Nat Kopytko #OccupationIsCrime

Interdisciplinary Environmental Researcher with a passion for health, human rights, nature + travel. First gen academic (she/her)

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

For everyone saying, “Why celebrate? Russia will just strike back harder.”

If this attack had never happened, Ukraine would still be facing missiles, drones, and bombs, just as it has been for over four years already.

And I’m sure the next strike was already being prepared regardless.

So please stop being naïve and acting as if Russia’s decision to attack Ukraine depends on what Ukrainians do.

Russia doesn’t need an excuse.

[Nat Kopytko #OccupationIsCrime @nat_tko]

Been thinking the same thing. Today is a gift that keeps giving

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Why are all the Moscow-based Western propagandists so silent???

🤔

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

It’s nice to see some MAGA supporters sobering up to the Kremlin’s lies, but what’s even more interesting is the decline in Loomer’s engagement after she started criticizing Russia. Her views, likes, and shares have dropped dramatically.

The pro-Russian bots and trolls appear to be gone, and the difference in engagement is easy to see.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

Moscow 🔥

Epic video.

Looks like aliens. Not saying it was aliens, but I also cannot prove it wasn’t.

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

#Makerfield

[Tim P @TheBottom_Lines]

Nowt to see here, just the Tory deputy chairman & vile Kyle joking about arson, with a bit of homophobic banter thrown in. We pay this cretinous oafs wages.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Nat Kopytko #OccupationIsCrime @nat_tko]

@Poklonskaya80 @pepel_klaasa The blood spatters are only on the aisle seats too. This comes as a relief. I thought the russians killed children for this false flag. Now it appears to be made up

[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

I'm still searching for that famous Igor Girkin quote: "I entered Ukraine in 2014 because of NATO enlargement." Oddly, all I can find are comments about Novorossiya, historic Russian territories, and Russians and Ukrainians being one nation. Very mysterious.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Russia attacks a bus of Belarusians right after Lukashenko downplays hostility towards Ukraine. Punish him and blame Ukraine. 95% that’s what this is, a calculated operation. Expect more as Russia gets desperate—along with more attacks on cultural and heritage sites.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Have not been able to get this poor Ugandan nurse out of my head...

I've tracked down where we can donate to help her rebuild her life and show her we care

You can donate here: https://t.co/nH7QAHkxuR

Please help her if you can.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Meanwhile in Russia: one day before Russia struck Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Dmitry Evstafiev said "everyone" in Russia wanted it to happen. This state TV show aired live, but was never posted on the official website.
https://t.co/fXAqVp5z4W

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND The officers were acquitted by an all white jury.

—Isaac enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C, and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman in a labor battalion. In February 1946, the decorated soldier received an honorable discharge at Camp Gordon, which is located near Augusta, Georgia.
Along with other discharged soldiers, Woodard boarded a Greyhound bus on February 12 to travel home. A conflict was triggered when the white bus driver belittled the army veteran for asking to take a bathroom break.
At the next stop, Woodard was met by the Chief Linwood Shull of the Batesburg, South Carolina police. While still in his army uniform, the police forcibly removed him from the bus and arrested him for disorderly conduct.
They beat Woodward, and the next day he was convicted of 'drunken and disorderly conduct' and fined $50. They also refused to take him to hospital after beating him for several days. The beatings that he suffered while in police custody caused him Permanent Blindness.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

YouTube is still advertising Alabuga drone factory. One of their drones hit the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, and many others have killed hundreds of innocent Ukrainian civilians.

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

Join this important 24 June online meeting organised by UNISON Members for Ukraine, about Ukrainian prisoners in Russia - speakers include VLADYSLAV ZHURAVLEV, captured in the siege of Mariupol and just freed from Russian captivity.

All welcome. Register: https://t.co/8cIUTLkFUZ

[𝖕𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖞 𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖙💦 @pussyrrriot]

the drone that hit Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery was made in Alabuga. @YouTube still hosts hundreds of ads by these ghouls

[Ukrainian Art History @ukr_arthistory]

Kharkiv Art Museum damaged after russian drone attack today. The collection was evacuated before.

Source: Ministry of Culture

[Aurora Chang 張瓊方 🌻🍉 @aurorachaang]

i was at the anti-fascist demo in glasgow today with some folks from the ukraine solidarity campaign (had ukraine and palestine flags with me) and wow it was an incredible turnout and the nazis were significantly outnumbered, honestly embarrassing for them

📷: didisalonia on IG

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

So Tulsi managed to draw a map where half the "American biolabs" are supposedly based in territories occupied by russia for 14 years… and pro-russians are out here sharing it like some giant own?!

It’s honestly impressive to miss your own point that hard.

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

John Mann's review into antisemitism in the NHS proposes banning staff from wearing political badges. This is clearly aimed against Palestine badges. This will either be deeply inconsistent, or have much wider reactionary effects, eg also banning Ukraine badges. Oppose this ban!