Karina M🌻

🇺🇦🇸🇪 Devastated about what’s happening in Ukraine at the moment.

[Olena Zelenska / Олена Зеленська @ZelenskaUA]

Ukrainians recognize sounds of drones, missiles and air defense, we hear them daily. This night we had no sleep — Kyiv was under attack. Infrastructure destruction again — luckily, without casualties. Grateful to those who protects 🇺🇦 sky. We have today because of you.

[Mykola Kuleba @MykolaKuleba]

10-year-old Mykyta was abducted by Russians from the #Oleshky boarding school in October last year. He and other children from the institution, including children with disabilities, were forcibly taken to Russia under the pretext of “evacuation.”

For a long time, the boy stayed in #Crimea, and then these children were moved several times across Russia so that their relatives lost track of them and could not find them. Polina did not know about her grandson's whereabouts either.

Is Mykyta alive? Is he doing well? What boarding school is he in? Mykyta's grandmother went to all the boarding schools in the Krasnodar Region to gather information about him. In despair, she found Save Ukraine's details and contacted our team. We then started working together to find him.

We discovered the boy's whereabouts thanks to our volunteers' careful and persistent work. And then, the grandmother asked us to help her get her grandson out of there. Polina couldn't manage on her own because the Russians opposed her at every opportunity and refused to hand over her grandson. The woman had to go through several interrogations. Despite all the necessary documents confirming their family ties and Polina's custody of Mykyta, she was forced to undergo a DNA test. We had to wait a long time for the results.

However, even after that, no one gave Polina the boy. After all, the director of the Oleshky boarding school, collaborator Valentyn Suk, obtained Russian citizenship for the boy illegally. He had no right to do so, as Mykyta had a legal representative in #Ukraine — his grandmother. Therefore, she was forced to take a Russian passport and custody of the boy.

This story of Mykyta's return lasted three long months. Our team helped Polina do everything the Russians wanted her to do to regain her grandson. Polina took Mykyta personally from the hands of Maria Lvova-Belova, the Ombudsman for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, for whose arrest the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in March of this year. On camera, Lvova-Belova, smiling cynically, said that she always promotes family reunification, but behind the scenes, she offered Polina a financial reward to stay with the boy in Russia. But the woman categorically refused.

Fortunately, Polina and her grandson managed to leave the territory of the Russian Federation. Now they are safe. We helped her find a proper place to live. They have a long period of rehabilitation ahead of them. They need to restore all the lost documents, and Mykyta needs to undergo a preventive examination and start treatment. After all, no one cared for him during the year he was in #Russia. You can also help with Mykyta's treatment, as his grandmother cannot work and needs to be involved in her grandson's rehabilitation.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

😡 Chinese singer Wang-Fan sang the Russian military march song "Katyusha" at the ruins of the Mariupol drama theater, where over 600 Ukrainians were killed in a Russian airstrike.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Always the best option by default in any situation:

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Long story short

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

Bucha, march 2022
Izium, september 2022
Kherson, february 2023
Zaporizhzhia, today

how many more Ukrainians slaughtered in genocide will be enough?

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.

One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.

Deepest condolences to their families.

Russia must pay.

📹: TSN

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

They won Oscars, changed the face of fashion and design, and were born in Ukraine. Learn about three world-famous creators — Adolphe ‘Cassandre’ Mouron, Sonia Delaunay, and Barbara Karinska — in this episode by @United24media.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

From Aug 14, 2008. Many of us said at the time what Russia’s invasion of Georgia 15 years ago would mean for Ukraine, Europe and the world, if Putin went unpunished. But no EU sanctions, no NATO, a reset from Obama, and a continued occupation.

[Lithuania MFA 🇱🇹 | #StandWithUkraine @LithuaniaMFA]

Ukraine, you have our unwavering support.

The latest @EurobarometerEU shows Lithuanian citizens' strong approval of the 🇪🇺's humanitarian (95%), financial (89%), and military (84%) support to #Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"If I survive, I want my children not to fight with Russia. I would really like this war to be over in my generation." - Oksana Rubaniak, 20, Armed Forces of Ukraine machine gunner.

📹- @dw_ukrainian

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Another day, another russian war crime: entire block in the residential house in Kryvyi Rih was just demolished by the russian missile. Why? Just because russia can do that
Photo: ombudsman Lubinets

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Kryvyi Rich this morning.
A Russian missile hits a residential building. At least 2 killed, 24 injured, as of now. And it’s just one of a myriad of deadly strikes Russia has committed against Ukrainian civilians.
It’s despicable to see mama’s little burger chewers whining on how akshually mustn’t defend itself because Iraq 20 years ago.

[Olena Zelenska / Олена Зеленська @ZelenskaUA]

Kryvyi Rih, multi-storey buildings damaged by Russian shelling. There are wounded and dead. This is how the week begins in a 🇺🇦 city that just wants a quiet, normal life. Russia wants to take peace and life away. Condolences to the victims and their families. Let's stay strong.

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Every time I watch this video it gives me chills.
In 1993, Ukrainian volunteers in #Georgia explicitly stated that #Russia would someday invade #Ukraine if Russian imperialism was not destroyed immediately.

[Kristina Berdynskykh @berdynskykh_k]

Olga Kharlan ❤️���🇦. shameful decision to disqualify Olga after she won #Ukraine

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

This little girl was injured during the terrorist attack on Kramatorsk. She had a successfull operation in Kyiv and is recovering fine.

[Karina M🌻 @karinskinen]

RIP 😩

[Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦 @vamelina]

It's me in this picture.
I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why? #StopRussiaNow

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

A universal answer