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May 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🔴 Russia violates three-day ceasefire with drone strikes.
On May 9, Russian forces broke a US-brokered three-day truce by launching aerial attacks, including an FPV drone strike that destroyed a civilian vehicle in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region.
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May 8 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
70-year-old combat medic returns to duty with Azov after Russian captivity.
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May 7 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Experience the haunting sound of Ukrainian post-punk with this essential playlist of gloomy synths and dark aesthetics.
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May 6 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
⚡️ Russia is using fake job offers and false promises to lure foreign citizens into deadly front-line combat.
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May 3 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
😡 Russians use videos of prisoner abuse to indoctrinate Ukrainian children.
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May 1 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Ukrainian soldiers are creating a new cultural phenomenon: military rap, often written and recorded directly from the trenches.
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Apr 30 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
⚡️ Russia is recruiting teenagers through online games and social media to conduct sabotage and arson attacks across Europe.
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Apr 29 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Russia’s war has triggered a large-scale ecocide whose consequences will last for decades.
Destroyed ecosystems, poisoned land and water, mass mining, and ongoing radiation risks threaten not only Ukraine, but environmental security far beyond its borders.
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Apr 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 Russia is purging the identities of kidnapped Ukrainian children through a mass illegal adoption and re-education scheme.
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Apr 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Russian general's daughter brags about easy European visas.
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Apr 24 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
History often overlooks the radical brilliance of Ukrainian women.
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Apr 23 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The Chornobyl liquidators saved Europe from nuclear catastrophe in 1986.
Decades later, some who survived radiation have been killed in Russia’s war—unable to escape missiles and drones targeting their homes.
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Apr 23 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Gen Z romanticizes the Soviet Union as “vibey,” forgetting it was a regime of repression, poverty, and silence.
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Apr 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The Chornobyl disaster exposed the cynicism of the Soviet system and became one of the factors behind the USSR’s collapse.
Authorities concealed the scale of the catastrophe, prioritizing image over human safety and putting thousands at risk.
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Apr 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ancient Trypillia figurine from Ukraine challenges Sumerian origins of the wheel.
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Apr 17 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Testimonies from Russian POWs reveal what they are fighting and surrendering for.
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Apr 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has become a thriving source of urban legends and phenomena.
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Apr 14 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Here are the weapons President Zelenskyy revealed in his Armourers’ Day address.
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Apr 9 • 42 tweets • 3 min read
Timeline of Hungary’s moves against Ukraine under Orbán’s rule.
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February 28, 2022
Hungary says it will not allow lethal weapons for Ukraine to transit its territory.
Apr 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
⚡️ Ukraine's Odesa mourns a mother, her young daughter, and a neighbor killed in a Russian drone strike on their apartment building.
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Apr 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Ukrainian officials report a growing number of cases in which Russian personnel are killing themselves on the battlefield following drone strikes.