Veryfarwest

Reader, writer, femme fatale, journalist, lives on tiny tropical 🏝️ @veryfarwest.bsky.social

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

💔 "Committing rape needs no fighting techniques. A soldier capable of such atrocities reflects… a whole ecosystem of violence behind such an act" 💔💀
#Russia #Ukraine #WarCrimes

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

I hear about the innocence of ordinary Russians but then I see ordinary Russian mothers saying goodbye to their ordinary Russian sons and wishing them success in their ordinary Russian war crimes
Ordinary Russia is sick
Russia will heal once Russia is defeated #Landsbergis

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

A "pattern has already emerged in Russia: murderers and rapists are not afraid of prison, because they go straight to war and then come back with honors"
#Russia #Ukraine #rape

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

@ZelenskyyUa Russian prison officials encourage violence and rape to provide the military with "men who are used to torture and rape as a part of everyday life"

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

In Russian prisons, officials condone rampant violence and rape.
In seeking mercenaries to kill abroad, the Russian military thus often turns to those in prisons "looking for men who are used to torture and rape as a part of everyday life [and are in fact] used to doing it"

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

💔 "Committing rape needs no fighting techniques. A soldier capable of such atrocities reflects… a whole ecosystem of violence behind such an act" 💔💀 💔 #Ukraine #Russia #rape
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[Ashley Duffany 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @NAFOteacher]

Repeat after me:

UKRAINE is the victim.
russia is the aggressor.

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

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[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

I hear about the innocence of ordinary Russians but then I see ordinary Russian mothers saying goodbye to their ordinary Russian sons and wishing them success in their ordinary Russian war crimes
Ordinary Russia is sick
Russia will heal once Russia is defeated #Landsbergis

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

Part of the answer was simple: the Russian Army lacks professional combat skills.

💔 "Committing rape needs no fighting techniques. A soldier capable of such atrocities reflects… a whole ecosystem of violence behind such an act" 💔💀

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

"In May 2022 gynecological teams began visiting Kyiv and Kherson. Three months post-full-scale invasion, mass cases of war crime rape were ubiquitous
Primary targets were women & teenage girls; the mean age was fifteen, but also men, elderly, children and toddlers"

[Veryfarwest @veryfarwest]

Russian political life - traditionally and in current iteration – is marked by use of machismo, force, and brutality; the state itself is designed to be ruthless and cruel.
There is a direct link between Russia’s behavior, Putin’s rhetoric, and the concept of rape culture itself