Redwing

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@ChumThumb @stopposttruth @IvorSmittens @irgarner Residents of Donetsk are now far east russians who rape and steal and displace local population

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@Gelneren @Colinob97174418 @BryceMLipscomb Maybe don't lie 🤷‍♂️

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@Gelneren @Colinob97174418 @BryceMLipscomb 3) Russians came in right away - no markings, embedding themselves within the population to start trouble. Listen to Glazyev tapes

Лживый долбоёб

https://t.co/PNl53JDG1D

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@Gelneren @Colinob97174418 @BryceMLipscomb Let's break down your lies:

1) Armed separatists and russian nationals were labeled terrorists - not entire population. My family was still in Donetsk until they had to flee to Kramatorsk
2) A million Donetsk residents would travel to Kramatorsk each year to collect pension

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@Gelneren @Colinob97174418 @BryceMLipscomb Lies

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@Telquelle_Monde @LouisWoodhill @ConciousLabRat This war is an IQ test - you're not doing so great

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@fajunbei @KoskovicsZ na - thats just russian propaganda. Usually works great on idiots.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@hoddo461 @elinavaltonen lol - did russia capture any of the NATO army?

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse No - Ukrainians are mostly bilingual and have a shared history across Ukraine.

Why is it so hard to understand that the whole thing was orchestrated and organized by russia?

We are witnessing a genocide of Ukrainians and for some reason people try to defend a fascist state.

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse lol - no

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse Yes - grew up in Donetsk as a kid.

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse Not a civil war it was an invasion of Ukraine by russia. Again, who was the first president of DNR?

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse lol - "may have". Bro, his picture is on a corruption hall of fame.

He was not playing both sides. Ukraine wants nothing to do with Russia, just leave them alone.

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse Yanukovych was a corrupt russian puppet - and people wanted him out. Putin didn't like that so he invaded Ukraine and started killing people.

Russia is a schyzofacist state and unfortunately Ukraine has to live next to them (same as in centuries prior)

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse https://t.co/W9lJqSc5QA

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse Why did they do everything possible to keep Yanukovych in power then? The agreement was brokered with the help of US, right?

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse lol - sample size of 2600 people. Got it

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse This was brokered by the west to keep Yanukovych in power.

He fled in the middle of the night to Kharkiv but people there told him to fuck off so FSB had to smuggle him out through Crimea.

You need to read up on Yanukovych - he was a real peace of shit russian puppet.

[Redwing @RedwingB21]

@carnyxcallba @olga_nikitina_ @FrenchResponse No