Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
An ordinary Ukrainian trying to help his country. I run @dzygaspaw to get tech equipment for 🇺🇦 Defenders. Former Software Engineer. Link in bio 👇
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Apr 20 6 tweets 3 min read
🚨 JUST NOW: 🇺🇸 US citizen & Patriot Russel Bentley was kidnapped, raped, humiliated and then killed by Russian Forces in Donetsk.

This raises a lot of concerns as Russia does not hold any authority over US citizens. Russia can't just kill AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!! 🚨

The story 🧵 Image Russel was a very bright person. We will always remember him as drug dealer, communist and convicted felon.

He moved to Donbas to fight for Russia against Ukraine, called that "Fact Finding Mission to Donbass".

In the end, he found out some facts and this turned unfortunate. Image
Mar 12 13 tweets 4 min read
This is Belgorod city council, russian frontline city.

Today, it was hit with pro-Ukrainian drones, allegedly inviting all russian citizens to vote for Putin on the elections this weekend.

My🧵on Russian opposition, Liberty of Russia Legion invading Russia prior to the election Image I would like to start with what is Russian opposition and why it won't work.

See, here is Yulia Navalnaya who inherited political influence of her killed husband Alexey.

Since Alexey died, she issued a statement talking to Russian population.
Feb 12 22 tweets 6 min read
Russians can also use Starlink now?! WHAT?!

I am Ukrainian who delivered hundreds of Starlinks to Ukrainian Army, and I know this topic well.

Russians now use Starlinks for their warfare against Ukraine. Elon Musk understands this.

A 🧵explaining the Starlink saga (again) Image ^ in the original picture, I am preparing another 24 Starlinks to depart to Ukrainian Armed Forces from my charity @dzygaspaw. We find high-tech that Ukrainian Heroes can use.

You can read more here -
You can donate here - dzygaspaw.com/starlink-exper…
dzygaspaw.com/support
Feb 8 19 tweets 4 min read
Zelenskyy replaced Zaluzhny tonight, and put Syrsky in charge.

I am Ukrainian, and I am very confused by all the doom in Western analytics.

I don't see any doom here. Nothing really is going to change in the war, unfortunately.

Here is what I think 🧵 Image Zaluzhny is a great general. He did a lot of tough decisions, and we love him for making an enormous contribution to saving Ukraine.

He is a Hero who controlled thousand kilometers of frontline - at land and in air, in water and even political front.

For TWO years. That's big.
Jan 26 6 tweets 2 min read
You think Ukraine needs peace talks and cede territory?

As Ukrainian, I deeply disagree and in this thread I am going to tell you why this won't work.

Take a look at these fellow Russian soldiers without identification symbols taking over Crimea in 2014.

They are the reason 🧵 Image In 2014, Russian forces used military force to take over Crimea and Donbas, but they actively denied their involvement in the violent take over.

Russians blamed it all on local protesters angry at Ukrainian "regime".
Jan 23 6 tweets 2 min read
This is Ukrainian Air Defense over Kyiv.

Kyiv, a beatiful city of over 3 million population, with countless kids and teenagers growing up there as everywhere else in the world.

Let's think of Ukraine's teenagers' perspective in this thread 🧵 Image I personally met the war 10 years ago in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas through hybrid warfare and Ukraine faced heavy battles against them.

I was purely a teenager understanding nothing about geopolitics and how it works. I only understood that Russia invaded us.
Dec 3, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
This is one of the darkest moments for me in the war against Russia.

I just returned from visiting many our friends fighting in Donetsk region, and we had long discussions on the war, and geopolitics around it.

Authentic thoughts from Ukraine's frontlines, noted in this 🧵 Image I will kick it off with the fact that many Ukrainian military actually closely follow the news in the world, and know how it affects them.

Specifically, they follow border blocade and confirm they have volunteer military aid stuck in there.
Nov 1, 2023 17 tweets 4 min read
I am shocked! You folks are still around and still support Ukraine!

Yesterday night, I have been trying to wrap my head around why. Here are the authentic thoughts from Ukraine 🧵

TLDR: I am in awe of Ukraine's military supporters, but I question humanitarian policies.

Read. Image Each month, we at @dzygaspaw, analyze the data on donations and expenses. Only in September, we received ~170.000$ in donations and spent every penny and more.

This is HUGE if you recall me in April 2022 - on my personal initiative to support my friends defending Ukraine. Image
Oct 18, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
I just watched one documentary on Ukrainian humanitarian mission in Georgia in 1993. I did some research!

Back then, Ukrainian Air Force saved lives of 7000+ civilian Georgians running from Russia bombing their cities.

Familiar, isn’t it?

A thread 🧵 Image In 1993, Russia fueled the war against Georgia, sent “peacekeepers” to raid cities, and bombed some Georgian cities with planes.

The civilians in there were trapped, and tried to find refuge in the mountains where russian planes could not reach them. Image
Oct 13, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
I think, transparency is the key in running a charity.

I have learnt this in the recent 556 days since the first time I received a donation.

A thread on transparency in Ukraine charities and @dzygaspaw in particular 🧵 Image The morality is crystal clear. When donating to charities, I consider:

🔍 Are they legit? Registered? Transparent about funds?
👥 How do they help? Efficient and effective methods?

We went into more detail on that here -

But the transparency! 🧵dzygaspaw.com/how-to-choose-…
Aug 11, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
Putin is a pedophile!

This is serious. This thread has the evidence. Putin is a pedo, and he is not even trying to hide it.

RT this and reply - Russians would hate to see the truth.

Exposing Vladimir Putin as homo pedo guy in this 🧵 Image I will start with the most famous one - the video when Putin in 2006 kisses young boy’s belly for no reason.

President Putin was slightly tipsy going through the Kremlin square. He has seen the smallest kid and went straight to him, lifted his shirt and kissed him in the belly.
Jul 30, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
War must come to Russia - en masse.

I think, one of the key elements to finishing this war is bringing it deep inside Russia.

Also, I think, it would be fair for an average Moscow citizen to taste what they are pushing or ignoring in their foreign policy.

Thoughts from 🇺🇦 - 🧵 For more than 500 days, Russia terrorizes Ukraine, occupies cities, creates mass graves, tortures and rapes Ukrainians.

Moreover, Russia launches suicide drones and their top-notch ballistic missiles onto Ukrainian peaceful cities. The whole war is in Ukraine, not in Russia.
Jul 21, 2023 21 tweets 7 min read
Day 513.

Charity is not easy. It’s not always fancy, usually it’s exactly the opposite.

Let me break down a few things I have noticed while running a charity for Ukrainian Military 🧵 Image ‼️ Transparency is the key ‼️

Given I don’t come from any non profit background, this is very obvious to me - since I have only donated to transparent charities which are able to display where the funds go to, how much they have raised and what is their operational expense.
Jun 30, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
The Ukraine’s counter-offensive.

I get a lot of questions regarding this. So, a 🧵

TLDR: now is the best time to support Ukrainian Army. We did over 125 000 USD this month together.

This will be interesting to you.

🧵 Let’s acknowledge I am no military expert but since I run a military charity fund, I know a thing or two about how things happening, given I am Ukrainian with a lot of connections.
Jun 11, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Shark situation thread.

TLDR: No empathy to those who kill you. Russians are actively killing Ukrainians - every day.

I don’t feel bad for any Russian dying  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In fact, I think, we should be making more memes out of such situations.

🧵 Image First of all, it’s important to acknowledge that Russians have shown to be pure evil - when raping and looting in Bucha, when setting up torture chambers in literally every city they captured, when dumping bodies into mass graves, and when leveling cities full of civilians. Image
Jun 7, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Tucker Carlson is back! Why? Please RT this!

He just released first episode of his video blog. There, he blames Ukraine for blowing Kakhovka Dam and creating ecological catastrophe.

The video is full of manipulations and lies.🫠

Still, 44million views already.

Why?🧵 Image 10 minute video of Tucker talking is performing surpisingly well on Twitter where usually short content is in favor.

44 million views as of now!

The video has been shared by Elon Musk, US lawmakers, MAGA-reps and even 🇷🇺’s ambassador to UN - praising him.

Why? My guess 🧵 ImageImageImageImage
May 10, 2023 21 tweets 11 min read
Reporting on our latest trip to Donbas 🧵 Visuals included!

This is by far the toughest month of my life ever, and I want to share the story with you.

Initially, we went to hand off 30 000$ worth of night vision to Carpathian Sich, but… 🧵 Image On April 16, my mother passed away because of lung cancer. Honestly, this was toughest fight I had to fight.

We are nothing without our mothers.

Still, I felt I had no option to stop my life - I was on the mission to save Ukraine and I had to continue.

April 25, office. Image
Mar 25, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
What a fucked up organization is UN.

They published a report on Russia-Ukraine POW war crimes, and through the whole report I was able to read

“Both sides are doing equally bad things, war is bad”

Fuck you, @UN, your report is not representative, and that’s why 🧵 As stated in the picture, UN did get exclusive maximum level access to Russian POWs.

Russia didn’t get them any access at all.

At this moment, the report should be over since it’s not possible to do it without data.

Instead, they only describe terrible war crimes done by UA.
Mar 24, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I must admit it’s very different here in Lviv rather than any frontline city.

It’s very comfy, chill, and relaxing. You get to drink nice coffee and you are free to do whatever you want.

No missiles will interrupt you, only demining explosions or trainings can happen.

🧵 I have been in this part of the country for long because of family medical issues just in case, and did not got much to the frontlines.

Still, I run the charity that works daily with military units fighting in worst places on earth.

I have many friends there with whom I talk.
Mar 24, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
I feel like some people either forget, or completely ignore the fact that Ukraine is fighting for its existence.

When it all started in Feb 2022, it was very chaotic. Literally no one knew how long we will last.

Completely different now. What’s wrong with those people?!

🧵 Then, really a lot of people united and started working towards saving Ukraine.

It was very obvious shared spirit of a fight.

From 24th Feb, I was reporting on what I do in English. I felt much better just documenting my thoughts and actions in such way.
Mar 6, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
I have DJI Matrice 30 stuck at Polish customs since September 2022.

It was confiscated by Polish customs because the driver didn’t have the permission from some Polish ministry. End user certificate from military unit with stamp - was not sufficient.

Problem and solution🧵 So, back in summer, one of the units asked me for DJI Matrice 30 and I had enough funds thanks to donations to buy it in Poland in ts2.shop.

We bought it for ~9000 USD, and my guy in Poland was able to pick it up from the shop. Then…