Instead of a thousand words.
Margo stands in front of her school, destroyed by Russia.
1st September is the start of the school year in Ukraine. For so many kids, learning is very different now.
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In the Odesa region, a family, while relaxing at the seaside, found a message in a bottle from the occupied Crimea. They saw the bottle on the beach and wanted to throw it in the trash, but they noticed in time that there was something in it. They opened. They read.
“Our whole family cried. We really want this boy to know that his message has been received and want him to see the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Crimea,” said the people who found the message.
⚡️Intelligence: Russia starts arresting the military in Moscow.
According to Ukraine's Defense Ministry's Intelligence Directorate, Russia’s National Guard and police have started arresting military personnel in Moscow.
@StephenKing On election night 2016, my fam all started freaking out when we saw things turning for Trump. My brother asked my dad how bad things could get and he replied that worst case scenario, Trump could rig the Supreme Court, which would cripple everyone in the US for years. Here we are
More Ukrainian humor, via a Ukrainian official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A response to allegations of secret biolabs in the country and the use of diseased birds:
This is the right take:
“The former chief prosecutor of U.N. war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.” https://t.co/e2edVaaFIl
New Zelenskyy video. It's really strong. First, he addresses the "free people of a free Ukraine," in Ukrainian. Says it has ben another difficult day, but adds that we are "approaching peace for Ukraine." 1/17
A woman burst onto Russia’s main live evening newscast today with a sign that says:
“Stop the war
Don’t believe propaganda
They’re lying to you”
And chanting: “Stop the war! No to war!”
I hope people who are interested in in post-colonial studies and the history of imperialism will study the Russian war in Ukraine. It's a textbook illustration of how a former imperial power dehumanizes its former subjects, so much that it has no problem killing them.