‼️ As a result of the Russian missile attack on Chernihiv, 10 people were killed and another 20 were injured.

There may still be people under the rubble. Rescue operation continues

UPD: The number of people killed as a result of the Russian missile attack increased to 11, and another 22 people were injured

UPD2: More than 50 people have already been injured in Chernihiv as a result of the Russian terrorist attack, among them are children

Kyiv this morning (January the 2nd) was mass shelled by russia with drones and ballistic missiles. I spent all the morning in a storage room that serves as a shelter in my house. Some of the missiles were flying over my head to Kyiv. My friends are saying it was really loud and in some cases debris fell not so far from their homes. There are injured people.

Kharkiv also were under a brutal attack, there are injured and dead.

Happy New Year from a fucking russia.

Don't ever forget that russia is a terrorist state

those bastards buying out Mariupol real estate. the bombed out buildings. apartments people died in. because it's cheap and they expect the cost to raise so they can literally make money on Ukrainians' graves.

and this is your everyday average russian citizen.

they

do

not

care

Imagine waking up in the morning and the first thing you know is that russia committed another war crime/ecocide/crime against humanity. The reservoir cools down Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and gives water to the North Crimean Canal (hew, remember how russian claimed that they attacked Ukraine because they needed water to the occupied Crimea?). Hundred of villages and towns will be drowned just in a few hours. Thousands of people will lose their homes. 

I can’t even start to describe how vile it is, how angry and heartbroken I am right now. 

russia delenda est

I see other Ukrainians writing about their memories from 24.02.2022, when the full scale invasion started... it is true that that day is seared in the memory clearer than any of the actually good days in life.

Somehow, everyone in my twitter feed was anticipating it to start on that day in particular. I remember going to bed on the 23rd having just put my new bedsheets on it, and checking social media before sleep. The last tweet I saw before falling asleep was, "Kharkiv, hold on tight, our dears". Everyone assumed they would invade just from the east. There was still this very foolish trust in Belarus present then...

And then at around 5AM I got woken up by the sounds of distant explosions. I got up and walked to the window, looking at the horizon, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. I took my phone, saw that our work group chat was buzzing with messages - my colleagues had also been woken up. I was still standing by the window when my mother come into my room, crying, saying that it had begun.

I turned on my work computer and got on video chat with some of my coworkers. Nobody knew what to do, but talking to each other on video made us feel ever so slightly lost.

And then followed several days and nights of sitting in a basement. To the sound of fighter jets flying low right above us, so loud it made the walls hum, and not knowing whose jets they were. To the sounds of explosions, of artillery launching. To the sounds of fierce battles in Bucha and Irpin, which I live just a few kilometers away from.

The basement we were in was tiny and later deemed categorically unfit to function as a bomb shelter. If the house had been hit, we would have all been just buried there. But that would all be later...

A Georgian man was killed by Russian occupiers on our own territory because he crossed an occupation line and literally no one will be held accountable because as always Russia gets its way silently killing Georgians for decades

today is 24.02.2024

two years since russia started a full scale invasion in my country Ukraine.

>provoking retaliation shut the fuck up and fulfill your end of the Budapest memorandum already

Russia still detains 204 Ukrainians (123 of them are Crimean Tatars), 150 are imprisoned.

one of them being Leniye Umerova, 25-year-old Crimean Tatar who was going to visit her cancer-stricken father in Crimea and is illegally detained by Russians in a pre-trial detention center

❗Two people were killed and 15 injured as a result of a Russian missile attack on the Dnipro in the morning

2-3 March

At least 12 people were killed due to a drone strike on a residential building in Odesa. 5 of them are children. 2 babies, 3 y.o toddler, 12 y.o boy and his 8 y.o sister.

I can't breathe. I hate ruzzia so freaking much.

RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST STATE

turn up the volume and listen to these cries. this used to be a zoo “Kazkova Dibrova” in Nova Kahovka, housing around 300 animals. it is reported to be fully submerged under water now. animals could not be evacuated because the land around the zoo was mined by russians (it is currently in occupied territories). many if not all animals died from drowning and i wish russians the same fate. russia delenda est.

UPD: a Ukrainian animal activist organisation UAnimals spoke to the administration of the zoo, they confirmed that animals drowned except for swans and ducks. “We tried so hard to keep the zoo alive in occupation but now it just doesn’t exist anymore”.💔

When I was a child and visited my grandma in her village, there was a task I hated to do - picking up the fallen unripe apples and pears in her garden. It was boring, and the sun always was a little too bright, but every day my grandma asked me to do so. What was the point? She fed these fallen fruits to her cows, telling me that 'milk will be sweeter.'

Maybe, there was truth here, but not the whole.

The more significant thing was that she couldn't stand to leave food to spoil. Even tiny and sour unripe apples.

How could she, the woman who survived Holodomor in her childhood and the famine of 1946-1947 in her late adolescence? The woman who counted grams of bread to share with her mother and watched as her neighbors starved to death?

And now, when I read news about the destroyed harvest, I remember her keenly. Once I thought that our generation had to heal this trauma, but instead, it deepened and prolonged further.

I simply wish russians to burn in hell for every single grain they destroy now and then.

You see, from what I have witnessed, people outside of Ukraine are getting an incredibly sanitized version of this war's events. It's all part of the bigger practice, obviously. Just like the topics of ww2 are being sanitized in education.

When a prominent Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko had a public reading of her book in Zurich, she was explicitly warned to not mention the war, because "that would be traumatizing for the audience". They don't want to even hear anything that would be traumatizing!

Well guess what: it should be traumatizing. Nobody should be comfortable with this. Or with what has been happening in Syria, or Myanmar, or anywhere else.

"Kyiv still stands 😎" our allies say, because it's comfortable to say that and not "Mariupol lies in ruins, Mariinka, Volnovakha and Bakhmut are wiped off the face of the Earth, and we are still refusing to provide the aid Ukraine has been requesting for more than a year now after we made it give up on its defense capabilities in the first place".

I keep thinking about all the mass graves that we keep discovering on the liberated territories. And about all the mass graves that keep growing on the still occupied territories. About torture chambers, about filtration camps, about the mass kidnappings of children. About all the rape, organised, sanctioned. I keep thinking about the 7-year old girl whose body was recovered from one of the mass graves, with traces of sperm from 7 different men on her. About the children whose parents were tortured, raped and executed in front of them. And vice versa. About photos and videos of human heads russians put up on tree branches and poles near their positions.

Feeling uncomfortable? Good. You should be.