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ArianaGic/Аріянॳць
@GicAriana
Writer, activist, political and legal analyst. Director @DI_IntCentreUA. Senior Advisor @ceed_toronto. Sanctioned by Russia.
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Sep 14 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today, at the Ukrainian Festival in Toronto, I had the privilege and honour of meeting Ukrainian veteran, Roman Maksymets, who was severely injured in 2016 in a Russian attack in Maryinka. (Yes, 2016! Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014!!!)
1/9 Image Roman lost both legs, his right arm, vision in his left eye entirely, right eye partially, and much of his hearing. He has had extensive reconstructive surgery on his face.
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Aug 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Since Russia's war of aggression is entirely ILLEGAL, EVERY single target in UA is illegal & unlawful - civilians & soldiers alike.
2. These are standard Russian attacks on Ukraine meant to depopulate Ukraine of Ukrainians and to terrorize Ukrainians into conceding defeat.
1/7 3. The "peace" the US pursues is in line with Russian objectives. Washington habitually coerces Kyiv to concede to Moscow. Ukrainian defeat is the "peace" RU seeks. Since Trump came to power, Russia has felt notably more emboldened to strike civilians. The stats are damning.
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Aug 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The West believes that Ukraine should fight to the last Ukrainian standing. Conscript each and every young (and not so young), able-bodied (and not able-bodied) Ukrainian. Let every Ukrainian leave their studies, their employment, their families.
1/5 Image Many Ukrainians on the front line have been fighting for the last three and half years. A number have been fighting since 2014!!!

Yesterday's civilians, who had to abandon their entire lives to fight genocidal Russian barbarians are defending Europe.
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Aug 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russia rids Ukraine of Ukrainian children, destroying the future of the nation. This is genocide. RU achieves this genocidal objective by:
1. Abducting Ukrainian children from occupied regions & sending them to Russia to erase their Ukrainian identities & poison them against UA🧵 2. Killing Ukrainian children in their homes, in hospitals (including in maternity wards and children's hospitals), playgrounds, schools, and when seeking shelter and fleeing Russian forces, war, and genocide. More than 2 children are killed and more than 4 injured each day.🧵
Aug 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NO, Russia does NOT want a "neutral, non-aligned Ukraine" governed by a "puppet government." This position misses everything about Russia's goals, and plays into Russian propaganda about its UNPROVOKED war against Ukraine.
1/4 Ukraine WAS NON-ALIGNED when Russia invaded. There was no danger of Ukraine joining NATO. It wasn't a popular concept in Ukraine, and most importantly, there was NO chance that NATO was going to invite Ukraine as a member.
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Jul 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In 2022, Ukrainian civilians barricaded the road to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (Europe's largest NPP) to defend it against Russian forces. They faced Russian tanks totally unarmed. NATO nations are afraid to shoot down UNMANNED Russian drones & missiles in Ukraine.
1/5 Image Instances of Ukrainian civilians standing down Russian tanks - even columns of them -with nothing but their bodies abound. Yet NATO nations won't even enlist their PROFESSIONAL ARMIES to do even things which avoid direct confrontation with RU, like protecting Ukrainian skies.
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Jul 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Russian aggression and genocide were largely ignored from 2014 until 2022 when the images of Russian missiles striking Kyiv, and of mutilated civilians scattered about the streets of Ukraine with their hands bound behind their backs finally shook people up. Temporarily... 🧵 Those who didn't care about Ukraine, or whose russocentrism, russophilia, and general anti-UA bias prevented them from giving two shits about Ukraine even professionally had to jump on the bandwagon to be relevant. But now bombing Ukraine into oblivion is old hat and not sexy.🧵
Jun 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Canada has announced $2 billion in new military support for Ukraine.

Canada will count this toward its NATO defence spending target.

This is huge. Let me explain:
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canada.ca/en/treasury-bo…Image Counting military aid to Ukraine as part of NATO defence spending is tacit acknowledgement that Ukraine's defence against Russia is a shared, collective responsibility for NATO. It is a tacit acknowledgment that Ukraine is defending NATO nations. That UA is doing NATO's work.
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Jun 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People who say Ukraine should be "grateful" to other nations for their support forget to be grateful to Ukraine for doing NATO's job.

Without Ukrainian resistance to fascist Russia, Russian tanks would be in a NATO nation by now.
1/4 Ukrainians are sacrificing life and limb, experiencing immeasurable devastation and loss of every kind, to protect not only themselves and their nation, but democracy itself. They are safeguarding democracy, thereby protecting the free world.
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May 31 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The "I don't hate Russians" people will sing an entirely different tune when Russia invades THEIR country and starts killing THEIR parents, siblings, children, cousins, grandparents, friends, colleagues, artists, doctors, mechanics, musicians, dancers, writers, plumbers, etc.
1/6 Maybe, after Russians gang rape your wife, son, daughter, and mother, you won't be so enamoured with the "mysterious soul" of those barbarians. Maybe, after they bomb your children's school and local playground, you'll feel a little less self-righteous.
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May 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Today, the "Coalition of the Willing" of France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom walking in the streets of Kyiv to much applause and excitement. But we need to ask, WHAT exactly is this coalition willing to do?
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president.gov.ua/en/news/spilna… In a joint statement, France, Germany, Poland, the UK, and Ukraine said that the Coalition is committed to calling for a "full and unconditional ceasefire" that "lasts for at least 30 days" as a "foundation" for "peace".
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Apr 25 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
In 2022, Russia under Putin chose to cross the rubicon to open, unadulterated evil. Moscow is devoted to its path & embraces it fully

In the same fashion, the US under Trump is moving rapidly towards crossing the rubicon to openly abandon support for intl & humanitarian law
1/17 The United States is on the precipice of crossing the rubicon to openly supporting and ENABLING the destruction of international law. DC's course is allowing an evil, aggressive, genocidal, fascist regime to grow unchecked. To let authoritarianism spread and kill democracy.
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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The U.S. should be grateful to Ukraine for all the sacrifice Ukrainians have made to help keep the free world safe from Russia. Trump and his admin can go piss up a rope with their demands of "gratitude" for insufficient aid, trickled in, and extortionist demands for payment.
1/4 And let's stop ignoring the obvious: From 2022, the Trumpist Republicans were actively promoting Russian propaganda lies about Ukraine, and maliciously blocked essential and critical military aid to Ukraine in 2023-24. It was calculated.
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Feb 20 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Trump wants Canada because of its abundance of natural resources -from water to minerals & lumber- & all that access to the Arctic. I hope that those who think he's just a "tough business talker" today see that he isn't. He's a dangerous bully colluding with fascist Russia.
1/10 Trump isn't making idle threats. He is telling us very clear what he wants and intends to do - annex Canada. The one thing I do NOT believe is that he isn't prepared to use military force against us if economic warfare won't suffice. I have good reason for this:
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Feb 16 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Reality: Europe is not opposed to forcing Ukraine into a negotiated agreement with Russia - which I must again emphasize necessarily entails making concessions to Moscow. EU just wants to be part of the process to ensure it serves not only US interests, but also its own.
1/11 For all the talk of "just and lasting peace" for Ukraine, Europe on the whole is STILL focused not on helping Kyiv defeat Russia mitarily and politically, but on achieving some mythical "containment" and "deterrence" as though it will be just, durable, or even achievable.
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Feb 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A Russian military aircraft violated Polish airspace over territorial waters. Russia flew 6.5km into Poland and Poland did nothing. "Not one inch of NATO territory" really means, "many kilometres and we'll still do jack shit."
1/7 Polish officials confirmed they were in contact with the Russians, which said the airspace violation was due to a "navigation system failure". Will they use the same "navigation system failure" BS excuse when they drop a bomb on Polish territory?
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Jan 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NATO has as its members nations which are overtly PRO-RUSSIAN. Slovakia and Hungary are working AGAINST the interests of NATO and the EU. Meanwhile, Ukraine is doing NATO's job for it and is still not even invited to be a member of the alliance.
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 pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/… NATO recognized Russia as a threat. Slovakia and Hungary are ACTIVELY undermining the security of their NATO allies.
Slovakia & Hungary are ACTIVELY undermining the principles upon which NATO is supposed to be built on, namely democracy, the rule of law, respect for intl law.
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Dec 31, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
The Biden admin didn't choose Russia advisors for their wisdom, accuracy, or ethics. The WH chose people who push Russia-favourable policies in order to rationalize and spin their pre-determined policy of protecting Russia from the legal consequences or its heinous crimes.
1/15 It has NEVER been the plan to save Ukraine or preserve international law. The plan has always been to save Russia from the consequences of its actions, and to keep Russia alive as a counterweight power to the United States.
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Dec 15, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The talk of "peacekeeping troops in Ukraine" makes clear that western nations intend to continue to try coerce Ukraine into making concessions to Russia. The theory is that in exchange for concessions, Ukraine will be "rewarded" with western peacekeepers on the ground. BUT
1/9 1. One can only imagine the concessions Ukraine would have to make to Russia for Moscow to even begin to agree to any western peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine. It would have to be tantamount to Ukrainian loss of territory AND sovereignty.
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Dec 1, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
“Everything we're doing on the border with Russia - & will do with Belarus & Ukraine - is aimed at discouraging & deterring an eventual aggressor. It's an actual investment into our peace"

Polish PM @donaldtusk on the construction of "Shield East" on Poland's eastern borders
1/7 Image Poland will build a defensive military infrastructure on its border with Ukraine. What this tells us is that Warsaw believes it is highly probable - if not likely - that Ukraine will be occupied and controlled by Russia right to the border with Poland.
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Nov 28, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This is what happens when Western weakness invites aggression.

What weakness? Just a few examples:

🧵1/8 Weakness:
When Russian drones & missiles enter NATO airspace to attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, NATO’s response is denial, suppression of information, dismissal, & an immoral defence of its inaction: “those missiles aren’t meant for us, but destined for Ukraine”.
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