Max Rykov

Video Producer and Documentary Filmmaker
Columbia Journalism School '27

[British Embassy Prague @UKinCR]

Přijďte 10. srpna do Galerie hlavního města Prahy na večer plný nejen ukrajinské hudby a filmu 🎵🇺🇦

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

One year ago today, this woman inspired millions of people with a simple act of resistance.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Horrifying images from Dnipro. The girl sits in her destroyed apartment on the fifth floor waiting for help. When rescuers take her down, she grasps a soft green toy and a golden garland. What kind of people dare to justify this?

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️⚡️ Consequences of today's missile attack in Kyiv, in the Protasiv Yar neighborhood, close to the city center.

Video shared by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of presidential office.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Ukraine’s main Christmas Tree in Kyiv lit up with blue and yellow. Christmas means hope. And Ukraine has one hope. This is victory.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Russian missile hit the Kherson Regional Administration. This is the same building where a month ago Ukrainians so happily raised our flag. It has no military value. Pure act of terror and vengeance. Which only shows how weak Russia is.

[UkraineWorld @ukraine_world]

An eldery couple in a hospital consoling each other after Russians destroyed their house during missile attack 😢
📷Eddy van Wessel
#RussiaIsATerroristState

[Stas Olenchenko @StasOlenchenko]

Russia launched 30 cruise missiles at Ukraine today at exactly the same time when Lavrov was accusing Ukraine of refusing to negotiate at the #G20Indonesia.

That's all you need to know about negotiations with Russia.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

[Настоящее Время @CurrentTimeTv]

Как жители Херсона встречают и приветствуют ВСУ, которые уже вошли в город:

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

The sound of actual liberation.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Liberated Kherson singing Chervona Kalyna, a song that was banned for nine months. No electricity — Russia destroyed the power lines before leaving.

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

I am kindly inviting @elonmusk to Ukraine, to Kyiv - to better understand the context, and have a productive night of thinking how to deescalate the Russo-Ukrainian war.

I am happy to host him at my place, or maybe give him a drive around the city under shelling.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️More explosions heard in Kyiv, explosions also reported in Lviv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Dnipro, Ternopil.

Multiple explosions are being reported in cities all across the country. Eyewitnesses are reporting powerful explosions and power outages in Kyiv.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Another russian missile strike on the city of Zaporizhzhia. 17 civilians were killed.
If #UAarmy had modern Western anti-missile systems, we could have prevented such tragedies.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Several missile strikes in the center of Kyiv. Burning cars with people who were commuting to work. The strike was deliberately carried out during rush hour on a busy street to inflict maximum losses and intimidate. A pure act of terrorism.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

One, two, threee!

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

“The scale of the tragedy in Mariupol the world has not seen since the times of Nazi concentration camps,” mayor Vadym Boychenko said. Russians, he added, “turned our whole city into a death camp.”

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Mariupol City Council: Russia uses mobile crematoriums to erase evidence of its war crimes.

According to the council, Russia’s special brigades collect and burn the bodies of murdered residents. Tens of thousands of civilians may have been killed in Mariupol, it added.

[Gabriel Mafra @CogitoGVM]

About five minutes ago, the Mexican representative at the UN General Council referred what is happening in Ukraine to Picasso's Guernica. Here's why:

[Eugene Finkel @eugene_finkel]

As a genocide scholar I am an empiricist, I usually dismiss rhetoric. I also take genocide claims with a truckload of salt because activists apply it almost everywhere now.

Not now. There are actions, there is intent. It's as genocide as it gets. Pure, simple and for all to see