Ukrainians have been fighting for hundreds of years for the right to freedom and a free country. We don't need tips on democracy.
We need the support to stop Russian crimes so they won't endanger the elections.
And not only in Ukraine.
Tens of thousands of kilometres of Ukraine are occupied by Russian criminals. Millions of people have left, and millions of people are being held hostage by the Russians.
Should Ukraine ignore the right to vote of all these people?
Holding elections in Ukraine in 2024 is an idiotic and dangerous idea.
It’s obvious for any sane person except some politicians, idiots and, of course, pro-Russian activists who know how it will harm Ukraine.
(I still can’t believe I am writing this 🧵)
Contra the ever-charming @SuellaBraverman, rough sleeping isn't a "lifestyle choice". Taking tents away from rough sleepers & punishing charities giving them out won't fix anything, just make people's lives harder.Sign now to get these plans scrapped: https://t.co/KEt0DS7yDm
I can tell you all one place in Europe that definitely has not seen an uptick in antisemitic violence in the last few weeks - Ukraine.
After everything that has been said about this country and her people, I feel like this should be more widely acknowledged.
From October 27th to November 4th, 86 years ago, the Soviet authorities massacred over a thousand people in the Sandarmokh forest.
Among them were prominent Ukrainian writers and poets, artists, scientists, dramatists, and other luminaries shot in the back of their heads in the pine forest on an autumn day.
In Ukraine, they are known as the Executed Renaissance.
Poet Mykola Zerov, the founder of “Berezil” theater Les Kurbas, educators Antin, Ostap, and Bogdan Krushelnytskyi, writers Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Mykola Kulish, Pavlo Filipovych, Geo Shkurupiy, Myroslav Irchan, Oleksa Vlyzko, Valeryan Polischuk, Hryhorii Epik, Marko Voronyi, Oleksa Slisarenko, Mykhailo Yalovyi, historians Matviy Yavorskii, Serhii Hrushevskyi, and many others.
Overall, about six thousand people from sixty different ethnic groups were killed here in 1937–1938.
The USSR hid this crime for five decades, until its demise. Only in 1997 did a group of Russian historians discover the massacre site after lengthy searches.
This group, “Memorial”, is currently being oppressed and labeled a “foreign agent” by Putin’s dictatorship. Sandarmokh's leading researcher, historian Yuri Dmitriev, was arrested twice in 2016 and 2018, and was sentenced to 13 years in jail in 2020.
Those who believe Moscow began its plan to annihilate Ukraine and erase Ukrainian identity in 2022 or even 2014 should read more about Sandarmokh, the Holodomor genocide, and other horrible crimes committed over the ages.
These crimes have never been properly prosecuted or punished. And it is precisely this total impunity that has enabled the Russian evil to commit horrible atrocities in Bucha, Izyum, Mariupol, and elsewhere.
Ukraine must win this war and bring evil to justice, no matter how long it takes, to ensure Ukrainians right’ to live in peace and safety in their homeland.