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May 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
💙💛Muses at war
War may have a womanly face. Today, Ukrainian women are defending their land at the front on an equal footing with men.
Let us tell you about such heroines in more detail. #StandWithUkraine
1️⃣Olena Herasymiuk, a Ukrainian poetess, writer, essayist, translator, as well as a volunteer and a public activist. In 2017, she went to the war and joined Hospitallers, a volunteer medical battalion.
May 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
❗️ #Russian forces are attempting to secure smaller encirclements and concentrate on #Severodonetsk , according to @TheStudyofWar
Key #ISW conclusions:
▪️ #Russian forces have likely abandoned efforts to complete a single, large encirclement of #Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine. Instead, they are attempting to secure smaller encirclements and to concentrate on Severodonetsk.
May 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1️⃣ 💔OLENA
“How am I going to live without Ivan?” she said.
Bombs rained down on Olena’s village of Rozvazhiv, in the Kyiv region, on March 14. Her son Ivan and four others died; Olena was one of about 20 who were wounded.➡️2️⃣
2️⃣ At first, “I was thinking, ‘Why did God leave me alive?’,” said Olena, 45, her soft voice breaking. Hearing Ivan was dead, she begged a neighbor to get his rifle and shoot her.
But her husband Volodymyr pleaded with her, saying he couldn’t live without her.➡️3️⃣
May 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
💔 #AzovstaI , A Tragic Love Story.
Mariupol defender Valeriya Karpylenko from Azov battalion (call sign ‘Nava’) became a fiancée, wife, and widow at the besieged Azovstal steelworks.
💔 “Andrii made me rings from tin foil at Azovstal... They were perfect...
A day here is like a year.
I was a bride, then a wife, now...
A word which is scary to say...”
May 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
💪🏼🇺🇦We continue to publish the stories of the brave defenders of #Mariupol who refuse to surrender and continue to fight in inhumane conditions. The whole world knows their faces now. #SaveAzovstalMilitary
1️⃣ Serhiy Volynsky, call sign "Volyna." He is a 30-year-old acting commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade. Volynsky is called the "voice" of hellish Azovstal. His wife and a little son are waiting for their hero at home.