Anna Episheva: My niece was supposed to graduate this year from her high school. She and her friends bought dresses and were looking forward to this day. Then Russians came. Her school was directly hit and destroyed. Today she came back to what is left of her school and her plans
Where we are with 🇫🇮 and NATO: a brief update on the subject. Short answer, the train is still moving steady and onward to applying for NATO membership. While things have developed rapidly in a short time period, we are long past the question "will we" and moved on to "when".
1. 878,000 Ukrainians are in unknown Russian locations, says Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denysova, 164,000 of them are children. There is no way to check if they are safe or if they need anything. De facto, they are captives of Russia.
#GenocideOfUkraine
The debate about Finnish @NATO membership begins in Parliament today.
Never underestimate the capacity of Finns to take cool, calm, collected and swift decisions at historic turningpoints.
1809 autonomy, 1917 independence, 1944 peace and 1992 EU application. 2022 Nato.
Rintamatilannekatsaus!
18.4. alkaen Venäjä on toiminut yhä aktiivisemmin eri suunnissa.
19.4. Ukraina ja Venäjä ilmoittivat sodan siirtymisestä seuraavaan vaiheeseen. Runsaasti tulitoimintaa useissa paikoissa.
20.4. Suurhyökkäystä on kestänyt päivän. Käydään tilanne läpi!
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A small story of Russian slave raids on Ukraine - my cousin's wife's family, from Mariupol, have been 'evacuated' to Russia. First they were sent to Taganrog, then Rostov, now Khabarovsk in the far east. No one tells them why they're being sent, for what reason,
Uskallan tässä vaiheessa sanoa, että Kiovan länsipuolen hyökkäyskärki on romahtanut käytännössä kokonaan, ja saamme jatkuvasti uutta tietoa vapautetuista kylistä.
Tämä on merkittävä käänne koko sodan kannalta, ja suuri voitto Ukrainalle.
One country in Europe has spent decades planning for a potential Russian attack, never letting its guard down. My big read on Finland and its impressive level of preparedness https://t.co/Mn4zjQH1LG