@ianmiles@elonmusk Not sure what you understand under “tearing down”. Looks more like putting new posters over it, which of course is a normal procedure on marketing/poster walls.
When foreigners are calling for a dialogue with RU, I just laugh. We tried it all. If anything, our biggest mistake was being pushovers way too long. Not anymore. Being nice just doesn’t work with Russians. Russia has to be defeated, and for this, we need to #ArmUkraineNow.
Did our patience and keeping in touch with our RU relatives despite all their shit help? As you see, nope. It just made things worse. Sometimes a silly thought pops into my head, “How will we ever forgive them?” But then I remember that nobody is asking us for forgiveness. 12/
Except for when they wanted to visit us. Then we were telling them that Crimea is Ukraine, and if they didn't agree, they were not welcome in Ukraine (and they didn't agree). I’m still not sure why we kept in touch. We, Ukrainians, always were way too patient with Russians. 11/
And her mom, my aunt, phoned as well, telling my mom that "our Russian girls are now getting bullied here in France; they are called invaders because of you!" Say what? Later, we somehow got back to talking to these people every now and then, almost as if nothing happened. 10/
Many were surprised by such RU behaviour. Not my family. Back in 2014, While the RU missiles were flying over my parents' heads in Donbas, my RU cousin called my mom and screamed at her telling her she shouldn't say anything bad about Russia. Back then, she studied in France. 9/
My story is not exceptional. Many of my friends facing the same. Their RU relatives are either silent, or teach Ukrainians about what’s aktchually happening in Ukraine (of course, it’s all the fault of the decadent West), or saying, “yes, but we’ll never know all the truth.” 8/
Her brother in Moscow, who several years ago told my mom, "you need to understand, we don't make any decisions here," also, for a week or so, watched my IG stories with photos of buildings obliterated by RU missiles, and unfollowed me too. My mom was babysitting this guy. 7/
She's an architect, not a brainwashed dropout Vanya from a deprived RU village with no internet (but even that is nonsense, they all have access to the information, don't infantilise them). Her husband remained silent too. Speak of the influence of the Russian world, amirite? 6/