Inna Bilonozhko

Auditor & publishing analyst by day, Ukrainian translator by night. Mostly tweet about books & bookshops in Eastern Europe.

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

Ok,here's my way to remember that I had a life before the #war. I was a #publisher, lecturer, #bookmarketing consultant. So I'll try to keep myself calm by creating a thread about #Ukrainian books, translated &published in UK/US.May be useful for #bookshops & #booklovers. Thread:

[Simon Shuster @shustry]

Texting this morning with one of Ukraine's top drone producers, Skyfall, and they have some thoughts about my interview with the Rheinmetall CEO, who said their drone factories are housewives with 3-D printers in the kitchen:

"If a drone made by Ukrainian 'housewives' is all it takes to take out tanks and artillery... I guess it's officially the 'housewives' era now."

https://t.co/KD0l7VFRGj

[Iaroslava Strikha @pocketful_of]

The Ukrainian Book Institute issued a catalogue of the 326 translations of Ukrainian books that it supported! Of course, that's not every translation from Ukrainian, but it's a good place to start if you want to find Ukrainian books in languages ranging from Albanian to Turkish😍

[Межа @mezha_net]

Ian McKellen, a two-time Oscar nominee, known worldwide as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and Magneto in X-Men, marked the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion by reading the poem “First Epistle to the Corinthians” by Ukrainian veteran Artur Dron.

The 25-year-old Dron is a poet and writer from the Ivano-Frankivsk region. His debut poetry collection, Dormitory No. 6, was published in 2020. In 2023, he released his second collection, Here We Were, which includes the poem “First Epistle to the Corinthians.”

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Civilian casualties in Ukraine caused by russian bombing soared by 26% during 2025, the Guardian reports.

This is the price the Ukrainian people pay for Western attempts to bring russia to the table before pressing it enough. Russia took it as weakness. As permission.

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

4 years ago at the 2022 Olympic Games.

Unfortunately, over these years this call for peace has only become even more relevant.
Also over these 4 years, the IOC has changed dramatically. Back then, in that action, they saw a call for peace and did not apply any sanctions against me.
Now, at the Olympics, we have already seen a large number of Russian flags in the stands, on the helmet of one of the athletes - and for the IOC, this is not a violation.
Yet a violation was found in the “helmet of memory”, which pays tribute to members of the Ukrainian sports family who have been killed since the last Olympic Games were held.
The truth is on our side.

I hope for a fair final decision from the IOC.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

I read about grandmother Zhenya, who froze to death in her apartment in Kyiv. She survived the Holocaust, but did not survive this winter. It turns out we were almost neighbors; she lived at Podil.

The Russians killed an elderly couple who were trying to evacuate on their own from an occupied village in the Sumy region. The man was pulling his wife on a sled through the snow. First, one FPV drone targeted the woman. The second drone attacked the already wounded man, who remained next to her body. 

In the Kharkiv region, Russian Shahed drones targeted a passenger train. The car caught fire, there were killed and injured people, and all the passengers were evacuated.

The Russians hit a residential building with a drone last night in the Kyiv region. A 4-year-old girl was rescued by a neighbor. Her parents were crushed and burned alive.

Next week it will be minus - 22 C (degree Celsius), -7.6 F (degree Fahrenheit), so there will be large-scale shelling again on the weekend.

People are freezing not just in Kyiv. This photo is from Lviv. The temperature in the room when there is no electricity. 12°C (degree Celsius) is 53.6°F (degree Fahrenheit).

Why has Trump's year of negotiations with Putin become the deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022? 

Because the human dimension in this war doesn't matter to the US negotiators. So, Putin decided he could do whatever he wanted.

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

Look, @Ofmooseandmen , what I’ve spotted in Rome

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

Rescuers and police evacuated nearly 50 children after a Russian drone struck their kindergarten in Kharkiv on the morning of October 22.

Tiny hands clung to those protecting them, while emergency workers contained the blaze. One person was killed, and at least seven others were injured.

Absolutely no justification exists for attacking children. Ceasefire must come before any negotiations – discussions under strikes like this are impossible.

Stopping terrorists requires coordinated actions and strong sanctions from the EU, the U.S., the G7, and all partners committed to peace. The world must respond – immediately.

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

@Ofmooseandmen @thetimes @thebookseller @Foyles Tough, but bearable :)

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

@Ofmooseandmen @thetimes @thebookseller @Foyles Or as we (Orthodox Christians) say it: The Moose, The Leonard, and The Hungry Paul!

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

@Ofmooseandmen @thetimes @thebookseller @Foyles So unexpected, and yet so very much expected 😊

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

What’s most upsetting is seeing American soldiers laying out the red carpet on their knees for a war criminal.
The rest of the meeting’s futility was quite obvious.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

The russians created an online catalog of children kidnapped from the occupied Luhansk region. One can filter kids by gender, eye or hair color. The site adds descriptions like "calm," "obedient," and "respectful."

Can't believe the world just observes this human trafficking.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

In just the last month, Russia launched over 5,000 Iranian-type drones at Ukraine.

[The Orwell Prize @TheOrwellPrize]

Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian bomb in Ukraine on 1 July 2023, has posthumously won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Looking at Women, Looking at War.

"An unforgettable picture of the human consequences of war." Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges

@WmCollinsBooks

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

I would rather spend last night in any other city than Lutsk.
On the other hand, I came to Lutsk from Kyiv, and last night there was just as tragic.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Russia’s launches one of its largest air attacks against Ukraine of this war.

407 suicide drones, 38 cruise missiles and 6 ballistic missiles were fired against Ukrainian cities.

The video shows 4 missiles striking the city of Lutsk in western Ukraine.

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

The most dangerous teenage book club in the world: Ukraine’s clandestine book club defies Russia’s push to rewrite history https://t.co/bP5DUkexHW

[Inna Bilonozhko @inna_bil]

I had a connection flight in Berlin & spotted these beauties at the airport bookshop, @Ofmooseandmen!