Noah Haglund

Ex-newsman. Alum @Everettherald @postandcourier @islandpacket @cyprusmail. Truth broker. Tweets and opinions are my own ... and I'll own them. X is garbage.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

On March 6, 2023, a short video spread across the world. It lasted only 12 seconds, but in that time it opened the eyes of millions of people to the true price of freedom.
In the video, a Ukrainian prisoner of war stands in a dug-out “grave,” taking a drag from a cigarette. Russian soldiers stand around him. He calmly looks ahead and says only two words: “Slava Ukraini!” (Glory to Ukraine!)
In response, a burst of automatic gunfire is heard.
That day, the world witnessed one of the most brutal war crimes committed by the Russian army. And Ukraine saw the birth of a new Hero.
It was later revealed that the man in the video was Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a fighter of the 163rd Battalion of the 119th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of Chernihiv region.
His story was later told by The Wall Street Journal in an article titled: “How the Last Act of Defiance by a Ukrainian Soldier Made Him a Hero.”
On December 30, 2022, Matsievskyi and a group of fighters moved to a forest belt near the village of Chervona Hora, not far from Bakhmut. Their mission was to support Ukrainian units defending their positions.
A group of five soldiers, including Oleksandr, tried to hold back the Russian advance. According to his comrades, the enemy attacked in waves, literally stepping over the bodies of their own dead.
Sergeant Vasyl Zamola later recalled that Russian forces managed to outflank their position—exactly where Matsievskyi and his comrades were stationed. Ukrainian soldiers tried several times to break through to them, but the enemy fire was too intense.
When night fell, the platoon had to withdraw to safer positions.
“Otherwise we all would have been killed,” his comrades explained.
After the battle, Oleksandr was listed as missing in action.
His mother, Paraskovia Demchuk from Nizhyn, had last spoken with her son on December 29. When rumors about losses in the battalion appeared, she began to worry. Later, his comrades informed her that her son had gone missing.
On February 9, the police called her. At the morgue she identified her son by a scar above his eyebrow and a birthmark on his leg. His body was riddled with bullets.
She buried her son, but at that time she still did not know exactly how he had died.
Only in March 2023 did Paraskovia accidentally see online the short video of the execution of a Ukrainian soldier.
The soldier in the video was her son.
His comrades immediately confirmed it. Later, the Security Service of Ukraine officially identified the fighter. It was sniper Oleksandr Matsievskyi.
His last words became a symbol of unbreakable spirit.
Oleksandr was born in Moldova, where his mother had once gone to work at a shoe factory. He grew up athletic and worked as an electrician. For some time he lived and worked in Russia, but in 2008 he returned with his family to Nizhyn.
When the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Matsievskyi joined the Territorial Defense without hesitation.
By December 8, 2022, he was already near Bakhmut. For him and many of his comrades, it was their first real combat experience.
But even in captivity he remained a warrior.
His comrades, whose remains were found beside him, are buried next to him in Nizhyn.
“He showed that the spirit of Ukraine is unbreakable,” his mother told The Wall Street Journal.
Later, Oleksandr Matsievskyi was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.
His final words are now known all over the world.
And they sound like a reminder:
in the struggle for freedom, even a single voice can become the symbol of a nation.
Eternal memory to the Hero 🕯️

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

The Iranians and their Russian allies had four years of target practice on Ukrainian cities to improve their Shahed drones. And most of the world smiled politely and thought it is just the Ukrainians’ unfortunate problem.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Rod Stewart calls out “draft dodger” Trump for denigrating the service of allied combat vets, and says that PM Keir Starmer must insist that Trump publicly apologize.

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

Powerful stuff. Worth watching and listening.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Incredible and inevitable—

Police chief says ICE agents violated his own officers' civil rights while off-duty.

A female officer was boxed in by ICE agents who demanded her papers, pulled their guns on her, and knocked her phone down as she tried to film

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

Two years ago, Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram (and his teammate Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Chris Chambers) went missing during a nighttime seizure operation off the coast of Somalia.

Gage and I are from the same hometown in Texas; we ran in some of the same circles in high school and college. Believe me when I say Gage is missed deeply, daily, by so many people who loved him. In even his final moments he displayed the immense selflessness typical of those who knew him; when Chambers fell in the eight-foot swells, officials said, Gage jumped in after him in an attempt to save him.

Please spare a thought today for his family who I know would give anything to hug him one more time.

You can read more about Gage and who he was here...
https://t.co/BiiQ02H6m4

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@thomaschattwill The reactions on the right have shades of hamasniks on Oct. 7.

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

THIS is leadership.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Czech President Petr Pavel attending an AC/DC concert in Prague

🇨🇿🇦🇺

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

See how it works.

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@yashar Allowed to travel ... One way to El Salvador???

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@realDonaldTrump What about adequately staffing the existing federal detention facilities?

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated?

That wasn’t funny. It was scary.

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@juliaioffe Raging for Lacoste

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@juliaioffe Lobbying for the Machine

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@juliaioffe Golf Digest

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

BE PATIENT!!!

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

@AGHamilton29 You are right AND I think you could find plenty of counter examples. So please don't lazily slam "the media."

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

OMG does RFK Jr. know about this?

[Noah Haglund @NWhaglund]

GRU tailgating on DOGE? Or worse?

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

The most daming claim in this statement IMO:

Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.

2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.