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Art, History, Culture, Literature enthusiast. Anti-communist, russorealist (there is no any phobia!). Opinions are personal. I'll explain you Ukraine ENG/PL/UKR
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Jun 28, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Today is the day of the Ukrainian constitution, but the one that has been in force since 2006. The first Ukrainian constitution is the constitution of hetman Pylyp Orlyk of 1710. It established the principle of the separation of powers in government between the legislative,

executive, and judiciary branches well before the publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. The document limited the executive authority of the hetman, and established a Cossack parliament called the General Council.
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Many of you have a misconception about the Russian civilian population and the mood in it because you are not in their information space, you do not have access to it, and you do not understand Russian. What you see on Twitter is a very small percentage of their population, mostly young people who communicate with the civilized world in some way, who have been abroad or are currently living there. The real "bearers of the Russian soul" use Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Telegram (although it is a messenger, it has channels). Ukrainians have not used
Jun 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Now russians dream of destroying Kyiv dam.

Translation: "Why is the situation with the Kachovska dam exploding beautiful? Let me explain. In this war, we will always have one main ace to use against the khokhols. Image And it's not even a nuclear weapon. It's the dam of the Kyiv reservoir. A small, thin bridge that holds millions of tons of water, will immediately flow into Kyiv and flush these Augean Stables down the drain. The dam is old, rotten and rusty. It will not withstand many shells.
Jun 6, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Chronology of the terrorist attack on Nova #Kakhovka damm by Russian terrorists.

At two o'clock in the morning, the russians blow up the Kakhovska HPP, but they don't see how big is dectruction. 🧵 1. The Russians still think that they carefully blew up a small part of the HPP and are sinking our military on the islands. At 6:06 a.m., the gauleiter of Nova Kakhovka, Leontiev, says that blowing up the HPP is nonsense. Here is the link of RIA news archive.is/aTyK8
Jun 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A few steps from the entrance to the Jewish Museum there is a poster for a performance by a Russian pianist. My hands are shaking not. Not even out of anger, but out of fear. This means that when they "stop shooting", Russian artists, businessmen and other imperialist racist scum Image will immediately flood all exhibitions, museums, theaters, galleries, etc. as if nothing had happened. No one will be brought to collective responsibility, no one will be publicly condemned. Everyone will just forget and forgive. Someone like Navalny, Yashin, or Kara-Murza, who
May 24, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
As a Ukrainian, I am absolutely against any support for any Russians. This is not because of a desire for revenge. I just want this war of the Russians against Ukraine to be the LAST one. I believed that they are not all like that all 8 years of the war until 2022 and the first months of the full-scale war (just like you do now), but fortunately I look at things more realistically now.
May 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Please remember:
Russian Volunteer Corps and „Freedom of Russia” legion are fighting just against Putin’s regime.
Ukraine is fighting against Russia in any form/with any ruler/with any name.
Not only Putin is the problem, Russia is the problem. We are happy to see ru fighting ru, but that doesn’t mean we need to worship those people. Majority of them are same imperialists and shauvinists as those who they’re fighting against, bad tsar is a problem.
Don’t fall into generalisation that if they fight Putin, they’re „good”
May 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
"Ukrzaliznytsia" will test the "women's compartment".

Such compartments are organized on long-distance routes.

This decision was made after loud discussions on social networks and a registered petition on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. This the way how a lot of things are done in Ukraine. Public opinions can change a lot.

Alina Pash could have gone to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022, but because she won for the sake of the jury and there were some strange mistakes in displaying the scores on the
May 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Russian propaganda script regarding weapon supplies to Ukraine in a nutshell 🧵

The first act opens with “It’s a red line! We will respond!” and of course „Nukes! Nukes! Nukes!” coping struggle. When the West shows weakness by starting “being concerned” about russia’s “threats” Russians deploy their puppets and useful idiots to spread paranoia pushing narratives that “threats are real, better negotiate, Ukraine isn’t able to win”.
May 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I'm sure everyone has heard the song "Oy u luzi chervona kalyna" but it's only one verse that is sung everywhere.
This is a song of the Sichovi Stril’tsi(Riflemen) (a unit of the Ukrainian People's Republic army that had no chance of winning, but still fought the Bolsheviks 🧵 Image in the early 20th century).

Here is the full text (translated into English, of course):

„A red viburnum bent over in the meadow,
Why is our glorious Ukraine so sad?
We will lift that red viburnum,
And we will cheer up our glorious Ukraine!
Feb 3, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
On 24th of February many Ukrainians were as much naive as those who still argues that „not all Russians”. We begged them to protest, to stop it, but then we realized how naive it was. Here is one of the messages I sent to ru Telegram groups in hope that „not all Russians” 🧵 “A couple of days ago I was in Krakow and met two Russian women in a hostel. They said that you care, but you have the mentality that you grumble and that’s it. And as we can see, you really don't voice your protest in any way.
Jan 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Don't try to moralize Ukrainians who are in favor of banning the Russian language in public space in Ukraine. No one has destroyed, marginalised or killed for speaking your language the way it was done to Ukrainian. We have the right to do whatever we want in this matter. I wrote this tweet in connection with the huge stir caused by the ban on Russian at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. There is a huge misunderstanding between us Ukrainians and you who are watching from the sidelines. You don't know the context, so don't judge.
Jan 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ukrainian singer and composer Ihor Bilozir was beaten by two Russians on May 8, 2000, in a Lviv coffee shop for interfering with their singing&listening to Russian chanson.
Doctors fought for his life for twenty days. On May 16, the man survived a half-hour clinical death. 1/4 On May 28, 2000, he died at the Lviv Emergency Hospital due to his injuries. He was 45 years old. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to him. According to various estimates, Ihor Bilozir's funeral was attended by between one hundred and two hundred thousand people. 2/4
Jan 22, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
A position of Ukrainian language in 2012 or how ridiculous claims „Banned russian language” are. And why you shouldn’t judge Ukrainians which speak up absolutely against russian language in Ukraine now. 🧵 In 2012, for the first time since independence, the share of schoolchildren studying in Ukrainian decreased, and less than half of the total number of books published was in Ukrainian.
Jan 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
According to two InformNapalm HUMINT sources close to the DNR fighters, there is a high probability that several Orthodox churches in Donetsk and other settlements in the occupied territories may be mined and detonated during the festive morning service on
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Jan 7 in order to film propaganda scenes for domestic Russian audience and thus initiate an informational occasion for a new wave of mobilization.

The info was received on January 4 and 5, but they were trying to collect additional data.

InformNapalm believes that Putin's
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Dec 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
A bit of an alternative reality. The newspaper Pravda (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) is still published regularly. Here are some headlines from the latest edition (29-31 December 2022) 🧵: “Festive reception in honor of the 100th anniversary of the USSR”

“Deeply know the Party Program”

“Our Motherland is the USSR!”
Dec 24, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
A little bit about Ukrainian Christmas traditions✨🎄🧵

Kutia is a traditional Ukrainian Christmas dish made from wheat or barley, raisins, honey, poppy seeds, and walnuts. Other dried fruits are also added to modern kutia. On Christmas Eve in Ukrainian families, in addition to kutia, it is customary to cook 12 lean dishes and uzvar (a drink made from dried fruits). Sitting down at the table, the owner of the house calls three times for Moroz (eng. Frost) to taste kutia
Dec 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In Kherson, chambers, where Russians tortured children, were found. Here is a translation of the comment of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (🧵):

"For the first time we have recorded the fact of torture of children [...] I personally saw two torture chambers in Balakliya that stood opposite each other [...] I talked to our citizens who were there. One guy was there for 90 days and he told how he was tortured [...] they cut him with a knife, heated metal and burned parts of his body, several times they took
Nov 9, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
1933. Ukrainian cities and villages convulse in the breadless agony of the Holodomor. But it was not enough for the Soviet empire to erase people physically, they needed to erase any traces of people's identity. 1/ "When the proletariat wins throughout the world, one common language will come," wrote Joseph Stalin, and the "winners" are implementing a policy of defeating Ukrainian national identity on the linguistic front. 2/
Nov 6, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Ukrainian literature classics translated into English worth paying attention to (with links to PDFs). A 🧵. "I am (romance)" is a psychological novel by the Ukrainian writer Mykola Khvylovy, the idea of ​​which is the fatal discrepancy between the ideals of the revolution and the methods of achieving them, the condemnation of Bolshevik revolutionary fanaticism.
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Sep 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
From Crimean partisans’ Telegram channel. 🧵

“Today, one Crimean enemy wrote off who already wants to become a friend and asks what to do. The bottom line is, the FSB officers came to his house today and said that he needs to appear at the
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military enlistment office and voluntarily ask to go to war and without options to refuse. They showed him screenshots of social networks where he agitated for the war against Ukraine and for Z-fascism. They say that such patriots now do not have the moral right not to become
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