Michael M 🇺🇦

I made this account to follow historians. I'm interested in Ukraine. I don’t intend to tweet much. Ich kann ein bischen Deutsch. Я говорю трохи по-українськи.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@John_ForemanCBE @OzKaterji The Quisling Institute

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@T_Krawchenko I saw that. Really bothered me. How many Ukrainians did these men kill?

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@Ohmeous Nations aren't organic groups that have existed since time began. They're social constructions. Many Russian-speakers with Russian surnames have a Ukrainian identity that 19th-century Ukrainian peasants lacked. Before WWI, many Russian peasants also lacked national identity

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@MermaidNJ918 @RALee85 I'm not in Ukraine but I have Ukrainian friends. They complain a lot about corruption so I think that's part of the problem. I still give to fundraisers because I know the soldiers need the help.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@DylanMalyasov Maybe because my father was Ukrainian and I have Ukrainian friends, the death and suffering in Ukraine eat away at me. I'm safe in Canada and don't experience the horrors Ukrainians face, but still, the war demoralizes me. So many lives gone forever. Heartbreaking.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@WilliamHogeland @wcthunderesq Me too.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@WilliamHogeland @wcthunderesq I think of the lakes as a highway. I live on the St. Clair River just south of Lake Huron. Everyday I see cargo ships pass by my balcony. Later, I go online and see those same ships in Cleveland, Detroit, Duluth, Thunder Bay, Montreal etc.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

The ballistic missiles that struck Kyiv were equipped with metal shrapnel. This shrapnel is completely useless if launched against buildings, its sole purpose is to wound and kill living beings

P.S. I know this is a modified surface-to-air missile, either an S-400 or an S-300. In the air, it’s fitted with shrapnel to destroy aerial targets. But when it’s used against a city, that same shrapnel is meant to kill people.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@PopovaProf @TheEconomist The people who claim the West provoked the invasion imply Ukrainian sovereignty should be sacrificed for the sake of Russian security. To these people Maidan was bad because dominating Ukraine is a vital Russian interest. These people hate Ukraine because it refuses to submit

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@Tatarigami_UA The double standard is glaring.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Russia subjecting 1.6 million Ukrainian children to military brainwashing: OSCE report https://t.co/o3ZzANtLh5

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

I don't know enough about Ukrainian politics to comment on this. Maybe someone better informed can fill me in. I can say this. My Ukrainian friends complain about corruption. All of them hate Putin and Russia, but some of them also have scathing things to say about Zelensky

[Kyrylo Shevchenko @KShevchenkoReal]

My name is Kyrylo Shevchenko. I am the former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

A horrifying assassination attempt on a Ukrainian businessman in Monaco has shocked the world. His companion had both legs blown off in the explosion, while he and his son were hospitalized.

But the story has an even darker continuation: the bomb was planted by a Ukrainian woman who was receiving payments from an officer of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate under the Ministry of Defense, known as HUR. Upon her return to Ukraine on July 1, that same officer shot her in the head. The entire case was "investigated" and closed in just a few days.

Watching this unfold like a scene from a mafia thriller, I am reminded of the direct threats I myself have received from Ukrainian security services, including kidnapping warnings. It is becoming clear that Zelensky's regime is prepared to use any means against its opponents.

Behind this system stands not only Zelensky himself, but also the man long known as the "grey cardinal" of his office — Andriy Yermak. Until recently nearly all-powerful, controlling appointments across ministries, security agencies, and the military, Yermak formally resigned in late November 2025 amid the corruption scandal surrounding Energoatom, and later became a suspect in a money-laundering case. But the system he built — as Ukrainian lawmakers themselves have acknowledged — did not disappear along with his departure from office.

This case raises serious questions: How did a woman wanted by Interpol cross into Ukraine without assistance from the security services? And how was such a high-profile investigation completed in a matter of days? For comparison, the legendary Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze was murdered in 2000, and the investigation still has not named those responsible.

Yet here, the intelligence officer quickly confesses, claims he acted alone, and says his leadership knew nothing.

This is convenient. The main witness and perpetrator is now dead and cannot speak.

I do not own a major, attractive business, but as Governor of the National Bank, I crossed a line: I refused to allow the money printing that would have hurt Ukraine in 2022, and I blocked a sponsorship scheme linked to Zelensky's inner circle. For that, I now face a fabricated criminal case in both Ukraine and Austria.

I am grateful to Austria, where I am currently located, for protecting me from threats by Ukrainian security services.

I appeal to the civilized world and to Europe: by continuing to turn a blind eye to what is happening, you are condemning other Ukrainians to fear, persecution, and — God forbid — elimination at the hands of Zelensky's regime. This regime has already crossed the psychological threshold of murder. This cannot end well — neither for us, nor for you.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@Obamasshadow I had a long conversation with a man from Crimea who was there when Russia took over. He spoke Russian. I spoke Ukrainian. He said language was never a problem. He said the referendum was a farce. He left Crimea because Russia was forcing him to take a Russian passport.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

A glimpse from 2022.

A refugee family from Kherson whom I helped with translation in the city hall (young mom and dad + 2 kids) told me how they went through.
Their neighbors were killed when trying to leave by car to the Ukrainian side.
So the only option was via Russia, which meant filtration.
The mom and the kids went easily.
The dad had to endure questioning by FSB, in which he pretended to be extremely apolitical.
A man before him was taken away and was never seen again. At the time, there were multiple occasions when people were just shot or put in torture basements, or imprisoned in an unknown prison in Russia with no means to communicate to their family they were alive.

The stories shocking the Western public right now have been around ever since 2014. Same stories. Hundreds of them.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

Another day in Christian Russia.

[Christians Against War @shalt_not_kill]

A Christian church in Tula, Russia, will be razed to the ground.

In Tula, Russia, the building of the Seventh-day Adventist Christian church "Light of Hope" will be demolished. The building was purchased in 2011. After renovations, the church was officially registered there, and a free clothing collection center was opened.

However, in 2017, when the persecution of unofficial churches intensified in Russia, Tula authorities declared the church's construction unauthorized, and a local court ordered the building's demolition. "Light of Hope" fought for the building but lost three court cases—a district court, a regional court, and an appellate court.

Now the building is obligated to be razed to the ground.

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Timothy Snyder in the very same interview:

"I'll repeat: this was a mistake on the Ukrainian side [...] The problem is not only that it offends many Poles. More importantly, the current war should not be linked to World War II or to the UPA [Ukrainian Insurgent Army] That is the wrong lesson for Ukrainians themselves"

"A great deal can be said about the UPA, but it would be better to focus on the current war and treat it as the primary source of Ukrainian symbols, memory, and national narratives.
Of course, Ukrainians are the ones fighting, and it is their sovereign choice. But the current war is morally more straightforward. It can be won politically. A war over memory cannot, because memory is extraordinarily complex - and not all Ukrainians realize just how complex it is"

Roman would do well to stop trying to score points on the anti-Polish agenda

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

@slantchev Nixon's Southern strategy. Robert Caro's Master of the Senate has interesting material about LBJ's handling of the Dixiecrats before the realignment happened. Nixon supported civil rights but he wasn't above dog-whistling to disgruntled white southerners.

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

2) I took a Russian course at the University of Toronto. My instructor was a Russian woman from Odesa. She told me Ukrainian was dying out. This was good, she said, because "Why do we need all these languages?" She also told me the Zaporizhian Cossacks were Russian not Ukrainian

[Michael M 🇺🇦 @MichaelMonasty1]

1) When I lived in Toronto, I met Russians. Most were nice but when they found out my father was Ukrainian, some would tell me Ukraine is Russia and Ukrainian a Russian dialect. One Russian woman from Uzbekistan laughed when I asked if Russians there were learning Uzbek