Vladislav Davidzon
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Anarchic Aesthete Columnist @tabletmag @ForeignPolicy Fellow @AtlanticCouncil Founding Editor @theodessareview Books:
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Just sent in proofs of my book on Jews and Ukrainians in to my editor - you can preorder “the birth of a political nation” on Amazon…
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My Ukrainian wife just asked me to rip up or burn my Russian passport when I get back home to her. And I am going to do it.
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Ukrainians are taping looters all around the country to lamp posts and telephone poles using rope and tape.
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Friends and comrades: the video is coming up soon but I have just burned my Russian passport in front of the Russian embassy in Paris along with my comrade in arms
@IlvesToomas
! Glory to Ukraine! Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
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Ukrainian woman heard my accent In Ukrainian when asking for directions (my clothes did not help) and asked me to recite Ukrainian folk rhymes to check if I was an infiltrator…
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This is totally false. The reports are real and have been confirmed- by people I know well- even if one did not look at the pictures of dazed Israeli women in blood stained pants being taken hostage. What is interesting is the idea that fanatic religious death squads who
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A senior Ukrainian Member of parliament confirms to me that the Ukrainian army is moving quicker in some sectors than the gov had expected “we did not think that the Russian lines were so thin or that they would be so cowardly”.
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My Franco-Ukrainian wife Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon attended the closing of the Paris- Basel art fair tonight. We ran into her old acquaintance- the well known Franco-Russian artist Daria Surovtseva. After some pleasantries Surovtseva began telling my wife about her projects
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Ukrainian nationalism is me (a Jew) listening to Jamala (a Crimean Tatar) singing Orthodox Carols with my Greco-Catholic friends…..
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A highly placed Zelensky admin source to me: “Keeping the Americans in the dark was also key to keeping the Russian intelligence services and army from being able to prepare. “We have learned some very hard lessons from the events of the previous counteroffensive,” a highly
My report on the Kursk offensive yesterday triggered some sniping from those who for whatever reason didn’t like what I wrote. But now Volodymyr Zelensky himself is confirming significant part of the reporting: they didn’t tell the West.
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Ukrainian MP close to defense minister has told me that Ukrainian troops are once again fighting in Donetsk airport….
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I spoke to Ukrainian special operations officer and asked him why the Russians are fighting so badly in Kherson - “they are fighting badly everywhere” he tells me with a sardonic smile.
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Breaking news from Georgia: My Ukrainian wife glared at Russian couple across communal table from us at breakfast; took out phone and began to read war news out loud to me. Russian couple stood up and left after 3 minutes of listening to statistics of kindapped Ukrainian kids...
My Ukrainian wife being cold to Russians in Georgian bar again.
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Ukrainian evening news on tv channel 1+ 1 have begun to refer to “Russian fascist invaders”.
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I wore my Jewshivanka to see Ukrainian defense minister Reznikov in Warsaw this morning.
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“Good looking Ukrainian blonde girl explains how to use an abandoned Russian BMP or Tank TikTok” is the TikTok we did not know we needed.
האוקראינים מסבירים בטיקטוק: איך לנהוג בטנק רוסי נטוש
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For information on how to surrender to become a prisoner of war, Russian servicemen or their relatives should call the 24-hour numbers: +38 066 580 34 98 and +38 093 119 29 84.
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Understandable… Has been amazing watching the demoralized and confused Russian conscript POWs being interviewed all eve on Ukrainian tv. They were dropped into battles they not only did not want to be in- but were often tricked into fighting. Mass abandonment is what happens
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This war is going to destroy Russian- Ukrainian relations for good. I am in Ukraine now reporting.
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Denis Kireyev - one of the Ukrainian delegation at the Belarus peace talks in Homel is reported to have been killed by the Ukrainian SBU intel service while trying to escape arrest. He was suspected of treason by the Ukrainians. Extraordinary news.
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Putin just rewarded Netenyahu for his years of balancing act - and proves that the Ukrainians were correct about the self defeating aspect of Israeli alignment for the last 18 months. This should by all rights be a watershed moment for Israel re Moscow.
Putin finally makes his first comments on the Israel-Palestine war.
He says it's "a clear example of the failure of US policy in the Middle East" for not "taking the core interests of the Palestinian people into account" and working to create an independent Palestinian state.
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The Russian state needs to understand that going back on promises re POWs decreases our Trust in them for future negotiations.
Famous defender of Azovstal is still in captivity.
These men are getting Tortured and abused.
Don’t forget them.
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There will be economic Armageddon in Russia on Monday morning when the banking system opens. Kremlin has every incentive to increase violence to breaking point and try to get Kyiv surrender ASAP. The tide of war has turned in some parts of Ukraine but long night ahead
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The Russian embassy is either burning paper or electing a pope
Reports of smoke escaping from the Russian embassy in Kiev.
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Jewish Ukraine Fights Nazi Russia - my latest for
@tabletmag
Magazine on the cosmopolitanism of Ukraine and the authoritarianism of Russia which accuses Ukraine of being Nazi
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Where are anti-imperialist Western mass protests against war against Ukraine?
Twenty years ago, I was teenager in NYC and we spent weeks marching against build up of American invasion of Iraq. A million people marched.
Why no protests in streets of London, NYC, Brussels +Paris?
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I am on vacation in Tunisia. The woman arranging massage at spa speaks French w a Russian accent. I switch to Russian-ask her from where? Donetsk. “That’s not Russia”I tell her. “It is now” she says. We argue for 10 minutes about who started the war. The Arab staff don’t like it.
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It’s really not surrounded. Not even close
If Kiev is surrounded at the moment. Biden should authorize an airlift.
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Russian officers have reportedly been selling information on Russian troop locations and movements to Western intel services.
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Many of us from Ukraine would have liked to have seen more of this 210 days ago
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I must inform you dear friends and citizens, that I have gone full Zhido-Banderavite: am burning my Russian passport. To all the silly twitter leftists out there: another week of the Russian army bombing my friends and family and I might even join Azov!
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Today is my birthday.
All I want this year is peace in Ukraine.
Or if I can not have that, at least hope that my beloved Odessa will not be bombed and my relatives there killed.
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Ukrainian official telling me: “We have just received the latest aid package from Washington, which represents a de facto legitimization,” (of the Kursk incursion) he underlined. “The lesson here is that you should just behave in the way that the Americans do themselves. You
My latest out
@tabletmag
- the Ukrainian government carefully observed the Israelis ignoring Washington DC before striking in Kursk. American allies at war see vacuum in the White House and are taking own initiatives
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The only threat to the Jewish community here is that of the Russian bombs
💬
#Zakharova
: The anti-Semitism, xenophobia, racial discrimination flourishing in Ukraine today are exactly what we have been talking about tirelessly for 8 years & something the collective West tried hard to ignore, carefully looking after the ideological successors of fascism❗️
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The battle for southern Ukraine 🇺🇦 is commencing and the Ukrainians have knocked out enough infrastructure to eventually trap 25,000 Russian troops
The 🇺🇦 army reports that they have targeted and destroyed the bridge in Nova Kakhovka. This will severely restrict the Russian’s ability to bring in reinforcements, supplies and heavy equipment and ammunition. Bad day for the ~25.000 russian soldiers west of the Dnipro.
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Don’t ever say Odessa is unpatriotic EVER again comrades….
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A week before the war in Kyiv I was with a bunch of American spooks Us embassy guys drinking with Ukrainian army guys. 3 out of 5 Ukrainian soldiers who were at our table are dead now
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Get a blanket is absolutely right. The Germans made bad decisions that caused tremendous suffering for the rest of us… They won’t die for those mistakes. Just be uncomfortable. Show an iota of the virtues Ukrainians have. Sacrifice for the greater good.
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A member of the Japanese Yakuza has joined the Ukrainian international legion and is fighting the Russians in the east. This hero has had the Ukrainian trident tattooed on his neck.
May both the Judeo-Christian god and the emperor bless this warrior!
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Does even the most crude and fanatical Hamas supporter believe that no violations of women took place?
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Tonight is the most frightened I have ever seen the Ukrainian capital. Everyone thinks that something is about to happen. A friend who spent time with Presidential Admin today tells me that they looked nervous.
We are all getting lots of intense phone calls tonight
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Ukraine is losing the best people of this generation
Ukrainian poet and military Maksym Kryvtsov was killed today.
On this photo Maksym is with his poetry collection.
RIP
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I talk to Russians personally for various reasons and because I have distance and it’s my work - but every Ukrainian has the right to make own choices. My wife has 10 girlfriends who lost husbands. Her business collapsed. Her family are refugees. She simply does not want to
Text message from my wife: “ Had a Russian guy sitting next to on the flight m. When I saw his Russian passport I went immediately to the flight attendant and asked for a change of seat”
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On a flight to Israel today to take part in Ukraine crisis conference in University of Haifa…the Israeli Security asks me if I have any other passports and I had to show them picture of me and
@IlvesToomas
burning my Russian passport in front of Russian embassy in Paris.
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At the Ukrainian Institute today in NYC - unissued diplomas to Ukrainian students and kids who died before graduating….
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I was walking down the street in Monte Carlo when I saw the Batmobile... it has Ukrainian license plates!
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It may well be in the vicinity however and we need to be careful with wether they are middle of it - but yes - exciting
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Text message from my wife: “ Had a Russian guy sitting next to on the flight m. When I saw his Russian passport I went immediately to the flight attendant and asked for a change of seat”
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My latest out
@tabletmag
- the Ukrainian government carefully observed the Israelis ignoring Washington DC before striking in Kursk. American allies at war see vacuum in the White House and are taking own initiatives
Biden Administration Out of Step With Ukraine, Israel War Decisions
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Feels like a lifetime ago now
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The Russians are falling back and are evacuating the towns that they held around Kyiv. We are seeing videos of ghost towns full of dead Ukrainians. A horror.
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My Franco-Ukrainian wife got two women + two girls in her family out of Odessa to Romania. We are getting them refugee Visas now to France. The French embassy in Romania has been stolid. The Romanian taxi drivers have refused to take their money when they hear them speak Russian.
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Ukrainian academics and students who need resources to get to Western or Israeli universities … send them my way
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Ukraine has taken so much Russian armor that one wonders if the Russian invaders have any armor left. There are likely villages in Ukraine now whose tank battalions are better equipped than small European armies!
#Ukraine
: This time Ukrainian farmers helped the army to collect a captured Russian BTR-82A.
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In a fit of affable passion I picked up male friend who weights 50 kilos more than me last night by waist and hoisted him over my head and twirled him around. I am very tactile with male friends, also physically very strong... He calls me this morning to say his GF has the Covid
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UPDATE- the Russian artist Daria Surovtseva has commented on my wife's Facebook page with accusations of lying and threats of action in a French court. Here is her statement in Russian:
"Regina, hello, you are LIAR ! Все здесь сказанное - передергивание тобой фактов! Дружеская
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My man Sean Penn prefers to hang out in Kyiv with me
@nolanwpeterson
and does not need to visit Russia until the regime collapses anyway.
Russia permanently BANS 25 US citizens including Sean Penn, Ben Stiller and Senator Kyrsten Sinema in latest retaliation
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Continually need to remind the "NATO expansion" people that all three of the post Soviet nations -Moldova- Ukraine and Georgia-which were not protected by military alliance that protected them after 1991 wound up being invaded by the Russian Federation sooner or later.
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Everyone calling on Ukraine to surrender or negotiate prematurely should see this
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Wore my Jewshivanka to meet with Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov
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When this is all over, there may not be a Ukrainian economy left to save. We need to get Kyiv all the ammo that it needs now and quickly before the Russians destroy everything.
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At the end of the YES conference in Kyiv - my pal Eugene hutz of punk rock band Gogol bordello was explaining Ukrainian nationalism and kinetic warfare to Thomas Friedman. Epic combo of people
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When I am jolted back to American reality and see how dumb and vulgar the culture war stuff is back there - and this is a bipartisan effort - compared to how coherent and healthy the Ukrainian nation is in the midst of a catastrophic situation... I am glad I left.
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This is damning - Ukrainians learning the hard way what Israelis have known for a long time about Western NGO class…
As Ukrainian I cannot believe that, besides defending myself from Russia, I also have to defend myself from Amnesty International, HRW, IRC, UN, OSCE.
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My family in Odessa has been woken up by explosions in the city last night.
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92 year old Russian lady lucidly explains the “savagery of those raised by Russian television”
Well this didn’t quite go to plan, did it? 😂
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Family friends in Moscow whose son was drafted just paid a big bribe to not get to Bakhmut and to get him transferred to Rosgvardia - now he might have to fight Wagnerites from Bakhmut in Moscow
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Her hometown in Ukraine just got bombed…. This is insane
Today, I spoke on the floor in support of my amendment to eliminate an additional blank check of $16B to
@POTUS
Biden hidden in this bill by increasing the emergency presidential authorities to spend for any foreign country or international organization - ANY - true blank check.
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Journalists from Kherson are asking people with access to platform to push for a "green" humanitarian corridor to get the wounded and dying out of the city. Please spread that message however one can.
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Did not see any of these kids in the street when Iranians and Russians killed Syrians, or when the Azeris ethnically cleansed Armenians. Yemen did not concern them. They only seem to care when Jews are involved.
BREAKING: Thousands of students marching in NYC to demand ceasefire and Free Palestine as of part of
#ShutItDown4Palestine
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This man does not understand anything about the subject at hand.
Did NATO’s expansion play a pivotal role in triggering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
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My nieces are safe and secure in Paris… yet while walking by Notre Dame de Paris-and being told that it had been on fire -they reflexively asked if Russian Air Force had bombed it.
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"From Odessa With Love" my essay collection on the contemporary Ukrainian cultural and political situation is now out in paperback from
@PressAcademica
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The public response of the Russian artist in Paris Daria Surovtseva has been to threaten to go to a French court against me and my wife for calling her out for her Putinist views. I do look forward to defending our honor (and the honor of the Ukrainian people) in a French court
My Franco-Ukrainian wife Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon attended the closing of the Paris- Basel art fair tonight. We ran into her old acquaintance- the well known Franco-Russian artist Daria Surovtseva. After some pleasantries Surovtseva began telling my wife about her projects
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Your caucaus is betraying the Ukrainian people
Here’s what went down: we just won a clean 45 day gov extension, stripped GOP’s earlier 30% cuts to Social Security admin etc, staved off last minute anti-immigrant hijinks, and averted shutdown (for now).
People will get paychecks and MTG threw a tantrum on the way out. Win-win
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I have been told point blank by various Ukrainian general staff officers that they were told not to fight by Obama in 2014. Obama admin told Ukrainians to stand down after Crimea. And the lack of pushback is why we are here now…
Obama and Obama officials were obsessed with securing a nuclear deal with Iran, which would allow them to realign with the regime & legalize the regime's nuclear program. They needed Russia for that deal. So it became their job to make excuses for Russian military aggression ⤵️
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No. We are not interested at all in these little ideological games in the middle of a genocidal war of annihilation. This is moral tone deafness and spiritual stupidity that is unfathomable to those of us who actually care about the country rather than about scoring points
Anyone curious for details about the ideological background and organizational affiliations of this person who's been innocuously labeled a "defender"?
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My Ukrainian wife being cold to Russians in Georgian bar again.
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Perhaps he missed some wars including the one that russia is waging against Ukraine ?
"We are witnessing a killing of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I am Secretary-General “ - UN Secretary General talking about civilian deaths in Gaza.
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Ukrainian army and activists have begun calling Russian marauders at home and asking them why they stole. Begin to humiliate and threaten them. These audio clips are now all over Ukrainian telegram channels and are great to listen to.
Wow, a Belarusian group received data from some "неравнодушные люди" (i.e. hackers or internal leakers from SDEK) that identified the people who used this parcel delivery service to return loot back to Russia. Included are names, phone, and items delivered
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This is insane and some would say propaganda- deeply disappointed
@nytimes
- we should hope to assume that the editor who allowed this does not know how many people died in Eastern Ukraine.
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A homeless but upbeat Odessan fellow with a cut up nose stopped me and
@dpatrikarakos
to ask us for some money. “Gents: I am an alcoholic, not a drug addict…” he began proudly.
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Amazing what you can build with unlimited slave labor and German POWs. Slaving under machine guns
2. Komsomolskaya, Moscow (1952)
Moscow's metro could easily fill an entire thread. Subways can and should have chandeliers and Baroque friezes.
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Zelensky is a hero and a star and every Ukrainian is proud of him. Every weapon of information needs to be used
Why did we send $54 billion to Ukraine, so Zelensky & his wife could pose for Vogue?
You’re at war & you’ve got time for photo shoots?
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Ukrainian television rolling this in between every commercial break - asking Ukrainians to send money to the army.
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Another very fun Ukrainian MP
@DmytroNatalukha
(follow him!) just now - “the most sacred right of any free man is the right to tell people to fuck off regardless of their social status or position”.. This is what we are fighting for! The pure Ukrainian conception of freedom!”
A senior Ukrainian Member of parliament confirms to me that the Ukrainian army is moving quicker in some sectors than the gov had expected “we did not think that the Russian lines were so thin or that they would be so cowardly”.
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These heroic men and women defended the Western world and liberal democracy
Exhausted & starved, but alive & happy - thank God at least some of them return from russia captivity.
#StandWithUkraine
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This was never about NATO.
This was about the existence of Ukrainian state and society outside of the control of Moscow.
It is simple as that.
As a historical matter, this is simply true. The Biden administration could have avoided war with Russia by taking the issue of NATO expansion off the table.
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