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anastasiamaru · 2 years

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🕯️An action in memory of those who died in Olenivka was held last night in Kyiv🕯️

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drakulesti · 2 years

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❗️Friends!❗️

The evacuation of the military from Azovstal has begun. Please pray for them! May God help us!

#ukraine #russian invasion #war in ukraine #stop russian aggression #war against ukraine #save mariupol #mariupol #azov #azovstal #evacuation #pray #pray for ukraine #prayer request #religion

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jacensolodjo · 2 years

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Russification is ramping up again. I say again when I really mean once more for the like 15th fucking time. Zelenskyy has sent out warnings to evacuate the Donetsk region. Which has been SUPER RARE for him to do. (Because he knows, like himself many are reluctant to leave the fight to others or flee their homes.)

Ukrainians are being forced to give up their culture. Their culture is still being bombed to bits. Ukrainian children are being made to only speak Russian. All of this is genocide (though I mean we do have a body count too if you ‘prefer’). I saw people cry ‘fascism’ when Ukraine decided Ukrainian was the official state language and those same people seem perfectly fine with Ukrainians once again being forced to give up their mother tongue in favor of their oppressors’ when surprise Ukrainian being official did NOT mean anyone was being made not to use Russian or any other language.

It is not enough to pray for Ukraine. And it’s getting really fucking stupid seeing people go ‘but but but we can’t donate to the military the military is bad!!’ explain to us how you expect to fight a war without a military. explain to me how you seem to think the Ukr military is anywhere close to American or British or whatever fucking else. Tell me you don’t know how fucking broke Ukraine’s military is without telling me you don’t know how fucking broke Ukraine’s military is. The military is existing out of spite using a shoe string and a paperclip. And how can you be against the Ukr military but say absolutely nothing of all the war crimes committed by Russia’s military? Russia has been reported in the past 24 hours to have killed dozens of prisoners of war. That is the very definition of war crime. But oh no, don’t send ammo to the Ukrainian military!

“But but but Azov!’ shut the FUCK up. Azov’s existence is not a fucking excuse to let the rest of Ukraine get turned into rubble and ash. Nor does it prove Russia right about anything whatsoever and if you think it does your brain is nothing but cotton.

But no instead you wring your hands and go ‘well there has to be a logical reason for this’ when not a single reason given by Russia and P*tin has held up as being the truth. You claim to support the underdogs but when it comes right down to it you hedge your bets with the oppressor instead. We’ve given you the answers and still you seem to think President War Crimes is in the right. When for years we’ve seen you protest against Russia’s other crimes against humanity. Russia has murdered queer people, Muslims, and still you seem to think this time somehow Russia is in the right! President Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian Jew and yet here you fucking are, nodding solemnly that ‘we have to do something about the nazis in ukraine’ because the Kremlin Gremlin says it’s a big issue. You won’t listen to actual literal Ukrainian Jews but you’ll listen to Mr. Ex-KGB War Crimes. Any other country invades and it’s terrible. Russia invades Ukraine (after having bullied them for decades) and it’s hunky fucking dorey. It’s hideous. It’s dumb as shit.

We’ll remember who kept insisting Ukraine deserves this somehow. We’ll remember who actually proved they are our allies. You will have to live with yourself knowing your friends may not consider you their friend anymore because you decided their oppressor was ‘right’. Don’t look to us asking how we survived cause all we’ll have to say is we did it ‘no thanks to you’.

#текст #war in ukraine #once again i never ONCE asked to know what my ancestors felt 90 years ago lmao #the blood in my veins is screaming because my DNA has seen all this happen before

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the-jam-to-the-unicorn · 1 year

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Easter greetings from the President of Ukraine

Dear great people of the great country!

At the end of last winter, Russia brought a full-scale war to our land. And with it – death, pain, and darkness. On the morning of February 24, the sun never rose. Dawn never came. On the morning of February 24, a dark night began. And at the same time, our awakening began. Our struggle.

Darkness could not overshadow our spirit, desire for freedom, love for our native land, and readiness to defend it.

We have kept the light within us. We have conquered panic, fear, feud, and quarrels. We have united. Millions of sparks in millions of Ukrainian hearts became one big bonfire. Our strength and invincibility were tempered in this fire, this fire did not let our hope and faith go out, the whole world saw this fire. It has united around it, stood next to us.

Then we defeated despair, hopelessness, fatigue, pain. Millions of lights in the eyes of millions of Ukrainians merged into one powerful beam of light. It helped us not to get lost in the dark, not to get lost on the road, illuminated the path to the right goal.

This is what different generations have fought for in different centuries. What our warriors of light – the defenders of Ukraine – gave their lives for in the last nine years and 417 days.

What we are fighting for against the dark forces today. This is our dawn. Our revival. This is the dawn of independent Ukraine.

Today, we celebrate the holiday of the Resurrection of the Lord. Its main symbol is victory: the victory of good, victory of truth, victory of life. We celebrate Easter with unshakable faith in the irreversibility of these victories.

On this day a year ago, we all prayed that Ukraine would endure. Today – for Ukraine to win. We don't just wait and ask, we win and create this victory ourselves. 417 days. We have already come a long way. Perhaps the most difficult of the peaks is ahead of us. We will overcome it. And together we will meet our dawn. When the sun will rise all over our country. This is a blue and yellow flag. It will certainly be raised in all our God-given land. In all territories temporarily occupied by devils. Our flag will fly on the shores of the Sea of Azov and the banks of Siversky Donets River, over terricones and Ai-Petri peak. The sun will shine in the south, the sun will shine in the east, and the sun will shine in Crimea. The yellow-hot sun in a peaceful blue sky, and it is the light of justice.

It is the light of the reunion of people and families. Ukrainians. All who are now at the front and all who help them in the rear. The glow of the smiles of the winners and their families. The brilliance of the battle orders of the heroes who will return. The sparkle of happy eyes of parents, children, loved ones, friends and relatives who are waiting.

This is the light of rebirth. Reconstruction of what was destroyed and mutilated by the occupier. Reconstruction of our beautiful country, which will become even more beautiful in the future.

It is the light of verity and truth. The rule of law and justice. Prosecution and punishment of all those who gave and executed criminal orders. All those who killed, tortured, robbed will answer both in the international tribunal and to the Lord.

Heaven sees our faith and steadfastness. The world sees our courage and invincibility. The enemy sees our strength and determination. And therefore, Ukraine will see the light of victory.

Belief in it unites us all. Always, but especially today. On Easter, which has always been a family holiday for Ukrainians, a day of warmth, hope and great unity. The war could not erase us, our values, our traditions, our holidays, and the most important things they symbolize.

And therefore, no matter where we celebrate Easter, no matter where each of us is now, we celebrate Easter together.

We are one big family. Ukrainians. We have one big home. Ukraine. We have one big goal. Victory. For all.

Those who are no longer with us, who gave their lives for Ukraine. We remember everyone and ask God to appease their souls. We believe in everyone who continues to defend the Motherland, and we ask God to protect and preserve them. With all our strength, we fight for our land and ask for the help of heavenly forces. In hundreds of prayers that our ancestors said before the battle, which help our soldiers and protect them today.

I will put on the shroud of Jesus Christ,

my skin is iron shell,

my blood is strong ore, my bone is a damask sword.

I am faster than an arrow, more alert than a falcon.

The armor is on me.

The Lord is in me.

For tomorrow.

For a peaceful dawn.

For the victory.

For Ukraine.

Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!

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anarcho-neoliberalism · 7 months

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I want to continue following you because you seem really good on other issues. But I'm a little worried that you might see hamas and Palestinians as the same. Hamas was inevitable from an understanding of sociology and that in no way means it's okay for them to commit the atrocities they are committing. As much as I hate death I think it's okay to vaporize hamas for this evil. And I just still see this as inevitable. I mean I remember that it was I think 2018 when I saw a man praying for peace get shot by an Israeli sniper for being on the other side of a fence and not doing anything. It was a peaceful protest and children were murdered. Obviously the right wing nationalists with blood and foam in their mouths will be the first to fight back. The same think happened in Ukraine when we all saw the azov battalion fight the Russian invasion. Fascists and nationalists are evil and we can still expect them to care about the blood and honor of their group. But all I've seen you do is defend Israel and condemn Palestine. Palestine didn't do this, hamas did. I just really hope you understand that on either side none of the regular citizens are doing this or deserve this. The enemy is the fascists and nazis in government power in Israel and the terrorists in Palestine that have been given aid and political justification from mostly Middle Eastern countries that want jews wiped off earth because let's be real they're also mostly evil governments. I really do appreciate most of your other posts. But it's just that on this issue, it seems like you're forgetting that groups of actors and groups of races aren't the same

This entire time I've been making a distinction between Palestinians in general and Hamas specifically! But, I do understand that especially when it comes to this conflict in particular, people can let emotions overcome reason and they begin to see things that are not there.

Let me clear up any confusion you may have: My honest and unfiltered thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict is I think Israelis should be allowed to exist in peace, and that the Palestinians should also be allowed to exist in peace, both living in the lands they have been born in, but I don't have an answer for how to make that happen.

I do believe Israel is fully justified in seeking an eradication of Hamas as an organization, whatever the associated cost may be, but god willing I hope this war is short, and that the cost in civilian lives is low.

Come off Anon if you want to continue this conversation in DM's, or not, up to you.

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annasalatova · 2 years

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❗️AZOV❗️ The whole civilized world must see the conditions in which the wounded, crippled defenders of Mariupol are and act!

In complete unsanitary conditions, with open wounds bandaged with non-sterile remnants of bandages, without the necessary medication and even food.

We call on the UN and the Red Cross to show their humanity and reaffirm the basic principles on which you were created by rescuing wounded people who are no longer combatants.

Save our warriors!!

I ask you to

Azov hold on guys we are praying for you

you are AzovStal! 🇺🇦✊🏻❤️‍🔥

#ukraina #ukrainian war #ukrainelove #ukraine stop war #war in ukraine #mariupol #odessa #odessa ukraine #mariupol ukraine #azovstal #mariupol attacked from sea of azov

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cyberbenb · 9 months

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Ukraine war latest: Russia hits Dnipro with missiles, at least 5 injured

Key developments on July 28:

An apartment building and the SBU headquarters in Dnipro were hit in a missile attack

Prosecutor General reports on investigation into deaths and abuse at Olenivka prison

Reports of explosions in Russia’s Rostov Oblast

Poland to double the size of its military

At least five people have been injured as of 10:20 p.m. local time in a Russian strike on the city of Dnipro that damaged a high-rise apartment building on the evening of July 28.

“Rescue services and the police are working on the site. The apartments are being checked. People are receiving the necessary assistance,” Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported.

Mayor Borys Filatov reported that no one has been killed. The residential building has no tenants, the mayor said, as it was yet to be commissioned.

Dnipro, a city of 1 million people in central Ukraine, was hit at around 8:30 p.m. local time following an air raid siren.

According to the footage provided by witnesses to the Kyiv Independent, as well as footage shared on social media, an apartment building in the city sustained heavy damage in the attack.

The headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was also damaged.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the news. “Dnipro. Friday evening. A high-rise building and the Security Service of Ukraine’s building were hit. Russian missile terror again,” he wrote on Twitter.

Around the same time as the explosions were reported, the Air Force announced the threat of a ballistic missile attack in eastern and southern regions.

A high-rise building in Dnipro damaged in a Russian attack on July 28, 2023. (Photo provided to the Kyiv Independent by witnesses on the ground)

On Jan. 14, Russia targeted a 9-story apartment building in Dnipro, killing more than 45 people. The Kh-22 missile that hit the building is designed to destroy aircraft carriers.

Many families were at home to meet the Orthodox New Year. The attack destroyed 72 apartments, and damaged more than 230 others.

Pain, shock in Dnipro’s main hospital as families pray for loved ones after Russian attack

Rushing to the hospital shortly after a Russian missile hit an apartment building in Dnipro on Jan. 14, Mykyta Pavlovskyi prayed that his mother’s injury wasn’t fatal. “We drove to the hospital hoping that everything will be alright with my mom,” the 23-year-old graduate student told the K…

The Kyiv IndependentAsami Terajima

Ukraine reports on investigation into deaths and abuse at Olenivka prison

The explosion that killed over 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Russia in Olenivka prison in Donetsk Oblast last year was caused by a thermobaric munition, the Prosecutor General’s Office stated on July 28.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), which carries out the pre-trial investigation of the case, has examined the circumstances of the attack and concluded that the explosion was caused by a thermobaric grenade launcher, the prosecutors said.

As part of their examination, the investigators interviewed 13 released soldiers who were previously held in Olenivka, Ukrinform reported.

On July 28, 2022, an explosion in the prison killed over 50 Ukrainian prisoners and injured 75 more. Kyiv called it a deliberate Russian war crime.

Ukrainian authorities said that days before the attack the Russians had moved Ukrainian members of the Azov Regiment, who were captured in Mariupol and were awaiting a prisoner exchange, to a separate part of the prison building – the one that was destroyed.

The Prosecutor General’s Office also reported on July 28 that the ex-head of the Olenivka prison and one of his subordinates have been charged over physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of the Ukrainian soldiers imprisoned there.

Prior to the partial occupation of Donetsk Oblast in 2014, the former prison head Serhii Yevsiukov, worked in Ukrainian law enforcement, while his subordinate, Kyrylo Shakurov, worked in a prison in Horlivka, according to the Kyiv Independent’s sources.

The two Ukrainian citizens who collaborated with Russian occupation authorities are suspected of using psychological, physical, and sexual violence against at least 100 prisoners of war, according to the report.

The former head of the prison and his subordinate cruelly mistreated the prisoners and violated the norms of international humanitarian law, the prosecutors said, and have been charged with violating the laws and customs of war.

Pregnant medic spent 5 months in Russian captivity: ‘I feared they would take my child away’

Days before giving birth to her first child, Ukrainian military medic Mariana Mamonova was made to board a plane in the Russian city of Taganrog. She was blindfolded, and her hands were bound with rope. “Do you know where they’re taking us?” she heard a man sitting next to

The Kyiv IndependentDaria Shulzhenko

Reports of explosions in Russia’s Rostov Oblast

During the afternoon of July 28, Russian media and officials reported an explosion in the center of Taganrog, a city in Rostov Oblast.

Rostov Oblast Governor Vasily Golubev claimed that at least 12 people were wounded and nine of them were hospitalized.

Footage shared on social media shows damaged buildings and smoke rising over the city.

Golubev later said that a second missile was shot down near Taganrog.

Similar information was shared by Russia’s Defense Ministry, which claimed that Ukraine launched the attack at around 5:15 p.m. local time using the S-200 air вуаутыу system.

According to the ministry, the projectile was shot down and the debris fell in a deserted area.

Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksii Danilov wrote on Twitter that the incident was a result of “poor Russian air defenses."

The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims.

There have been multiple reports since the start of the full-scale invasion about fires, explosions, and alleged acts of sabotage in Russia.

This Week in Ukraine Ep. 5 – Everything we know about Ukrainian attacks inside Russia

“This Week in Ukraine” is a video podcast hosted by Kyiv Independent’s reporter Anastasiia Lapatina. Every week, Anastasiia sits down with her newsroom colleagues to discuss Ukraine’s most pressing issues. Episode #5 is dedicated to Ukrainian attacks deep behind enemy lines – on Russian soil, and i…

The Kyiv IndependentAnastasiia Lapatina

Poland to double the size of its military

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński announced that the size of the Polish military is being nearly doubled in response to the threat posed by Russia and Belarus.

Speaking during a visit to the town of Koden near the Belarusian border on July 27, he stated that Polish military presence on the border is being strengthened as well.

Existing units are being replenished and three new divisions are being created, for a total of six, with a seventh being a possibility.

Recently, thousands of Wagner troops and heavy equipment have poured into Belarus from Russia, after the mercenaries' mutiny against the Kremlin. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said that he brokered a deal between the Kremlin and Wagner, for the mercenaries to be allowed to peacefully leave Russia in exchange for standing down. Earlier, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported that Wagner was recruiting in Belarus, with the readiness to participate in fighting in Poland and Lithuania as one of the conditions of enlistment. Officially, Belarus and Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin have said that the mercenaries are there to train Belarusian troops. Ukraine has said that its border with Belarus is secure and is being monitored.

Media: NATO to open repair center in Poland for Ukrainian equipment

NATO plans to set up a logistics and repair center for Ukrainian military equipment near Polish Rzeszow, roughly 100 km from Ukraine’s border, the Globe and Mail reported on July 28, citing Polish and Canadian officials.

The Kyiv IndependentMartin Fornusek

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wordexpress · 1 year

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Putin Makes First Visit To Occupied Territory Mariupol In Ukraine

The Russian leader took a tour of the city and was seen driving a car. The Kremlin said he visited a rebuilt musical theatre and followed the presentation of a report on reconstruction work.

Kyiv, Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to Mariupol, the Kremlin said Sunday, his first visit to territory captured from Ukraine since the start of Moscow's invasion.

The visit triggered an angry reaction from Ukraine, with a presidential aide blasting its "cynicism" and "lack of remorse".

Just hours after Putin visited Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the peninsula's annexation, video distributed by the Kremlin showed him landing by helicopter in Mariupol, the port city that Moscow captured after a long siege last spring.

The Russian leader took a tour of the city and was seen driving a car. The Kremlin said he visited a rebuilt musical theatre and followed the presentation of a report on reconstruction work.

"We're praying for you," a resident told Putin, referring to the city as "a little piece of paradise", according to images broadcast by Russian state TV which showed that the visit took place at night.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the visit took place "very late" on Saturday and into the early hours of Sunday.

It was Putin's first trip to the eastern Donbas region since he launched the invasion in February 2022, and comes almost a year after Moscow announced the capture of Mariupol.

Located on the shores of the Sea of Azov, the city was left devastated after Moscow's relentless bombardment and brutal siege.

"The criminal always returns to the crime scene... the murderer of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins of the city and (its) graves. Cynicism and lack of remorse," Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak said on Twitter.

Ukraine's defence ministry said on Twitter that Putin visited the city at night "as befits a thief".

Putin hails China's Ukraine role -

Putin also met army chiefs in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don near the border with Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

Russian state TV showed him visiting the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, during his unannounced visit to Crimea on Saturday, accompanied by the local Moscow-appointed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev.

Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 following a referendum that was not recognised by Kyiv or the international community.

Putin's weekend visits came ahead of a trip to Moscow this week by Chinese President Xi Jinping, widely seen as a diplomatic coup for the Russian leader.

On Sunday, Putin welcomed China's willingness to play a "constructive role" in ending the conflict in Ukraine.

The quality of ties between Moscow and Beijing is "higher than the political and military unions of the Cold War era", Putin said in an article written for a Chinese newspaper and published by the Kremlin on the eve of Xi's visit.

Beijing, a strategic ally of Moscow, has touted the trip as a "visit for peace" as it seeks to play mediator in the Ukraine conflict. China has sought to position itself as a neutral party, urging Moscow and Kyiv to open negotiations.

But Western leaders have repeatedly criticised Beijing for failing to condemn Russia's offensive, accusing it of providing Moscow with diplomatic cover for its campaign.

'Void' ICC warrant -

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, made no direct reference to Putin's Mariupol visit in his evening address Sunday.

But he vowed: "The evil state (Russia) will be held accountable for every act of terror against Ukrainians".

Zelensky referred again to the warrant issued last week for Putin by the International Criminal Court, describing it as "a turning point".

The Hague-based ICC had issued the warrant for Putin over Russia's alleged deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children during the conflict.

Kyiv says more than 16,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia since the start of the conflict, many of them placed in institutions and foster homes.

Justice ministers from 40 countries will meet in London on Monday to discuss boosting international support for the ICC as it investigates possible war crimes in the conflict.

"We are gathering... to hold war criminals to account for the atrocities committed in Ukraine during this unjust, unprovoked and unlawful invasion," UK Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab said in a statement.

The Kremlin has dismissed the warrant's validity as "void" since Russia does not recognise the ICC's jurisdiction.

Fighting on the ground is concentrated in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, particularly the city of Bakhmut.

Russian shelling on Sunday killed three people and injured two others in the village of Kamianske in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, the regional administration said.

#Putin #Mariupol

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ivankahasbeentreatedsounfairly · 2 years

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Ukrainian fighters being evacuated on Tuesday from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.

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KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of die-hard Ukrainian soldiers who had made a last stand against Russian forces from a Mariupol steel mill faced an uncertain future Tuesday under Kremlin custody after Ukraine’s military ordered them to surrender.

The surrender directive, issued late Monday, made the soldiers prisoners and ended the most protracted battle so far of the nearly three-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Even as Russia has struggled on other battlefronts, the surrender at Mariupol solidified one of Russia’s few significant territorial achievements — the conquest of a once-thriving southeast port. The surrender also gave Russia’s state-run media the ingredients for claiming its side was winning.

Still, Mariupol has been largely reduced to ruin, Ukrainian officials say that more than 20,000 inhabitants were killed, and the city has come to symbolize the war’s grotesque horrors.

By early Tuesday, many of the fighters ensconced in a warren of shelters under the Azovstal steel mill, a Soviet-era complex besieged by the Russians for weeks, had emerged and surrendered. They were transported to Russian-held territory aboard buses emblazoned with “Z” — the Russian emblem for what President Vladimir V. Putin has called his country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities said little about the terms of the surrender except to assert that the Ukrainian fighters were heroes and that as prisoners they would soon be exchanged for Russian prisoners held by Ukraine.

“The only thing that can be said is that the Ukrainian state is doing everything possible and impossible” to save the soldiers, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Malyar, said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

But Russian officials said nothing about an exchange — on the contrary, they raised the prospect that at least some of the prisoners would be treated as war criminals.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., said Tuesday that investigators would interrogate the captured fighters to “check their involvement in crimes committed against civilians.”

And the prosecutor general’s office asked Russia’s Supreme Court to declare the military unit to which most of the captured fighters belong, the Azov battalion, a terrorist organization. Russian news media have seized on the Azov battalion’s connections to far-right movements to provide a veneer of credibility to the Kremlin’s false claims that Russia’s forces were fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

The Russian threats against the prisoners raised questions about viability of the terms Ukraine had negotiated with Moscow to surrender, and whether the hundreds of troops still remaining inside the steel plant would abide by the deal.

News of Ukraine’s surrender order to its own fighters, widely seen domestically as heroes who have stared down deprivation and doom, was greeted with anxiety in the country, where antipathy toward Russia has only deepened since the war.

Many expressed fears that the last defenders of Mariupol would suffer as prisoners of Russia — though the most likely alternative was certain death inside the steel works.

“I am waiting for news and praying,” said Natalia Zarytska, who was part of a delegation of wives and mothers of men inside Azovstal who had sought the intervention of Turkey, which has good relations with both Russia and Ukraine, to assure a safe evacuation route for their loved ones.

The Ukrainian government sought to extol the valor of the fighters, who refused to surrender until ordered.

“83 days of Mariupol defense will go down in history as the Thermopylae of the XXI century,” Mykhailo Podolyak, one of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top advisers, said on Twitter, referring to the 480 B.C. battle in which an outnumbered force of Greeks faced a much larger Persian army. He said the defenders in Azovstal had “ruined” Russia’s plan to capture eastern Ukraine and “completely changed the course of the war.”

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dieversa · 2 years

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Black, black colours.

Black mood.

The situation in Odesa is gradually heating up. Still not a day without night and daytime air raids. Almost every day explosions are heard. The rocket that killed eight people, including a three-month-old baby, flew over my house. I saw it passing, and heard those terrifying noises. For days after that I shuddered at the slightest sound, not to mention cars driving fast. I really want the next ten days to go calmly. Relatively calm, of course. As far as it is possible in wartime conditions. I want to take a deep breath, recover, and distract myself for at least a couple of hours. But immediately I start to think of Mariupol. Incredibly brave and courageous people, Azov warriors saving civilians and sacrificing everything they have for the sake of other people. We will all never cease to admire Azov's courage, nor will we cease to pray for them, and for all those surviving in inhumane conditions in Mariupol. Every air-raid siren leaves a small scar in my soul. Even if there were no explosions or missiles in my city, I realize that it was either because of the success of our air defense system or because I think with horror that the russian missiles hit some other city, someone else's home. Several times I disassembled and reassembled the evacuation backpack. After all, I don't plan to go anywhere just yet. I have no idea how to fit my life into a single backpack, what to do with my three-generation family' library, my collection of CDs and vinyl of favorite music, photo albums from my family's archives. I really want to find the courage, the strength to see beyond the black, and to survive these difficult 10 days.

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nato-ua-alen · 2 years

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THE HEROES OF MARIUPOL, ALL UKRAINE IS PRAYING FOR YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR STRENGTH AND STRENGTH! (I would add from myself that not only Ukraine but the whole civilized world is praying) DEFENDERS OF MARIUPOLI, THE WORLD WITH YOU !!! ГЕРОЇ МАРІУПОЛЯ , ЗА ВАС МОЛИТЬСЯ ВСЯ УКРАЇНА , ДЯКУЄМО ЗА ВАШУ СТІЙКІЙСТЬ І ВИТРИМКУ ! Від себе додам, що молиться не тільки Україна, а й увесь цивілізований світ MARIUPOLIO GYNĖJAI, PASAULIS SU JUMIS !!! MARIUPOLIO HEROJAI, VISA UKRAINA MELDŽIASI UŽ JUS, AČIŪ UŽ JŪSŲ TVIRTUMĄ IR IŠTVERMĘ! ( Nuo savęs pridėsiu, jog meldžiasi ne tik Ukraina, bet ir visas civilizuotas pasaulis #mariupol #azov #azovstal #azovmariupol #азов #азовмаріуполь #азов #азовсталь #fightforua #зсу🔰 #war_blog_nato_ua_alen #ukrainewillresist #ukraina #ukrainewar #nato_ua_alen🇺🇦🇱🇹🇺🇸 #українапонадусе #українапрацюємо🇺🇦 #украіна #українапереможе #ukrainewar2014_2022 (at Мариуполь - форпост Украины) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc1IyZZqGCR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mariupol #azov #azovstal #azovmariupol #азов #азовмаріуполь #азовсталь #fightforua #зсу🔰#war_blog_nato_ua_alen #ukrainewillresist #ukraina #ukrainewar #nato_ua_alen🇺🇦🇱🇹🇺🇸#українапонадусе #українапрацюємо🇺🇦#украіна #українапереможе #ukrainewar2014_2022

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anastasiamaru · 2 years

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ruzzian propaganda telling a lot of shit about Ukrainian Military Forces"AZOV". Everyone knows ruzzia always lie

Do not believe ruzzia

💙💛Save Azov💙💛

Our Defenders 💙💛

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theculturedmarxist · 2 years

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Clara Weiss

14 November 2017

On Saturday, November 11, at least 60,000 fascist demonstrators from Poland, Hungary and Slovakia gathered in Warsaw, the Polish capital, on Poland’s “Independence Day” to stage what has been described as the biggest far-right demonstration since the fall of Nazism. Some estimates suggested as many as 100,000 participants.

The rally was organized by a variety of far-right groups, including the Polish National-Radical Camp, the National Movement and the All Polish Youth, all of which are anti-Semitic and white supremacist. The historical antecedents of these forces were responsible for violent anti-Semitic pogroms in the 1930s, and helped the Nazis hunt down Jews during the German occupation, even when they themselves were persecuted by the Nazis.

Slogans at the rally effectively called for an ethnic purge of Europe. Banners read: “White Europe of Brotherly Peoples,” “Europe will be White or Depopulated,” “Pure Poland, White Poland!” “Death to the Enemies of the Fatherland,” “Pray for Islamic Holocaust,” and “Refugees, Get Out!” Marchers waved Polish flags and carried burning torches. Some also displayed the falanga, the main symbol of Polish fascism.

Thousands of fascists and ultra-nationalists travelled from other countries to attend the march, including from Sweden, Hungary and Slovakia. The well-known American white supremacist Richard Spencer was invited to speak at the rally but was apparently banned by the Polish government from traveling to the country.

Nothing about this demonstration was spontaneous or accidental. It was a carefully planned provocation and show of strength by the Eastern European far-right, aimed at intimidating everyone opposed to the right-wing shift in European and international politics and the ever more feverish war preparations. It was consciously staged in a city that was all but destroyed in 1944 by the German Wehrmacht, and whose Jewish population was wiped out in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Poland suffered some five million losses under Nazi occupation, three million of them Jews, and was the main site of the industrial extermination of European Jewry.

The fascist forces that have now unabashedly and provocatively shown themselves in Warsaw have been strengthened and even armed, by both right-wing governments in Europe, and US imperialism.

The slogan of the demonstration was “We Want God,” the words from an old religious Polish song that US President Donald Trump quoted during his July visit to Warsaw. As the WSWS noted at the time, Trump was deliberately whipping up fascist sentiments and religious bigotry in a speech that implied support for anti-Semitism, nationalism, Catholicism and white supremacy.

Moreover, during this visit, Trump signaled the full support of the White House for Polish Law and Justice (PiS) government plans to build a so called Intermarium (between the seas) alliance of states in Eastern Europe, directed against both Russia and Germany. Historically, attempts to build such an alliance were always centered in Poland, which has thus sought to become a regional power, while relying on fascist and ultra-nationalist formations in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia. It is these forces to whom Trump appealed in his speech, and they understood it very well.

Even before the Trump administration took office, the US government had worked to strengthen the far right throughout Eastern Europe, most notably in Ukraine. The US-orchestrated coup in Kiev in February 2014 critically relied on the country’s fascist forces. They have been given almost free rein in the ongoing civil war that has ravaged the country ever since. Formations such as the Azov Battalion, which played a major role in the coup, have been employed to fight separatist troops in eastern Ukraine and terrorize the local population. Like so many far-right groups in the region, the Azov battalion openly advocates a resurrection of the Intermarium alliance.

The Law and Justice government in Warsaw has done its part to strengthen the far right ever since it won a parliamentary majority in the fall of 2015. It has constantly promoted xenophobia, anti-Semitism, nationalism and militarism. Moreover, there are an estimated 400,000 people involved in paramilitary organizations dominated by far-right ideologies in Poland, a country with a population of less than 40 million. The Defense Ministry has undertaken to arm these forces and integrate them into a paramilitary militia that is being established parallel and, to some extent, in opposition to, the country’s regular armed forces.

It is thus no accident that the Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak praised the demonstration: “It was a beautiful sight. We are proud that so many Poles have decided to take part in a celebration connected to the Independence Day holiday.” Other sections of the Polish government, including the Foreign Ministry, issued similar statements.

Polish President Andrzej Duda condemned the demonstration, arguing that there was no room for xenophobia and nationalism in Poland. Under conditions of growing social and political opposition to the PiS government, Duda has tried to distance himself from the government’s policies over the past year. But he too is responsible. Not only has he played a key role in propping up the PiS-government by playing the role of a mediating buffer between the government and the opposition. He was also one of the first to proclaim the building of an Intermarium-style alliance as official governmental policy when elected president in the summer of 2015.

The resurgence of the far-right in Eastern Europe, which was the site of some of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity, perpetrated by the German National Socialists and their local fascist allies, is a stark warning to the international working class. As in the 1930s, the bourgeoisie is preparing for war and the suppression of social revolution by building up the far right.

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okletsgoalltheway · 2 years

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"So like this, my dear friends, when you write on the internet Pray for Ukraine you, in fact, invite us to pray for this.

This is the Ukraine that Donbass has been fighting since 2014. years. This is Ukraine that has been since 2014. years to date she has killed over 15,000 Russian civilians. This is Ukraine that burned alive Russians.

This is Ukraine of the Neo-Nazist Squad "Azov" whose members were during 2014. years in Odessa, a solider with over 80 Russians burned alive in flames. This is Ukraine that covered Kiev with graffiti "Death to the Moskalis". This is Ukraine against which Russia launched an invasion.

Think well and inform yourself well before becoming a herd of sheep who automatically divides statuses and prayers without knowing who you are supporting anyone for anything.

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kd0nhm · 2 years

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So like this, my dear friends, when you write on the internet Pray for Ukraine you are in fact inviting us to pray for this. This is the Ukraine that Donbass has been fighting since 2014. years. This is Ukraine that has been since 2014. years to date she has killed over 15,000 Russian civilians. This is Ukraine that burned alive Russians. This is Ukraine of the Neo-Nazist Squad "Azov" whose members were during 2014. years in Odessa, a solider with over 80 Russians burned alive in flames. This is Ukraine that covered Kiev with graffiti "Death to the Moskalis". This is Ukraine against which Russia launched an invasion. Think well and inform yourself well before becoming a herd of sheep who automatically divides statuses and prayers without knowing who you are supporting anyone for anything. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cct3h44u_pp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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annasalatova · 2 years

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our guys from Azov💛💙 how I dream of being rescued faster, taken from this hell😭 we pray for you, our AzovStal🙏🏻

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