I'm so incredibly tired. Attacks, victim-blaming, attacks, victim-blaming, on and on and on. I want to scream into people's faces that it is not our fault that Russia is killing us, and that we need help.
I once naively thought that if social media had existed during World War II, the world would have surely stopped it much sooner. But now I realize we probably would have screamed our lungs out about war crimes online, only to be told we provoked it ourselves and be met with a bunch of "I am XX and Hitler is not my enemy."
A stray dog trembles in fear during an air raid alert.
russian terror traumatizes not only people. Explosions, attacks, and air raid alerts terrify animals, too.
Those living on the streets are especially vulnerable. They have no home to hide in, no safe place to go, and no one to hold and comfort them.
Protecting Ukraine’s skies means protecting every living being.
Join the effort to protect Ukraine’s skies:
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky: You feel this terrible, absolute terrorism, terrible terrorism on 11th September, 25 years ago, on 11th September.
Can you imagine after such things that America representatives speak with these terrorists? I can’t imagine. That’s why Americans answered, responded strongly.
This is where we are now — in these towers, but not in one place, not in one tower. In a very big country, all our towers are destroyed, houses and schools, everything.
"Hellish" sanctions.
The legislation imposing comprehensive sanctions on Russia and Iran has been finally passed.
The sanctions include:
▪️ Restrictions on Russian officials, oligarchs, banks, the defense industry, and the energy sector;
▪️ Measures against the Russian "shadow fleet";
▪️ A ban on US investments in Russia;
▪️ Tariffs of up to 500% on Russian goods;
▪️ Tariffs of up to 100% on imports from countries that source Russian oil and gas;
▪️ Toughened sanctions against Iran.
Now, only Trump's signature is missing.
Ukraine Now
❗️Congressman Michael McCaul said the new U.S. sanctions law is meant to paralyze Russia’s war machine, intensify economic pressure on Moscow, and force Putin back to the negotiating table. Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, added that the bill had been in the works for more than a year and is intended to push Russia’s partners to rethink their ties with the Kremlin while strengthening the U.S. president’s negotiating position.
23,000 followers.
It is just a number on a screen, but it means a lot to me.
There is a lot happening in this world.
There was a lot happening before I came here, and there has been a lot since.
The things that happened before made me the kind of person who wanted to come.
The things that happened after only made me more certain that I needed to stay.
#Ukraine was never a trend to me.
Protecting people defending themselves against a genocidal aggressor does not suddenly stop mattering because another tragedy happens somewhere else in the world.
Human suffering is not a competition.
I founded Planet of People because I believe exactly what the name says.
It takes a planet of people.
Some of us can go to war.
Some of us can deliver food.
Some can rebuild homes.
Some can help the neighbour next door.
Some can donate five dollars.
And some of you are the likes, the comments, the shares, the messages and the people who simply refuse to let others look away.
Every one of those things is another piece in the machine that keeps people moving when everything around them is trying to break them.
You have your place.
I have mine.
And we do not need to spend our lives fighting over whose cause deserves compassion more.
One person cannot carry every cause.
That is exactly why we need each other.
Pick the place where you can make a difference.
Ukraine. Your own community. Another country.
Just do good.
Because tonight I am sitting in a place where I do not know if I will wake up tomorrow.
And if there is one thing I could leave with 23,000 people tonight, it would be this:
Do good in the world.
Whatever you can. Wherever you can. However you can.
That is how we keep each other human.
That is how we survive this hell.
This is what desperation looks like.
I am standing inside one of my battalion’s workshops, burned completely. One of the “positions” I talked about losing in recent weeks.
Everyone made it out alive. Everything else is gone.
Equipment we fundraised for. Equipment issued by the military. Things the guys bought themselves. Months of work, thousands of dollars, all erased in minutes.
https://t.co/xUFR7gDBle
$100,000 sounds like an impossible amount until you stand here and understand what has to be rebuilt.
I have hundreds of soldiers depending on us, and we cannot replace this alone.
Every share, every donation, every person who chooses to care helps us put something back into these empty rooms.
Please help me rebuild what we lost.
#Support93 #SupportUkraine
Hey friends💙💛
I wrote and published my book about Donbas.
It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever done.
A story of childhood in a gray, forgotten city.
Of coal dust, broken glass, silence and strength.
Of how the war begar
Long before the full-scale invasion.
And how I survived, even when I was already broken.
This book holds everything I couldn’t say for years:
https://t.co/AN5tVbQBKp
❗️Ukraine may receive the German reconnaissance drone Wingcopter 262, with a tactical range of up to 150 km and a flight time of up to 6 hours. The 10 kg VTOL aircraft is equipped with AI-supported EO/IR cameras, requires no special launch infrastructure, and can be prepared by a single operator in a few minutes. Wingcopter is cooperating with Ukraine’s TAF Industries on serial production of reconnaissance drones and access to the Wingcopter 262. Source: Militarnyi.
One of russia's most tragically underreported war crimes is its constant targeting of first responders, the very people whose job is to save lives.
This is Yevhen Shelest. On September 11, paramedic Yevhen was killed in the line of duty when russian drone struck his ambulance during an emergency patient transport🕯💔