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run a charity in eastern ukraine @kharpproject | writing @GrantaMag @nybooks @LRB @guardian @1843mag @telegraph etc | ada.wordsworth @gmail .com or ada @kharpp .com
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I wrote for
@guardian
about the villages I have spent two years working to repair, and the hell that has once again been unleashed upon them with the tacit approval of the western states which refuse to allow Ukraine to properly defend itself.
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Constantly amazed by the use of the word ‘peace’ by the members of the British left calling for Ukrainian capitulation. Go to Irpin and Bucha or the other liberated towns around Ukraine, and understand what ‘peace’ under Russian occupation means.
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i cannot stress enough the total lack of major NGOs on the ground on the border - and i know that the situation is the same in Kharkiv and across much of Ukraine. PLEASE stop giving your money to unicef, oxfam, save the children, IHRC - these groups are not here!
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Ashamed to have ever campaigned for him. Socialism is about standing up against imperialism and fascism, and Ukraine cannot do that without weapons. If the left can’t stand with Ukraine in their fight against genocide, then what is the point of it?
Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn condemning Britain’s crucial military aid to Ukraine in an interview he granted to a pro-Russian, pro-Assad, pro-Hezbollah, Iranian-linked propaganda media outlet. Yikes.
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until today, the last time i saw a St George's ribbon in person was a month ago on the floor outside an abandoned torture chamber used by r*ssian troops in Kharkivs'ka Oblast. today I saw a r*ssian lecturer at Oxford proudly sporting one as she went about her teaching.
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it’s deeply disturbing watching people sitting in safety trying to pit Ukrainian and Palestinian lives against one another
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Really sums up the absurdity of the notion that both Russians and Ukrainians are victims of this war
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my favourite thing about studying Russian literature is definitely when people ask me for a definitive answer on whether Putin is going to invade Ukraine
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I was in this hardware store last Friday buying materials for
@KHARPProject
’s villages. The woman at the counter gave me a 20% discount having heard where the materials were going. Can’t stop thinking about her and about the hundreds of other people who would’ve been there today.
Another footage of a horrendous Russia missile attack on a shopping store in Kharkiv
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in case anyone's wondering, this organisation is called Awakening Europe. they're completely unavoidable on the border, taking up space and getting in everyone's way, and their mission here is 'to pray with people'.
At the Ukraine/Poland border. Tired women and children leaving their country. They’re being pestered by American preachers telling them they all need to accept Jesus as their saviour and their lives will be better. Receiving a lot of eye rolls in response.
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delighted to report that after a week of speaking Russian for 8 hours a day, hearing Polish and Ukrainian constantly, and attempting to keep up with my Czech each evening, i appear to have rediscovered the spoken form of Proto-Slavonic
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unicef has an annual intake of $7bn. where are they? where is that money going? i cannot express how heartbreaking and frustrating it is to see people work so hard to organise fundraisers - and then to send it all to these charities, who 1/ don't need it, and 2/ aren't using it
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the West’s refusal to allow Ukraine to hit targets in russia is a tacit acceptance that Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, can be razed to the ground and Ukraine can do nothing about it and I don’t understand how the people who make these decisions sleep at night
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wrote something about war tourism at the Polish/Ukrainian border
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highlight of today: a Ukrainian babushka refugee whose bags i was carrying to her platform telling me off at length for not wrapping up warm enough. war or no war, babushkas will never change
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The Russian army rapes Ukrainian women in torture chambers whilst Western Europeans and Americans claiming to be feminists call for Ukrainian surrender.
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the ucl left will be like i know a spot and then take you here
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There’s a surge of refugees from Kherson arriving in Poland right now. Just recieved this text from one of
@KHARPProject
’s volunteers - this is Russian ‘peace’:
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The world is watching as russia destroys Kharkiv and flattens the surrounding villages and continues to do nothing. I don’t know how Ukraine can ever be expected to forgive this betrayal.
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Lost count of the number of explosions around the 18 mark; now without electricity or water. Kharkiv doesn’t have air defence which can catch rockets hurled from Belgorod so the city sits unprotected. russia is a terrorist state.
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met a lovely Ukrainian family on the train to Przemyśl who had also just come from London - asked them why they were returning, and they replied that they needed urgent dental care and couldn’t afford it in the UK.
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taking my first proper day off in five months to celebrate my 24th birthday in beautiful, sunny Lviv 💙💛🌻
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«Hopefully I will have turned out to be one of the worst investments of the Russian Federation.»
an essay about the essence of being Ukrainian, and of such overwhelming beauty and clarity, it is almost impossible to believe that its author is gone.
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I am in the latest edition of Granta describing the strangeness of the silence in de-occupied villages, the endless stray dogs, and the joy of people coming home. I love the places I’ve written about more than I can say, and I hope I’ve done them justice.
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the effectiveness of their mission is limited by the fact that none of them seem to speak either Russian or Ukrainian, so they spend most of their time wandering around playing their seemingly endless supply of ukuleles.
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this morning the family I stay with in kharkiv set up an old car battery to charge all their neighbours phones and I have just been instructed to find as many plastic bottles as I can and go to a well to get drinking water for the whole street. solidarity is Ukrainian culture
Lost count of the number of explosions around the 18 mark; now without electricity or water. Kharkiv doesn’t have air defence which can catch rockets hurled from Belgorod so the city sits unprotected. russia is a terrorist state.
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officially signed a contract for a warehouse in Przemyśl, where, from tomorrow, we will be storing medicines and food for Kharkiv, and general supplies for the border!
visit our website to read more about what we��re doing and to donate: .
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all my Ukrzaliznytsia obsessive dreams came true this morning, bumping into
@AKamyshin
in Poland’s best railway station restaurant whilst en route back to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
#KeepRunning
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brief humble brag to share that today I found out that I received a distinction in my MSt in Slavonic Studies (Ukrainian and russian) from
@OxfordModLangs
😄😄😄😄😄😄
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well i just found out that I’ve been awarded a travel grant to fund my research in Russia
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bizarre and frankly grossly disrespectful thing to say when multiple aid workers have been targeted and killed in Ukraine.
why is it seemingly impossible for people to condemn israel without downplaying the actions of russia?
I was in Ukraine recently and talked to aid groups about how deconfliction works there. They said that Russia has been consistent about not striking deconflicted aid operations; sometimes to the point of calling to ask if convoys have departed an area before they resume attacks.
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a million videos on my feed of russians queuing up to vote and just this one of Velyka Pysarivka, a Ukrainian village flattened by russia over the past few days
‘entire streets are gone!’
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this is Velyka Pysarivka in northern Ukraine. used to be a home for almost 4k people. then russians decided to erase it with carpet bombings in the last several days — just because they can.
this is russian culture. please don’t look away
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tucked away in Samarqand’s Jewish cemetery are the graves of the Ashkenazi Jews, predominantly from Ukraine, who died whilst living as refugees in the city on WWII. on their graves are the names of their birth cities, again famous for the destruction being unleashed onto them.
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hillary benn gave a talk at my school and called me disrespectful in front of my whole sixth-form when i ask why he voted against an iraq war inquiry :)
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went to a Ukrainian restaurant last night in Almaty, and ended up having dinner with a couple from Dnipro, which mainly consisted of all three of us crying. as the woman put to me, «after a year and a half i thought i would have run out of tears, but they just keep coming»
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I wrote about the best books on Ukraine in 2023 for
@Telegraph
, including
@SPlokhy
,
@megan_buskey
,
@ChristopherJM
,
@AndrewWJHarding
,
@serhiy_zhadan
and the late
@vamelina
among others.
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it’s been a bizarre few weeks watching Boris Johnson’s political career crash and burn from afar, whilst in Lviv this is what they’re selling in gift shops
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my Ukrainian teacher told me today about how at the start of the full scale invasion, as the russians approached her suburb of Kyiv and the soldiers defending it lacked bulletproof vests, she would hand out thick Ukrainian textbooks for them to put in their plate carriers
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@CorArdens
On the ground in Przemyśl, the only local charity presence is Ukrainskiy Dom. In terms of Kharkiv, we are the organisation partnering with local charities to provide medication and food, because 99% of the major NGOs never arrived, and the ones that did failed to plug the gaps.
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the weird thing about kharkiv is that no matter how bleak it feels, or the explosions, or how many more destroyed buildings there are every single day, it somehow still manages to be the the most charismatic, warm, beautiful city in the world
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Kharkiv continues to stand, more battered and bruised than ever and yet still strong and resilient.
My heart breaks seeing the city I love so much in this state, but I know it will keep holding, so long as it gets the help it desperately needs.
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@OwenJones84
Hi Owen,
The hell being inflicted on Gaza is completely unbearable however the UN themselves admit that the statistics of dead in UA are vast underestimates due to the fact that they don’t include frontline and occupied territories - up to 100k died in Mariupol.
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when I’m in Kharkiv I stay with a family in Derhachi, a town just north. i was meant to be there now but left early to go back to Kyiv due to the power outages. an hour ago a rocket hit their street, destroying their neighbours house and blowing out half the windows
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Looking for a driver who would be willing to take a Ukrainian woman from Poland to Kharkiv in two weeks. She left at the beginning of the full scale invasion, but has terminal cancer and has decided to return home to spend the little time she has left there with her family.
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@GeorgeGilbert
At
@KHARPProject
we are working directly on the ground in Przemyśl and Kharkiv and urgently need donations - I would also say Ukrainskii Dom in Poland, who do great work, Off The Grid Missions who evacuate deaf Ukrainians from hot spots, and any grassroots orgs based in Ukraine
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This week we managed to get a blind man and his wife from Ukraine to Brussels, where their family are. it involved two drivers in Ukraine, one in Poland, a flight to Vienna and then to Belgium, and a driver to their house. I’ve just been sent photos of the reunion.
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when ur friends arrested so u have a pizza party outside the police station for seven hours
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explaining to the Russian girl I nanny what a dual is - ‘it’s how Pushkin died’ ‘PUSHKIN’S DEAD?!’
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life update: I moved to Tbilisi a few days ago! I will be spending several months based here writing and organising
@KHARPProject
remotely, with regular trips to Kharkiv 🩵 if you live here or pass through hmu!
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spent the night listening to a series of explosions which turned out to be a double tap attack on a residential building: multiple dead with more still under the rubble. simultaneously, left wingers I once admired still claim that ‘proportionally’ the war in Ukraine is not so bad
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for the next month my article about sound and silence in Kharkivshchyna is available for free on the Granta website:
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ANY RUSSIAN/UKRAINIAN SPEAKERS IN LONDON:
i am flying to the Polish/Ukrainian border tomorrow. if you have any children's books in Russian or Ukrainain which i can take with me, DM me!
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learning ukrainian in 2022 is being taught the rule of numbers through the different dosages of iodine tablets needed for different weights in the event of a nuclear attack
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Writers and publishers in the west love to speak about the sanctity of the written word, but until they lobby for arms and air defence to protect Ukraine's publishing capital and all the country’s writers, publishers, and printing press workers, I will not believe a word they say
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@francisjfarrell
@Apple
mine makes me great little videos with jolly background music and names like ‘Day Out in Saltivka’ 🙃
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footballs coming home, graduating with a first ….. not a bad Thursday
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police major from kursk who spoke out in favour of navalny today has been fired. inevitable but still really awful. i hope someone starts a Russian equivalent of a gofundme to support his family
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@yazavtra
one day i will write smth about the grossness of this as it was manifested on the pol/ua borders. ukrainian refugees calling me from vienna where they had been taken by seemingly kind men who then expected sexual favours or promised housing and ended up placing them in brothels,
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today i met a little girl called Dasha who introduced me to every single one of her teddies which she had brought from Kharkiv one by one, all also called Dasha
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500 people reported dead today from covid in the uk, and nobody seems to even be thinking about it anymore. the total dehumanisation of the dead is maybe the most disturbing part of this whole year
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what maybe baffles me even more than pro-russia tankies is the total silence on Ukraine from most of the rest of the British left. the biggest land war in Europe in 80 years which may well lead to a war btwn NATO and russia and people can’t muster two words to say about it
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absolute state of our NHS that it’s cheaper and easier to fly across Europe and enter a war zone than it is to see a dentist in England
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my mum and stepdad using a magnifying glass to identify the books in the background of the Judith Butler interview I’m TRYING to watch
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would go as far as to argue that Kharkiv’s cultural scene at least is superior to London’s right now, every time I’m in the city there are more theatres, clubs, galleries open and the art and music is consistently just so, so good AND affordable for locals!
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i’ve been speaking to
@MakichyanA
and
@sonoapollinaria
about anti-war activism in Russia, protests under Putin, and their wedding on the day of the invasion
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one of my best friends joined the Ukrainian army three weeks ago and immediately went to one of the hottest spots on the frontline. today he wrote to me with a of his unit's needs which have which they are urgently fundraising for, including radios, drones, and batteries.
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This whole interview is incredibly beautiful and insightful, but this final paragraph in particular is wonderful
The novelist Artem Chapeye is one of the foremost chroniclers of Ukraine's complexities. I interviewed him about his decision to enlist in the army out of class solidarity, his refusal to participate in the PEN World Voices Festival with Russians, & more.
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i dont think it's possible to overstate the extent to which russian studies as an academic field survives solely due to the influence of this film
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all russian attacks are evil but there is something that feels even more so about those ongoing in kharkiv right not when there is no signal there for half the day due to the attacks on the energy grid two weeks ago, and thus no way to check that your loved ones have survived
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just received this video of the hotel room a family I sent to Ireland have been put up in by the Irish govt after spending a week in a bomb shelter, and then several days in makeshift camps 🇮🇪🇺🇦
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On Friday I will be flying to the Polish/Ukrainian border to volunteer. Anyone with any contacts already on the ground out there, please DM me. I will be in Przemysl until Tuesday at least, but from then I am open to travelling wherever I am needed. I speak Russian and English.
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being able to speak to belarusians in ukrainian and have them respond in belarusian and understand one another is truly the most unexpected and lovely joy of learning ukrainian
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@mamajite
@VagrantJourno
@WCKitchen
WCK is fantastic, i completely agree! one of the few really visible orgs here :)
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saying goodbye to my honorary Kharkiv babusja who I’ve stayed with for the last few days, she gives me a homemade blanket and i give her a bottle of iodine tablets ‘just in case’. nothing profound to say about this experience, just an overwhelming sense of sadness and exhaustion
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can u believe that middle aged men on the internet have found a photo of me aged seventeen with JC and are insinuating he molested me? wild
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can u believe my mum was worried daphne wouldn’t remember her after a year apart
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I will be on
@Telegraph
's 'Ukraine: the Latest' podcast, available live today at 1PM London/3PM Kyiv on Twitter spaces! Please tune in to hear more about
@KHARPProject
's work this winter.
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i’ve written something about russian folklore, its cultural and political history, and its relevance today for the wonderful
@Pushkin_House
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1/5 Since being back in the UK, I’ve been (naïvely) shocked by the consistent suggestion that the war on Ukraine is Ukraine’s war alone. This russian tank, driven over the border early in the war and now sitting in a village in Kharkivs’ka Oblast, has ‘TO BERLIN’ painted on it;
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great to see that the UN’s bizarre branded absence is just as present on the Ukrainian side as it is on the Polish
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this happened months ago but with corona and russian postage i only just got the certificate; anyway delighted to say that i passed my russian B2 and could now theoretically do a masters in russia one day :D
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nothing speaks to the snobbery of north london like the dude on the motorbike who just grabbed my slightly outdated iphone from me, looked at it, and chucked it back
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a meeting with a kharkiv theatre director in kyiv, who I had previously only communicated with via text, ends with her giving me her house keys and telling me to make sure to stay at her empty apartment when I’m next in kharkiv because it is in a relatively safer area
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lost my soul today 💔 the weirdest shaped cat in the whole wide world, and the love of my life
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leaving our landlady a little gift (courtesy of
@we_are_adg
) above the damp she told us she’d sort out in February x
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WCK is one of the best aid orgs; they work so consistently effectively, ensuring people don't go hungry. unclear how their targeted murders (which have inevitably & understandably led to WCK pausing gaza ops) can be anything other than a purposeful attempt to intensify starvation
World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here:
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my friend Dima runs a cafe called Makers in central Kharkiv, ironically on Pushkin Street. Makers was heavily damaged in last nights shelling, windows blown out etc (thankfully all fixable, but still grim and terrifying)
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another highlight was this guy who drove a piano on wheels from Germany and plays for the refugees in Medyka as they wait for transport to Przemysl
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my new best friends, Nino and Tatiana. we’re meeting up this summer to go on holiday to Georgia together 🇺🇦🇬🇪
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anyone who can look at the photos of Bucha and still claim that this is a war about NATO expansion is a lost cause
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me: getting lost in the heavy surzhyk of the documentary i'm watching so turn on the english subtitles
the english subtitles:
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