For those surprised by pictures from Bucha, a little 🧵
1570. Ivan the Terrible terminates autonomy of Veliky Novgorod. Women and children were massacred, churches burnt and looted. About 20 thousand people died, numerous were deported. Following famine did the rest.
“We need Greenland for national security”
“We need Greenland for natural resources”
“Greenland is in our backyard”
“The people of Greenland aren’t governed well”
Now replace “Greenland” with “Crimea” and you have Kremlin talking points about Ukraine.
This is a problem.
🇺🇦Charity concert of classical music „Symbols“
10.12 – 19:00
📍St James's Church, Sussex Gardens
❤️🩹in support of the Ukrainian Action Heroes rehabilitation program for veterans
£22 can change a life — get your ticket and support recovery
🎫 link below
🙏🏻Please, repost & share
Друзі, сподіваємось на силу твітеру
- потрібно поширити наш благодійний концерт, на якому збиратимемо кошти для реабілітації!
10.12 о 19:00📍St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, London
Чудова нагода послухати класичну музику та зробити добру справу на Різдво 🎄
Приходь🤝🏻 поширюй
""I spent the entire night in a shelter yesterday. The entire night.
Listening to explosions, feeling the walls shake, praying that this wasn't my last day.
And then I wake up to comments saying they 'don't believe the Western media,' that what's happening in Ukraine isn't real."
Do you know how insulting that is?
How painful it feels to read something so careless after watching fear, chaos, and destruction with my own eyes?
Kyiv was massively attacked last night not military bases, not empty fields. Residential buildings. Schools. Homes. Hit with cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and Shahed drones actual weapons of war designed to kill, destroy, erase.
People woke up today homeless. Injured. Traumatized.
Some didn't wake up at all.
And here I am, a Nigerian woman living in Kyiv, standing in front of you with my own voice and my own experience telling you the truth: Nothing about this is propaganda. Nothing about this is exaggerated.
Everything the media shows you is happening right here, right now.
Before you dismiss someone's suffering because it doesn't fit your worldview, remember this:
We are living this in real time.
We are surviving what others only debate online.
Have some humanity."
Video and text: Blaqsauce