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🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦
Linguist, lawyer, writer, refugee, immigrant • Analyzing propaganda, media, Russia, Ukraine, post-USSR • @Euromaidanpress @StopFakingNews • Inclusion•Innovation
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Jun 25 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Charmaine Yoest is gaslighting hard on @CNN. She doesn't believe public opinion supports Roe. "They didn't ask the right question."🤨

These "Pro-life" propagandists disregard & distort facts b/c their views are religious beliefs—by definition not open to reason. Why debate them? Image @CNN @FWhitfield "Pro-life" spox showing up on @CNN are propagandists who have honed their disinformation & delivery for years. Yoest is among others following the same propaganda playbook. @emilybazelon wrote a great piece on her & the "cheerful war" on abortion in 2012 nytimes.com/2012/11/04/mag…
Jun 16 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
🔥🔥Reading Luttig's statement & I'm so grateful he doesn't tiptoe around the crisis. The conservative judge says #Jan6 was a battle in Trump & GOP's ongoing war on democracy & America. He uses "war" 21x on just p1 ! He says they lied knowingly, to cling to power. #Jan6thHearings Image Luttig: A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, & our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.

America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other…
Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
💥Federal Grand Jury INDICTS Peter NAVARRO, Former Trump Adviser, on Criminal Contempt Charges Peter NAVARRO Indictment for Criminal Contempt of Congress was returned y'day—unsealed today—on 2 counts of defaulting on House Subpoena investigating #January6th insurrection/coup. He made specious exec privilege claims, then kept talking to @AriMelber 🤷🏻‍♀️justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/pet…
May 27 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Watching President @ZelenskyyUa address @FSIStanford right now. He's talking about a special room in Kyiv used to greet visiting heads of state, now used to honor the heroes who have given their lives to defend #Ukraine's freedom & independence on day 93 of Russia's (8 year) war. Image @ZelenskyyUa @FSIStanford Pres Zelensky expressed condolences for Uvalde killing, saying it's hard to understand how 18-year-old boys can kill & commit atrocities against innocent people & children. He said 18yo Russian soldiers have been committing incomprehensible slaughter in #Ukraine for 3 months now. Image
May 24 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
‼️OMG 14 elementary school students—children— and 1 teacher are dead after a mass shooting by an 19yo gunman in Texas.

Damn you @GovAbbott and every Republican who with the gun lobby have perverted our laws & society into this daily hellscape of massacres, trauma and grief. @GovAbbott The 18yo (or 19yo) gunman is dead. He drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 14 children & 1 teacher with 2 guns. Kids were 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders.

It's an 80% Hispanic school district, with large immigrant community. So could be a Buffalo style hate crime. Image
May 23 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
🔥There you have it—from an insider. Putin's war in Ukraine isn't about restoring Soviet or Russian glory. That's all instrumental to KLEPTOCRACY.

I don't know who's more grandiose—Putin w/ his propaganda or the West so eager to believe ideology drives Russia's murderous regime. #Russian diplomat Bondarev resigns over #Ukraine, says the war is ONLY about #Putin's #kleptocracy staying in power:

"Those who conceived this war want only one thing—to remain in power forever, live in…palaces, sail on yachts…, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity."
May 12 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
💥Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine. CNN identified 11 Smerch rocket strikes on residential #Kharkiv🇺🇦 launched by rocket artillery brigade led by Col.Gen Alexander ZHURAVLYOV in Belgorod🇷🇺—war crimes under int'l law. CNN traced 11 Smerch rocket attacks on #Kharkiv on Feb. 27-28 to #Russia's 79th Rocket Artillery Brigade. Based in Belgorod, the brigade reports to Western Military District led by Zhuravlyov—the only officer with the authority to order Smerch launches in his district. #WarCrimes
May 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🤨Lavrov: We don't demand Zelensky surrender, just release civilians & end resistance. Our aim isn't regime change—that's US specialty. We only want ppl in eastern Ukraine not to be threatened by Kyiv's military & its Nazis. And we don't want Ukraine to threaten Russian security. Oh, there's more >> Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelensky to Hitler, Who Also 'Had Jewish Blood'

For a regime founded and sustained by insane propaganda, Putin's Russia is so bad at it.

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Apr 28 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
💥Pres. Biden Requests $33 Billion in Aid For #Ukraine🇺🇦
🔹$20.4B in #military assistance
🔹$8.5B in #economic help
🔹$3B in #humanitarian assistance
🔹$500M in domestic #food production assistance
@NATO allies will do their share to help Ukraine defend against aggressor #Russia ImageImage ⚡️Biden: "As long as the assaults and atrocities continue, we're going to continue" helping #Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression.

Biden says $33B supplemental funding will use Defense Production Act to expand US production & preserve materials disrupted by Putin's war. Image
Apr 27 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
🚨‼️#Bucha🇺🇦 mayor confirms Russians had kill lists to hunt down & kill politicians, activists & Donbas war veterans. "I saw these lists… they knew in advance who they were after & their addresses," Mayor Fedoruk said, adding Russians knew that officials lived in #Kyiv suburbs. THREAD re #Russia's "Kill Lists" in #Ukraine, first reported by @ak_mack @RobbieGramer & @JackDetsch on eve of Feb. invasion. Confirmed by @nytimes, @washingtonpost & now by #Bucha mayor. This is kleptocrat Putin using war to kill his critics—journalists, activists & politicians.
Apr 22 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
❗️Incredible report from @edlavaCNN. Russian soldiers rounded up villagers at gunpoint into a school basement. 350 ppl forced to live in such horrific conditions, 12 elderly died. Russians held them there for a month—as human shields—knowing Ukrainians wouldn't attack the school. Sofia took @CNN into the school basement where she was held hostage for a month by Russian soldiers with 350 other Ukrainian villagers. Conditions were so cramped, air so stifling, breathing was hard. She said the Russians told her point blank that they were taken there to die.
Apr 14 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Trump just can’t condemn Putin. Even now, as the murderer is awash in Ukrainian blood. Fox gave Trump another opportunity y’day to say Putin is evil. But Trump went off on NATO & the EU instead. His allegiance to Putin never changes. If his GOP gets back in power, we’re doomed. Great piece by @jonathanchait. But I'd go further: Given Trump's continued allegiance to Putin, and the Republican Party's allegiance to Trump, there's no question that Ukraine and the rest of the free world would be in grave danger with the GOP in power.
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Apr 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Putin’s Orwellian lies are as absurd as they are evil. And he tells them with the conviction of a sociopath. Every time he opens his mouth to keep his propaganda lies spinning, he’s just spinning his own grave, providing evidence of his intent to commit & cover up genocide. Putin tells so many lies, they contradict each other. He claims Bucha was fake w/ staged dead bodies "like in Syria to frame Russia." Then he says, nobody care about 100s of dead bodies left for months in Syria & Afghanistan. Pick a lie, Vova. Fake dead bodies or real dead?
Apr 12 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 15 days in jail in Russia, after criticizing Putin's war in interviews w/ US media.

@vkaramurza is a fierce & brilliant pro-democracy advocate, 2-time survivor of Putin's murderous regime & a Washington Post columnist. All give me dread. @vkaramurza Russian police report says Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested for disobeying police & resisting arrest. It cites Russian law that mandates police arrest who look suspicious like they're committing crimes. And cites his walking quickly & trying to hide from police as suspicious.🤨😒 Image
Apr 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We should talk about Russian atrocities as ongoing since 2014. Russia invaded Ukraine then. War crimes in torture cellars began then. Crimes of aggression include downing civilian airliner MH17. Putin hid behind "separatist" propaganda for years. 2022 war lifted that smokescreen. 2021 UN Report: “egregious violations of torture… documented in the ‘Izoliatsiia’ facility in Donetsk… other places of detention…continue on a daily basis… carried out systematically in breakaway eastern regions of Donetsk & Luhansk…began in 2014. voanews.com/a/europe_un-re…
Apr 5 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
😬Oops! Putin's proxy warlord in Donbas gave a military award to a DNR neo-Nazi fighting against Ukraine in Mariupol. His Nazi patch was on video of the ceremony, later cut.

Add to the mountain of evidence of Russia's "deNazification" Nazis & war criminals. committing genocide. DNR head Pushilin awarded medals to a group of militants "liberating" Mariupol of "Nazis." One award went to Roman Vorobyov, who was wearing a neo-Nazi Odin patch on his arm. Video of the ceremony was posted on telegram, but was later cut to remove the part w/ Vorobyov. Oops.🤷🏻‍♀️ ImageImageImage
Apr 4 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
❗️"They shot them either in the back of the head or in the heart."—Witness in #Bucha says Russians forced ppl sheltering onto their knees, searched, robbed them. Then shot the veterans of Donbas war (who fought Russia's 2014 invasion & occupation) & anyone w/ Ukraine coat of arms Wondered about this. Seems Belarus soldiers are also committing war crimes in Ukraine. Witness says the soldiers who shot people in #Bucha were "mostly Russians & Belarusians." He could identify them by their language: "they are easy to recognize by their characteristic dialect."
Apr 3 • 9 tweets • 14 min read
❗️CNN: The state of our union is sickened & horrified. Gruesome new images out of Ukraine as Russian troops leave Kyiv areas & reveal horrors shocking to the world. Bodies of at least 20 men—shot execution style—left lying amid rubble on streets of Bucha. 300 buried in mass grave CNN, on #Bucha🇺🇦: Is this genocide?

NATO Chief @jensstoltenberg: It is a brutality against civilians we haven't seen in Europe for decades. It's horrific & absolutely unacceptable to target & kill civilians.… I strongly welcome the investigation by International Criminal Court.
Apr 1 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Take the time to listen to this. It’s one story from Mariupol. But tells the whole story of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The merciless brutality, bleak conditions worsening each day. The pain of hunger, fear, family separation. Survival tempered by guilt, uncertainty. And the taken. 1/ I jotted down some notes from the wrenching story of Khrystyna, 28, a mother of 2 children ages 6 & 8 & her family in #Mariupol🇺🇦, in this 🧵
In early March they were completely cut off from all services—power, heat, water, cell. Then a plane dropped a bomb right next door.
Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
❗️Der Spiegel reporter Christopher Reuter describes occupation of Trostyanets🇺🇦: Russian troops ran out of food rations & started looting. Became very aggressive & paranoid, turned into a murderous horde, abducting & torturing & killing civilians in basement of train station. Here's the story at @derspiegel: Liberated from the Russians: A Visit to Trostyanets, Ukraine After the End of Russian Occupation, by Christoph Reuter spiegel.de/international/…
Mar 30 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Mayor Senkeyvich: A guided cruise missile struck #Mykolaiv regional govt admin. building. Its target was the Governor, Vitaliy Kim. It missed him but killed 15 staff. No military there, just normal security. Staff worked on humanitarian needs of civilians b/c of Russia's war. ImageImageImage #Mykolaiv's charismatic Governor Vitaliy Kim is a comms master. Like Zelensky, he posts daily videos on social media, "combines humor with withering putdowns of Russian army." Of Korean ancestry, he also represents #Ukraine's diversity. So yeah, a Putin 🎯 economist.com/europe/2022/03…