17 photos of 2024 from Ukraine that you need to see 🧵⬇️

1) Kharkiv, May 11, 2024, 5 am , school kids are preparing for the prom using the break in russian attacks on the city. Photo: Yan Dobronosov Telegraf 2) Kharkiv, Ukraine , September 24, 2024, after russia hit the apartment building with a missile. Photo: Suspilne Kharkiv / Yevhen Gertner

Home , finally ❤️‍🩹

Can’t stop crying . But it’s good tears
🧵 187 Ukrainian defenders and 2 civilians are back home today from russian captivity

‘Do you have a phone with you?’ Asks a girl with long brown hair. I nod. She’s already holding stickers ready, she puts them over cameras on both sides of my phone. It’s not allowed to take photos here. ‘Hand’ she orders. For a second I can’t decide which one, then I stretch my left one , and she puts a black stamp on the inner side of my wrist : i’m officially in the most famous Kyiv club…

Techno beat is hitting me right in the chest. When I reach the bar my eyes focus and I feel

This is Max Levin - Ukrainian reporter who dreamed to take a photo that’ll stop the war.

He would’ve been 43 today.

But russians killed him in March 2022 .

Here are his 12 📸 you should see
Thread 🧵⬇️ (photo of Maks: Getty) A man holds a Ukrainian flag amid clashes between pro-russian government special forces and pro-Ukrainian protesters during the Revolution of Dignity , also known as Maidan or Euromaidan in Kyiv, January 22, 2014.

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Photo: Maks Levin/Reuters

🔥I am sooo happy to finally share this 🥹this screenshot is kids from Kherson region area liberated from russian occupation meeting with our art-therapist, for the first time ❤️‍🩹

This became possible thanks to your kind help fellas so Diakuiu velychezne!💙💛

More ⬇️ “It was a journey into the world of colors.” therapist shared. She shared that if you recognize your feelings and give them color and form, it becomes easier to recognise them next time , your and of others ⬇️

Fellas! who’s in the mood for some community notes adding? as to what to add, Newsweek summarised info quite good: “Since russia's full-scale invasion, russia forced have been responsible for damaging or destroying at least 660 churches and other religious structures..”⬇️ “…including at least 206 belonging to Protestants," according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. That includes 94 Pentecostal churches, 60 Evangelical Christian Baptist churches, and 27 7th Day Adventist churches.

newsweek.com/marjorie-taylo…

🔥⚡️sharing great news ! 3 Ukrainian families with children were able to escape russian occupation ❤️‍🩹

One couple from Enerhodar, with a 3 y.o. kid, worked at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. When refused to cooperate with russians, faced threats, intimidation…

more in🧵⬇️ physical violence, detention, interrogations...

Fortunately, the family managed to leave and is now safe on territory controlled by Ukraine.
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This day 2 yrs ago russians killed Maks Levin - Ukrainian reporter who dreamed to take a photo that’ll stop the war.

His body was found in a forest near Kyiv, with 3 bullets: after shooting him, russians fired 2 more: so much they hate us

Here are his 17 📸 you should see:
🧵⬇️ A man holds a Ukrainian flag amid clashes between pro-russian government special forces and pro-Ukrainian protesters during the Revolution of Dignity also known as Maidan or Euromaidan in Kyiv, January 22, 2014.

Photo: Maks Levin/Reuters

This is Lesia Ukrainka - one of the most famous Ukrainians. Known for her poems, her fight for Ukraine and active political and feminist position

“who frees oneself, will be free”

her words became slogan of Maidan protests in Kyiv

Her story is crucial to understand Ukraine
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Her real name was Larysa Kosach she was born in 1871 to family
of famous Ukrainian writer Olena Pchilka (alias) and Petro Kosach, who came from wealthy Ukrainian-Cossack nobility with its own coat of arms

Were well educated free-thinkers
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On a 📸 Lesya Ukrainka's parents

🔥Ultimate Ukrainian swearing thread

⬇️5 Ukrainian words to swear in style when people are real pieces of sh*t

Or when they are russian soldiers who attack Ukrainian cities🤬

Bonus: now you can swear even around kids and even - parents of your plus one.

dig in
Thread 🧵⬇️🔥 I had only one word stuck in my head all weekend while watching rescuers in Odesa, Ukraine, getting through the rubble, searching for people of was an high raise apartment building - before russian army hit with a drone early morning of March 2

В и р о д к и

Art IG meeriatt
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This is not Kramatorsk or Avdiivka

This is Kyiv, 10 years ago. The bloodiest day I ever saw -

or so I thought

It’ll be known as the bloodiest day of Maidan - peaceful protest against corrupt government controlled by russia

that grew into revolution
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📸 Brendan Hoffman I remember standing on Maidan Nezalezhnosti - central Kyiv square that gave Maidan its name - looking at bonfires, people walking around camps, shouting orders, running with trays with snacks and tea to keep people warm. It was thrilling , exciting, horrifying.

📸 Getty Images

🔥⚡️russian MoD confirmed IL-76 crash at in Belgorod Region

suspiciously fast

they claim 65 prisoned UAF servicemen were on board transported for exchange,

here is what makes us not believe it

Thread ⬇️ Prisoners in russia are transported by trains and special cars, so that in case of riot it can be prevented. “What if they capture the plane and attack, say, a skyscraper”, says russian very pro-war tg channel “13tg” He says
he never heard about prisoners transported by plane
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While it’s still not so far from midnight in Kyiv, here is my promised list of 10 things we were able to achieve this year together with you to show you that together we can do anything ✊🔥

Thread 🧵⬇️ 1. I’ll start with one of the most dramatically important achievements: thanks to your help we were able to buy and transport the 4x4 Land Rover from the UK to my brother Misha for their unit that they use still and it’s been an enormous game changer ✊. Diakuiu💙💛
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https://twitter.com/margogontar/status/1650930305165828096

🔥special for International Cats Day, here are 5 Ukrainian war cats that became symbols:

1. Phoenix

was found under rubble of destroyed house in Andriivka in Kyiv region. Rescuers gave him a name Phoenix, as "reborn from hell". He lives with new loving owner now.

📸 Uanimals



2. Shafa

At early March, house in Borodyanka was destroyed by russian missile. Later people noticed a cat there - she lived for ~ 2 months, on 7th floor. With no water, no food, no way out.

Thanks to rescuers, Shafa was saved and now is a cat-fluencer!🐱

📸 Nina Grushetska

Kyivans right now, hiding in metro while russia is attacking Kyiv.

whole Ukraine is under missile threat right now

photo: Yan Dobronosov, Telegraf



Kyivans right now, hiding in metro during russian missile attack on Kyiv

all these people had places to go to, stuff to do - but they put their lives on hold to hide from russian missiles.

photo: Yan Dobronosov, Telegraf

🔥 here it is, the Ultimate Ukrainian Swearing Thread🔥 or 5 Ukrainian swearing phrases to get you started😈

(fingers crossed twitter doesn’t take down this thread , at least not right away ahaha)

Here’s what you need to get rolling 🔥
⬇️🧵 1 - yobana rusnya - йобана русня - йбн рсн - “fcking russians”
yo like in your+ba like in bun +na like in nah
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roo like in roots +s like in strong + nya like what Japanese cats say /ᐠ｡ᐟ\

I guess is the most used swearing in Ukraine right now .
also used as йбн рсн
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twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKb… Yobana rusnya

Bilhorod (the real name of Belgorod ) was a Ukrainian city once - up until russian Bolsheviks army entered it in 1918 and in 1919 made it part of russia

Quick history thread 🧵 When russian empire collapsed in 1917, question arose abt borders of new national states. Ukraine claimed territory inhabited mainly by Ukrainians while Bolsheviks wanted to seize the entire territory of former empire

📸 railway station in Bilhorod,1918/source: istorychna pravda

This is Mykola Fedirko. He is 22 and he got wounded in Donbas while defending Ukraine from russian invaders. "I got on a plane for the first time," Mykola says.

Below - photo story abt “flying hospital”🧵⬇️

📸, Source: Petter Berntsen, AFP, Radio Svoboda/Radio Liberty/RFE "I would like to go to Denmark on vacation, not to the hospital because of my wound," says Mykola Fedirko. His lower leg is being held in place by metal pins. Before the war, Mykola worked as a salesman.

📸, Source: Petter Berntsen, AFP, Radio Svoboda

This day 1 year ago my former VOA colleague from time when I worked in US texted me. She asked me what I can say about Sasha Kuvshynova. I said she is smart and fun to work and be around with. I thought they wanted to offer her a job. Turned out they were writing her obituary “I’m so sorry” my colleague said, after all my praise for Sasha. I was like “Why? I just spoke to her a week ago, she’s okay, sent me this selfie”. And then my colleague just sent me the link:

https://twitter.com/globalfreemedia/status/1503764768766763015

Just had my brother Misha sending these presents to orcs 🎁 with message from our Estonian friend - it says “MINE MUNNI!" ("idi nahui" in Estonian, loosely translates as “go fck yourself”)🔥 thank you for your kind donation !

If you want your text on mortar shell - here’s how⬇️ my brother’s unit position got hit by russians (all ok, their stuff -not so much) we’re raising to restore/fix their equip (1st 📸 is destroyed Starlink, 2nd - burning eco flow). You can join our effort via PayPal contributeto762project@gmail.com or buymeacoffee.com/margogontar Thnx🙏