Lesya Covert

Eastern Europe, Ukraine, diplomacy, politics, media, international development

[Iryna Voichuk @IrynaVoichuk]

❗️An 8-year-old girl was killed in a russian attack on Pavlohrad.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Kateryna fled occupied Mariupol and rebuilt her business in Kyiv. The latest russian strike destroyed it too.

"I have ten sets of keys, but nothing left to open. One fit my Mariupol apartment, eight fit the shops we lost there. The last one fits my Kyiv shop that burned down." 💔

russia keeps stealing our lives, homes, and future — over and over again.

Source: Yana Osadcha.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Today Kharkiv laid to rest first responders killed by the russian double tap strike on June 15. Dmytro Boiko, Danylo Tishchenko, Serhiy Makovetskyi, Vadym Zinchenko and Oleksiy Dorozhkin. We will not forget. 💔 russia is a terrorist state.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

3 people have been killed after Russians targeted pedestrians in Nikopol with an FPV drone.

​Attack killed an 87-year-old woman and her 51-year-old son. Police are still identifying the 3rd victim.

First-person view (FPV) drones allow real-time control and vision, meaning the operators saw perfectly well that they were killing an elderly woman in a wheelchair.

Doing it was their conscious choice!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

To understand the scale of today’s Russian crime against humanity’s historical heritage: it is the equivalent of bombing St. Peter’s Basilica in a war of conquest against Italy, or Notre-Dame de Paris against France, Westminster Abbey against Britain, or Aachen Cathedral.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

During last night's Russian attack, 42,000 people, including 3,400 children, took shelter in the Kyiv metro.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

9:00 AM. Every day, Ukraine stops.

Cities go quiet. Traffic stills. Voices fall silent. For one minute, nothing moves — only memory.

Ukraine remembers those who stood in its defense and did not come home. Those who gave their lives for the right of Ukraine to be free, strong and unbroken. Those whose names live not only in history — but in the heart of every Ukrainian.

Freedom is not abstract here. It has faces. It has names. It has families who still set a place at the table.

Every morning at 9:00, Ukraine remembers why it stands — and for whom it keeps going.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Firefighters are rescuing paintings from a burning art museum in Kharkiv after a Russian Shahed strike.

This is Russia’s Biennale material.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The Kharkiv Art Museum after today's Russian attack.

Destroying Ukrainian history, art, language, and cultural identity is a page from an old Russian playbook.

Cultural genocide is what they do.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Video of the fire inside the Lavra complex struck by Russia‼️

​The damage is severe, with a massive fire. Russians deliberately targeted the heart of one of Christendom's greatest shrines!

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Nineteen russian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and Shahed drones are raining down on Kyiv right now. This is horrific.

The UNESCO-listed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra has been targeted. A thousand years of Ukrainian history, faith, and culture are once again under attempted destruction.

Why would people who claim to be Christians ever align with russia?

Photo: Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia is carrying out hundreds of strikes against Ukrainian cities and communities, attacking our civilian infrastructure every day. This past week alone, the Russians have launched 1,920 attack drones, 1,790 guided aerial bombs, and 17 missiles of various types against Ukraine. We need to step up our countermeasures against these attacks. We are preparing for meetings with partners to strengthen our defense against this Russian terror. The G7, EU, and NATO summits are ahead. And it is very important that these negotiations result in concrete decisions. We expect meaningful meetings with our partners.

First and foremost, we need support for air defense and our long-range capabilities, an expansion of cooperation in the Drone Deals format, and further strengthening of sanctions pressure on Russia. We must end this war in a dignified way and with guaranteed security. And it is through strength, the unity of partners, and pressure on Russia that this can be achieved in a lasting way. I thank everyone who is helping us!

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Being unable to achieve its goals on the battlefield, Russia increases terror against civilians. The world cannot close eyes to its scale.

At least three people were killed, including a pregnant 22-year-old woman, in Chuhuiv, as a result of Russia’s overnight terrorist attacks on Kharkiv and its region.

In Zaporizhzhia, Russian strikes killed at least two people and injured over thirty, including children. In Chernihiv, Russians struck an ordinary truck that delivered bread, injuring its 55-year-old driver. Other regions have been under attack as well.

Russia has already committed over 200,000 war crimes in Ukraine in the course of its full-scale invasion. It must be held accountable.

We urge the world to ramp up pressure on the Russian regime and further increase the cost of this terror for the aggressor.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

This is Iryna, she was only 18.

Yesterday, she passed away after a week-long battle for her life, succumbing to severe injuries sustained during the russian attack on Kyiv on June 2nd🕯

Iryna was a sophomore, studying psychology at Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University.

Russia killed her for being Ukrainian.

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 Horrific scenes from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. A Russian drone struck a residential neighborhood in broad daylight, killing at least two people and injuring 15 others. Russia knows it cannot win on the battlefield, so it continues to unleash terror on civilians.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

In a deliberate act of ecocide, 3yrs ago today russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam, murdering people, causing a minimum of $14 billion in damage, flooding villages and towns, devastating ecosystems, and killing animals.

We must not allow russia to whitewash itself.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range sanctions carried out by the warriors of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have yielded good results. Important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night.

Among them was the Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine’s state border to this facility of Russia’s oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 kilometers. Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit.

Another target was an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons. The distance from the frontline is almost 600 kilometers.

I thank our warriors for their precision. Ukraine’s plan for long-range sanctions is being implemented exactly as needed to bring peace closer. Glory to Ukraine!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

😭🕯 Veronika Chuyan, a 29-year-old mother, was killed yesterday during the Russian attack on Kyiv. She was running to a bomb shelter, desperately trying to get her children to safety.

​She was trying to save her two little boys, aged 5 and nearly 3.

​A Russian missile exploded right next to the family. Veronika died on the spot. Her eldest son is now in the hospital; he suffered severe injuries and underwent emergency surgery. Her youngest child escaped with only bruises.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.

Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.

White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.

Russia is cancer.

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

russians killed 11 people, including three children, just in this house in Dnipro today.