Ivan Shmatko

PhD student at the University of Alberta, ethnographer, a nitpicker. Born and living on the bloodlands.

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

Fellow ethnographer and a great guy was murdered by Russians. Let's not forget the human cost of war and imperial ambitions.

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

@Egregius4 @DenesTorteli @ChristopherJM @michaelh992 Вбивць моїх братів, I think. That is, "[I am going to destroy] murderers of my brothers"

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

@wallacemick I suppose ordinary Ukrainians who volunteered to join the military in thousands are "wealthy elites" according to Mick Wallace. But "less privileged" Irish MP from European Parliament will tell them what to do, no worries!

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

@GrassRootsGuy Very true. Thanks!

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

I wrote a short piece on what happened to 🇺🇦 judges in the occupied territories. This is not the most pleasant story to read. However, I do believe that we have to talk about the mistakes that put people in harm's way. That way we'll have a chance to learn not to repeat them.

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

If you want to know more, please read the full report. It is based on our qualitative study with Ukrainian judges (conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Law and Crime Research).

https://t.co/QelNvGXiwv

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

"The question of evacuation was particularly acute for those representatives of the judiciary who had worked on such cases."

[Solidarity Collectives @SolidarityColl1]

Last week we successfully completed the mission to deliver food, medicine and equipment for animals at the request of a medic from one of the headquarters in the Zaporizhzhia Region

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[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

He mentions among others people burning alive in their houses. He also reportedly cut open pregnant women's bellies - as a form of enterteinment. Besides that, Zass had also one more hobby - collecting severed heads of killed Circassians.

[Colonial Past and Present @ColonialPresent]

This man is general Grigory Zass. An officer in the Russian army in the XIX century. In the 1830s Zass was tasked with crushing resistance towards russian rule from Circassians. His name would soon become forever associated with bloodshed and inhuman cruelty towards innocent

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

@RealCynicalFox "It's better to go through life not having seen some things."

"not having seen" means not doing anything about it. And so it will repeat again and again.

How about not looking away? How about fucking convert this into rage and finally help Ukraine? Where are F-16?

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

This all happened before in Ichkeria. And everybody in the West decided to look away. They decided not-to-know, so that they could go on with their 'normal' lives. And so it wasn't stopped. And so it happens again.

The worst part is: everybody will look away again

[Sasha Petrova @SasshaPetrova]

If anyone thinks the beheading video is Ukrainian propaganda, too monstrous to be real, here’s an excerpt from Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s book on the Chechen War, where Russian soldiers speak with relish about dismembering the flesh of people from the Caucasus 1/2

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

There are those who did it and there are those who made it possible. Just a reminder that Ukraine was pressured to give up its missiles AFTER 📷 soldiers cut heads of people in Ichkeria and invaded Moldova.

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

Everyone outside of 🇺🇦 needs to see that video. Don't look away, see what the reality looks like for us here. And then use your rage to donate to 🇺🇦 Armed Forces and trusted volunteers, pressure your politicians to provide F-16 and ATACMS, come to Ukraine and volunteer yourself.

[Ivan Shmatko @ShmatkoIvan]

And for those is the West. Yes, perpetrators are 🇷🇺 and they are fully responsible. But every time you look away, please remember how your governments pressured 🇺🇦 to give up its nuclear arms and destroy its long-range rockets.