Oleksandr Mykhed
@mykhed_o
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Ukrainian writer. Member of PEN Ukraine. Author of the nonfiction book “The Language of War”.
Joined June 2022
My nonfiction book about the fullscale invasion is already at the bookshops all over UK. @chiggi did a great profile about the book and my story for @observer
https://t.co/rUjWAgVOS3
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Crazy horrible night and morning in Ukraine. 6 hours of constant explosions. Russia launched 643 shaheds and rockets. AFU shot down 566 UAVs, 42 rockets. 4 people killed in Kyiv. Russia hit the Institute of cardiology in Kyiv. Another war crime in their strategy.
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Вбиті друзі. Загиблі колеги. Знищене відчуття дому. Спалене минуле. Перекреслене майбутнє. Щоденна загроза. Лють, що не знає меж. Безкінечна любов до нашої землі. весна 2023 Олександр Михед.
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My new essay for The Guardian. About the Russian missile strike of 31st of July on Kyiv and how the situation got worse since Trump inauguration. https://t.co/8zn9eLp9En
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UPD: 27 killed, among them 3 kids. 159 injured, among them 16 kids.
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Kyiv. Russia did a missile strike and drone attack during the night. 6 people killed, more than 50 injured. Russia is killing civilians on a daily basis. Almost every night is a pure horror. Why the world is still pretending that they couldn’t stop it?
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Kyiv. Today. The biggest attack of one could imagine. 2,5 hours of shahed attack with constant explosions everywhere. It felt like a nightmare. Russia is killing and demolishing our country in this genocide. Dear world, please, wake up.
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"The language of war" by Oleksandr Mykhed is more than a book; it's a chilling documentary about the reality of the horrors of russia's war on Ukraine. It's a key to understanding the pain and brutality from a personal, yet universal perspective. I advise everybody to read it.
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My essay on one of the most horrible nights and how we feel about the “peace deal”: “In a deal between two macho men who ignore everyone’s interests except their own, it seems Ukraine should pay a terrible price for daring to survive and fight”. https://t.co/3nOdgZRORZ
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One of the most horrific nights. 64 wounded, 9 killed in Kyiv. Missiles, drones, every deadly possible piece of negotiations was striking on us. The duration of the attack 5 hours 58 minutes. That’s how Russia negotiate. And the world allows it. Photo libkos.
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The US edition of my nonfiction book “I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal” about the Ukrainian East in Sunday’s issue of the NYT: “Drawing from archives and interviews with miners and activists, Mykhed tells the human story of the Donbas” Your copy is here: https://t.co/LXgpPFSLGI
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First published in Ukraine in 2020. Since that time it became a long seller. The book is available in 🇩🇪🇵🇱🇸🇰Your English edition is here: https://t.co/tA56Gokn8A
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My nonfiction about Ukrainian East will be published in the USA by the Northwestern University Press in 2 weeks. This is a dive into history and contemporaneity of Kostiantynivka, Bakhmut, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Pokrovsk and Dobropillja.
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It’s 3 anniversary of the deoccupation of Bucha. Russians committed more that 9000 war crimes during 33 days. More than 700 civilians were killed. How one could forget about this? How one could pretend that this never happened?
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"If during the first term of Trump’s presidency we talked of the post-truth era, now we find ourselves in a world in which the truth is taken out, tortured and shot."--@mykhed_o
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'Am I being naive, wondering every day why the crimes of Russians remain unpunished? Or is it easier for the world to forget all this and pretend that none of the following events happened? The massacre in Bucha. The siege of Mariupol...' by @mykhed_o
https://t.co/x6DilB29FC
theguardian.com
The massacre in Bucha, the mass graves in Izium – it is as if these atrocities never happened. Now the truth is being taken out and shot, says writer Oleksandr Mykhed
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My essay for the Guardian. ‘The world is looking at the body of truth that is dying and bleeding before our eyes. I beg you, if you can’t stop the bleeding, at least don’t turn away from the sight of blood’. https://t.co/4zHoRr4dgh
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Last night, a Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation at the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. This shelter was built by Ukraine together with other countries of Europe and the world,
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