🧵🇺🇦 1/ continuing yesterday’s theme of replaying @DefenceU’s greatest hits in this war, here are a few of the most important videos for @DI_Ukraine’s psyops. IMO this was the most important purely military one at the start of the war. A masterpiece.
2/ everybody is rightly replaying King @y_gudymenko (subsequently promoted to Sergeant) video. @olgatokariuk posted it and @peedutuisk translated it. Placing it in thread as the best most menacing “welcome to Ukraine”
3/ When @ZelenskyyUa @Podolyak_M and the other leaders of Ukraine’s government made this video in Kyiv at night at the start of the war, they risked their lives. Russian assassins were hunting them. This killed 🇷🇺 lies Zelenskyy fled #UkraineWillWin
4/ At the start of the war, Turkish “Bayraktar” drones were destroying Russian men and tanks, causing this @DefenceU video to the “Bayraktar Song” to go viral. All of these videos vital to Ukrainian morale
5/ incidentally, at 1:24 in the “Bayraktar” song, maybe the first, sticky description of @MOD_Russia as “orcs”. Most commentators agree Ukrainian psychological operations have been peerless
6/ “They wanted to invade us with force / And we took offence at these orcs / Russian bandits get turned into ghosts [where they are*] / Bayraktar”
*added this because the verse rhymes in Ukrainian :)
*added this because the verse rhymes in Ukrainian :)
7/ Before the horrors of Bucha, a surrendering, starving young Russian POW got hot tea and food from a Ukrainian @DefenceU volunteer; she calls his mom Natasha on camera to say he’s fine and safe. Visible kindness helped 🇺🇦
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