Russian shelling on March 28, a thread: Kharkiv Oblast: a restaurant, a shop and office buildings have been damaged as a result of Russian night Shahed  attack in Kharkiv. 

Source: Kharkiv Oblast Police

During its assault on Mariupol from Feb to May 2022, the Russian army used "scorched earth" tactics, trying to capture the city at any cost, in particular, by deliberately destroying critical infrastructure and residential buildings.
1/ Since the city is currently under full Russian occupation, there’s little information about the lives of the residents and the functioning of the infrastructure. Most reports are issued by occupation "authorities" to make and impression of the so-called "reconstruction."
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On May 18, we commemorate the forcible deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea organised by the Soviet regime in 1944.
Over 180 000 people were deported between May 18 and 20, 1944🧵

Read more about Crimea on our website: [withukraine.online/post/whose-is-…]
1/ The deportation began on May 18, at 3 am.
The NKVD personnel allowed people several minutes up to a maximum of half an hour to pack their belongings and sent them to the remote USSR regions without permission to return.

📷: The desolated Crimean Tatar village Üsküt, 1945:
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There are numerous creative agencies in Ukraine, and we'd like to show you the works of some of them in this thread.

You can also find here some movies recommendations🧵 Radioaktive Film: [radioaktivefilm.com]

They are the ones who shot the "2step" video in Kyiv for @edsheeran.
A full-service production company based in Ukraine, Poland, and Georgia.
📹link: []
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At the end of February 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, armed Russian troops appeared in Crimea and quickly seized the peninsula. Read here how it happened and why this day, March 18, is marked as the day of annexation.🧵 On February 20, 2014, Russia launched a pre-planned military aggression against Ukraine
This began with the occupation of Crimea when unmarked vehicles and armed soldiers appeared on the peninsula.
📷: Soldiers with no insignia in Crimea, March 5, 2014. Source: Reuters
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Animals suffer from fires, shelling, loss of owners, forced displacement, and, as a result, stress, fear, hunger, and unsanitary conditions. Animals die, get injured, or run away because of the war and cruelty of the invaders. This 🧵is based on the interviews with @UAnimalsENG On February 24, 2022, the Russians launched five shells that hit Feldman Ecopark in Kharkiv Oblast, killing the shelter's residents.
Later, the invaders attacked the Yasnohorodka Family Ecopark in Kyiv Oblast. The attack killed some of the animals and injured many.
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On March 10, 1861, Taras Shevchenko, a great Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public and political figure, passed away. He remains one of the most famous Ukrainian personalities and is often called the "father of the Ukrainian people." 🧵 Monuments to Shevchenko can be found in America, China, and Brazil; in Ukraine, there are over 1,000 of them. Also, 9,472 streets in Ukraine, an asteroid, and a mountain peak in the Caucasus are named after Shevchenko.
📷: Monuments of Shevchenko in Kharkiv and Borodyanka
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On this day 9 years ago Russia has begun its aggression against Ukraine. In this thread, we remind how the situation developed in 2014, before the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022 🧵 On February 20, 2014, Russia started a pre-planned military aggression against Ukraine with the occupation of Crimea. This is when vehicles and armed military servicemen with no identification marks appeared on the peninsula, forming military units under Russian command
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🔴 Oleh Syniehubov, the head of #Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, wrote that on the morning of February 20, at approximately 5:00 a.m., the #Russians shelled the #Kupiansk district. A private residential building was destroyed in the village of Novoosynove. Preliminarily, a woman may be under the debris. Rescuers are working on the spot.

On February 20, Ukraine marks the Day of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, commemorating the heroism of participants in the Revolution of Dignity. In this thread, read about who these people are and why Ukrainians honour their memory. 🧵 At least 107 people got killed in the confrontations with the authorities during the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine in 2013-2014.
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The false narratives Russia is using to justify its invasion of Ukraine were employed by USSR in similar contexts. Here, we show examples of Soviet propaganda statements that Russian propagandists use now to downplay, justify, or even deny its invasion of Ukraine🧵 The Russian narrative about the “forever brotherhood” of Ukrainian and Russian people has been long employed to conceal the real nature of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia, that of the colonized and the colonizer, the victim and the aggressor.
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On January 22, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Unity. This post explains the events that made this day important for Ukrainians and the date's symbolism.
#withukraine_history #withukraine #ukraine #dayofunity After WWI, the territory of Ukraine was divided between the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. On Jan 22, 1918, Ukrainians of the eastern and central lands proclaimed the independence of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, UNR. A crucial milestone in Ukraine’s state-building

Some foreign media unwittingly or deliberately amplify Russian propaganda with inaccurate wording. Mistakes do happen, but in times of war, they might be extremely costly, so extra caution is needed. Below, we show the cases of misleading phrasing and the possible consequences🧵 ❌Case 1: Since 2014, foreign media have been using misleading terms, such as “breakaway regions,” regarding the occupied by Russia Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, thus largely downplaying or straight-up negating the Russian involvement.

The members of our team in Ukraine had to face the new reality of blackouts. Often with no electricity or no stable connection to the internet, we keep working and living our lives. In this post, you can see the blackout as we experience it 🧵 After series of Russian massive missile attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on October 10, October 15, November 15 and November 23, Ukrainians all over the country experience blackouts, as well as lack of water and heat supply.

Photo by Polina, our project manager:

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37 days of the war - the main information from the morning report of the General Staff 👇

🤦‍♀️ In some areas, the occupiers are trying to force entrepreneurs to use russian rubles.

#StopPutinNOW
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😡 In the temporarily occupied territories, russians are housed in the homes and apartments of local residents, holding local residents and activists as hostages. They commit looting and violence against Ukrainian citizens.

#StopPutin
#StopRussia

❗️Sanctions against the #RussianFederation for the last days

▪️Following to IKEA, the furniture company Jysk is closing its stores for Russians.

▪️Webmoney's electronic instant online payment system has banned all ruble transactions. ▪️European cryptocurrency exchange platform BTC-Alpha suspended work with rubles and blocked Russian accounts.

▪️Corporate Financial Services Corporation American Express suspends trading operations in Russia and Belarus.

(1/4) @ZelenskyyUa recorded a video message for Europeans.
The main theses:
• During these 3 weeks of war 115 children were killed. This is the most terrifying war in Europe since the WWII.
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• #Ukrainians hear the hourslong sounds of air-raid sirens, during which children and elderly people are brought to basements to stay in safety. Ukrainians live, work, try to sleep, receive medical treatment for wounds, give birth and die hearing these sounds.

(1/5)❗️Operational information on the response of SES units to dangerous events (as of 9:00 on March 21)
▫️On the day, #SES units made 1,208 trips, including 296 trips to eliminate the consequences of shelling by #Russian troops, 27 people were rescued.
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▫️120 #Pyrotechnics of the SES were involved to neutralized 636 GNP and 10.5 kg of explosives, inspected the area of 121.46 hectares.
#StopWarInUkraine #StopPutinNow

1/ The United States will not deploy troops to #Ukraine but will support another @NATO country if it does. The question of sending a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine will be discussed during US President Joe Biden's visit to Poland.
#StandWithUkraine #RussianUkrainianWar @NATO 2/ The White House reports that the visit to Poland will take place after meetings in Brussels with NATO allies, G7, and EU leaders, where support for #Ukraine and sanctions against #Russia will be discussed.

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 6 p.m.
🔺 Russian troops have lost their offensive potential, their advance has been halted in almost all directions. 🔺 Military commissariats of Kuban, Primorsky Krai, Yaroslavl Oblast and the Ural Federal District regions are conducting covert mobilization. However, the population of these regions is reluctant to take part in the war - there are cases when Russians evade service.

🔺 Russian army is turning the occupied and besieged settlements into concentration camps, where the civilian population is starving.
— Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on FB 🔺Residents of Mariupol who fled the occupiers' bombing of Mangush and Melekino are starving to death. The occupiers do not allow humanitarian goods with food, medicine, basic necessities.