Iryna Kovalenko

From Kyiv. In FFO. To achieve peace, we need to fight plague first. Personal in political. Ukrainian culture researcher

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Don’t look away, @la_Biennale. This is the ugly face of barbaric Russia—destroyed UNESCO World Heritage in the protected center of Lviv. This is the barbarism you wish to normalize at the Biennale. Get real!

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Today marks four years since Russia invaded Ukraine. These are some thoughts (recorded yesterday) on what Ukrainians have done for all of us and what we can learn from them.

[Borussia Dortmund @BVB]

Heute vor vier Jahren begann Russlands Invasionskrieg gegen die Ukraine.

Unsere Gedanken sind weiterhin bei der ukrainischen Zivilbevölkerung, die seit über 1460 Tagen Leid und Zerstörung ausgesetzt ist.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

[Гіль🔪 @i_gil_]

As the final of @AustralianOpen begins it’s important to remember how Sabalenka sided with a dictator and not with her fellow athletes.
It got her to become a Gucci ambassador and them - jailed.
#AustralianOpen2026

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

Die vertraute Häuserlandschaft und das Haus der besten Freundin von meiner Mutter.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

��� More footage shows a Russian drone slamming into an apartment building in Kyiv overnight.

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

I'd always hoped I'd never see my childhood home in the reports on ruzzian strikes, but today it happened after the house across the street was damaged.
Blast wave opening windows in our apartment,
Plants falling from windowsills,
Walls crash across the street.
The hood is hurt

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Instead of diplomacy and peace negotiations, Russia continues its brutal strikes against Ukraine. Energy infrastructure and ordinary homes all across our country have been under attack overnight.

At least six people have been killed, including a young mother with her two small children. A number of energy objects have been damaged, leaving communities without power, heating, and water.

I reiterate my appeal to all partners, entities, and international organizations to mobilize additional energy support for Ukraine ahead of winter and prevent a humanitarian crisis in the middle of Europe.

We need additional volumes of energy resources and funds, mobile generation units, repair equipment, and additional air defense capabilities. This is urgent and we will appreciate every new announcement.

This attack proves, as President @ZelenskyyUA stated, that Russia still doesn’t feel sufficient pressure that could force it to end the war.

It is time to abandon wishful thinking and demonstrate strength. New strong sanctions. New decisions regarding frozen assets. New strengthening for Ukraine’s air defense and long-range capabilities.

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

@EuroBasket So was von verdient!

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

@generalkellogg ruzzian hatred towards Ukraine and their sincere desire to destroy are way stronger than a wish to have business with the USA. Wandel durch Handel means nothing to ruzzians. It’s time to finally understand this and bring ruzzia to its long overdue dissolution.

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

Heute wurde der Kiez meiner Kindheit in Kyjiv getroffen. Die Menschen schütteln die Asche ab und gehen über die Scherben weiter.
Doch was der Vogel Phönix nicht kann, ist, die Toten zurückzubringen.

[DSNS.GOV.UA @SESU_UA]

До 14 людей зросла кількість загиблих внаслідок російського обстрілу Києва, з них – 3 дітей. Ще 38 осіб постраждали ⤵️
На місцях працюють пожежний та евакуаційний роботи.
Психологи ДСНС надали допомогу 90 людям. Роботи тривають на 5 локаціях.

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

@misku_brolis Maybe to prevent looting?

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

@sm1th_ua @the_du У пса вроджений печінковий шунт, тому йому виписують антибіотики + лактулозу (контроль рівня аміаку та, відповідно, бактерій). Проте питання доцільності прописувати антибіотики часто зʼявляється після відвідування лікаря в Німеччині

[Ukrainian Art History @ukr_arthistory]

On the 9th of August, Ukrainian artist and anarchist Davyd Chichkan died defending his homeland. His artworks were about social injustice and politics, but after he joined UAF, they mainly focused on his experiences and anarchists/antiauthoritarians fighting for Ukrainian freedom

[Iryna Kovalenko @IraKo1109]

My grandma said, this night felt like what she imagined as a volcano eruption: explosions, dust falling from ceiling, fire seen from every window and long hours with heavy dark clouds, coming from the ground

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 A direct strike by a Russian-Iranian Shahed drone on an apartment building full of civilians in Kyiv.

[Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @CamUkrainistyka]

It only takes two syllables to turn 'War in Ukraine' into 'Russia's war on Ukraine.' Those two syllables immediately transform a term into a narrative -- about Russia's crime of aggression and Ukraine's right of self-defence.

More here, from 2022: https://t.co/k09VGtAHqo

[жозефина бонапард @gozefinagold]

Колишній актор "Дизель Шоу" та ведучий
Максим Неліпа загинув на війні
Вічна пам'ять Герою України...щирі співчуття...

[Bohdana Laiuk (Neborak) @BohdanaNeborak]

Chestnuts are one of the most vivid symbols of Kyiv. I could never imagined to see them blossomig in such devastating situation, after Russian strike.

Russians killed two people in this appartment this night. At least 10 people injured, including children.

[Annette Werberger @AWerberger]

Ich habe erst die letzten drei Jahre wirklich verstanden, wie provinziell die deutschen Intellektuellen sind, die den 'Diskurs besser gestalten wollen'.

[Oleksii MAKEIEV 🇺🇦 @Makeiev]

Die Familie der 27-jährigen ukrainischen Journalistin Wiktorija Roschtschyna erhielt ihren Leichnam erst 5 Monate nach ihrem Tod zurück.

Er zeigte Folterspuren. Organe fehlten. Nur ein DNA-Test machte die Identifizierung möglich.

So sieht russische Besatzung aus.

#RussiaKills

[Hanna Perekhoda @hannaperekhoda.bsky.social @HannPerekh]

The weaker Europe appears and the more erratic America behaves, the greater the temptation for Putin to test NATO along its eastern edge—territory he believes the West neither needs nor truly values. 8/9