Monika Grūzīte 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇪

Latvian

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

A reminder that even now, at the peak of Iran's attack, many more innocent people are being killed in Gaza than in Israel, and that you won't read a word about them in any Western news source. It's as if they are invisible, or at least regarded as subhuman, by our newsrooms

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

If mass starvation and the ethnic cleansing of 2.1 million people is to be avoided, we need to cut off all arms sales and sanction this murderous regime with immediate effect

[2R4U🇺🇦 @2r4uu]

This is textbook settler colonialism. Mariupol isn’t being rebuilt for the native inhabitants. It’s being rebuilt to erase them.

If Russia succeeds in its plans, less than 10% of Mariupol’s projected 420,000 residents will have any memory of the city before Russian occupation.

[Monika Grūzīte 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇪 @kruzite]

@GraudinsMaris Spēcīga filma! Parāda gan okupācijas brutalitāti, gan palestīniešu izturību, pacietību un spēju saglabāt cerību. Ciematu, kas redzams filmā, Izraēla pagājušajā nedēļā gandrīz pilnībā nopostīja.

[Māris Graudiņš @GraudinsMaris]

Esam redzējuši "Straume". Šovakar 8. maijā 18:30, Splendid Palace, ir iespēja noskatīt citu ar Oskara apbalvoto filmu par Rietumkrastu. (bezmaksas) Latvijas Ārlietu ministrija 2024.g. ANO balsojumā nosodīja Palestīnas okupāciju.
Latvieši tīri labi izprot ko nozīmē 50+ gadu okupācija.
Šī filma ir par okupācijas cilvēciskām sekām. R-krastā turpinās ES un ASV nosodītā setleru ekspansija.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

These are the four pieces for which I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. All published in 2024.

Blessings to the souls of 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023.
Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children.
Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024.
Blessings to the graves of my grandparents, refugee from Yaffa, who I will never find.
Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food and firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023.
Blessings to many more, many more.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE!
🍓🍓🍓🍓

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

This is one of the main villages you saw in No Other Land. Today it was destroyed by the Israeli army.

[Gryn ✌ @gryn_a]

The soviet strategy of "russification" of occupied territories was a real thing.
Hundreds of thousands of people were deported from the small Baltic countries, in cattle cars, and dropped in the middle of nowhere in Siberia, and russians moved in.
Nothing has changed.

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

Facts that are missing from public discourse: Russia is torturing, disappearing & erasing Ukrainians in all territories that they occupy. They are bringing in a replacement population as fast as possible. This is settler colonialism & genocide.
Facts inconvenient for Trump & co.

[Oleksandr Mykhed @mykhed_o]

My essay for the Guardian.
‘The world is looking at the body of truth that is dying and bleeding before our eyes. I beg you, if you can’t stop the bleeding, at least don’t turn away from the sight of blood’.
https://t.co/4zHoRr4dgh

[yev @YevKopiika]

Some Russians, even Putin’s critics like Navalnaya, claim the breakup of their empire would bring chaos. Why should we believe that? History says otherwise. Russia itself creates instability. Its imperialism has caused far more violence than its collapse ever would.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

When a devastating earthquake struck Syria in 2023, Ukraine was one of the only countries to send aid to the people of Idlib disregarding the Assad regime's demands that all aid should flow through Damascus

Syria-Ukraine solidarity has always been more then just internet culture

[Nedal Al-Amari 🇸🇾 @nedalalamari]

My support for Ukraine was not in vain. They are kind and incredibly brave people. I stand with Ukraine not just because we share a common enemy, but because they are in the right, and everyone should support them.

My ongoing experience with Ukrainians has been truly remarkable. I have gained significant knowledge and insight from them. They are a passionate and courageous people. I am proud to have supported Ukraine from the very beginning, and I continue to display the Ukrainian flag across all my accounts. I firmly believe in their cause.

I also won’t forget to thank some individuals by name, as they truly deserve it: @evayavkubi, @vitrusia, and @BerlinbyKate, among many others.

Glory to Ukraine! We will be one people.

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

Bloody Assad regime is gone. While Syrian people face many challenges and uncertainties ahead, we celebrate the demise of a dictator. Also a message to other autocrats: you are much more vulnerable than you think. Also a strategic blow to Russia and Iran. Not a bad day.

[vanya ✙ @eurovanya]

Damascus today
Crimea tomorrow

[Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @FARED_ALHOR]

Syria Is Free

[Maia Duishvili @MaiaDuishvili]

Georgian women ❤️✊🇬🇪

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

The fall of Aleppo in 2016 was a grim prelude to Bucha, Mariupol, and Bakhmut in 2022. It was in Syria that Russian pilots learned how to raze Ukrainian cities to the ground. The world’s failure to stand up to Putin and Assad back then became an open invitation for Putin to invade Ukraine.

Today’s rebel success in Aleppo is promising. With Putin’s army being decimated in Ukraine, he likely can’t spare sufficient forces to save Assad. But the lesson remains: 2016 and 2022 could’ve been avoided if from the very beginning democracies had fought tyrants instead of just shaking the air with words.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Tbilisi, Kyiv, Aleppo, and Bucharest.

All resisting Moscow.

[Salome Zourabichvili @Zourabichvili_S]

1,000 days of Ukraine’s fight for freedom - your bravery defends not only your independence but the shared values of Europe against Russian aggression.

Today, in occupied Abkhazia, Georgians stand firm against Russia’s annexation efforts. Freedom and independence will triumph!