British Friends of Ukraine

Bringing together Brits to support our friends in Ukraine 🇬🇧 🇺🇦.

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Wagner Group to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK

We welcome this news, though agree with @DavidLammy and @aliciakearns that this should have happened far earlier.

We now hope other nations follow suit.

https://t.co/KacWPb2GWD

#WagnerGroup
#Wagner

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia is actively trying to evade sanctions.

The global sanctions offensive must be resumed.

Three priorities: more sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, real restrictions on the transfer of chips and microelectronics, and further blocking of the Russian financial sector.

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Ukrainians in occupied territory refused life-saving insulin unless they take Russian citizenship

https://t.co/aN5pWa7mhn

#RussianWar

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine is more than a country fighting Russian aggression.

It is a personal moral choice about what is truly valuable, what you believe in, and what your true priorities are.

This war lays a moral foundation that transcends borders. It must be humanistic. It must prevail.

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Hackers broke into 59 websites of the United Russia party.

They posted information about the losses of the army in the war with Ukraine on the portals, as well as ironic appeals to vote for the party that plunders the country and kills its citizens.

At the moment the work of the sites has been suspended.

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Russia Withdraws Military Contingent From Allied Belarus

https://t.co/5vEkyp3wGL

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Exposing how dangerous it is to have fickle, misinformed oligarchs with leverage over US national security. SpaceX & Starlink are marvelous, but if Musk's delusional "anti-war" agenda leads him to interfere with their services to Russia's advantage, it's a huge risk.

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Governor: Russian attacks in Kherson Oblast kill 3, injure 5

https://t.co/Q8kOROUCI4

#RussianWarCrimes
#RussiaIsATer

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Why doesn’t @elonmusk push for Russian troops withdrawal from Ukraine?

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Update: 1 killed, 73 injured in Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih

https://t.co/rlJSydHTb8

#RussianWarCrimes
#RussiaIsATer

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

General Staff: Ukraine advances south of Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

https://t.co/9YkyOYi1Ra

#UkraineWillWin

[Mykola Kuleba @MykolaKuleba]

10-year-old Mykyta was abducted by Russians from the #Oleshky boarding school in October last year. He and other children from the institution, including children with disabilities, were forcibly taken to Russia under the pretext of “evacuation.”

For a long time, the boy stayed in #Crimea, and then these children were moved several times across Russia so that their relatives lost track of them and could not find them. Polina did not know about her grandson's whereabouts either.

Is Mykyta alive? Is he doing well? What boarding school is he in? Mykyta's grandmother went to all the boarding schools in the Krasnodar Region to gather information about him. In despair, she found Save Ukraine's details and contacted our team. We then started working together to find him.

We discovered the boy's whereabouts thanks to our volunteers' careful and persistent work. And then, the grandmother asked us to help her get her grandson out of there. Polina couldn't manage on her own because the Russians opposed her at every opportunity and refused to hand over her grandson. The woman had to go through several interrogations. Despite all the necessary documents confirming their family ties and Polina's custody of Mykyta, she was forced to undergo a DNA test. We had to wait a long time for the results.

However, even after that, no one gave Polina the boy. After all, the director of the Oleshky boarding school, collaborator Valentyn Suk, obtained Russian citizenship for the boy illegally. He had no right to do so, as Mykyta had a legal representative in #Ukraine — his grandmother. Therefore, she was forced to take a Russian passport and custody of the boy.

This story of Mykyta's return lasted three long months. Our team helped Polina do everything the Russians wanted her to do to regain her grandson. Polina took Mykyta personally from the hands of Maria Lvova-Belova, the Ombudsman for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, for whose arrest the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in March of this year. On camera, Lvova-Belova, smiling cynically, said that she always promotes family reunification, but behind the scenes, she offered Polina a financial reward to stay with the boy in Russia. But the woman categorically refused.

Fortunately, Polina and her grandson managed to leave the territory of the Russian Federation. Now they are safe. We helped her find a proper place to live. They have a long period of rehabilitation ahead of them. They need to restore all the lost documents, and Mykyta needs to undergo a preventive examination and start treatment. After all, no one cared for him during the year he was in #Russia. You can also help with Mykyta's treatment, as his grandmother cannot work and needs to be involved in her grandson's rehabilitation.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

It seems Elon Musk did directly prevent a Ukrainian attack on the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

These were the drones that "washed ashore" in Crimea after he apparently disabled Starlink connectivity in the area last year, according to Isaacson's biography of Musk.

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Official: 'United Russia' HQ destroyed in Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid sham elections

https://t.co/D1246ImGvd

#UkrainiansWillResist

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

Military: Ukraine controls most of #Klishchiivka in #Donetsk Oblast

https://t.co/VcP9fwgVXI

#UkraineWil

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Brits have been consistently unafraid to stare down Russian threats of escalation—threats which, so far, remain just that.

UK planes protecting Ukraine ships from Russian attack after grain deal collapse https://t.co/LbQWanBkFk

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

22-year-old British volunteer Sam Newey died defending Ukraine.

Sam previously studied psychology at Birmingham University. After the full-scaleinvasion began, he decided to join the fight.

Daniel Newey, Sam’s elder brother, shared news of his death in a tribute posted on social media: “I cannot put into words how broken I feel. I also cannot emphasise how proud I am of my little brother. He’d just turned 21 when he decided to answer the call and travel to Ukraine to push back against Russian imperialism. Sam, you gave your life for people you never knew and acted with courage, morality and honour. Not only are you my little brother, but you’re an exceptional man, a good soldier and one of the bravest people I ever had the privilege of knowing.”

Eternal memory and eternal glory to Hero!

[Cecilie H. 🇳🇴🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇹🇼 @JusticeCici]

High time! May other nations follow!

[British Friends of Ukraine @BritFriendsUkr]

We agree. Justice needs to be served.

[Jade McGlynn @DrJadeMcGlynn]

Hopefully the U.K. will extradite him to face justice

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

just how deeply Nazi Ukraine has to be so it ends up with a Jewish president and a Muslim defense minister leading the fight against russia? outrageous 🫠

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The "peace now" crowd, the "Ukraine can't win" crowd, they are fixated on past & hypothetical aggression & imperialism by the West, not by the current and actual genocidal acts of dictatorships Russia and China. They define escalation only in opposing them. Their agenda is clear.