As someone born & raised in Odessa for roughly 1/3 of my life, who spent the other 2/3 in America, I know that most people don’t know much about Ukraine - which I get, I have many blind spots, so I thought I’d tweet some little basic things in case it helps make it real 🧵 The thing that breaks my heart is Odessa is considered the Capital of Humor. On April 1st we celebrate like crazy (Юморина): huge parade w/ costumes, clowns, dancers, mimes (I KNOW) & decorate statues w/ tinfoil. As a comic I’m biased, but to attack the laugh of Ukraine is low

Missiles fired on my Odessa. Friends talk fleeing. Putin, another in a long line of Russian dictators & the price for their greed & ego is always paid in blood by the people. My beautiful родина (homeland in Russian but deeper, the root is family) attacked for nothing. FUCK PUTIN This is my translation of an email from our family friend in Odessa that we got this morning: 🧵
Well… it’s began.
Today they already crossed the border, in Kharkiv something is burning, from Crimea tanks are crossing into Kherson region. They are making explosions in cities,