“I was a classic example of a person who belongs to ‘Russkiy Mir’ … Until 2014 it all looked very different and, I would say, theoretical. Then, it all fell apart… the war happened’’
🇺🇦 journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev on #Weekend ⁦@bbcworldservice⁩ 📻 1

🧵 “ Russians understood the Russian World as drunken cossacks guarding check points in Donetsk who robbed any passing car. The Russian World was torture chambers in cellars where those cossacks &local so-called special forces tormented people with electric shock” @bbcworldservice

“Millions of people are marching to starvation.” 1   @WFPChief David Beasly summing up impact of #Ukraine war  in an interview on @bbcworldservice radio #Weekend programme
🧵 “Ukraine is the bread basket of the world. 400 million people receive their food because of what happens in  #Ukraine and that is now shut down. So what impact that is going to have , it’s going to be catastrophic” 2
@WFPChief on @bbcworldservice radio #Weekend