Iuliia Mendel
@IuliiaMendel
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.@UMWallaceHouse fellow; @umichWCEE fellow; The Fight of Our Lives https://t.co/CLX2BRG8BW; @PostOpinions, @nytimes; spokesperson to 🇺🇦president(2019-2021)
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1/10 When I was a little girl in Kherson, now under Russian siege, a life like mine was unimaginable. In 2019, at 32 years old, I won a competition over 4K applicants to work as press-secretary to our new president @ZelenskyyUa. Never before had such a job been open to the public
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Nearly every day, videos of extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian POWs appear online. Russian forces have reportedly executed another Ukrainian POW in the Donetsk region, according to @Deepstate_UA. Footage circulating on social media shows a Ukrainian soldier emerging from a
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If Western taxpayers are not angry that their money is being stolen by corrupt officials and politicians, then Ukrainians have every right to be furious that this money never reached the soldiers and those who truly need it.
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Russia's frozen state assets in the EU are better suited as a bargaining chip to achieve peace in Ukraine instead of financing a €165 billion reparations loan for Kyiv, according to the chief executive of Euroclear. https://t.co/Klb47VoWT4
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CEO Valérie Urbain weighs in on tortured loan saga.
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🇺🇦⚔️ Russia has deployed over 710,000 troops along the front line, - Syrskyi The enemy side is losing about 1,000-1,100 soldiers every day, "and most of them are dying." Our strategy is to exhaust the Russian army as much as possible, prevent its advance, hold our territory,
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Ukraine struck Russian oil refinery again. Drones torch Russia's Temryuk Seaport (military fuel hub) & Syzran Refinery (8.9M tons/yr) – plus Saratov Refinery CONFIRMED crippled (<50% ops, ELOU-AVT-6 wrecked). Russia's war machine: ~$2.5B in potential lost fuel revenue from these
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Ukraine is increasingly using interceptors to destroy Russian drones, and the best pilots are often young videogame aces. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/tFC9mqiMAV
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Indeed Russia has destroyed yet another church in Ukraine. This one I know well, having spent much time in Kostyantynivka and interviewed its priest back in 2018, when Ukraine's Orthodox Church broke from the Russia-controlled Moscow Patriarchate. This is St. Stritenskiy/Holy
Ще одна церква на Донбасі знищена внаслідок обстрілу. Храм у Костянтинівці не витримав артилерійського обстрілу й повністю зруйнований. Фіксувати #ВоєнніЗлочини в зоні бойових дій надзвичайно складно. І завжди є ризик, що такі руйнування залишаться незадокументованими. Тому
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After the drone strike on the Grozny-City skyscraper, Kadyrov threatened Ukraine with a “gift” in return. He called the attack a sign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s “desperation” and promised a swift response.
A drone strike hit the Grozny City complex early this morning, blowing out the facade of several upper floors in a tower that hosts key Chechen government offices. The blast occurred just down the road from Kadyrov’s palace. Russian channels blame intercepted UAVs, but the damage
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Reuters reports the EU & G7 are preparing a complete ban on Western ships carrying Russian oil anywhere in the world — a move that would end the roughly one-third of Russia’s seaborne exports still moved by EU-flagged tankers (mainly Greek, Cypriot, and Maltese) to India and
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New. Reports Zelensky’s ex chief of staff Yermak might be about to flee Ukraine - purportedly using an assumed identity. The claim made here is corruption charges are incoming. (He denies any wrongdoing and evidence here needs confirmation).
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По словам источников, глава СВР считается ��стопроцентным человеком Ермака».
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A cat sleeps on the rubble of a destroyed house where 12-year-old Oleksandr was killed by a Russian drone strike on Dnipropetrovsk region last night. Oleksandr's parents - 37-year-old Anna and 39-year-old Vitalii - were injured. The Russian drone struck the house where the
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🇺🇦📈Ukraine’s GDP could surpass 🇷🇺Russia’s within the next 10 years — if the war ends and strong security guarantees lock in peace, says U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio. History shows that war-torn economies often rebound faster than those in stagnant peacetime — reconstruction
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Russians are posting footage of their own strike on the Kherson thermal power plant — celebrating the shelling that has left thousands of civilians without heat as winter sets in. Inhumane
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"European leaders have privately criticized but reluctantly tolerated Ukrainian corruption for years, reasoning that supporting the fight against Russia’s invasion was paramount" - @Kim_Barker and @ConstantMeheut for @nytimes Now, European politicians complain to Ukrainians that
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Wheels, deals and geo-politics. In India President Putin and Prime Minister Modi take a ride together ahead of talks on boosting cooperation. Is Russia’s aim a ‘new world order’…or disorder? Our report from Delhi. Producer @BBCBenTavener
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🇩🇪 "Better live under Putin's rule than fight." German students and schoolchildren revolt against military service 🔻 On December 5, the parliament approved a law on military service aimed at expanding the army due to the threat from Russia. All 18-year-old men will be required
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In occupied Skadovsk, Russian authorities have left people without access to medical care: patients without local registration are reportedly being denied entry to clinics, according to @ResistanceMove3. The reason is a severe staffing shortage, as medical workers have been
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French Navy personnel opened fire on five drones detected Thursday evening over the highly sensitive Île Longue nuclear submarine base in Brittany — home to France’s ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). The strategic site, under permanent no-fly zone for drones, triggered
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🇷🇺 RUSSIA’S WAR IS NOW A JOB MARKET Want a drone operator? Rifleman? Russia’s got a Telegram ad for that. Signing bonuses reach up to $540,000. Free childcare, debt relief, even college spots for your kids. HIV? Criminal record? No problem. The frontlines are hiring. This
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