Berlin ad agency made a huge pro bono campaign for russian media Meduza, highlighting the suffering of the russians “in exile”, and to make it emotional they used pictures of Ukrainians at funerals and bombed 🇺🇦 cities, since there is no suffering of russians in “exile”
1/
Their Instagram instagram.com/lureberlin?igs…

Their LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/wearel…

Please give them hell. Pro bono.

Once in a blue moon, western media do listen to Ukrainian voices, and in this case the piece from @OKhromeychuk in @guardian is highlighting smth the progressive western society does not want to admit:
1/ For some twisted reason it’s Ukrainians that are pressured to justify themselves in public spaces. Censored, pushed aside and forced to reach out to “russian opposition, ordinary russians”, while the latter show nothing but fascist imperialist hate and never advocate for 🇺🇦.

I see an alarming number of fishy fundraisers daily, targeting foreigners, so here are a few rules, we, 🇺🇦, are following when donating money:
1) ❌ no anonymity. Unit or brigade often provides official requests or video confirmation. This helps to track the donated items.
⬇️ 2) ❌ no anonymous campaign runners. Ukrainian volunteers that gather donations are using their real legal names, photos. No nicknames or even fellas profiles. That ensures transparency and accountability
Biggest examples: @sternenko @dim0kq @LyrYevhen @igorlachenkov @bo_pavlo

I’ve read the @time article with @ZelenskyyUa quote and it struck me but not for the grim picture it painted. I was bamboozled by the amount of anonymous comments. Now walk with me here ⬇️ For starters, weird justification of russian strikes on 🇺🇦 civilians, despite nothing russia do in Ukraine can be “in response”. Also the weird assumption that Patriots air defence systems are there to protects “Zelenskyy office” and not a 4 mln of civilians in Kyiv. But then ⬇️

. @pivonkaaa_ is right.“GIANT NAZI FESTIVAL” was held in 🇺🇦 2014-19, lastly in Bingo club, Kyiv (capacity 1500). No data, but let’s say it sold out. Still too many, I agree. Almost 5 millions voted for a far right party in 🇩🇪. But the latter won’t matter for @pivonkaaa_
why? 1/

https://twitter.com/pivonkaaa_/status/1716180551642525954

@pivonkaaa_ is “morally consistent” when “exposing” nazies and fascists. But only if they are in 🇺🇦. Not her home Czech Republic. Because… “not many people are interested”, still blocks people that bring it up. She admits that tweets about nazies in 🇺🇦 are more popular online

After recent missile strike on #Kostiantynivka Bellingcat and Julian röpcke endorse ruslan leviev: an ex navalny team member that spreads narratives about “Kiev regime” and calls #NAFO “putin’s assets” (see below)





CIT, a part of which leviev is, routinely spreads conspiracy theories like with russian missile strike in Dnipro and Kramatorsk train station. theories that are widely used by the Kremlin. leviev now claims he is fiercely fighting smth he’s a part of - russian propaganda machine.

Since @nytimes made my eyes bleed again, I want to remind the western allies and 🇺🇦 supporters:

russian liberals are not the solution. They are not Ukraine’s allies. They will ever lead russians against Putin, nor they will ever address 🇷🇺 imperialism. Let me explain 1/ One thing you would never see a single russian liberal do is LET OTHERS SPEAK: they don’t elevate 🇺🇦 voices, don’t advocate for sending more weapon to Ukraine. They never address or acknowledge 🇷🇺 war crimes in Syria, Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya. They just need a spotlight 2/

Today I want to talk about yet another russian liberal who’s voice is elevated and taken seriously by 🇺🇦 supporters abroad.
Take Leonid Ragozin, for example. A "nationality: journalist" as his profile says. His first piece about 🇺🇦 during the Revolution of Dignity. I was there 1/ In that piece Ragozin… criticises Navalny? And using phrases like "problems faced by the Russians in Ukraine." "the danger posed by the Ukrainian nationalists, "Russian regions of Ukraine" and the «artificial nature of Ukraine's borders".
Does that wording seem familiar? 2/

Ми програли інформаційну війну…
And while I have your attention, нам треба поговорити:
Коли наступного разу (на жаль він буде) відбудеться чергова атака росіян з руйнуваннями і жертвами, замість твіта з однаковими трьома фото з місця прильоту і з приблизним текстом «щоб вони… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Напишіть цей твіт про атаку англійською із згадкою міста англ мовою. Не вмієте англ - ретвітніть @DefenceU @CinC_AFU @MFA_Ukraine @Ukraine @DmytroKuleba @GeneralStaffUA @ZelenskyyUa. а краще ретвітьте з цитатою. Чи хоча б лайкніть. В ідеалі ви повинні лайкати всі твіти цих… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

This is Maria Pevchikh. She is a part of @navalny team. She loves taking pictures in full glam on red carpets in London and LA with awards meant for her boss. Maria Pevchikh is also responsible for death of Ukrainians. Let me explain ⤵️

As many 🇷🇺 opposition activists Pevchikh claims that corruption is the main reason why Russia invaded Ukraine. So much so that she (as a part of Navalny team) made an investigation about corruption in MoD missile production in April.
The investigation was a smashing success. To… https://t.co/Y2eqGZs5DTtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Як ви бачите, по інформ простору несеться абсолютна пізда. Тому кілька порад, які зекономлять нерви і підвищать вихлоп:
1) ми нікого не переконуємо. В Інтернеті ніхто нікого не переконає. Наша робота бути присутніми в інформ просторі, як і їх. Забивати ефір ключовими словами. 1а) що це означає:
❌Не «they”
✅a «russians”, “russian army”.
❌Не «Ukraine war”
✅a «russian invasion». Пишіть ніби це сео текст про купити телефон Київ дешево без прімєрки. Додавайте контекст.
❌ не «they did it”
✅а «russia blew up the dam”.

This is a thread to show how the world’s biggest human rights, humanitarian, environmental and animal protection organisations failed Ukraine midst the #KakhovkaDam collapse near #Kherson : the biggest man made catastrophe in decades.
All 📸: libkos/ Maloletka Starting with giants like @ICRC @UNOCHA that failed to provide any substantial assistance in #Kherson yet already bragging on Twitter about magical 2000-7000 people they’ve helped, while Ukrainians on the ground report nothing of the sort.

І до українців: зараз носити скріни інших «хуйових» українців чи просто вчергове писати укр твіти що маск єбанат НІЧО НЕ ДАСТЬ.
зрозумійте, зараз лише англ:
1) хуєсосити орги які брешуть шо вони в Херсоні
2) під медіа писати що це 🇷🇺 підірвала
3) лайкати і пошир офіц заяви 🇺🇦

https://twitter.com/i_gil_/status/1599166703018991616

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The discussion of the assassination attempt of russian propagandist Zakhar Prilepin is missing important context: in 2007-2008 he along with @navalny founded “НАРОД” - an ultranationalist movement to “liberate the russian population” from whom you ask? “НАРОД» mission was to “liberate” the truly russian (i.e. white and ethnically russian) population from not so pure ethnic minorities. They implicated using guns to deal with “pesky immigrants” and run “nationalist recruitment campaigns” like this one

I’m glad this “anti-war” russian brought a speech by @vkaramurza in GOP where he is “discussing the war crimes of 🇷🇺”. I watched it. Out of 15 minute speech he mentioned war crimes in Ukraine for 8 seconds (9:00-9:10). But the whole speech is fascinating, so let’s dive in.

https://twitter.com/Peonichka/status/1648637881844367360

Kara Murza is a brilliant speaker, no doubts about it. His command of the word and storytelling skill is impressive. And he starts by acknowledging the situation and mentioning how hard was it for him to get to the us because of closed airspace around russia.

So @nytimes and @EmmaBubola made a podcast about “taken” 🇺🇦 children. And this is a prime example how forceful deportation of children by russians are portrayed as “saving” and not a textbook genocide practice. Let’s dive it, starting from “taken” part.
nytimes.com/2023/03/03/pod… Apparently kids from the episode were in the middle of evacuation to Zaporizhzhia, when russian soldiers forcefully stopped the bus with guns and kidnapped the kids. The bus was then sent to russia. A journalist uses “taken” of all terms. Later we see why that choice was made.

Since @tvrain license was revoked I predict the wave of “russophobia” claims. So it’s time to revisit notorious “russian opposition and resistance” and “putin’s brutal regime” stances with something more uncomfortable: numbers. A very short reminder-thread: This a @memorialhrc (🇷🇺 organisation that received a nobel peace prize this year) post from Dec 1: highlights of their representative’s speech from @OSCE parallel society conference 2022. She claims that 19 k russians were “detained”.

Look closely at “russian liberal opposition” that 🇩🇪🇫🇷 is so eager to support: one of the prominent figures Yulia Latynina is openly disappointed that russain army “failed near Kherson” - an 🇺🇦 city occupied by 🇷🇺, where for months now people are tortured, raped kidnapped by 🇷🇺

https://twitter.com/YLatynina/status/1567130682366853122

Prior to this she also was sad about russian invaders losses (see QT) and gave spotlight to a russian fsb-project - a soldier who admitted he killed civilians in 🇺🇦 and Chechnya and now is suddenly “a changed man in Europe” and going to publish “memoirs”. Disgusting and vile.

https://twitter.com/jason_provocat/status/1565035919316508672