Evgen Vorobiov
@vorobyov
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Ukrainian serviceman / військовослужбовець. Tweets about war, MilTech and life in 🇺🇦. Also: @vorobyov.bsky.social Signal: vorobyov.64 Support my unit👇
Ukraine
Joined December 2008
Folks, just in case: I'm also on the other site under the same handle
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A group of chemistry students from Kyiv's top technical university started to mass produce Molotov's cocktails for Territorial Defence Forces of the city. Gotta respect their professionalism.
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One thing that very few people have pointed out about Ukraine is how its state has continued to provide essential services even under severe disruptions created by Russia's invasion — and even more, how quickly it has adapted to this new reality. A couple of examples.
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Natalia Lugovska, the psychologist of the Azov Regiment, died defending Mariupol against the russian invaders. May this heroine rest in peace.
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Liubov, the first woman to have become a commander of an artillery unit in Ukraine's army, is standing on the wreckage of russian military vehicles that her unit has destroyed.
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This is Lt. Liubov Plaksiuk, she is a commander of an artillery unit at Ukraine's Armed Forces. She specializes in Giantsynt 152-mm systems. She also has more courage than morally bankrupt Kissingers and Chomskys taken together.
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What a story. Ghanaian meme star @nanaotafrija donated $250 thousand to the best Ukrainian defence charity. His "Coffin Dance" viral video was auctioned as an NFT token and he donated part of proceeds to the awesome folks from @BackAndAlive. Ghana, love from Ukraine!
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Ukrainian serviceman carrying a child injured by russia's missile strike into a Kramatorsk hospital
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Russians attempted a landing of a saboteur group in Odesa region: all saboteurs have been eliminated, report Ukraine's Armed Forces.
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Oksana Rubaniak, call sign Xena, is a 20-year-old machine gunner of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade🇺🇦. She was wounded in battle in Vuhledar, and managed to finish her poetry book while undergoing treatment.
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What can we make of it? Putin's disgusting propaganda machine paints Ukraine as a failed state. Yet Ukraine continues to provide its citizens with crucial services in the face of th onslaught by a nuclear power. And these services are likely more high-quality than the aggressor's.
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President Zelensky granted a "Legend of Ukraine" award to Fuminori Tsuchiko, a 75-year old Japanese volunteer living in #Kharkiv. Using his savings, Fuminori-san opened a charity café in Saltivka, Kharkiv's district most ravaged by russian attacks, to feed people in need for free
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Germany has decided to exclude Swiss companies from certain military procurement contracts of the German gov't because Switzerland previously prohibited Berlin from handing over Swiss-made military equipment to Ukraine. Well done!.
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Jubilant Ukrainian civilians in the town of Ivankiv (Kyiv region), which was liberated by Ukraine's Armed Forces this night
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Olena Bilozerska, a sniper at the Ukrainian Armed Forces, announces that rumors of her death (spread by Russian propaganda) were greatly exaggerated.
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Serhiy Chyzhykov, a captain of Ukraine's Armed Forces who was a manager at the Ukrainian Post (@Ukrposhta) before the war, downed a Russian military airplane that was bombing his native town of #Chernihiv.
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A serviceman of Ukraine's Armed Forces in Azovstal, Mariupol.
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I hope that the victorious hit of the '#Moskva' cruiser will show Western politicians (once again) that when the Ukrainian army is asking for specific weapons (like anti-ship missiles), it means to use them effectively. If your nation provides these arms, they will be used well.
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(2) Ukraine's healthcare system, which has undergone a major reform since 2014, continues to reimburse critical medicines to patients via an innovative e-ordering system. Many pharmacies in cities have closed but electronic lists of working ones started to circulate online fast.
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(1) Ukrainian Railways have not only continued to transport passengers across the country but also launched quick evacuation routes from the areas most affected by Russia's aggression.
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Ukrainian soldier Natalia and her dog Alma defending their country as part of the fearless 128th Brigade.
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Good news: russians report a drastic increase in the number of their casualties due to #cluster munitions. And even better news: a lot of their combat medics do not know how to treat these casualties properly. If curious: see video and photo in the next tweet👇.
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Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate has released the names and other identifying details of 600+ employees of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) who operate in European countries
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This is Oleksandr Rozetsky, a Ukrainian marine currently defending his country. In the 1990s, he was one of 79 Ukrainian peacekeepers defending Bosniak civilians in the enclave of Žepa.
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The most beautiful piece of Kyiv — St Andrew's Church — is basking in the early-spring sunshine
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russia's FSB spent billions trying to buy politicians in Ukraine in the run-up to this war. Do you think russia bankrolled its assets only in Ukraine? No, it surely tried the same in rest of Europe. This is the conversation that is - unfortunately - not happening in EU countries.
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Warriors of the #93rd Brigade 🇺🇦. 1/ Her call sign is "Vorona": "crow" in Ukrainian. This young woman is a commander of an anti-tank squad in a platoon that has destroyed dozens of russian military vehicles. She's the only woman in her unit wiping out enemy tanks from 🇺🇦 land.
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Today, Gen Zaluzhny🇺🇦 has given a lengthy press briefing. Key 5 points👇
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This tiny device is a drone detector developed by a Ukr IT guy from Dnipro; production launched by volunteer community. It scans the frequencies used by russian drones and alerts the user. It can potentially save hundreds of 🇺🇦lives. Pic by 🇺🇦military comms guru Sergiy Flash
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An astute Ukr'n military expert: if Ukraine had more jets, they would be able to chase & bomb the retreating Russian troops NW and East of Kyiv. RU casualties would be higher & they would not be able to reinforce Russia's attack in the East.Those European Migs would be useful now.
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Those politicians who argue against heavy weapons supply to Ukraine do not contribute to "de-escalation" (as they often claim). They help to preserve a status quo of russia's relative advantage in armor and artillery,and therefore indirectly help the aggressor country in this war.
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The "Ghost of Kyiv" mural in our city's historic district of Podil
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It appears that a Russian warship in the occupied Berdiansk went fuck itself.
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It took Ukrainian troops a couple of weeks from start of training to use the American M777 howitzers in the most intense war spot, near Izium. Now recall all those "experts" who blabbered about "months" that it would take UA to deploy new Western arms.
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🧵This is Ilia, former mineworker and now a combat medic at the 25th Air Assault Brigade🇺🇦. His bravery and skills saved a civilian man in the East. His story is a reminder: support for 🇺🇦combat medics is also helping save civilian Ukrainians who persevere near the frontlines.
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Nothing to look at, folks, just a russian tank (which has been captured by Ukrainian troops) with a. looted TV tied to its armor.
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Before receiving Storm Shadow cruise missiles -- and after
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Evgen Khrapko, a Ukrainian combat medic widely respected for developing new curricula & training hundreds of soldiers, was killed in combat. Imagining the number of people that he could have saved and educated devastates my mind. His nickname was "Bialy", "white" in Polish. RIP
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Dear readers, especially journalists:.When you hear from foreign "experts" that 🇺🇦 has X days/weeks left in its offensive in the South because of weather Y, just ask them if they have personally been to South Zapo / Donetsk region in Nov-Dec. (I have, so I can make this comment).
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Commander of the Azov Regiment Denys Prokopenko on the fighting in #Azovstal: "the situation is extremely difficult, but despite everything we continue to follow the order to keep defending".
‼️Термінове звернення від командира полку «Азов» підполковника Дениса Прокопенка, з приводу ситуації на заводі «Азовсталь».
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Back in Kyiv. After two days of talking to several brave medics in Dnipro tirelessless working for the needs of the frontlines, I realised what makes them so badass. Dying is scary. But what is even scarier is living a meaningless, senseless life.
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Folks discuss how fast Ukrainians are learning to operate Patriots. A smart young 🇺🇦 officer, who now helps to set up a new brigade, recently returned from NATO training abroad. I asked him how was it. "Erm, OK but I have a feeling that I taught them more than they taught me"🤷🏼♂️.
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The Economist hitting the nail on the head:."For too long Western leaders have relied on Mr Zelensky’s oratory to make the case for backing Ukraine. They need to start doing it themselves".
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Observations of a Ukrainian military medic on a study trip in the US: American medics are naive when boasting of locating their Role 2 medical facilities as close to the frontline as possible; those facilities would be immediately targeted by russian arty and guided aerial bombs
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Amazing picture of a Ukrainian tank firing at russian positions - by Ukrainian photo-journalist Herman Kriger (@herKrieger)
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An M1 Abrams🇺🇸 tank roaming somewhere in Ukrainian fields ready to destroy russian invaders
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#Estonians are my heroes. After our victory (whenever it will be), I hope to be able to cycle around this beautiful country and to thank as many Estonians in person as possible. Aitäh, #Eesti.
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Curious leak from Ukrainian authorities to FT: Chinese envoy Li Hui refused to accept that US-donated Patriots had shot down the russian Kinzhal missiles — even after Ukrainian counterparts offered him evidence. How do you say "copium" in Mandarin? 😆.
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Ukraine's top general Zaluzhny finding a moment in his tight schedule to register a marriage of one of his serviceman. Ukrainian law allows commanders to register the act of marriage during the state of war.
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Ukrainian think tank Center for Defence Strategies has obtained the list of names of 120 thousand Russian troops that have invaded Ukraine.(the document is available in the linked article).
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1/.The character of war in 2024 will differ significantly from that of 2023. "We have identified [key] problems and identified about 90% solutions to those problems", says Gen Zaluzhny.
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Gen Zaluzhny, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces, has written a piece for The Economist. He posits that Ukraine should prevent the war from shifting into a positional stage and explains how. 🧵Three things stand out for me.
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When the day of Ukraine's victory comes, we should invite these awesome folks for the parade of destroyed russian military equipment.
What a story. Ghanaian meme star @nanaotafrija donated $250 thousand to the best Ukrainian defence charity. His "Coffin Dance" viral video was auctioned as an NFT token and he donated part of proceeds to the awesome folks from @BackAndAlive. Ghana, love from Ukraine!
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3/.Gen Zaluzhny believes that Western partners will sustain their support for Ukraine so that the newly-mobilized servicemen will have sufficient weapons: "I am certain that Western partners will stay by our side".
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Stunning drone footage from Soledar: Ukrainian combat medics evacuated an injured brother in arms on an armored personnel carrier — amid persistent enemy shelling. Source' @censor_net
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This is Captain Maryana Mamonova. She's a Ukrainian combat medic whom russian invaders took POW in Mariupol in April. She is 7 months pregnant and is now being held by the occupiers in the Olenivka POW camp.
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Incredibly good news: Ukraine's Army has received "dozens" of M113 armored personnel carriers for medical evacuation. Ministry of Defence🇺🇦 says that "several hundreds" more are expected from international partners. Many Ukrainian military medics told me how much they love M113s
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4/.Zaluzhny supports the proposed legislative change to discharge the defenders who have fought for 3 years only on 2 conditions: (1) sufficient reserves to replace them, and (2) the situation on the battlefield does not flare up.
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russian propaganda workers have exposed the positions of their Tulpan self-propelled artillery system, and Ukrainian Armed Forces immediately destroyed it. One of those rare cases when one could ask russian propagandists to keep it up.
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AWESOME. Ukraine's Security Service, whose Alfa special forces have crushed Russians at the battle of Hostomel, has seized a heap of secret documents of Russian invaders. The docs include detailed lists of Russian soldiers, as well as passwords and secret codes that they use.
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2/.The military command did not provide the 🇺🇦political leadership with specific figures re: the mobilization of new recruits. The 500K is an estimate of total manpower needs for 2024, which would cover (1) current shortfalls; (2) setup of new units; (3) expected losses in 2024.
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Preparing morning coffee in my Kyiv apartment. Haven't gone mountain hiking since the large-scale war began. But the survival gear comes in handy
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It's as if Ukrainian intelligence knew way better what russians are capable of than Twitter commentators. Who'd have thought?.
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A belarusian border guard (whose IQ appears to be in lower 70s) complains a Ukrainian servicemen across the border made an "insulting" gesture toward him. Nothing insulting really: just a signal that "if you try to get on my land, I will kill you".
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This is Dr Ihor Belkin. He's Chief of #surgery at 🇺🇦Orikhiv district hospital, just 10km away from frontlines in Zaporizhia. He's operated on hundreds of Ukrainian defenders amid constant enemy shelling. Yesterday, Dr Belkin was awarded "Saint Pantaleon", top 🇺🇦healthcare award
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Some EU-based experts are debating in earnest here on Twi why Pres Zelensky is going to Washington, and not to a European capital. I mean, dudes, check out the stats on the volumes of military assistance to Ukraine this year and find something useful to do with your time.
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One of the 144 Ukrainian defenders who returned home from russian captivity today
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An icing on the cake in this report is that an American medic seems to sincerely believe that russians would not attack a Role 2 facility (a "stabilization point" in 🇺🇦 terminology) due to Geneva Conventions. Ridiculous belief, and someone should disabuse him/her of that.
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Many reports from 🇺🇦 units — from different parts of the frontline — that the situation with the supply of artillery munitions is steadily improving.
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Meet Yaryna @BlackStork22, platoon combat medic at the 140th Marine Reconnaissance Battalion🇺🇦. She's been fighting for Ukraine for years, and I hope this M9 medical backpack will help. In this fundraiser, we will provide Yaryna's platoon with Blizzard survival blankets👇
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Ukrainian Bayraktar TB-2 has destroyed 2 russian Raptor-class patrol boats near the Snake Island in the Black Sea - Ukrainian Armed Forces released the spectacular video of one of the precise strikes.
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Some Norwegian MPs are discussing a possible transfer of NASAMS, excellent 🇳🇴-made air-defence systems, to Ukraine. This mid-range system would be immensely helpful to Ukraine and would step up its success in denying russia air superiority.
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Watched an interview with an occupiers' surgeon in Zaporizhia reg. He says:"[russian] casualties often come in with multiple wounds in the skull, spine, chest, as well as pneumo- and hemothorax". russian medics (aka "sanitars") fail to seal chests asap, so p-thorax develops.
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#Energodar, the occupied city where the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is located: subsiding waters have exposed a row of russian mines installed to prevent a Ukrainian landing
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God, give me just a fraction of the confidence of this Ukrainian man, who lectures Russian occupiers about constitutional rights:."Not film you on my camera? Who told you it is not allowed? The Constitution (of Ukraine) allows me to do so".[Proceeds to show the Russian tank]
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russians are very insecure about the fact that their artillery is 152mm, while NATO's — and now Ukraine's — is 155mm.
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2022: russia fails to establish air superiority in the Ukrainian airspace. 2023: russia fails to retain air superiority in the russian airspace.
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Oleg Kulinich, former chief of SBU's regional department of Crimea, was detained by Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations on charges of treason. The dude's attempt to escape in the guise of an elderly hipster has failed.
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I see in my previous tweet how a story of a Ukrainian heroine on the frontlines resonates with folks - and rightly so. So I have an equally badass story about a female defender from the 93rd Brigade 🇺🇦. But I will leave it for another day :).
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Really curious news from russia's Belgorod region: two mysterious drones have managed to completely derail a train with 15 cars and also to damage the rail track. This crash occurred quite deep into the russian territory: about 50km north of the Ukrainian border.
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The illegal #CrimeaBridge on fire is a thing of beauty. The object that the Kremlin has fetishized so much appears to be unoperational
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Telling report from Ukraine's Ombudsman today:."None of the Ukrainian servicemen freed from russian captivity saw a single representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) while being held POW". @ICRC is a useless institution that only racks donor 💵.
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Excellent signs: russians report lack of whole blood of all types in moscow's large military hospital. Reason: "The blood losses of [russian invaders] are staggering after Ukraine's Armed Forces started using cluster munitions [against them]". May the trend continue.
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This artillery crew from 28th Brigade🇺🇦 is now fighting in th South with their 🔥M109A3GN🔥 howitzer. We brought them supplies in August & got to know their hilarious & obscene nickname. 50 likes of this tweet--and I'll post a pic of their crew patch they gifted me (NSFW!)
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