Gerhard Lauer 🇺🇦(lauer.bsky.social)

Reading Scientist | professor for Book Studies at Mainz | opinions are my own

[Isa Zalitatsch @IsaZalitatsch]

Russland greift Babynahrungsfabriken an.

Heute wurde die Babynahrungsfabrik „Yahotynske für Kinder“ bei Kyjiw bombardiert – ein rein ziviles Ziel, von dem Kinder und Familien abhängen. Das ist gezielter Terror gegen die Zivilbevölkerung.

4 Tote, mehrere Verletzte.

Das gehört auch zu #DontLookAway
#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

On September 4, 1965, a young Ukrainian poet stood up in a Kyiv cinema during the premiere of Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and called on the audience to rise in protest against the secret arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals.

Twenty years later to the day, on September 4, 1985, that same poet died on a hunger strike in a Soviet labor camp deep in the russian Urals.

His name was Vasyl Stus. He was 47 years old. He is one of the greatest poets Ukraine has ever produced.

Read the full story on my Substack: https://t.co/hHXEseueWF

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Moscow is killing our children. No words in the world can ever ease this unbearable pain and horror.

According to official figures alone, Russia has taken the lives of 707 Ukrainian children. Another 2,548 have been wounded and maimed by explosions. More than 20,000 have been abducted and forcibly taken from their homes. These are just dry numbers, but each one represents a lifetime of pain for a Ukrainian family.

Today, June 4, is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.

Everything the Russians are doing amounts to genocide. It is a systematic and clearly planned attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation. They deliberately target our children, committing war crimes for which there can be no justification. They are destroying our history, our memory, and trying to physically kill our future.

We will never forgive the Russians for this. There is no and will never be any justification or forgiveness for crimes committed against our children. Everyone who gave these orders and everyone who carried them out will be found and destroyed. The ground will burn beneath your feet wherever you try to hide.

There are no words that can comfort parents whose lives have been shattered forever by Russian killers. But we have a duty: to bring home every abducted child and to do everything to ensure that the truth about these crimes is heard around the world.

Eternal memory to the innocent victims of Russian terror.
Glory to Ukraine!

[Thomas Leurs 🇺🇦 @ThomasLeurs1]

Volontär in Cherson: "Heute ist Cherson die Hölle. Schon um 6 Uhr morgens gibt es keine Pause. Leider müssen wir Leute einsetzen, um nach den Beschüssen die Leichen einzusammeln. Heute gab es in Haidashko mehr als 30 Treffer. Es ist bekannt, dass 5 Menschen in ihren Wohnungen 1/

[Ralf Fuecks @fuecks]

Vernichtungskrieg. Ganze Städte werden in Trümmerhaufen verwandelt. Allein in Mariupol sind 10.000 plus X Zivilisten bei der Eroberung der Stadt ums Leben gekommen. Wir machen uns keine Vorstellung von der Gewaltsamkeit des russischen Vorgehens.

[Oleksii MAKEIEV 🇺🇦 @Makeiev]

In seiner Abendbotschaft teilt Präsident @ZelenskyyUa ein trauriges Update mit:

22 Menschen getötet, darunter 2 Kinder. 130 verletzt.

„Es ist absolut klar: Europa braucht ein eigenes Abwehrsystem gegen ballistische Raketen – mit ausreichender Stärke gegen jede Bedrohung.“

[Jan Claas Behrends @jcbehrends]

More Russian crimes

[Jan Claas Behrends @jcbehrends]

More Russian crimes

[Ibrahim Naber @IbraNaber]

Kurz nach vier Uhr hier in #Kyiv. Tausende Menschen suchen in den Metro-Stationen Schutz.

Russland greift die Stadt — und andere Regionen in der #Ukraine — seit Stunden mit Kamikazedrohnen, Marschflugkörpern und ballistischen Raketen an. Massive Explosionen, massive Schäden.

[Ukrainian Art History @ukr_arthistory]

Icon that survived after the russian missile attack on National Chornobyl museum. Museum team was working couple days to find artefacts that survived at the destroyed museum.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Russland hat heute Nacht zwei NATO-Staaten angegriffen. Ein türkisches Frachtschiff und ein rumänischer Wohnblock erlitten schwere Schäden.

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

A Kherson resident I know shared this photo: "Artillery just hit our neighborhood. One shell hit a playground.

A family I knew well was there. The father of four was killed. The mother and youngest daughter are hospitalized, in critical condition."

Russians do this. Every day.

[Omid Nouripour @nouripour]

Danke an alle, die trotz der Gefahren aus der Ukraine berichten und der Welt zeigen, was Putin jeden Tag dort anrichtet.

[Jan Claas Behrends @jcbehrends]

Russia kills kids.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Swedish Ambassador Martin Åberg visited the sites destroyed in the russian attack:

“My name is Martin Åberg, and I am the Ambassador of Sweden to Ukraine. Today is May 25, the day after a massive russian missile attack. A devastating strike on Kyiv.

What you see behind me is one of the sites visited by all invited ambassadors so they could witness the consequences with their own eyes. Six russian missiles struck a shopping center, a market, and the entrance to a metro station. It is simply staggering.”

Source: Embassy of Sweden in Kyiv

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Today, I witnessed firsthand the consequences of yesterday’s Russian attack on Kyiv.

Russia is deliberately trying to break people through fear, darkness, and constant nighttime attacks. But every such strike reveals the true nature of Putin’s regime — a regime that recognizes neither human life, nor international law, nor borders.

And the Lukashenka regime bears its share of responsibility for this because it allowed Belarusian territory to be used for aggression, for launching missiles, and for deploying Russian weapons.

But I want Ukrainians to know: Belarusians stand with you. We support Ukraine not because it is ‘politically correct’, but because we feel this pain as our own.

We see your courage after every attack. That is true strength. And I am convinced: no missile can break a nation fighting for its freedom and dignity.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

The top photo shows the Kvadrat shopping mall near Lukianivska metro station in Kyiv before the russian attacks. The bottom photo shows the aftermath of russia’s May 24 strike on the capital’s civilian infrastructure.

Help protect Ukraine’s sky:

https://t.co/4Os08VprA0

[Gerhard Lauer 🇺🇦(lauer.bsky.social) @GerhardLauer]

Schwere Raketenangriffe Russlands u.a. auf Kyjiw: Ukraine beantragt sofortige Sitzung im Uno-Sicherheitsrat https://t.co/80ApVZRTMU via @derspiegel

[Yaroslava @strategywoman]

National Art Museum in Kyiv after the attack.

Closed for an uncertain period.

According to photos published by the Ministry of Culture, there is much more damage inside.

My heart is bleeding.

[Konstantin v. Notz @KonstantinNotz]

Es ist an der Zeit, dass sich auch die letzten Ignoranten eingestehen, dass die Polarisierung und Spaltung unserer Gesellschaft, nicht nur ein Ziel von Radikalen und Extremisten in 🇩🇪 ist, sondern dass auch verschiedene Kampagnen aus Russland genau dies versuchen.