3 month after #Putin declared the #RussianUkrainianWar the idea of 'denazification' of Ukraine is still being accepted by many. In this thread I'll summarise why Putin's war narrative refers to fighting Nazism and how the myth of the WW2 is interconnected with #RussianColonialism I won't comment Russia's propaganda thesis about Nazi takeover of Ukraine - there's already enough articles explaining that far-right ideology is deeply marginal for contemporary Ukraine. I aim to show not why Nazism is irrelevant to Ukraine but why it's so relevant to Russia

#Ukraine's ombudswoman: Ukrainian POWs taken near #Mariupol have been initially kept in basements and transferred to pre-trial detention centers in Donetsk & other occupied areas or detention centers in Taganrog & Voronezh, Russia. #Azov fighters are subjected to special ordeals Soldiers are being transferred with sacks on their heads, tied and blindfolded. Interrogations are carried out with systematic kicking, beating toes & open wounds with riffle butts/pliers, strangulation, electrocuting, injections of unidentified drugs provoking memory loss

'I've tried to forget it my whole life but have to recall everything again': Holocaust survivor Elvira Bornz tells about her live in #Mariupol

The woman wished to stay in the city she didn't leave even during the WW2 but had to flee after #Russia destroyed 3 houses she hided in

https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1521428952170086400

After the city was razed to the ground by #RussianArmy Elvira, who desperately wanted to share the truth about #RussianWarCrimes, consented to evacuation to #Ukraine used by invaders as for deportation: 'We all are witnesses of this mass murder and have no right to stay silent'

Increbidle at the first sight story of 10-year-old Ilia Matvienko is common for thousands of Ukrainian children. Right after #RussiaInvadedUkraine the little boy & his mom from #Mariupol found a protection from shellings in a basement until one day irreversibly changed everything That time an attack caught them outside and a couple rushed to a neighbors' house but failed to get there safely. Despite receiving a severe head injury Ilya’s mother, Natalia, managed to carry her wounded son to the apartment of their acquaintances alone.

In order to create an attractive picture of 'liberated' #Mariupol for media #Russia's launched damaged waterworks which cases flooding in all basements - the only home and safe shelter for over 150 000 people. Now they live on streets full of #RussianSoldiers
#RussianUkrainianWar As Russia blocks evacuation and any humanitary efforts from Ukraine, blocked Mariupol residents receive food only from Russia that daily provides 3000 individual servings. The access to drinking water is limited due to little supplying and bad position of distribution centers

A document #Russia issues for Ukrainians from occupied region after 'filtering'. After receiving it survivors are sent to economically depressed areas of Russia, often without passports, phones, money and permission to leave region of destination for two years #RussianWarCrimes Such papers are issed for women, children & elderly people. Servicemen, law enforcement officers and civilians suspected in support of Ukraine based on interrogation&their social media profiles/messages/likes or tattoos of Ukraine's state symbols don't pass the filtration

I owe you some positive news

Oleksandr Hutsal, 14, saved the lives of his parents, 3 younder singings and 30 more people surviving a monthlong Russian siege of #Bucha. Every day the boy sneaked through Russian position to find food, water&wood and bring them back to the basement The boy risking his life under Russian gunfire let over three dozens of civilians survive a month in extreme cold - only 8° C. One man has been shot by Russians when he left a shelter to smoke. The boy's family'll remain in the basement till public utilities are restored in Bucha