Misha Biketov was a young artist writing electronic music for my favorite Ukrainian label @dnipropop. then russia came to his home and instead of art, he had to defend his family from genocide. Misha became a great drone operator instead. but russians still took him away from us Misha was just 24.

His label and frontline unit are fundraising to support his family in these trying times.

Please join:
Mono transfer send.monobank.ua/jar/42MA6VEmCg

blood-chilling account of russia-facilitated famine in Ukraine in 1921-1923. moscow starved up to 2.5 million Ukrainians or approximately 7-8% of the nation — it still remains largely unknown and poorly-studied chapters of #RussianColonialism "There were many cases of suicide. Mothers threw their children into wells and rivers, killing themselves afterward. Hunger tormenting people so much that they became crazed."

“you better believe me, we still are going to win. we had two days of this terrible bombing and still passersby smiling at me. we won’t give up”

Nadiya Romaniv, a municipal worker from Kharkiv is your best reminder that you shouldn’t feel sorry for Ukrainians. feel proud of them Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom, their dignity, their right to live and love. Ukrainians are the pride of the free world.

And they are going to win with the help of your solidarity ✊🏼💙💛

Our arts and culture have always served Ukrainians as an anchor to fall back on during the darkest hours Empires, which tried to break and erase Ukraine. They come and go. But the Ukrainian spirit, values and resistance live on — often encapsulated in the Ukrainian art and culture
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a 1989 work by a Ukrainian artist Maria Shnyder-Senyuk. titled "The 1930’s in Ukraine" it depicts the russia-made Holodomor genocide in Ukraine. russians stole the painting from a museum in Kherson in 2022 while their country and the society still deny genocide even happened systemic erasure of any evidence of russia-committed genocides is part of the #RussianColonialism toolbox of covering up for mass murders russians commit. throughout centuries it allowed russian society to evade any accountability for imperial violence committed in its name

and what pisses me off that while Ukrainians are fighting russian colonialism for the right to exist, we also need to constantly battle western colonial gaze that robs Ukrainians of agency and effectively victim-blames the entire nation in the face of genocide

https://twitter.com/mylovanov/status/1719489816297947413

the west has a collective power of ending this genocide in less than several weeks. but instead of a cover story about why the defeatist paralysis of the west brought the world to the brink of WW3, we are having another victim-blaming cover story about what is wrong with Ukraine

🤯a berlin gallery invites a russian to curate an exhibition about genocide in Ukraine. the curator steals and appropriates from Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was murdered by russians — despite that Amelina was explicitly for boycott of collabs with russian citizens while appropriating and abusing Ukrainian art — including Ukrainian artists murdered or kidnapped by russians, the curator names the entire exhibition after Alexander Kluge, a german boomer who calls to stop weapons supply to Ukraine and leave Ukrainians to be mass-slaughtered

Svitlana and Khrystyna, two young singers performing on a street in my homecity Zaporizhzhia. an hour later russians will murder them with rockets.

how exactly these young Ukrainians were a threat to a nuclear state?

russia is a death cult.
💔😫 video is by a local Zaporizhzhia volunteer

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Ukrainians are superheroes It has been over 12 hours for Andriy roaming toxic flood waters with no protection — answering every call for help he can hear, whether human or not

this video just shuttered me. Andriy from Ukrainian Kherson is my favorite human. It has been hours for him spending in toxic water rescuing any animals or humans trapped in the fallout of russia-made ecocide

instagram.com/andry_boxer?ig… the rest of the thread

https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi/status/1666196353305698315

so having an openly-fascist president in the US for four years did not give Nazi symbols a mainstream life. but a couple of obscure patches on the frontline in Ukraine will. got it🫠

is anyone else tired of these self-righteous bs takes by western journalists, or is it just me? of course, the primary source of expertise in the article is not a Ukrainian expert on Ukrainian far-right movements but a fellow Westerner harboring an intense fixation on "Ukrainian Nazis." roger.

my grand-granddad was most likely from a mixed Kyrgyz-Kartvelian family. but his first language was Crimean Tatar. we will never know why and how — russians kidnapped and murdered him in 1930s and the family just never spoke about him since then
#RussianColonialism russians murdered my grand-granddad right at the offset of the Holodomor genocide, so his wife took three kids and ran away to husband’s relatives in a Qırımlı village — to survive. they sheltered her from the russian-made famine. I am alive today thanks to that kindness

even more than a year into genocide, Ukrainian voices are still untermensch for western mainstream media. whatever a russian says about us is automatically taken at face value without any critical reflection

https://twitter.com/prorizna/status/1658597034880901120

the duranty journalism school of whitewashing russian imperialism is alive and well

#RussianColonialism perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing even before the terms were invented.

anyone interested should learn about the 1708 russian invasion of Baturyn, the capital of Ukraine's first democratic proto-republic after Ukraine's tried and failed to break free from #RussianColonialism by siding with Sweden in the Great Northern War, moscow decided to punish Ukrainians with a carefully orchestrated Baturyn massacre — one of the most horrific mass slaughters in Europe's history

today Ukraine honors the memory of WW2 victims - in the war that Germany and russia started driven by the colonial hunger to divide Europe among the two empires.

they murdered up to 10 million Ukrainians resisting brown and red fascisms these are the pictures of a shared military parade by Nazis and russians in 1939 celebrating the invasion of Poland. Moscow spent decades trying to erase the fact it helped to start the worst mass slaughter in human history
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for centuries russians did not shy away from calling themselves colonizers and a colonial empire. #RussianColonialism civilizing mission became an official ideology already in 18th century by 19th century russia has been actively appropriating western colonial lingo and describing the vast portfolio of stolen lands as “colonies”

strong decolonization vibe in my homecity Zaporizhzhia.

main WW2 memorial changes the engraving: “1941-1945” symbolizing russian colonial war cult is replaced with “1939. to the memory of Ukraine defenders”
@suspilne_news during ww2 up to 10 million Ukrainians were murdered fighting off red and brown fascisms. the largest and the most horrific price paid by any other nation in that catastrophic war. for decades russians have been appropriating and desecrating that sacrifice.

no more.

looking for 'good r*ssians' is the opposite direction from ending the genocide and delivering historical justice.

despite being recorded almost a year ago, this @ukrainianspaces episode with @nata_druhak aged like a fine wine. now remastered.
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrai…

https://twitter.com/ukrainianspaces/status/1643320464880685056

this episode is available on 15+ platforms

pod.link/1616395167/epi…

for a year we’ve been approaching foreign publishers with “r*ssian colonialism 101” but after non-stop ghosting decided to publish locally, crowdfunded. i’m sorry i’m not a r*ssian war criminal or white western “expert” to get a global book deal on the spot

https://twitter.com/krides/status/1643620879849463810

but no complaints. i get to work with a kickass Ukrainian publisher - the best kind of publisher by any international standards. and our work is not a result of some western establishment gatekeeping but public-supported and funded by passionate allies
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бо твоя голова не тут, не тепер.
практично несвідома а я фізично вдома.
а я думками вдома.

"#RussianColonialism 101" book is almost done. We need a bit of your help to cross the finish line.