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[ukiedoc @ukiedoc]

The Russian propaganda is most sophisticated and is more persuasive then you think. The 🇷🇺government has been funneling 10's of millions of dollars to social media influencers to push propaganda on twitter/x, TikTok, Facebook, instagram and telegram.

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Every time Ukrainian Defenders return from Russian captivity, they cross the border singing Ukraine's national anthem with tears in their eyes.

Welcome home, Warriors! 🇺🇦

📹: tara.kurushkina / Threads

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, no one on Earth can say that we are not fighting for Crimea or that we have forgotten about Crimea. Every day proves that Ukraine remembers every part of its land, every one of its people, and is truly fighting to ensure justice for our entire state and every integral part of it.

Russia brought its war to Ukraine, starting nowhere other than Crimea, and now, with our actions – medium-range sanctions against the Russian occupier, our long-range sanctions plan, and all other forms of pressure on the aggressor – we are doing everything to force Russia to end the war and restore justice. And it is Crimea that is at the center of this policy of ensuring justice. Russia turned Crimea into a launchpad for aggressive operations against other parts of our country and against other nations. For a very long time, Russia has tried to normalize its war – to make Ukraine, all of Europe, and the world accept that its aggression supposedly cannot be stopped and that justice supposedly cannot be restored.

Today, Ukraine is depriving Russia of this launchpad and drawing a line under its attempts to normalize war. And in doing so, we remember that justice for Ukraine also means justice for the Crimean Tatar people – a people forced to endure deportation and decades of oppression, a people who were able to return to their homeland, but whose home the Russians tried to steal again, a people who have preserved their vitality and remain an inseparable part of our society.

Today, as we honor the blue banner with the golden tamğa – this proud flag that unites the entire Crimean Tatar people – we affirm that Ukraine is fighting for itself and all its lands, defending justice for itself and all its people – for everyone who calls Ukraine and our Crimea their home. We must stop Russian aggression. We must bring freedom back to all those who are currently in Russian captivity. We must guarantee security and a reliable peace for the entirety of our state and all our people.

Qırımtatar Milliy Bayraq künü hayırlı olsun!

Glory to Ukraine!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Every Russian defense facility that serves the war against Ukraine is a just target for our long-range sanctions.

Last night, FP-5 Flamingo missiles successfully struck the Titan-Barrikady facility in Volgograd. It is a major industrial complex where the enemy produces artillery systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile launch systems used in attacks against our people. Confirmed strikes were followed by a fire on the plant's premises. I thank the warriors of our Defense Forces for their precision.

The reach of Ukraine's long-range sanctions continues to expand. And it is precisely our pressure, day after day, that lays the groundwork for a dignified peace in the end. I am grateful to every Ukrainian engineer and warrior who is making our long-range capabilities possible. Glory to Ukraine!

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 Kherson: Seven aerial guided bombs hit the city.

Three injured; the numbers are being updated.

Among injured is a woman, 75, who lost her arm.

Energy infrastructure is damaged.

📷 of previous attacks. (For security reason, reports from the ground are always delayed)

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 BREAKING: Six injured in Russian ballistic missile strike on Zaporizhzhia.

Six civilians were wounded today after Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on Zaporizhzhia, with local authorities warning residents that the region remains under threat of further strikes.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STUBB: Ukraine is in much better place politically, militarily, and economically than it's been at any time during this war.

Militarily, hands down, over past 6 months Ukraine has been on top.

Russians suffer 35,000 casualties a month, and they're not able to recruit over that.

More Ukrainian drones and missiles flying into Russia than the other way around.

Ukraine successfully hitting strategic targets in both St. Petersburg and Moscow, incapacitating about 40% of the oil refineries in Russia.

So, militarily, Ukraine is in a better place.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

🇺🇦Ours are home!🇺🇦

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A russian soldier called “Grom” raped Alisa Kovalenko for four days.

Before that, they beat her. They threatened to cut off her fingers and her teeth. They promised they would get to her parents, and to her boyfriend.

She was 27 – a documentary filmmaker who had come to Donetsk Oblast to film the beginning of Russia’s war.

A taxi driver turned her in.

Her partner, the French producer Stéphane Siohan, raised the alarm in the media. The public attention saved her. She was released. She carried what happened alone for more than a year before she could say it out loud – and then became one of the first women in Ukraine to say it anyway.

Russia expected that to break her.

In 2022, when they came back for the rest of the country, Kovalenko first got the heroes of her unfinished film to safety. Then she volunteered for the front – a mother of a small son, serving as an assault infantry soldier.

She put it as simply as it can be put:

“When you see even one form of Russian evil, you understand that it must be stopped at any cost.”

They wanted a victim. They got a soldier.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Today marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

Thousands of Ukrainians are subjected to inhumane treatment in russian captivity.
Those who return change so much that their own families don't always recognize them.

This is what russian captivity looks like🧵

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia has found a new way to wage an information war against Europe, and it runs through Africa.

For a long time, African countries were viewed as one of the audiences for Russian propaganda. But today, there are increasing signs that Africa has become a territory where anti-Western and anti-European propaganda is being produced.

At the beginning of June, this issue was raised on the agenda of a meeting of the European Parliament's Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (EUDS), dedicated to Russian disinformation and influence operations in Africa.

Moscow is systematically building a network of media outlets, bloggers, community organizations, "independent" journalists, and digital activists in certain African countries. Formally, they appear to be local. In reality, however, they often convey the same messages that the Kremlin promotes around the world: the West is in decline, the EU is hypocritical, France is a neocolonial power, Ukraine is merely a tool of the US, and Russia acts as the defender of sovereignty and a just world order.

What sets this model apart is that anti-Western content is no longer necessarily produced in Moscow or St. Petersburg. It is created by local voices - African journalists, influencers, and media projects. This is precisely what gives it additional legitimacy. When a Russian official talks about "Western colonialism," it sounds like propaganda. When a journalist from Bamako or Accra says the same thing, it sounds and is perceived differently.

At the heart of this campaign lies an anti-colonial narrative. Russia skillfully exploits the historical traumas of African societies, turning the memory of colonialism into a political weapon. Anti-French sentiments are gradually expanding into anti-European ones. Criticism of individual Western states is turning into distrust of the EU as a whole. Added to this are issues of migration, double standards, culture wars, and the war in Ukraine.

For the Kremlin, this is an extremely profitable investment. First, such infrastructure is cheaper than traditional state-run media. Second, it allows the origin of these campaigns to be concealed. Third, it creates the illusion that anti-Western sentiments arise naturally, rather than being the result of coordinated efforts.

During the aforementioned session in the European Parliament, Nigerian investigative journalist Philip Obaji Jr. explicitly warned MEPs about Russia's use of African media networks to extend its influence beyond the continent. In other words, propaganda can be funded in Moscow, produced in Bamako, disseminated through accounts in Accra or Lagos, and influence voters in Amsterdam, Paris, or Berlin.

Of course, there is no evidence yet of the existence of massive "African troll factories" that are interfering on a massive scale in European elections. But there is already sufficient evidence of another process: Russia is forming a local ecosystem in Africa for the production and legitimization of anti-Western narratives.

In fact, the issue at hand is a new architecture of Russian influence. It is no longer simply the export of propaganda from Russia, but the creation of a network of local intermediaries who make it sound like the voice of other societies. This is much more effective and much more dangerous.

Thank you, Philip Obaji @PhilipObaji, for your excellent work!
I highly recommend following his account.

[ukiedoc @ukiedoc]

@Alina_Lipp_X Russian propaganda

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Over 60,000 followers and barely any reach. At this point it’s hard not to conclude that pro-Ukraine accounts, mine included, are being heavily suppressed on X.

[Anna_From_Ukraine_Official @AnnaFromUA_YT]

🇧🇾 Belarus’s Lukashenko switched off Russian drone support after Zelensky’s ultimatum—because he knows Putin is losing. Belarus has been involved since 2022, but now he fears his regime will collapse too. Liberation of Belarus will follow.

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing #FreeBelarus #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range operations are consistent, precise responses to Russia dragging out the war and attacking Ukrainian cities and communities.

Last night, Defense Forces units struck the Poltavska oil depot in the Krasnodar region. The target was approximately 300 kilometers from the front line. This morning, the Security Service of Ukraine hit two oil refineries in Ufa – Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim and Bashneft-Novoil. That’s 1,500 kilometers from the front line.

We are implementing our long-range sanctions plan. I thank all Ukrainian warriors who ensure our precision. The Russians should be thinking about real diplomacy instead of once again trying to trick others or buy time. The war must be brought to an end.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

The courage of Ukraine's armed forces has shifted the momentum on the battlefield.

The tide is turning.

And the resolve of the Ukrainian people has shown to the world that their European choice cannot be broken.

Ukraine will prevail, grow, prosper ↓ https://t.co/R1NyTfMAtA

[ukiedoc @ukiedoc]

@sashameetsrus How will you explain the highest divorce and abortion rate in RF ? Traditional values ?

[ukiedoc @ukiedoc]

@sashameetsrus If you want to fight today’s fascism you should be on Ukraine side otherwise you are a part of Russian propaganda paid by bloody Putin’s money

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: What Russians do is they put out not one lie, but million lies, or not one explanation, but one after another.

It's a propaganda technique. They just flood people with massive, contradictory stories, and sooner or later, people won't pay attention to anything at all.

And there's so much information all the time that people eventually just tune out, and they say, "I don't know what's true, I don't know what's not true, I don't believe anything, I'm not going to engage in this issue, I'm not going to get angry about it, I just don't want to know anything at all."

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

It's 4am here in Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

russia is continuing it's terror campaign, launching hypersonic missiles across the country and at the capital Kyiv. 🚀🚀🚀

Please don't ignore the alarms everyone, seek shelter 🚨

[ukiedoc @ukiedoc]

@0TulsiGabbard2 Ukraine is protecting NATO now