So
@amnesty
decided to release a little piece which at best misrepresents, and at worst directly attacks Ukrainian army. Now,
@amnesty
is a free organisation of a free world where one is totally free to be a russian asset if one wishes. However, let’s clarify a couple of things.
This is what Russians, who are currently bombing Azovstal, wrote on their bombs meant for the defenders after the on-stage plea by Kalush to save Mariupol:
- “for Azovstal, just like you asked”
- “We heard the call to f up Azovstal hashtag Eurovision”
russian prisoner after captivity in Ukraine vs Ukrainian prisoner after captivity in russia
You don’t even have to guess which one was beaten, starved and tortured in all ways imaginable.
Dagestan, Russia. The first signs of real protest I’ve witnessed so far.
You can hear the police shooting into the air; this doesn’t seem to scare the crowd.
Pro-russian telegram channels are posting samples of Bucha Massacre-themed merch. It says “Bucha Massacre: we can do it again” (we can do it again/repeat is a popular rus slogan often used in the context of WWII — for instance, “we reached Berlin once, we can do it again”).
«there was no armed invasion of Crimea»
And these are not the Russian soldiers taking over the Crimean parliament in February of 2014, it’s the teenage mutant ninja turtles searching for pizza.
Did the west stand up enough to Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014? Former President
@BarackObama
tells me that, "given both where Ukraine was at, at the time, and where the European mindset was at the time, we held the line."
Авжеж він погрожує ядеркою. Але водночас хоче перемовин. Але водночас каже, що все йде за планом. Заметушився.
Не дозволяйте йому вас залякати, тримаймося та працюємо далі. Все буде Україна.
Last time
@amnesty
wrote about Kharkiv was in June. That’s the city that gets shelled *every* *single* *day*. Not a word about Mykolaiv — a ~500.000 people city under everyday Russian shellings. It’s also been w/o running water for 114 days cause of it. Nothing.
New video is shadow-banned on TikTok: the information war continues. Could get taken down at any moment, but that’s only because the message is so vital.
SANCTIONS. WEAPONS. STAYING ON THE HIGHEST ALERT.
They will NOT stop at us now that they’ve started.
Support Ukraine!🇺🇦
The selective virtue-signalling is a convenient tool through which organisations that were useful decades ago, if ever, try to remain relevant in modern age. It allows them to imitate important activity while avoiding taking any risks, like confronting the aggressor.
For instance, going to the occupied territories and witnessing people that commit some of the worst crimes imaginable would most likely result in international investigators’ death and will thus prevent them from being bribed in the future. Now, nobody wants that.
Really? Germany and Italy are the ones opposing punishing a blood-thirsty dictator threatening Europe and the whole world? The historian in me can’t handle the irony.
EU officials tell me: At this point Germany and Italy are the main opponents for disconnecting russia from swift and this "key to decision" depends on them. And they are pressured to agree.
Remember how we were all saying that refusing to leave the russian market will make you complicit in the war?
Congratulations
@Unilever
on entering your war crimes participation era, we are all very excited to never buy from you ever again! 👏
Despite the fact that
@amnesty
would like for this war to be fought in a specially designated area, it’s fought *everywhere*. In the forests, in the air, in the cities, in the fields and in the water. It’s a genocidal war of aggression meant to erase Ukraine from existence.
No, I do not believe Marina Ovsyannikova.
I also don’t believe Navalny, or any other Russian “liberal” white supremacists who’ve been extremely busy advocating for war in Ukraine, Syria, Georgia and Chechnya for the past decades, and are now “changing their mind”.
Things
@ICRC
didn’t do:
❌ Visit Azovstal prisoners at Olenivka or elsewhere
❌ Give any solid information to their families
❌ Prevent prisoners from being beaten and starved
❌ Prevent prisoners from being killed
You should lose all of your donations and cease to exist.
Why is our neutrality essential?
It helps us:
✅ Visit detainees
✅ Reunite families
✅ Reach hospitals
✅ Deliver humanitarian aid
✅ Connect families through our Red Cross Messages
Neutrality means we take action, but never take sides.
It is defo much easier to observe from the side whose military you trust to abide by the rules, isn’t it. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here. It’s thus easy to nitpick cause a)they won’t punch you in the throat, & b)they’re too busy bleeding and dying for their country to care ab you
Instead of going to Mykolaiv and bringing some water bottles with you (just not the water Red Cross brings all the way from Romania to Dnipro, that’s only good for when you are laundering donations money 👆), you decided to discredit UA army.
Now, that’s totally up to you: dying Ukrainian civilians won’t get you as many clicks from Rus trolls and useful idiots. Congrats, btw, I’m sure Skabeeva will mention your piece in her next show while bragging abt Rus troops staying in residential areas of Donbas on purpose:
В программе «60 минут» у Скабеевой прямо заявляют, что армия РФ специально стремится к тому, чтобы воевать в жилой городской застройке. Потому что прикрываться мирными жителями для «освободителей» предпочтительнее и безопаснее, чем воевать за городом.
Getting Ukrainian soldiers out of all of the urban areas would mean a) giving up said areas to Russia, b) literally nothing else. Russia will continue attacks whenever and however it sees fit until we get proper air defence (including planes). They attack because they can.
What the russians did to Mykhailo Dianov, one of the Azovstal defenders.
They took off bandages from his arm and left it to rot. It is now deformed and missing ~4 cm of bones.
The full-scale invasion has been marked by indiscriminate russian shellings of civilians from the very beginning. For many of us, this chapter of the war began from explosions in our cities, and these explosions accompanied by sirens is now a part of our everyday existence.
Тут набагато логічніше виглядали би корупціонери які крадуть мільйонами, ТРО Монако та покупці барабанів в укриття, а не юлічка вєрба, яка хоч і людина цікавої моралі, але хоча б у тих самих військових не краде гроші що мають іти на їжу.
However,
@amnesty
would prefer them not to. Amnesty advices UA soldiers to go fight in the field. You know what’s the problem with that? First, russia doesn’t want the fields, it wants the cities. Second of all, it covers the fields with rounds of artillery, just like this:
If the UA army leaves our cities to be torn to pieces by Rus artillery (10:1 superiority Russians have, just a reminder) in an open field, will you defend them then,
@amnesty
? Will the UN defend them? Will Red Cross whip out fighting water bottles and show us some water-bending?
An attempt to depict our military as a threat to us, an attempt to discredit our military is a direct attack on all of us because not only they are a part of us — they are the best of the best we have to offer.
Russians ‘attacking only military’ is a myth. Soviet military-industrial complex existed *within* towns and cities, partially to provide for the area (it creates jobs), partially of necessity (like when some factories were evacuated from affected areas to Central Asia in WWII).
Attack on “house of officers” in Vinnytsia was not about officers. These places are not even military objects anymore, they are cultural centres/concert halls (the one in Vinnytsia was latter). Russians know it. They don’t care.
No, you won’t. Our only hope at _continuing to exist_ is our army and the weapons that it receives from the allies. Not some international organisation, all of which have proven to be useless to us during the last 8 years. The moment we are occupied we cease to exist for you lot.
October 20th 2022: Zelenskyy asks for international observers to be sent to the Nova Kakhovka dam because the Russians likely mined it and are planning a terrorist attack.
June 6th 2023: Russians execute a terrorist attack at the Nova Kakhovka dam.
Everyone: 🤯😱😰🤔😨😰
Here’s one of the ways to help the Ukrainian Army: the most recent fundraiser by
@UkraineAidOps
. They are raising funds to purchase night vision equipment, crucial for the units to ‘have eyes’ & see the enemy at night. Thank you!
Their link:
🚨CALL FOR HELP🚨
As 🇷🇺 is trying fiercely to gain terrain before a winter stalemate, we have to help 🇺🇦. What’s needed now is Night Vision so units don't become become victims of surprise night attacks. Many units have none!
Please donate and retweet!
Russians know it, and when they don’t know, they don’t care. They use outdated Soviet maps and attack areas from which military quarters/factories are long gone. Why attack them anyways while using maps from the 60s? Because terror is a huge part of it.
That’s what it looks like now btw. Russians hit the centre of the city, killed dozens of people and then used the fact that the building is called “the house of officers” to justify it.
The Russian forces are attacking Chornobyl right now. We are now all on the verge of a new ecological catastrophe: the only thing between a Chornobyl 2.0 and Europe is Ukrainian army.
Please support Ukrainian army!
(I see your total of 1,5 materials about Crimea. No wonder the world is under impression Crimea just sort of drifted away peacefully! Imagine uttering more than 10 words about all the disappearances, all the people found dead, all of us who had to flee! You guys could never)
Друзі, українці!
Ворог намагається кошмарити: безліч фейків, багато англійською, усі спрямовані на те, щоб деморалізувати нас із вами.
Але вони не знають, що ми їх не слухаємо, а слухаємо тільки офіційні українські джерела та віримо в ЗСУ.
Роспропаганда йде до біса.
19 Ukrainian POWs were killed in Russian captivity, Ukraine managed to return their bodies yesterday.
The Orgs Who Cried Conventions are suspiciously quiet on this.
The fact that the world allows for torture and murder of our POWs in Russian captivity is unimaginably cruel.
Lastly. Drawing a big red line between soldiers and civilians might be something that you do from your moral high horse of a ‘well, I will never have to fight, I’ll sit in my cozy office and quietly believe that my life is superior to the one of a soldier because I can use Excel’
Recently, a full evacuation from Donetsk region was announced. Evacuating children has become significantly easier. All of this takes time and legislation because — did you know?! — it’s illegal to force people out of their houses. Good morning, sunshine, the Earth says hello! 🎉
You choose to ignore the fact that the UA army cannot force them to evacuate. You pretend like UA army never helps them (that’s a plain and simple lie). You ignore all the instances of the civilians _wanting_ the army there (because the only alternative is the russian occupation)
However, this is not the case. Soldier’s life is just as precious as mine of yours. And here, in Ukraine, *anyone* can become a soldier. People quietly come to terms with a fact that most of us will have to be enrolled in a military service in one way or another, and very soon.
Rus ‘journalist’ Akhmedova: ‘Now that Mariupol is taken by the Rus army, we can admit that our army has its weaknesses… The biggest one is our mercy, our compassion for the civilians. It will always be used against Russia’
Russian army destroyed Mariupol and killed thousands.
Now,
@amnesty
admits that there’s no special regulation from a yet another ridiculously useless convention (Is that too rude? Ok, then let’s put it this way — “conventions as useful as the UN”, that’s better) that would prohibit UA troops from staying in empty schools.
The problem is not getting UA soldiers out of the urban areas, it’s — quite frankly, dealing with Russia, but that’s out of your league, let’s settle for second best — to get the civilians out. Civilians that very often refuse, can’t and won’t leave.
A horrifying video of russians mutilating genitals of a Ukrainian prisoner of war was shared recently on pro-rus channels (followed by donations requests for their ‘content’). ‘People’ who did this are featured in their media propaganda pieces (see in the thread below).
Злили відео де українському військовому в полоні відрізають канцелярським ножем яйца
Ріже ось цей ліворуч в чорній шляпі
Може хтось знає що це за сюжет, треба знайти
Hello! We made it through the 1st night of what will be known as the Battle of Kyiv.
Our army is incredible. The heroes, the warriors, the beautiful madmen. Stand with us to support them!
Donate, ask for more supplies from your govt: now you see what this war truly is about.
Evening, everyone, and I’m sorry: no live stream tonight. I can’t. I don’t know what’s there to say: pictures scream louder than words. No amount of preparing for the worst was enough.
Hopefully will see you all tomorrow. Thank you for the support.
Things rus soldiers are saying in the intercepted phone calls:
- «let’s shoot whoever we can, we were allowed to» (not ordered)
- «killed a bunch of civilians, but at least I’m bringing you a blender that I looted»
- «they stopped paying me, can you forge papers to get me out?»
Друзі. Нагадую: пропаганда - це стратегічна зброя.
Вона йде хвилями. Думаєте, чого саме сьогодні повилазили всі ці канали, паблоси, усіляка деза в таких кількостях? Щоб підігріти для промови Пуйла.
Не читайте, не поширюйте росзмі. Навіть жартома. Репорт, блок, та до біса
The fact that Musk used the war to market the hell out of Starlinks and made it seem like some charity while cashing in on Ukrainians (crowdfunding and buying Starlinks across Europe) AND milking the US & Poland budgets is very gaslight girlboss self-made billionaire of him.
Пам’ятаєте, як вони співали про свою духовність? Про рускій мір, про балет, про ахматаву, про цілувати хрест, про руСкІх аФіцЕрАф?
Ось вона, правда. Орда. Орки. Загарбники. Чисте, пекельне зло.
Ми це знали; тепер увесь світ теж знає.
А це значить - Карфаген буде зруйновано.
Будь ласка, пам’ятайте: заяви будь-якої організації під час військових дій - це тільки частина правди. Йде війна, у тому числі й інформативна. У союзників є багато тактик; деякі з них не буде оприлюднено.
Ще тиждень тому казали «ніякої зброї» та «Поки без санкцій». Тиждень тому.
Kyiv is under attack.
Make no mistake - this is a European capital trying to resist a massive, unprecedented war.
We need any help we can get.
REAL sanctions. Weapons. All support there’s. Stand with Ukraine, it’s now or never!
«When did you realise how bad it was with the russians and anti-Ukrainian propaganda?»
When my russian grandpa who spent most of his days watching russian TV called me and my mom (his daughter) Nazis for the first time.
Back in 2013.
Good evening friends!
My apologies for not being able to go live tonight - the internet connection is pretty awful, and I’m also weirdly exhausted (probably has something to do w my mental health).
No worries though - I’m safe and will hopefully see you guys tomorrow! 🌻🤍
Hanged hamsters, eaten dogs, cows shot dead, horses burned alive, wolves and a baby camel tied up & starved to death. For some reason it’s the news of all the animals tortured by the russians that become the final straw, and those of us who held back tears before are now weeping.
Don’t you just love it when a pos moves to the Eastern Europe/Balkans in order to exploit what he perceives as inferior law enforcement/justice system and then gets served 🇷🇴❤️
Оту євпаторійську хуйню що ви мені принесли в стрічку. Нащо ви то зробили, мене тепер трясе. ПАРК ЇЙ ВІДРЕМОНТУВАЛИ блядь
анус собі відремонтуй, єбліна
Його почали робити ЩЕ ДО АНЕКСІЇ. там зліва дитячий майданчик, зробили теж до, ми там пили.
me in my happy place
crimea circa 2010, three lifetimes ago
just a lovely day in the mountains. went swimming in the lake. made friends with a 3-legged dog. picked some cherries. all was well.
good night everybody.
добраніч.
🌙
I’m scared of the day we learn the full extent of russian atrocities against Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. The nightmarish glimpses we’ve already seen give a good idea of what to expect. Pools of blood, rivers of tears, pain beyond imaginable. the russian world, unmasked.
So
@TheEconomist
ppl used this photo for their cover w/o asking permission from the author — Iryna Rybakova of the 93rd brigade. Then they claim they don’t have to cause it was “widely circulated online” (bs excuse). And then they start blocking people who call them out. Classy!
Peaceful life comes with a set of privileges, and compassion is one of them. Innocence is another.
«Poor baby», some lady’s comment read under a picture of a 20-something captured Russian soldier. «He looks terrified. He probably wants to go home, to his mom».
Neutrality is not a virtue. It’s siding with the aggressor. You don’t have to look the aggressor in the eye, Ukraine is doing it for you; at least have the basic decency of calling it by name. It’s Russia. It’s Russian war against Ukraine. It’s Russian war against the free world.
Dear friends, apologies: no live stream today🥲
Everything is still calm in my region of Ukraine, so don’t worry! Family & dogs (here represented by Chewy) are all saying hi!🌻
Have a lovely day (or sweet dreams, depending on your time zone), and I’ll see you guys tomorrow! 🤍
Two locals from Kherson showing their flooded neighbourhoods: “Russians decided that shelling us was not enough, they decided to drown us… Well, at least I can swim, and my Subaru apparently can be turned into a submarine”
Austrian police decided that there’s no better way to learn about Ukraine than from inviting russians to tell them all about ‘Ukrainian Nazis’. Russian Compatriots is an organisation directly linked to the Kremlin btw.
What did you expect. Of course Austrian police hold joint seminars with Russian "compatriot organizations" about "Ukrainian Nationalism"
What could be more natural?
An expected update to the story of Pavel Filatyev, a russian paratrooper who took part in occupation of Kherson and was later taken to Paris by russian human rights organisations: he is now suing them because he doesn’t want to donate promised €300k off his book sales to Ukraine
To all the brands and celebs avoiding calling what’s happening in Ukraine right now a russian war against Ukraine and claiming “it’s not all black and white”:
russia is getting cut off SWIFT.
Your kremlin paycheck won’t be coming through.
Relax and start telling the truth.
Don’t let the Prigozhin, Shoigu and their owners’ circus distract you from their war crimes committed in Ukraine.
People were killed in the russian missile strike on Kyiv. This building will be torn down cause of the structural damage, meaning dozens of families left homeless.
Hello friends!
Some of the American 🇺🇸 supporters of Ukraine and Ukrainian people have told me that they couldn’t donate via .
So my USA-based friend has made a list of all the 🇺🇦 funds she managed to donate to from her US bank account. Here they are:
Good evening!
My apologies everyone, I’m afraid no live stream tonight: the internet connection today is even more awful than before.
Hope all of you are safe!
Please consider supporting 🇺🇦 army via 💙💛
Appreciate all of you! 🌻
To everyone surprised by
@Nestle
choosing to stay in Russia: have you guys ever read anything about Nestle? They sound like a company founded by Putin, Stalin and Hitler altogether, why are we even surprised?