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
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 👇
Want to know how Ukraine can resist Russia in 2024? Look to Bilohorivka
@tatarigami_UA analyzed satellite images, videos & testimonies from a city heroically resisting the Russian onslaught to show the tactics Ukraine should use 2 gain the advantage 🧵 euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/20/wan…
@Tatarigami_UA 1/ Bilohorivka, a town in the Siversk direction, has been holding out against daily Russian attacks for over a year. Despite ammunition shortages and a lack of air defense, Ukrainian units have heroically resisted Russian advances in this strategically important area. 👇
@Tatarigami_UA 2/ Russian assaults typically involve company-sized forces supported by BMPs, tanks, guided air-dropped bombs (KABs), and FPV drones. They aim to swiftly seize positions and fortify themselves, making it difficult for Ukraine to compel them to evacuate due to limited artillery 👇
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev again reiterates Russia’s genocidal goal to destroy Ukraine: EXPLAINER
In front of a map with Ukraine partitioned by its neighbors, he stated that the concept of an independent Ukrainian identity must “disappear for good”: “Ukraine is Russia."
Medvedev shared this map in his Telegram in July 2022, claiming that this is how "foreign analysts" see the future of Ukraine; today, he presented it again at a festival in Sochi.
❓ Here, Medvedev is reiterating the Russian imperial narrative that Ukraine is an "artificial nation" consisting of "Russian, Polish, Romanian and Hungarian lands."
After invading Ukraine, Russian officials have claimed that Ukraine's neighbors plan to partition Ukraine, particularly - that Poland is "planning an invasion."
Russian President Putin regularly brings up this genocidal idea, which aims to destroy Ukrainian nationhood (, ).
The last time he did it was in December 2023 at a board meeting of Russia's "Defense" Ministry. Then Putin said that "many residents of western Ukraine want their territories to return to Poland, Romania or Hungary, and only Russia can be the guarantor of the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state":
But overall, the narrative that Ukraine does not "deserve" to exist as an independent nation is a staple of Russia's genocidal propaganda
It is also an open constatation of Russia's goal to destroy Ukraine as a state, nation, and identity.
The latest such notable constatation occurred when @TuckerCarlson aired the unchallenged genocidal speech of Putin: euromaidanpress.com/2024/02/09/gen…
Other notable examples of the Kremlin's genocidal plans laid bare:
- 26 Feb 2022: An article published on RIA Novosti on 2nd day of Russia's invasion claims that Putin started solving the "Ukrainian question": "After all, the need to solve it would always remain the main problem for Russia” euromaidanpress.com/2022/03/05/put…