🧵Peace talks in Istanbul: in exchange for its neutrality, #Ukraine wants security guarantees analogues to NATO's article 5 – if attacked, it has a right to demand consultations, and if diplomacy fails, signees of the agreement must provide military aid and "even close the sky".

#Crimea – Ukraine and Russia would agree to continue negotiations about the status of the occupied peninsula for another 15 years.

#Donbas – to be discussed at a potential Zelenskiy-Putin meeting.

Ukraine suggests holding a referendum on this agreement. If the public supports it, it will have to go through ratification in UA parliament and the parliaments of the states-signees.

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Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

Mar 25

🧵As my partner and I were walking through Lviv just now, we saw a mother with 2 kids that was visibly struggling with luggage. We went to help them. They told us they just escaped #Mariupol💔👇🏼

"It's hell on Earth," the mother said. They WALKED from sieged Mariupol to Berdiansk, a city under occupation. They were then picked up by volunteers who put them on a train to Lviv. All they had with them was a little carry on, a bag, and a few backpacks. The kids kept a toy.

Her 12-year-old daughter Vasilisa was exhausted and struggled to speak clearly, but was still chatty and wanted company. I told her I was a journalist. She said she wants to be a lawyer, and I promised her she will absolutely become one.

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Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

Mar 23

@ShaarH

I keep seeing heartbreaking comparisons between #Mariupol and #Aleppo. I asked by friend, @ShaarH, who was born and raised in Aleppo, whether it gets better with time. Here's what he said👇🏼💔

"I can’t tell you for sure it gets better, because it really depends on the outcome. In much of Syria, including eastern Aleppo (which was under constant bombing for 4.5 years, first by the Syrian regime, later by Russia AND the Syrian regime), the fighting eventually stopped...

...but only at the cost of virtually all residents being evicted from their homes. For those of us who don’t feel safe to go back to our homes under this regime - the majority of the residents - the end of the fighting was the end of a battle. A battle that we lost.

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Anastasiia Lapatina

@lapatina_

Feb 23

Breaking: State of emergency should be implemented all around #Ukraine, except for Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said. The parliament now has to vote on this.

This includes possible measures like increased security around vital parts of cities, increased screening of transport, limitation of public transport, and so on – general security measures.

Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts are an Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone, they've had these measures implemented since 2014.

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