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Tymofiy Mylovanov Profile picture
@Mylovanov
May 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In case you are wondering - this is McDonalds in Kyiv, today, Friday night. Note how many young people are there.
For people who have not experienced the war, it is difficult to understand that normal life continues while missiles land outside. But it is. And it is ok. The world supports Ukraine so that this normal life could continue in Ukraine and, importantly, Europe. 2/
There are many young people in this video. This refutes two propaganda arguments: 1. people are afraid to walk the streets because they are dragged to the military. 2. There are no young people in Ukraine, everyone left. 3/
Some people would say “look at these youngsters, shouldn’t they be on the front lines?” Well, those who should are. And many have sacrificed their lives exactly so that these other Ukrainians can lead a normal life. 4X

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Tymofiy Mylovanov Profile picture
May 28
A video of #Kyiv McDonalds yesterday got 10M views. People were shocked to see civilian life , good service, and positive vibe.

They said “it doesn’t look like a war zone”. But it is.

People share other misconceptions about city life in war. I explore them here 1/
Here is the McDonalds video. Some popular accounts retweeted it separately, others just copied the video without attribution.

Many of them are anti-Ukrainian, some are skeptics.

One of the frequent comments: there is no war in Ukraine, it doesn’t look like a war zone. 2/
Let’s debunk this “no war zone” argument.

The last night, I woke up to the sound of explosions. There were three loud pops real close outside our apartment. The windows shook but held. Believe me it is not pleasant. There was a largest ever drone attack on Kyiv. People died. 3/ ImageImageImage
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May 27
Today Russia and Ukraine have exchanged conditions for peace.

In short, Russia has asked Ukraine to surrender, Ukraine refused and asked Russia to withdraw.

Russia has lost its standing and power, but it will take time for Russia to accept this 1/
Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Galuzin listed the following:
0. Ukraine should stop fighting
1. Commit not to join the EU
2. Commit not to join NATO
3. The West should stop supporting Ukraine and supplying weapons
4. Ukraine should accept new territorial "realities"2/
5. Russian should be made a state language
6. Ukraine should allow Russian(controlled) church.

Zelensky advisor Mykhaylo Podolyak has responded with the following:

1. Russia withdraws troops from Ukraine
2. Russia recognizes sovereignty of all post-Soviet countries. 3/
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May 26
Russia might be worried about Ukraine attacking in Zaporizhzhia. According to UA intelligence, Russians plan a provocation of nuclear accident @DI_Ukraine :

In the coming hours, the aggressors are preparing a large-scale provocation involving the simulation of an accident 1/ Image
t the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

A strike will be carried out directly on the territory of the ZNPP. After this, an emergency leak of radioactive substances will be announced. Ukraine will be blamed for the incident. 2/
In order to maximally conceal their actions, the aggressors have disrupted the scheduled rotation of the permanent monitoring mission of the IAEA planned for today. 3/
Read 6 tweets
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May 25
Jeffrey Sachs new article: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked.

He claims that the war was provoked by NATO expansion and started in 2022 with the US-sponsored violent coup.

Again all his arguments are false, but they should be taken seriously and must be refuted. 1/
Let's start with the NATO expansion. It is true that Ukraine applied to integrate with a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. But nothing happened, there was no roadmap, there was no feasible path forward for Ukraine to join NATO. 2/
In fact, if NATO membership was granted then, there would be no war today.

But let's get back to the facts and the timeline. In 2010, Yanukovych put a stop on the Ukrainian aspirations to
join NATO. There were no protests. Not many Ukrainians cared at the time. 3/
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May 25
The Russian propaganda argues that Ukrainians are afraid to speak Russian and there is an ethnic conflict. I took a walk in Poltava and recorded which language people speak. Similar to Kyiv it is 50/50 and dialect. People are free to speak whatever; there is no tension.1/
A couple of weeks ago I recorded a video with the same results: people speak Russian, Ukrainian, and a mixed dialect. Furthermore, in a single conversation people could be switching languages or one person could be speaking Ukrainian and another Russian2/
Russian propaganda prays on our ignorance. It takes half truths, misinterprets it, adds some lies, and amplifies. Of course, there is a long history of humans where language or ethnicity were a defining characteristic to decide which side you are on. Russia uses this. 3/
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May 24
Ukrainians are brave. Russians are cowards. Why?

I believe it is the Ukrainian police reform that I witnessed in 2014.

Of course, the are heroes and cowards both in Ukraine and Russia. What I mean is brave together, as a nation, in its capacity to stand up to oppression. 1/
The usual and mostly correct argument is that Ukraine has experience two successful revolutions in 2004 and 2014. They created the learned culture in which people believe that they can resist the government and prevail. 2/
The price of this is high. In 2014, Ukrainian police protected then pro Russian president and executed protestors. But the government fell.

Since Ukraine went from having a brutal and corrupt police and incapable military to forces that can resist Russia 3/
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