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FT – Saturday 24th December 2022 : Lunch with the President Zelenskyy’s wife Mrs Zelenska … Excellent article about what it is like in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Community in Ireland Retweeted
31 years ago Russia abused the UN Charter and usurped USSR’s seat at the UN Security Council — bypassing the only legitimate procedure set by the Charter. Russia’s presence at the UNSC and the UN as a whole is illegitimate. Ukraine’s official statement:
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Ukrainian Community in Ireland
Christmas is special in so many ways. These days also mark the collapse of the Soviet Union, a yet another rendition of the Russian empire. USSR’s anthem “an unbreakable union” reminds us that no evil will last forever. Image from this book
https://twitter.com/ababahalamaha/status/1198185789169029120
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Message to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gerasimov from Russian artillerymen near Bakhmut.
Wagner mercenaries call Russian MoD’s Chief of Staff “piece of shit” on camera. “You are a piece of shit ..where are the shells? We have no shells anymore here [at Bahmut]”. Prigozhin says he has “nothing to say about this video”, essentially endorsing the attack on Gerassimov.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English) Retweeted
In defending themselves against an aggressor who disputed their country’s right to exist as an independent state, Ukrainians found a new sense of national unity in 2022
Our country of the year for 2022 can only be Ukraine
For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully
Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English)
On this day in 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR under Declaration number 142-H. The day before the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and declared the office extinct.
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More videos of a Russian bank panic, likely leading to a run on Russian banks: Putin & Prigozhin now increase rhetoric that the oligarchy must start paying more…But first they’ll fleece the poor &pensioners. Time for Swan Lake
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More and more evidence appearing online of a run on Russian banks. In the videos posted, banks are either out of cash as long lines form by ATMs or are giving fake reasons for why people can’t withdraw their money. The Russian Ruble is down nearly 20% to the USD in recent weeks
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Russia places Christo Grozev, the boss of Bellingcat, on wanted list for exposing Russia’s lies about the war in Ukraine. He’s been one of the most effective investigative journalists in the world and this shows how sensitive Putin is to the truth
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Reporting the facts is a crime in Putin’s Russia. This doesn’t stop Meduza from doing its job: helping our millions of readers to maintain access to reliable information about Russia and its actions in this monstrous war. And we need your support.
Meduza brings reliable news to millions of readers. Help us continue our mission.
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Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter illuminated the Motherland-Mother monument in Kyiv Photo: Oleksandr Tkachenko
Wishing everyone a #MerryChristmas & my heartfelt thanks for your support this year. In memory of the thousands killed & wounded in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, I thought I’d remember the city from Jan this year. Less than a month later, Russia started reducing it to rubble.
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Sanctions do work, it just takes time
Get ready everyone: Russia is preparing its wunderwaffe the “Armata” tank to send it to the so-called “special operation” zone There is, however, a high chance that the “special operation” will be over following a glorious retreat before this piece of metal makes it to
Ukrainian soldier Vasyl Buba survived torture and abuse in Russian captivity:
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OPINION Lessons from History: Russia’s Repression of the Bashkirs How one ethnic group indigenous to #Russia has fought long and hard for the same things #Ukraine is fighting for today. Read more on our website.
kyivpost.com Lessons from History: Russia’s Repression of the Bashkirs | KyivPost How one ethnic group indigenous to Russia has fought long and hard for the same things Ukraine is fighting for today.
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While the West worries about Putin using nuclear weapons, Mariupol already looks like it has been hit by an atom bomb
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Volodymyr Tretyak
@VolodyaTrety
Newly recorded footage from the left bank of #Mariupol. The city is razed to the ground.
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“Putin’s folly to go all out against Ukraine has set in motion a process that can’t be reversed. The once-nebulous concept of Eastern Europe as a backwater of the West has been all but dismantled.”
politico.eu Ukraine: A battle over the future of Europe Andrew A. Michta is dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security and a
LE MONDE: The forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is part of Vladimir Putin’s project “to erase the Ukrainian identity and nation,” say a group of French intellectuals and child psychiatrists
Russia brings only sorrow. #RuWarCrimesUW #ISAREdnannia
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Kryvorivnia in the West of Ukraine. What Legendary Hutsul Koliada looks like. And after all the evil Russia brought to Ukraine, the light of our hearts continues to illuminate our path to the victory.
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Grozev has long been a thorn in the Kremlin’s side, having played key roles in a number of Bellingcat’s most explosive investigations including that into the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Kremlin Places Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev on Wanted List
Russia’s Interior Ministry placed Christo Grozev, the lead Russia journalist with the open-source investigative journalism group
Grozev has long been a thorn in the Kremlin’s side, having played key roles in a number of Bellingcat’s most explosive investigations including that into the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Kremlin Places Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev on Wanted List
Who Watches the Watchers? 