Dana Bogatko

The world is pretty cool, ja feel? Northeastern '20

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

for those still skeptical that russia stands for absolute evil, watch this.

[… @mrmuskisacunt]

Italian PE teacher explaining long jump.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

There are no civilized words to describe how deeply fascist today's russia is. Or those in the world who agree to accept this kind of behavior.

Starving, castrating, beheading, raping, slaughtering, land-grabbing - this is today's #russia.

#StandWithUkraine #NaziRussia

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Instead of a thousand words.

Ukrainian Azovstal Defender in Russian court.

Russia must pay.

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

the entire downtown of Chernihiv covered in glass, blood and debris. you can see some survivors are fully paralyzed by shock and terror. russians aimed at the busiest part filled with people enjoying their Saturday morning strolls

russia is a terrorist death cult.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I FUCKING WONDER WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO DID THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

This is how Minsk looked three years ago. It was the largest protest in Belarusian history. Hundreds of thousands came together for freedom. That day was filled with great hope for the future. The dream of a free Belarus remains alive & together, we'll continue pushing forward.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

And I ask everyone to remember: a counteroffensive is not a scripted action thriller designed to send adrenaline surging through spectators, culminating in a satisfying finale. It is the relentless, grinding endeavor of our military, paid for in blood, by soldiers, many of whom will not see home again.

We must not forget that our reality is far from a Hollywood spectacle. We are all tired, we all want to win as quickly as possible. But we, gritting our teeth, battling courageously on our respective fronts.

Ukraine will prevail, though the cost may be steep. Just believe in us 🇺🇦

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Lviv....our most European-looking city.
And now this, Russian Kalibr missiles. This is what European cities would look like if we went on "not provoking Putin" and "calling on both sides to de-escalate" instead of confronting the aggressor.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Peaceful, beautiful Lviv is about 70km from Poland, about 1000km from the front. Russia’s attack on Lviv this morning served no military aim. Their goal was simple: murder of Ukrainians. This is a war crime & an act of terrorism.
#RussiaIsATerroristState #SpecialTribunalNow

[brittany spanos @ohheybrittany]

can’t believe two of the most critical elements of any press cycle now involve eating chicken

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I love it how the whole of Russian Z-snakepit is now twisting hands in its dramatic rant:

"The Motherland is in danger, the Russian blood is being spilled, and a civil war is underway now"
"There's now fratricide, a stab in the back upon the regular military that is heroically holding on to the front line amid overwhelming assaults"
"In the gruesome hour of hardship and trouble, men of honor need to show their integrity and save our common Mother Russia, which is waging a sacred defensive war with the most evil enemy."
"No matter what happens now in Moscow, dear brothers, keep killing those hohols with anything you have in your hands. There's nothing more important than Russia."

You bunch of sorry-ass morons, with your delusional dictator obsessed with his wretched ego and idiotic pseudo-historic conspiracy theories, unleashed the biggest war of aggression in Europe since Adolf Hitler.

Because you thought you are here to rule the world, you were entitled to anything you want, and there was no one to say no and fight back.

You were sure you were going to have breakfast in Kyiv and then dine in Lviv, just like that.

As a result, some 16 months ago, you sustained a stunning, humiliating defeat in what was one of the lamest, most incompetent, and overconfident attempts to run a blitzkrieg operation against a large European nation.

You continued in the most absurd way possible, simply sweeping cities off the face of the earth only for the sake of declaring them "liberated" and claiming yet another "major victory over Nazis and NATO" in capturing yet another hog farm lost somewhere in Luhansk Oblast.

For many months, you were fighting your senseless 10-day "special military operation" the way not a single military power or a nation can afford with such gains.

Just for the sake of never admitting defeat, you did and normalized the most unimaginable things for the 21st century.

Atrocities and mass graves, masses of suicidal prisoners sent to die in meat grinder assaults, castration, beheading, mutilation, the leveling of major cities full of the civilian population, nuclear threats, bombing campaigns to strip a European nation of heating and electricity in the middle of winter, the worst man-made ecological disaster since Chornobyl, the unprecedented occupation and militarization of the biggest European nuclear power plant.

You sustained the most unbelievable failures that completely revealed what was underneath all those years of propagandistic bravado and eye-washing.

You turned the whole of Donbas into a depopulated desert of ruins and fields of dead bodies scattered as far as the eye can see. You senselessly slaughtered countless thousands of forcibly mobilized males of Donbas who were naive and foolish enough to trust and welcome you in 2014.

For your idiotic war that has no goal and no plan other than letting Putin sit on the throne for just another day, you raised a monster -- a giant mercenary army, the meat-grinding machine that is now strong and bold enough to turn its jaws against you.

Now you poor pieces of Nazi scum, enjoy drowning in the pile of shit of your own making.

You are done.

Ukraine was your end.

You had it coming.

And history will remember this as the most insanely idiotic war ever.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

The counteroffensive is just beginning. It’ll be long & bloody. Victory will come at a high price, made all the higher by Western aid dithering & delays. But victory will come, with your help. Keep the pressure on your politicians & media. Keep donating & mobilizing for #Ukraine

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

Amazing that Russia is attacking Kyiv while five African leaders (including South African President Ramaphosa) are in the city on a peacemaking effort that takes them to St. Petersburg tomorrow to meet with Putin…

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

An overnight Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih killed 11 people and injured 36; Western allies are continuing to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs to end Russia's all-out war; Ukraine is gaining ground against Russia; and more. https://t.co/aH7BVJXWhN

[Dana Bogatko @danabogatko]

Please read.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I remember a moment in early March 2022, during the Battle of Kyiv. Russians were breaking into Irpin from the northwest, the Bucha-Vorzel side, and the Warsaw Highway.

There was an insane mess - lots of civilians leaving their cars behind and trying to make it across a destroyed bridge leading to Kyiv City with the help of the military.

And lots of pickup trucks with smiling Ukrainian Territorial Defense fighters rushing through the streets of Irpin towards the contact line to reinforce the military deterring the Russian push. Of course, it was loud as fuck, with artillery rounds whistling overheads.

And also reporters -- many walking by themselves toward the kill zone, too. We were seeing each other in the streets of Irpin and waving greetings from a distance or getting together to talk a bit and move on.

Writers, photographers... Ukrainians, foreigners. Some were wearing vests and helmets and some were walking light-handed like myself. You see a person marked PRESS voluntarily and knowingly walking into that hell on earth - and you know that's your brother or sister in dedication.

THAT was the real thing. That was the attitude and the nerve to go and see, to feel it, to learn to memorize, and then tell the world a little bit of how it really is to be at that gate of hell.

And that blind and primitive bothsidism we're seeing these days... it's just about the failure to do the job -- to research, to care, to assume responsibility, and then to tell what you have to report on an issue, being ready to answer for the honesty of one's work.

It's very easy to just state, "this side says this, that side says that, look, we're so awesome and objective." This war is not a fucking soccer game in which both sides are morally equal and play by the same rules.

The world needs journalists not just for blindly reprinting whatever militaristic, propaganda-based dictatorial regimes have to say -- but for finding out the real, right thing to stand for.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

While the Russian evil is terrorizing and destroying all living things, we are doing and will continue to do everything to save every living creature!

Thousands and thousands of animals are trapped in the flood after the destruction of the dam and other structures of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by Russia.

We remember that humanity means taking care not just of each other, but of all living beings. We, Ukrainians, save and protect lives. Thank you to everyone who helps!

@United24media

[Andrei V Kozyrev @andreivkozyrev]

Give 🇺🇦 weapons to win. What the president says is the only solution to the war with a promise of a lasting peace.
In the UN diplomatic language, that should be understandable to all UN members, including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa
https://t.co/EO7fHAdlFs

[Paul Massaro, PhD @apmassaro3]

russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Dam is a truly horrific act of terrorism and ecocide. Sickening evil on a massive scale. Give Ukraine everything. Stop russian terrorism

[Paul Massaro, PhD @apmassaro3]

If we do not respond decisively to this horrific act of terror and ecocide, russia will orchestrate a disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant next