Following my post about Kherson and hryvnia I want to tell some facts about it. 😊 "Hryvnia" was originally a unit of weight of Kyivan Rus’, its origin is attributed to the 8th-9th centuries. With the spread of Arab dirhams on the territory of Rus’, 1/4
a certain number of them began to be equated by weight to the #hryvnia. Gradually, the hryvnia acquired the value of not only a weight, but also a unit of account. Later, silver bars of standard shape and weight became coins. Also a silver coin of that time. 2/4
The hryvnia coin has been known since the middle of the 11th century. The first to appear were Kyiv coin hryvnias — diamond-shaped ingots weighing about 164 g. Novgorod hryvnias appeared almost simultaneously — stick-shaped ingots weighing about 204.7 g. 3/4
In #Kherson, people refuse to accept rubles en masse and demand hryvnias.
Residents and shops refuse to accept Russian rubles and ask to pay only in hryvnias. Even gas stations ask for hryvnias. #KhersonIsUkraine 1/2
In exchange offices for 150 hryvnias they ask for 1000 rubles, which is 3 times more than official exchange rate. 😄 russian occupiers already feel the Ukrainian Armes Forces approaching. People are waiting impatiently. 💛💙 The movement “Yellow ribbon” in #Kherson 👇🏼 #Ukraine
More info on gas stations in #Kherson. Now occupiers are complaining that gas stations are not working 😅 “third station that we visited and they don’t work, one says they lost an important chip, but have gas, another one is just closed” No gas for invaders, that’s right! 💛💙
A big thread. I will develop a little bit the topic of an attack on Ukrainian women in France and translate the interview they had with journalists: Ukrainian Alina together with her mother and aunt spent two months in occupied Izyum. In order to leave the city, the women had 1/
to go through screening and interviews with the occupiers. They got to France through Russia and Estonia.
It was very hard for them to leave, they went through a lot. In France, they started going to a psychiatrist, because the war makes their head heavy, says Alina. 2/
The doctor advised the women to take evening walks. Alina and her mother were returning from a walk on the evening of September 11 when they were attacked.
"Four people were walking towards us: two men, one very pumped up, and the other - tall and thin, and a woman 3/