Wimbledon's a bit like Bucha - parks, nice houses, prosperous people. What Russians did to Bucha 🎥👇🏽It's what Russians will do to @Wimbledon, its brand, & given a chance, its wombles, village & villagers. Russia had lists of Bucha residents to kill - they killed them. 1/14
⚡️If Russia hadn't murdered Ukrainian athlete Dariia Kurdel while she was training for the Olympics, Dariia would have enjoyed seeing Russia lose the #Olympics sport of threatening genocide. No other country was competing. Threatening genocide breaches international law. 2/14
@Wimbledon's 2022 stance was correct: NO way of enabling Russian or Belarussian athletes to participate, without the Russian state using such participation as a means of promoting its "Z" brand. UN Commission has now established👇🏽Russia as liable for the Crime of Aggression. 3/14
Let's decode @Olympics troll that participation in sport is a human right. Ukrainian international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht's vision for human rights as UNIVERSAL as a matter of LAW was accepted as LAW by 1949. 4/14
⚡️Russia wins #Olympics sport of threatening genocide against the most countries. No other country was competing. Mainly because threatening genocide breaches multiple international laws. 5/14
2022: @Wimbledon helped us get Russian propaganda is THE plague of our age. Disinfo's not mere words. Othering prepared the ground for genocide against 🇺🇦. Against us. Threatening nuclear war against England, the West, NATO,... That's unlawful Hate Speech. 6/14
Russia's unlawful war of aggression and genocide has killed 200,000 souls since Wimbledon's fantastic 2022 decision. #Wimbledon banned athletes from states which would use athletes' participation to promote genocide. "Z" promotes 666% MORE genocide in 2023 than in 2022! 7/14
Human Rights as a matter of law were accepted as LAW after the holocaust & Nazi/Soviet occupation of Ukraine killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians 1941-1945. Only States have a duty to protect human rights, not @Olympics. ALL human rights are subject to derogation,... 8/14
Even the Right to Life is subject to derogations delineated by law, such as the Right to Self Defence. Most Human Rights in Euro Convention of HR (which no longer binds Russia, though Russia IS bound by the customary intl law of human rights) can be derogated from on... 9/14
certain grounds. Russia's "Z" symbol is a direct and public incitement to genocide. That is the "Z" symbols meaning. ANY Russian Olympian will attract the use of that sign in connection with @Olympics. @Olympics and states in which Olympics work have a duty to prevent this. 10/14
@Olympics cynically argues it would be discriminatory to exclude "Z" magnet Ruschist-state supporting athletes (advertising hoardings for genocide). Discrimination is lawful when it serves higher order aims, like preventing public and direct incitement for genocide. 11/14
EU & Germany democratically decided Russia's war of aggression is so unusual as to justify respectively €70b and €15b on arming & supporting Ukraine. @Olympics needs to adopt the EU's perspective as the rationale for excluding "Z" magnetic genocide-advertising Ruschists. 12/14
After Isis complained about "victimisation" and "discrimination" #Olympics and #Wimbledon will allow #Isis athletes to compete under a Black Flag. "No skull n' crossbones though," a Wimbledon spokesperson told us. 13/14
Discrimination on normally protected grounds is lawful where public safety, public policy & other public goods are served. Enabling Russian state to exploit its athletes' participation in global sports promotes the crimes of aggression and genocide - the ultimate crimes. 14/14
“Dehumanizing Ukrainians (Russia’s key propaganda goal), denying them the right to an unique identity different from a Russian one, after justifying atrocities ("the punishment must be harsh") and glorifying repression, re-education and Ukrainian suffering…”
"the Catholic regions," western Ukraine, "will remain hostile to Russia, but it will be neutral and demilitarized, and Nazism will be banned there. The haters of Russia will go there."
And what would "guarantee" the quietist subjugation of rump Ukraine…” 2/
“and its compliance with Russian diktats? The "threat of an immediate continuation of the military operation," says Sergeitsev…Ukraine must (in language somewhat reminiscent of the Iranian Revolution’s ideologists) "free itself from the intoxication, temptation,…” 3/
Let's decode @Olympics troll that participation in sport is a human right. Ukrainian international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht's vision for human rights as UNIVERSAL as a matter of LAW was accepted as LAW by 1949. 1/
Human Rights as a matter of law were accepted as LAW after the holocaust & Nazi/Soviet occupation of Ukraine killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians 1941-1945. Only States have a duty to protect human rights, not @Olympics. ALL human rights are subject to derogation,... 2/
Even the Right to Life is subject to derogations delineated by law, such as the Right to Self Defence. Most Human Rights in Euro Convention of HR (which no longer binds Russia, though Russia IS bound by the customary intl law of human rights) can be derogated from on...3/
"Ruble is down over 20% since November against the dollar. The labor force has shrunk... Uncertainty has curbed business investment... Russia’s economy is entering a long-term regression... ballooning military expenditures with the subsidies and social spending..." 1/
"Oleg Deripaska warned this month that Russia is
running out of cash. “There will be no money next year..."... Moscow is becoming ever more reliant on China, threatening to realize long-simmering fears in Moscow of
becoming an economic colony of China..." 2/
""...long-term picture
is bleak: Moscow will be much more inward-looking and overly dependent on China." ...energy revenue fell by nearly half in the first two months of this year compared with last year, while budget deficit deepened. Fiscal gap hit $34b..." 3/
"Early Saturday, Ukrainian assault brigades went on the attack. Over the weekend, hundreds of troops joined the counteroffensive, mounting assaults from the ground and pounding Russian positions with artillery from the surrounding hills..." 1/
"Even before Ukraine stepped up its attack on Russians in Bakhmut on the weekend, its forces had moved to beat Russian troops back from the last main highway into the city. That preserved both a supply line and an exit route for them should they decide to retreat..." 2/
“I’m confident Bakhmut will hold,” said commander of a combined tactical group fighting in Bakhmut. “We have enough forces to throw the enemy back from this city, but it depends on the tasks the command has, be it holding the city, or inflicting max losses on enemy.” 3/
"When Tatiana Vlaiko’s 11-year-old daughter Lilya came home from school last September saying her class was going to a two-week summer camp, alarm bells immediately rang..."
"“I was afraid,” Vlaiko, 36, said. “It’s a war and I told her it might not be so easy to get you back. But her friends were going and she really wanted to go.”
Nor did there seem to be a choice. Consent forms sent by the school instructed parents..." 2/
"to bring birth certificates and other documents and be at the river port at 6am next morning for the trip by steamboat across the Black Sea.
Vlaiko, a single mother, kissed Lilya goodbye & left her with the headmaster, then hurried to her job in a butter-processing factory." 3/
1 Your 10 day conquest is now on its 265th day. To conquer all of 🇺🇦 at this rate Muscovy needs time machine, & capacity to learn from mistakes; neither of which are within the realm of possibility.
Never controlled the lands you fake-annexed. Never will. West repeats same mantra 1m times: "with 🇺🇦 for As. Long. As. It. Takes." Yet Ruschists so slow of mind, they walk right into the self-demilitarisation bear trap set for them.