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Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦
@nastasiaKlimash
Material chemist in a material world 🧡 capybaras and fact-checking | part of @With__Ukraine team 🌻| https://t.co/akqJi50lW2
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Dec 3, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I find the use of the term increasingly annoying when it comes to describe what Ukrainians and now Georgian protesters are fighting for. Both are fighting for their future and freedom, while way too many in the EU countries keep voting for fash or are ready to sell out for RU gas It also shamelessly appropriates the efforts of these nations fighting for their freedom. “Wow, they prove they are truly European nations”. No, they prove they are truly brave and value freedom from the imperialist conquerors. This… uh… doesn’t apply to all European nations
Aug 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Popped into a Blackwells bookshop. Ladies and gentlemen, Three Russia-centric books in the recommended section. Zero ones focusing Ukraine.

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Image You'd think things would change a bit in almost two years time
Aug 2, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
We'll get a lot of shit for this (on top of the usual "muh, ungrateful Ukrainians"), but I think it's time to seriously address the fact that modern Russian imperialism is largely enabled by Western imperialism in the sense that they still see Russians as more equals than us, and I believe it might be often quite unconscious, but it's still there. Russia is still part of the big wealthy guys' club that got resources from the "unwitting, simpler" people who are "unambitious" because they have no expansionist aspirations and just want to live their lives.
Jul 13, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Well, look at this. 51 Nobel laureates signed the open letter initiated by the Russian "liberal" Nobel laureate Dmitrii Muratov. Of course, it uses the peacenik formulations that might deceive the people from ivory towers to be genuine, but novayagazeta.ru/articles/2024/…
Image If you are familiar with Russian propaganda, you know that the calls to cut defence budgets and "prevent nuclear war" are simple concern trolling. Moreover, the letter strategically conflates both attacks on Gaza and Ukraine.
Jul 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Donetsk train station before the Russian invasion vs 10 years of Russian occupation. Feel the difference:



Donetsk before Russian invasion
Donetsk after Russian invasion
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Image They took the city and fucked it over. If not for Russia, you could've been flying from London straight to Donetsk today.
Dec 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine." Dude, not your place, especially with your track record.

I'm so tired of you goddamn grifters.
Image Simon closed comments because he knows.
Dec 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I've an impression that the people who simultaneously scream "notallRussians" and "muh Western imperialism bad" from the [post]-imperial cores of their Western countries are secretly the biggest imperialists who live their filthy imperialist dreams vicariously through Russians They learned somewhat that imperialism is bad, but they don't *feel* it. They don't understand it precisely because they didn't get rid of the imperialist mindset. For them, anti-imperialism is just some edgy thing to scare their racist grandma with. They still crave "greatness"
Nov 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I am seriously at my fucking limit. Are you kidding me? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? COMPARING THE DUDE WHO WAS PARTICIPATING IN [ETHNIC] RUSSIAN MARCHES TO THE PERSON WHO FOUGHT APARTHEID??? ARE YOU INSANE Image I get why such ridiculous comparisons are made. Because people completely misunderstand the structure of oppression in Russia and how ethnic Russians have historically been a dominant group. Navalny is imprisoned due to a power struggle *within the dominant group.*
Nov 10, 2023 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
I honestly hate to see Russians winning prestigious prizes, grants, giving talks, writing books, all this BS, while so many bright Ukrainians are risking and sacrificing their lives fighting RU aggression

All these awarding bodies and research institutions are so full of shit. None of them are innovative anymore. None of them are challenging the existing status quo.
Oct 10, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
This is the thread with the examples of Russians cheering on the deaths of Ukrainians. Mind you, RU started dehumanising us long before 2022 or even 2014, but that's a separate topic.
In no particular order, let's begin

RU attack on Vinnytsia, Jul 14 2022
Some more comments on the Vinnytsia attack. On that day, Russia killed 28 people and injured at least 200:
Sep 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Wall painting, although differing in style across Ukraine, was a traditional way to decorate houses in most regions; here are some photos of such traditional UA wall paintings collected in Dnipropetrovsk oblast in the 1920s. Source:[] libr.dp.ua/fullkr/index.p…
Image Traditionally, the paint for the walls consisted of clays of various shades mixed with natural dyes and pigments from berries, fruits, herbs or soot. With the discovery of aniline dyes, they were brought into use, too, although not everyone could afford those at the time.
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Aug 21, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
In 2022, I had an opportunity to prepare a series of interviews with UA chemists for @ChemistryWorld and a follow-up later. Now, I’ll refer to those (and some more) articles to illustrate how one can support UA science. This applies not only to chemists
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 chemistryworld.com/opinion/living… Most of the suggestions are relevant to any field. Also, please consider sharing this thread because I feel like it is something often overlooked, all while scientific development is absolutely crucial, including for improving our defence capabilities in the future
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Jul 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russians attack Ukraine because they don't want Ukraine to exist. Not only that, they want everyone to submit to their terror. They want to intimidate the world to let it destroy Ukraine. Do you want to live in the world like that? Is this the world you want to leave to your kids Do you want your kids and grandkids to live in a world where the most brutal one wins? Do you want them to shut up and do whatever the guy with the gun will tell them, even if it humiliates them to the point they lose all their dignity? Do you want them to be crushed?
Jul 21, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
It's about time to introduce the term "Moscow correspondent bias".
No matter how much these people appear to be impartial and how long ago they left Moscow, their reporting is constantly leaning towards downplaying Russian war crimes. Let's *assume* that this distorted reporting isn't intentional; then it's likely a result of a set of cognitive biases, such as the halo effect RU created by promoting the myth of great RU culture and impressing the Moscow visitors with lavish treatment
Jul 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
At one protest I talked to a Georgian girl, who was in 🇬🇪 in 2008 when Russia invaded, she and her family managed to evacuate. What I found striking when she told her story was this cold solidified spite in her eyes and the way she speaks about Russia. I felt it. When you've seen so much injustice. When nobody ever even attempted to apologise. When the perpetrator doesn't feel any remorse. When you are tired to be angry because being so angry just makes you physically sick, all you have left is spite. You have no idea how much we despise Russia.
Jun 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The question many Ukrainians ask themselves ever so often since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion is how different our lives would be if Russians didn't ruin the lives of each and every Ukrainian generation for at least the past 100 years. We don't inherit much because Russia ruins or takes away whatever our ancestors managed to build; we struggle to trace our heritage because Russia burns archives. Honestly, provided all the conditions, Ukraine is doing pretty well.
Jun 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
By supporting the Ukrainian army you also support humanitarian efforts. Not only coz UA soldiers tackle the root cause of the humanitarian crisis: RU invasion. They often provide humanitarian help itself in the areas where many others are afraid to go Any organisations that insist they exclusively support humanitarian efforts are missing the point. Our army IS a humanitarian effort. They will go to the places where the Red Cross and other "impartial" organisations won't.
We appreciate all help; at the same time,
May 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Russians joined Dzharlyhach island, a territory of the natural reserve in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast, to the mainland and are using the territory for military training
Around 20 UA nature parks and reserves are/were under RU occupation. Many suffered huge damage⬇️ ImageImageImage Kamianska Sich is a steppe national park and archaeological site in the now liberated part of Kherson Oblast. You can see the aftermath of the 9 months of RU occupation in the bottom right pic. Taken from NP FB page [facebook.com/NPPKamyanskaSi…]. The de-mining is still not finished. ImageImageImage
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Here are the photos of Crimean Tatars in Crimea in 1943. A year later, they will be deported. Many of these people probably didn't survive. ImageImageImageImage 90s: the exiled and their kids return to Crimea. The banner behind the family in the photo reads, "May the violence committed against the Crimean Tatars on May 18, 1944, never repeat against any other people."
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May 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We used to have RU relatives. Not anymore, as they didn't bother to check on us since 2022. But I'd like to tell you one last story about them.
In a way, it's reminiscent of relationships between our countries

When I was a kid, they almost never visited my gran in Donetsk Oblast Meanwhile I was spending most of my summer holidays there, and I always felt bad seeing how my gran daily checks her letterbox hoping to see the letter from them.
But all she got was an occasional short telegram a couple of times a year

One day, I decided to cheer my grandma up:
Mar 19, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I think people already understand there won’t be a popular uprising in Russia to stop its unjust war. The majority either support it or don’t care. And the depressingly small minority opposing the war just isn’t enough. So, what would awaken Russian society? One word: humiliation And before anybody squeamish jumps in here to accuse me of being a bad person, I’m actually not talking about anything that’d offend human dignity. In fact, I think humiliation is the only chance for Russian society to gain some dignity.