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May 30, 2023 12 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Russia and its supporters claim we deserve this horror cause we persecute and even kill ethnic Russians, and destroy their language. I read that as a person who can be considered an "ethnic Russian" and think of all the people like me who died after Russia came to my land.👇
People in Kyiv around me still speak Russian, which used to be my mother tongue. Now I can't hear it. But for them there's still no connection between the aggressor state and this language. 👇
I think of all those poor fooled people in Donetsk and Luhansk, Crimea, who believed in TV scares of Ru propaganda. They lived okay in those "republics", using both Ru and Ukr passports when they needed. Now Russia sends them to death against their own people.
I still have the Russian language next to Ukrainian in my passport. And Kremlin claims we cancel them. We now do. Only after the full-scale invasion, that happened in the first place because we did not protected our culture, our nation at all from the Kremlin influence👇👇
We frequently get blamed of being West's puppet by authoritarian regimes, and I remember 2014 when Nuland and others used Maidan to get some cool "democracy PR" and then left. I remember also reading history. How for Western leaders we were always enigma.👇
Nobody knew what to do with us. Everybody financed mostly Russia for so long, they could not admit they fed the monster that was supposed to be democratic hegemony controlling all of us in the region.
they also celebrated the USSR collapse, forced us to give our most powerful weapons to Russia under the pretext of "having them all in one place". and them left. Deal on your own guys, build market economy as you understand it.
I am super grateful to them now, for finally giving us good weapons. But they still have a schedule that will allow "not to crash Russia". as if it fell apart, the West will have to deal with "USSR2.o collapse situation." and nobody wants that.
So please, dear Ru supporters, be realistic. stop spreading non-sense. West is our ally, but for the Western leaders we are still a pain in the ass.
The only truth, is that Russia wanted to become am empire and started imperial conquest and genocide of my people. It also put poor EU and other Western countries in a very difficult situation, recession and economic suffering. So no, they do not benefit from helping us.
the only thing that helps is that while we are holding Russia with our lives, they send their old weapons. and by that at least postpone Ru empire spreading farther.
and also aggressor state always messes with your heads, divides your nations before starting the actual invasion. Sounds familiar?

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Jul 24, 2023
RIA journalist Rostislav Zhuravlev "killed by a Ukrainian attack" was fighting in Donbas as a combatant since 2014. Shame on https://t.co/q3SCWzXAaIifj.org/media-centre/n…

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@IFJGlobal can you please tell me how you define a journalist and how do you check your info before posting this kind "information"?
Zhuravlev was a blogger, who fought against Ukrainian army trying to help Russia seize our Luhansk. But you make him seem like my colleague for some reason. @IFJGlobal you must publish the correction.
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Jul 24, 2023
for people with memory and critical thinking of a gold fish, here is a dive back into the so-called Surkov leaks. Hacked emails of Vladislav Surkov, the Russian architect of the so-called "Russian spring" in the Donbas and Odesa. rusi.org/explore-our-re…
This leak was a bomb several years ago, as it revealed how much the kremlin paid for the "people's uprising against bloody Kyiv regime". and the architect was Vladislav Surkov, one of the closest Putin's allies and a Russian.
I read the leak when it was just published, and it blew my mind, how some officers and marginal Ukrainians were selling their country, endangering people for like $700. And others took the money but never organized protests.
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Jul 23, 2023
"Putin was wrong to invade, but Europe and US should negotiate peace instead of fueling warmongering Zelenskyy" - this is the message I've been getting almost every day. So I decided to respond with a thread.
First of all, dear peacemakers, do you have a clue what are Putin’s demands for peace? I will tell you: Russia is allowed to invade and control Ukraine’s government, resources, and legislation for an indefinite time. 👇
Ukraine’s army must be demilitarized and almost destroyed. This means leaving no weapons, and no means to respond to any future threat from Russia.
All damage Russia brought to Ukraine must be rebuilt by Ukrainians and Europeans. 👇
Read 27 tweets
Jul 23, 2023
Russian methodically destroys Odesa using anti-ship missiles against grain terminals, against civilian houses. Odesa is one of the most beautiful Ukrainian cities. It has ancient Greek, and Jewish history. Seen what they are doing, I want revenge for Odesa.
If you believe that Ukraine is to blame for all this happening. Google anti-ship missile and what it was made for. and then think that they are using missiles aimed to destroy air carriers at sea to destroy food aimed for export, and the people of Odesa, the historical center.
Many brightest world minds were born or take their roots from Odesa. Now they or their children, and grandchildren contribute to the wellbeing of many of your countries. While Russia destroys the plane they came from.
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Jul 18, 2023
I also used to make fun of Ru soldiers. But then a Ukr fighter told me a story from Bakhmut, that shows that those convicts, chmobiks etc, are effective on the war front. "They go in waves like zombies. one after another, until you are tired of killing them, your gun jams.
This cannibalistic tactic of sacrificing their own people helps Russians to reveal Ukrainian gunmen positions. and then artillery comes. So yes, Ukrainians are better trained and have good weapons. But there are still fewer soldiers, and fewer weapons.
Yes, propaganda is important during war. For morale. But also the reality is important. and reality is that Ukraine has to fight the fascist empire that has no value of human life, and built all ideology on force and desire to die for Putin and Russian interests.
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Jul 16, 2023
now that Ukrainian forces have to go through hectares of minefields to liberate more Ukrainian land, and we got what we got at the NATO summit, I hear more and more what Ukraine should have done. And that whenever it was doing, it still did it wrong. So small thread.👇
I usually hear that "Ukraine is a warmonger", just give up, you should have gone with the Minsk agreements and everything would be fine. But at the same time I hear, you were unprepared, why are you criticizing your allies now? they warned you and help you! 👇
I started thinking, yeah, maybe it is all our fault? But then I remembered the "Zelenskyy was so popular, cause he promised to stop the war!" Instead, he brought on Ukraine full-scale invasion. The formerly "naive comedian, oligarch puppet" now seems to be an evil mastermind".
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