Anastasiia Lapatina
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I produce ‘This Week in Ukraine’ at @kyivindependent
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A Russian soldier surrendered. Ukrainians gave him tea, food, and let him call his mother on video. I want to cry from how much I love my country.
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Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.
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We fought through this night. Good morning. Kyiv is ours
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Kyiv survived yet another night. Good morning world
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Ukraine is still winning, 96 hours later. Good morning world
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Ukraine’s first International legion of territorial defence forces– fighters from the US, Mexico, India, Sweden, and more.
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We at the Kyiv Independent –
@KyivIndependent
– just hit ONE MILLION followers. We, a startup, who had only 20,000 followers last week. We will continue working day and night to bring truth to you. Glory to Ukraine!🥳
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Ukrainians march towards Russian soldiers while getting shot at. Everyone must watch this video.
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I am sure I will die soon. It is a matter of a few days. In this city, everyone is constantly waiting for death. I just want it not to be too scary. – testimony of a woman in
#Mariupol
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Russia is sending 20-year-old boys to die here. Thousands of them. Thank god Ukrainians have not lost their dignity and humanity.
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Russia is suspended from the UN Human Rights Council 🔥
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A 6-year-old boy stands near the grave of his mother, who was buried in their yard in Kyiv oblast. (Ph: Rodrigo Abd/AP)
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Russia was certain this would be over in a day or two. It’s day six and Ukraine still fights like hell. Good morning
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My mother is an absolute hero. She drove from Lviv to the outskirts of Kyiv to transport generators for a field hospital, and doesn’t seem to be even remotely worried, despite non-stop artillery near her. “No time to be scared. I have to sleep and continue working.” This woman💔
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A 17-year-old girl watched her mother and 15-year-old sister raped, beaten up and killed by 3 Russian soldiers. She was told that she was too ugly to be raped. She had to stay with their dead bodies for 4 days. This could have been a story about me, or any other woman in Ukraine
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Russians broke into my family's house. Went through all of our stuff. Took mom's computer, all her shoes, her camera – a gift from dad, who died in 2017. God knows what else they took. Imagine a place where you grew up and lived your best moments violated in this manner
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This used to be my road home. Now it’s blown up to prevent Russian tanks from entering Kyiv
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Kherson, a southern city where I and my whole family were born, is back under Ukrainian control. Glory to the heroes
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Day 9 of this hell. Putin thought this would be over in ≈ 72 hours, but Ukraine is still standing strong.
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The entire Kyiv oblast is now free from Russian occupants. Glory to the heroes!
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Russians began using MOBILE CREMATORIUMS in
#Mariupol
to burn bodies of slaughtered Ukrainians en masse. This is a catastrophe. And we will never learn the true scale of it
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Russians opened a market in Belarus where they sell things they stole from Ukrainian homes, including dishwashers, bicycles, carpets, etc. All this is taken to Belarus in a centralized manner, via Russian trucks. Some things are also shipped to Russia. This is beyond me
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A Russian soldier replaced the plate in his body armor with a stolen macbook. He got killed in Irpin.
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Mariupol is now a ghost city – 80% of its infrastructure is damaged or destroyed, 40% of which cannot be rebuilt, authorities say. One of the largest in the country, a beautiful, developed city razed to the ground.
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Our dogs were stuck in my family house in an occupied village near Kyiv. No one could reach them for weeks because the fighting was non-stop. Yesterday our army liberated the village, and today I learnt that my dogs are alive and will be taken to safety soon 💔
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I grew up here. The house of my family has stood here for almost 2 decades. Now this village is occupied by Russians, homes are burned down, dead bodies are on the streets where I used to skate. My three dogs are alone at home. I will never forgive
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This woman drove six generators from Krakow to the outskirts of
#Kyiv
, and just urgently unloaded one for our soldiers in Irpin. “Gotta go now, it’s very loud here,” she said. My mother is unbelievable
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Having lunch in
#Lviv
. Suddenly, the Ukrainian anthem starts playing on the speakers of the shopping center. Everyone gets up, sings the anthem, shouts Slava Ukraini at the end, sits down and goes back to eating. Nice
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After seeing Bucha, I am terrified to my core to even imagine what we will see in Mariupol.
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The daughter of Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, posted “no war” on her Instagram. I don’t even know how to comment this
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Zelensky signed an official request to join the European Union. We are living history
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Around 20 percent of
#Irpin
streets have been cleaned from debris already, just over a week after the city was liberated from Russian occupants. Hundreds of people volunteered to help.💔
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I see many Russians, including celebrities, posting Zelensky’s daily speeches. The president began doing a part of them in Russian, directly addressing the Russian people. Looks like they are listening
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This woman, Olga, covered her one-month-old baby girl with her body during shelling in
#Kyiv
and was severely injured as a result. The baby wasn’t harmed. The family is now being treated at Ohmatdyt
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Mom, I know the timing isn’t perfect, but your girl is in the New York Times.
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A woman in Russia was detained for standing and holding a blank white piece of paper. I have nothing to add
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Wow. Ukraine just freed 144 soldiers from Russian captivity, including 95 Azovstal defenders, and 43 Azov fighters. The best possible news of today. They are coming home
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I really thought I’ve seen the worst of it. But I just heard an intercepted call of a Russian woman telling her partner to rape Ukrainian women, just not tell her about it. “I allow it, just use protection”. What the actual fuck
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Russians shot women and girls in Irpin and then drove over them in tanks.
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🧵As my partner and I were walking through Lviv just now, we saw a mother with 2 kids that was visibly struggling with luggage. We went to help them. They told us they just escaped
#Mariupol
💔👇🏼
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A dog was running around an apartment complex in Bucha. A Ukrainian soldier took her in and is now looking for her family. This is the Ukrainian military – as opposed to rapists and looters from Russia who shoot and eat dogs
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With Irpin defenders, whom I owe until the rest of my life for defending my home.
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The myth of the great powerful Russia is crumbling, day by day.
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A Ukrainian female sniper who goes by “Ugoliok” which means charcoal.🔥
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“How to protect yourself from rape” is an actual post circulating among Ukrainian girls on Instagram right now. This is our reality
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At least 25 women and girls, as young as 14, were raped by Russians in one basement in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant. Russian soldiers said “they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children."
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Going home for the first time since the war began. Driving into Irpin, through the highway where I’ve been a million times. Everything destroyed. Stores, civilian homes, hospitals, everything. Russians brought nothing but sheer suffering here. And they will pay for it
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My mom, who spoke Russian her whole life, is naturally slowly switching to Ukrainian❤️
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Day 17 of Ukraine living through hell yet persevering.
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Ukraine's military surrounded Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel near
#Kyiv
– Russian troops north-west of Kyiv are now encircled.🔥
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Russians are shooting civilians after tying their hands behind their backs. Dead bodies are all over the Kyiv oblast, on the streets, in cars, in people’s yards. Mass graves are full of unidentified bodies. Many families will never know what happened to their loved ones
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Imagine giving birth in sieged Mariupol, under constant bombardment. Imagine singing to your newborn like this in a bomb shelter. Imagine escaping the blockaded city with him in your arms, risking your life at every single step. Ukrainians don’t have to imagine. This is our life.
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Putin’s spokesperson: “We have significant losses of troops. And it’s a huge tragedy for us.” :)
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The Russians might bomb the Irpin cemetery where my father’s grave is. I do not know what else to do, so please pray for my father
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Two months of this hell already. Two months since Russia attempted to seize Kyiv in 3 days
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Fifty people, including 5 kids, died in a Russian missile strike at a Kramatorsk train station. Fifty innocent people.
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My kitchen. This is what immense luck and privilege look like – flats of all my neighbors are gone.
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This is Ukraine.
At a handshake distance.
@BorisJohnson
and
@ZelenskyyUa
walked through the center of Kyiv and talked to ordinary Kyivans. This is what democracy looks like. This is what courage looks like. This is what true friendship between peoples and between nations looks like.
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The president of the Red Cross meeting Lavrov in Moscow today. To say that this doesn’t look good is an understatement
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Russian media reports that “No to war” graffitis have appeared in many spots in
#Moscow
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Zelensky and Co visiting Irpin, Bucha, and Stoyanka today.
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Still thinking of that woman that walked up to a Russian soldier and said "put seeds in your pockets, so that when you are killed, sunflowers will grow"
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Now let’s just all stop for a minute and think about the fact that
#Russia
is still a part of the UN Security Council
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My mother is 10 kilometers away from Antonov airport, now seized by Russia. She is hiding with her friends and counting strikes – 13 in the last fifteen minutes. Ukrainians will never forgive this
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Around 1500 people volunteered to help clean up debris in Irpin within an HOUR. After everything we saw in Bucha and nearby areas. This nation is unbeatable
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A message in the group chat of my village, on the outskirts of
#Kyiv
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“My mother was killed and she is laying on the stairs of our house. I need to get her body somehow. I understand that it can be problematic… but what should I do?”
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@elonmusk
Millions of Ukrainians had to flee from Donbas and Crimea due to Russia’s occupation. Then, the Kremlin settled those territories with hundreds of thousands of Russians. Is that fair voting to you?
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Rest in peace, my beautiful angel. They will pay for making your last few weeks hell.
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A Ukrainian soldier just stopped me to check my IDs as I was passing by the SBU building in Kyiv. “I got out of Mariupol three weeks ago,” he said. “Mariupol is gone”
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10,000,000 Ukrainians fled their homes because of Russia’s war. Ten million
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Intercepted Russian phone call:
– I stole some things for you, some makeup…
– My sweetheart, everything for the family… What Russian wouldn’t steal, after all. Sofia is going to school soon, she will need a computer as well… Take everything you can.
This is appalling.
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Many Russians are thrilled and celebrating right now, by the way. Just saying.
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Defenders of
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just said Russia used chemical weapons on them around an hour ago – soldiers are having difficulty breathing and vestibulo-atactic syndrome. Earlier today Russian puppets in occupied Donbas openly called for the use of chemical weapons against them
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Woke up to a video of a Mariupol defender begging the world to get them and civilians out, because they are outnumbered and have days, if not hours left to live. There are more than 500 wounded soldiers and over 1000 civilians sheltering there at Azovstal
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I turned 21 today. My mother asked some of the Irpin defenders that we know to sign a Ukrainian flag for me, and brought them cake so they can celebrate with me, albeit virtually❤️🩹
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Russian state media: “Signs of black magic were found in Ukrainian military headquarters”. A whole new level of idiocy from the Ministry of Truth
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I promise you guys, my neighbors were not nazis or Azov.
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