Today is International Children’s Day
As of 31 May, 243 children killed&436 injured since beginning of the war. Figures Likely higher as do not include casualties in areas of hostilities & occupied regions.
No home, no school, no kindergarten…
📷Andriy Dubchak/Donbas Frontliner
As of today, 🇺🇦's Day for the Protection of Children, the 🇺🇦PG's Office says 🇷🇺attacks killed at least 243 children, injured 446 since the beginning of the all-out war
"These figures aren't final" as the Office can't establish casualties in the war zone & occupied territories
5-year-old Maryna from Kherson Oblast lost her leg when a Russian shell hit the roof of their home
She established The “Mama Ira” Foundation in memory of her mother who was killed by Russian troops in Bucha. Now it helps Ukrainian children who lost their parents in Russia’s war against Ukraine #ChildrensDay euromaidanpress.com/2022/04/19/dau…
5-yo Maryna was a lively girl: played soccer with the boys, zoomed around on a scooter.
Now she is learning to live w/o a leg. Russian mortar shelling destroyed not only her home in Kherson Obl but also her great dream to become a racer
Russia deported 234,000 Ukrainian children to Belarus, Russian, or 🇷🇺-occupied territory - 🇺🇦 Children's Rights Commissioner
This is prohibited by Geneva Convention. "Today we can also say that the world of adults has failed Children's Day in Ukraine" pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
Empty school buses stood in Lviv central square in memory of 🇺🇦children killed by Russia's war
"The excursion that will never happen. 243 kids will never visit Lviv. Russian occupiers kill children, women, peaceful civilians" - mayor Sadovyi
🧵1/12 BREAKING: Both Georgian Dream and opposition claim victory in today's parliamentary elections, as most exit polls show opposition lead.
The vote could end 12 years of rule by a party critics call "Russian Dream" 🇬🇪 a recap of how Georgia got here: euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/11/fro…
2/12 2003: Georgia's pro-Western path began with Rose Revolution. President Mikheil Saakashvili led sweeping reforms, oriented country toward EU and NATO despite Russia's 2008 invasion and occupation of 20% of Georgia
3/12 2012: Enter Bidzina Ivanishvili - Russian-made billionaire who promised both EU integration AND better Russia ties. His Georgian Dream defeated Saakashvili's party in Georgia's first peaceful power transfer.
Fear not, @yulia_navalnaya, we're here to explain how to decolonize your country which subjugated different peoples and eradicated their identity to create "the same background and cultural context".
Let's start with our interview with Leyla Latypova in the second tweet👇🏻
Here @LatypovaLeyla explains how your country oppresses her peoples
And here, we made a short explainer how your country killed and deported people from Crimea, which is by the way not a "Butterbrot", is it?
#Otd 80 years ago, Soviets deported entire Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia
The hushed-up Soviet crime is one that Russia continues spinning in its ongoing occupation of Crimea & one Ukraine insists is genocide. Here are 10 things you should know euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/18/ten…
1/Crimean Tatars are the indigenous people of Crimea, with a history on the peninsula spanning over 1,000 years.
Before Russian annexation in 1783, their population in the Crimean Khanate exceeded 5 million. By 1917, it had dropped to around 200,000 - result of Russian policies
2/ The Soviet NKVD deported around 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Central Asia in just 3 days from May 18-20, 1944.
Families had only 30 minutes to gather belongings before being crammed into cattle wagons. 8,000 died during the arduous journey.
North Korea, acting as China's proxy, aids Russia against Ukraine to undermine US influence in Europe. "In exchange, Russia provides North Korea with technologies, evident from their missile developments and recent tests, which are obviously linked to Russia," says Samus. (2/4)
Iran, aligned with China and Russia, challenges US Mideast dominance. Samus believes Russia aids Iran's missile and nuclear programs, saying, "Progressing Iran's capabilities from the 1950s to modern levels is difficult and costly without external support." (3/4)
Despite being subsonic and carrying a smaller warhead than the "hypersonic" Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal," the Kh-69, first of all, was able to penetrate Ukraine's weakened air defense.
Second, it can be launched from small tactical-class aircraft such as the Su-34 👇
While hitherto, the takeoff of long-range strategic bombers such as the pictured Tu-95MS was a telltale sign of large-scale, long-range missile attacks with Kinzhal or Kh-101 missiles, the Kh-69 can be launched from the more numerous, smaller jets from closer to the frontline 👇