Countries have provided support during the year for Ukraine. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy has updated the aid tracker for Ukraine. According to the researchers, the USA leads the support, and Europe follows them. 1/4
The support tracker considers the military, financial and humanitarian aid promised and provided to 🇺🇦 since January 24, 2022. The report covers aid from 40 countries, in particular, 🇪🇺, 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺, 🇰🇷, 🇹🇷 et al. EU institutions appear in the report as separate donors. 2/4
Private donations and aid from the IMF are not included in the calculations. The largest financial donors are 🇪🇺 organisations and 🇺🇸. The entire amount provided by 🇺🇸 is a grant that does not need to be returned. Next on the list of allies are 🇬🇧 and 🇨🇦. 3/4
However, Russia insists that “aid is limited, the liberation of Donbas is illusory”. They still don’t understand that the world is on Ukraine’s side. 4/4 #UW_InfoWatch#AgainstRussianLies
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The beginning of the Russian occupation of Kherson. The story of Viktoria Kirilova. #UkraineWorldTestimony 1/14
On Feb. 23, 2022, late in the evening, Viktoria spoke to her friends about how war was impossible. She simply didn't believe such cruelty and military aggression were possible in our time. But at 5 am on Feb. 24, Viktoria received a call that a full-scale war had begun. 2/14
"At 6 am, we were standing in line for a gas station, & then an air raid🔊sounded. It was the 1st air alarm in my life, & I was completely confused about what to do. People started running to⛽building, but it clearly wouldn't have saved them if it was hit," Viktoria recalls.3/14
The day before the full-scale 🇷🇺 invasion, Serhii came to the Sumy territorial defense and left his information so that in the event of war, he could be quickly found and called to defend the city. 1/13
On February 24, the full-scale war began, which was not a surprise to Serhii. He was ready to protect the city and fight the Russian invaders. He received a weapon, and so a new stage in his life began - being a soldier. 2/13
Now Serhii is fighting in eastern Ukraine and occasionally publishes stories about his military experience on his Instagram -instagram.com/serhii_yanchen…
We are publishing one of Serhii Yanchenko's texts in his voice. 3/13
The story of Serhiy and his mother from the village of Kamyanka, Kharkiv Oblast. #UkraineWorldTestimony 1/13
The small village of Kamyanka lies between Izyum and Sloviansk. After the full-scale Russian invasion, its landscape is truly apocalyptic. There is not a single house left standing in the village. Each and every one has been completely destroyed. 2/13
Their village holds only ruins: ruins of houses, shops, destroyed farming equipment, and skeletons of cows. There are many burned out and blown up military vehicles on the roadsides. At first it seems that there is not a single living creature left. But this is not so. 3/13
In #Borodianka, Kyiv oblast, a new burial of civilians killed by the Russian military during the occupation in February-March 2022 was detected. The bodies of three murdered men were found in one grave. 1/1 nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/ev…
The burial was made by a local resident during the occupation, around March 8, 2022. Together with a friend, he found the bodies of local residents who were shot by the occupiers and was able to make a temporary burial. 1/2
A 50-year-old local resident is among the killed civilians. Russians shot him in the car, after which it burned down. The other two victims have not yet been identified. They were probably shot in the head. One man had pencil in his pocket, another had comb and other things.1/3
What is a terrorist state? It's a state which shells appartment buildings and private houses, and as a result people of all ages - from little babies to elderlies - die unable to protect themselves. 1/4
It's a state which kills people who are trying to escape from the horrors of war this very state brought shooting directly at them or sending bombs to railways stations. It's a state which deprives people of normal conditions of life. 2/4
It's a state which loots, tortures, rapes, murders. It's a state which caused the tragedies of Bucha, Kharkiv, Izium, Kherson, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Marinka, Bakhmut and many other cities and towns. 3/4
The story of Maria Ivanyuk, who managed to leave an occupied village in Kyiv Oblast with her son. #UkraineWorldTestimony 1/13
Maria had prepared in advance for a possible full-scale 🇷🇺 invasion. A few weeks before Feb. 24, she already had bags packed with everything she needed. She always took documents and a 🎒 with a basic supply of food, medicine, and other important things when she went out. 2/13
On February 24, Maria and her husband woke up to explosions. They immediately understood where they were from. Then her husband got a phone call and they knew that Russia had indeed started a full-scale war. 3/13