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Freedom is not free.
Jun 1, 2025 8 tweets 2 min read
Poland

In 2023 51% of Poles sympathised Ukrainians, 17% - don't.
In 2024 - 40% -30%
In 2025 - 30% - 38%

Thanks to the russian bots and the Polish rightwing (even not only far right).

In 2022 20-30% heard something about Volyn. In 2025 - miraculously 80%.

Main reasons 1/ are social and economic.

- Myth that Ukrainians are taking over jobs (thou the unemployment is very low and there are tons of work)

- Real issue - raise of rent costs.

- Real issue. Poles are facing completion for the first time. Previously they went to the West to be 2/
Feb 28, 2025 18 tweets 4 min read
Olena Yagupova, a civilian from Energodar (Zaporizhzhia NPP) tells about the slave trade in the occupied territories.

She was abducted because of a neighbour's denunciation that she is a wife of a military.
First, it was looting and detaining, then torture, beatings, she 1/ Image she fainted so they did not electrocuted her, though they kept the tools ready.

Once she was told to undress and sit on the police baton. The photo of her executor below. They usually were drunk. They also imitated shootings. 2/ Image
Dec 3, 2024 10 tweets 2 min read
1/ I haven't recognised my neighbour when she called me.

An elderly lady, I remember her as a beautiful woman in her middle age, but she got elderly last years.

Yet when she called me, I could not recognise her. I was standing, smiling, answering questions about my family and 2/ frantically trying to guess: who that lady with some familiar features was. I thought about all possibilities: my mother's colleagues, my father's colleague, a grandmother of my nephew's friend etc.

Thankfully, finally I got who she was. I could not recognise her because
Aug 13, 2024 22 tweets 6 min read
Thankfully, none of my relatives had to eat people or their own relatives. Some people who had to eat their own siblings slaughter by the deranged mothers are over 90s but are still alive.

But a cousin of my grandmother, was killed for food. She was a girl of 9-10 years. 1/


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Her father, as well as my great grandfather, understood that they had no choice and he entered the collective farm which meant they saved their houses and some of their property.

Perhaps, that is why they still had a cow. I need to find it out while a sister of this girl is 2/
Jun 30, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read
Yesterday Olena Pekh was swapped.
She was a scholar working in the Gorlivka Art Museum (the part of Donbas occupied since 2014). She left but had to return to her ill mother when she was arrested, detained, and "convicted" for over 13 years. She was 6 years in captivity 1/
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and a torture survivor. They electrocuted her, beat, she suffers from epilepsy, they didn't pay attention to it during the tortures.
She slit her veins with an iron nail, after what they had to stop tortures but got her to sign the admission of guilt. 2/