In Nikopol city the Russian army killed three people with a drone today, including an 87-year-old woman in a wheelchair

1/N Let's talk about retard cyka propaganda. This tweet is a classic example of visual manipulation, a cornerstone of modern disinformation. The cyka uses a shocking, decontextualized historical photograph to anchor a completely historically illiterate claim. 1⃣ The image shows women in traditional Ukrainian dress (vyshyvanka) giving a Nazi salute to German officials. The cyka places this image under text about the "origins" of Ukrainian identity to deliberately imply that Ukrainian statehood is inherently tied to, or manufactured by, Nazism. The reality: This is a real photograph from 1941, taken during the initial Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). But the context the cyka deliberately omits is crucial to understanding history: When German troops first entered Ukraine, a fraction of the population initially greeted them as liberators. Why? Because just eight years earlier, Stalin's Soviet regime had orchestrated the Holodomor, a targeted, man-made famine that starved millions of Ukrainians to death, alongside the execution of thousands of Ukrainian intellectuals. However, the delusion that the Nazis would be liberators shattered almost immediately. Hitler viewed all Slavs, including Ukrainians, as Untermenschen (subhumans) destined for slavery or extermination. The Nazis quickly suppressed any attempts at Ukrainian independence, arrested nationalist leaders (sending them to concentration camps like Sachsenhausen), and initiated a brutal occupation where millions of Ukrainian Jews and non-Jews were murdered. The propaganda trick: State propagandists routinely use photos of the minority of WWII collaborators to paint the entire modern Ukrainian nation as an artificial fascist project. They conveniently omit the historical fact that more than 4.5 million Ukrainians fought in the Soviet Red Army against Nazi Germany, suffering catastrophic casualties to defeat fascism. Furthermore, this narrative ignores that Russia itself had hundreds of thousands of Nazi collaborators, such as the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) commanded by Russian General Andrey Vlasov. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia… To read more about how the history of WWII and collaboration is weaponized to delegitimize Ukraine today, see this detailed analysis from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2⃣The "geopolitical invention" lie. The text of the tweet claims that Ukraine's connection to Kyivan Rus, the Cossacks, and the Orthodox Church is pretend and that the nation was manufactured by geopolitical interests (and implicitly, the CIA, based on the text). The reality: No serious global historian supports the claim that Ukraine is a modern geopolitical invention. Kyivan Rus: While modern nation-states didn't exist in the 10th century, Kyiv was the undisputed center of East Slavic political and cultural life centuries before Moscow was even a recognized settlement. The linguistic and cultural ancestors of modern Ukrainians developed continuously in this core region. The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute provides extensive academic resources documenting this unbroken regional history. The Cossacks: The assertion that Cossacks weren't Ukrainian ignores the existence of the Zaporozhian Hetmanate (17th–18th centuries). This was a highly distinct, self-governing proto-state with its own diplomatic corps, legal code, and military culture, entirely separate from the Tsardom of Russia until imperial treaties slowly eroded their autonomy. You can read the historiography of the Cossack state via the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. The CIA/foreign backing claim: The claim that the CIA (which was founded in 1947) or generic Western geopolitics invented a nation is chronologically absurd. By 1947, Ukrainians had already experienced a massive, documented national and literary awakening in the 19th century, and had already fought multiple bloody wars for independence in the 1910s and 1920s (establishing the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic before being crushed by the Bolsheviks).

In Russia’s Primorsky Krai, a children’s camp called “Stormtrooper” has opened. At a time when Russian schools are already being militarised and children are being exposed to increasingly aggressive wartime narratives, the symbolism is difficult to ignore. The Kremlin isn’t even pretending anymore. The next generation is being prepared to see war as normal, service as inevitable, and sacrifice as patriotic. Putin’s conveyor belt for fresh cannon fodder starts young - BUTUSOV Plus

🇷🇺🇷🇺Russian officer Uldarov: “I ‘cleared out’ a basement of 300–400 civilians, including 40 children.” According to him, it was a nine-story building. The occupier adds that “he had no choice” and that he WAS ORDERED TO ELIMINATE EVERYONE: “I carried out the order with this hand — I killed children. You understand, by order. The thing is, we… we were given the command to wipe out and destroy everyone. WE WENT TO KILL everyone — women, men, the elderly, and children, even the little ones — five-year-olds.” The order came from Prigozhin to clear out Bakhmut — to spare no one, neither the old nor the children. “Wipe them all out.” In Soledar, it was even worse. Direct quote from Savichev: “Civilians came out. And there was an order — everyone aged 15 and older was to be executed immediately without a word. 20 to 24 people were shot, including ten teenagers aged 15 to 17.”

One last piece of Russian propaganda before she departs. Nothing about Russia’s Nazi-style filtration camps in occupied eastern Ukraine, the torture network, forced deportations, or the thousands of civilians and POWs subjected to abuse. Shocker…………not!

No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

Це Лев Костюк. Народився в 2010 в Маріуполі. Зник під час окупації. Його фото є на українській платформі "Діти війни" від Мін.реінтеграції. Лев давав інтерв'ю місцевому пропагандистському телеканалу "Оплот ТВ". У морській кадетській формі, на фоні російського прапора.

RT @ghostofRoc: Russian soldier admits his unit raped girls as young as 10 & 11 yrs old in Ukraine forced mothers to watch - just before…

#UkrainianChildren from occupied Donetsk region were taken all the way to Sakhalin, thousands of kilometres from home, to participate in a “military-patriotic gathering” that included elements of military training. Such trips are not isolated incidents: across #Russia, there is an entire network of similar camps with standardised programmes featuring drill training, tactical exercises, and “patriotism lessons”. #InternationalLaw prohibits the indoctrination and militarisation of children from occupied territories.

21.02.2014: COUP IN KYIV. The EU brokers a peaceful solution. Yanukovych remains president and pledges to hold free and fair elections by the end of the year. Parliament regains more of its powers. In early January, Igor Girkin was already in Crimea preparing for the annexation.

There was never a "civil war" in Ukraine. It was an unprovoked russian invasion from its start in 2014, hiding behind fake 'separatist' movements.

💥 In Zaporizhzhia a ruzzian drone flew straight into an apartment. Just imagine: people are getting ready for bed, settling under their blankets, wishing each other good night. And then, suddenly — an explosion. The kind that makes your heart stop in terror. In a single moment, a home ceases to be a place of safety. Glass shatters, walls shake, and with them, human souls. For some, this is just another news story in their feed. For others, it is a night they will remember for the rest of their. 💔

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: president.gov.ua/en/news/vid…

Russian strike on an ambulance in Kherson today. Russia is systematically tearing Kherson apart, committing one war crime after another. The city is in a desperate, critical situation‼️‼️

09.05.2014: Two trucks arrive in Donetsk; on board are armed fighters, some of whom are masked, carrying Russian flags. They attack the “Shakhterskie Zori” sanatorium, where Ukrainian units are temporarily stationed.

I no longer understand the so-called civilized world. Another massive russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine. 🛑 Kyiv: 4 killed, 50 injured, including 3 children. 🛑 Dnipro: 6 killed, including a rescuer, 36 injured. Where is the world's outrage?

Horrific moment of a direct russian drone strike on an apartment building in Dnipro last night‼️ ​At least 12 people were killed, including 2 children.