Now russians are forcefully deporting Mariupol citizens to russia and take away their passports. Right now new concentration camps are being created in russia for ukrainians. This is horrifying, please do not stay silent, spread this information!
(1) Hello everyone. I’m from Ukraine. Please help spread the information about African and Nigerian students in Ukraine. #AfricansinUkraine
I read from @ nzekiev on twitter that the day before yesterday it was very hard for Africans to get on any train in Kyiv, they were letting them in the last, many managed to get in only coz they started pushing African women into the train so they had to allow everyone in. Before that if they managed to get on the train they were sent back outside with the phrase “Ukrainians first”, but nobody was checking anyone’s passports.
Today, February 27, he says the Ukrainian soldiers at the Polish border were holding them at gunpoint if they crossed the border before Ukrainians. These are students, they can’t be fighting this war!!! Other people of color share on twitter that it’s harder for them to cross the border, a Nigerian medical student told @ stephheharty they were told Ukrainians go first and were sent to the back of the queue by Ukrainian soldiers on Polish border.
We must help. They can’t be denied shelter while every other white Ukrainian gets to cross the border right before their eyes. @ chylady and @ Damilare_arah share all the important information for Africans and Nigerians on where to find help and also donations.
@ korrinesky is actively sharing all the information. This thread increases to this day and time:
They also have a Telegram chat for African and Caribbean students who are in Lviv but I can’t seem to be able to copy the link directly so I’m sending the link to the tweet:
Use the hashtag #AfricansinUkraine and mentions @UN @RedCross @UNESCO @wateraid @amnesty @gatesfoundation @FordFoundation @ActionAid @Oxfam on twitter.
Still processing my last night’s conversation with my old university friend who had spent about three weeks in a village under russian occupation.
Her stories are just…
The way the russians routinely walked the streets in the evenings, shooting at houses and everything they could hit, so my friend and her family would just spend hours lying on the floor in the corridor with knives in their hands (“just in case some russians entered the house and we could try to take them with us”), and days unable to go outside, with no running water and dwindling food supplies.
The way, when russians were retreating, they set their slightly damaged rocket launching system on fire, and the missiles went flying everywhere in the surrounding area. Including the house my friend was in. They got incredibly lucky that it didn’t explode.
And in addition, a story about two of her close friends who were driving humanitarian aid by car, and russians shot at their car FROM A TANK.
Russian army is a terrorist gang. Russia is a terrorist state. A disgrace to itself.
Man didn’t even think to leave his cat at home, but he has no cat carrier. So he decided to put him into the fish basket. Ukrainian won’t leave their friends in trouble!
A recent terrifying video from Mariupol, it was filmed by Ruzzians (Kadyrovites)
This Chechen occupier tells that they were bombed by their own (russian) forces and miraculously survived. He seems to be very amused by this situation.
But on the background you can hear a woman crying and screaming “Natasha! Natasha!”, then a gunshot, silence and “oh God” in the end. We can only guess what was happening to Natasha and the other woman…
Maybe some of you have already seen this great thread on twitter, but if not - I strongly recommend that you read the entire thread to the end.
The author quite objectively covers the problem, and also touches on a topic that I have long wanted to talk about, but didn’t know where to start.
I know I will probably get a lot of hate for this post.
Alexei Navalny, poisoned and imprisoned leader of the Russian opposition. If you know who he is then you probably support him and think that he could changed the Russian politics to the better if he had the opportunity.
Western media usually portrays Navalny as a fearless warrior of justice, unfortunately, this is a dangerous misconception. Do you know why the West and Russian liberals love him so much? Because he is against Putin, that’s it. He is Putin’s enemy, he was viciously poisoned and illegally convicted - these are facts I’m not trying to argue with. But he is also not a liberal and not a leftist. He is just a powerless, failed version of Putin. And the rule “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” doesn’t apply in this case.
Navalny is a smart man, he successfully gained authority points from the opposition-minded part of Russian society, using to his advantage the most problematic topic of Russian politics - corruption. He and his team have gained immense popularity and support from many Russians by publishing revealing investigations into corrupt Russian politicians.
For many years of his career, Navalny called Putin a thief and the ruling party a “party of swindlers and thieves." What is wrong with this statement? Everybody knows that every Russian politician is corrupt, because you simply can’t work in a deeply corrupt system and not be corrupt. Of course, Putin and his party steal people’s money, it is completely obvious to everybody. But Putin is much more than that. He is a killer, a terrorist, a war criminal and a dictator. He was all of the aforementioned for years before the recent invasion of Ukraine. But Navalny does not particularly condemn this?
Navalny is just another, more modern incarnation of Russia’s imperialist nature. Not only does he not condemn Russia’s attacks on other sovereign countries, he supports it. Back in 2008 Putin did to Georgia similar thing that he did to Ukraine later in 2014. Putin created puppet "self-proclaimed republics” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, basically invaded Georgia and started a war. For the same reasons he did it again with Ukraine in 2014, in 2008 Georgia wanted to move along the European path of development, away from Russian imperialism.
Navalny not only greatly approved of that unjust war, he enthusiastically called for harder bombing of “rodents" Yep, he called Georgians rodents. In Russian, words грузин and грызун sound very similar, Navalny probably was proud of his "joke” back then. Years later, when these words surfaced, Navalny apologized for calling the people of Georgia rodents, but added that he still stands by everything else that he said regarding the war, like: “In modern conditions, authority is based only on force” or “Russia must immediately recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Only the recognition of independence gives a way out of the crisis. And it will give a legitimate right to our (Russian) troops to be in these zones.”
He also insultingly called Tajiks “chuchmeks” and said many other “interesting” things.
In 2014, Navalny said that if he became president of Russia, he would not regain control of Crimea to Ukraine. Because the occupied peninsula is “not a sandwich” to be “passed back and forth”. He also echoed Putin’s traditional imperialistic statement that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.” Although Navalny admitted that such statements sound insulting to many Ukrainians.
On the one hand, Alexei Navalny declares his democratic position, and on the other, he supports the Russian agression in other countries. His “democracy” ends on the issue of Ukraine. But why doesn’t this bother his progressive and educated supporters?
The sad truth is that the absolute majority of Russians, no matter the opposition or not, are bearers of imperialist ideals. At best, they condemn the annexation of Crimea and Donbas because they don’t want their taxes to be spent on it when there are many problems within Russia’s borders. But most of them don’t care about the suffering and death that Russia brings to other countries. They are not offended when their leader belittles and insults other nations, no matter who that leader is - Putin or Navalny.
Even if Putin dies/gets overthrown in the coming days, Russians will create another tsar for themselves. This has been the case throughout the entire history of Russia. It’s not the leader - it’s the people. As long as the Nazi and imperialist worldview prevails in Russian society, Russia will continue to produce new tsars, new dictators, new Putins. This is a vicious circle.
Testimonial of a Bucha survivor - my translation below. Apologies for bad English.
He was given 20 minutes to collect the body parts of his friend and bury them.
This is Mykola. He is 53. He lives in Bucha. Mykola stutters a lot. Only after lighting a cigarette does he begin his story.
Mykola has been staying in the basement for 34 days. He could have left the city, but being the apartment complex manager of a five-story building, he couldn’t leave other people. On the first day of the fighting in Bucha, a shell flew into the window of his flat, pierced the wall, and got stuck into a child’s bed, setting it on fire. Thankfully, his family had already evacuated by then. After extinguishing the fire, he gathered all the elderly and the women and moved to the basement.
When russians occupied the town, they were breaking into every house. All the men were led outside and stripped naked - they were looking for tattoos (“nazi” tattoos - they believe that all Azov soldiers are marked with them and are hiding among civilians). Two of Mykola’s friends, Leonid and Sergiy, were under 50 years old, and one more man, also called Leonid, was much younger. When russian soldiers saw his birth date on his passport, they said he is eligible for joining the army and executed him.
Mykola buried Leonid right there, in the yard, near the transformer box. A bloodstain remains on the place where he was killed.
A few days later, Sergiy also was killed. He stepped outside the basement to smoke a cigarette and was shot on spot. Just like that, without any words or warnings.
When the fight got intense, the russians went mad. Before that, people could leave the basements to cook some food outside or just get a breath of fresh air. At this point, the people decided to lock themselves inside. When evening came, russians started shooting everywhere. They yelled and demanded the people let them in the basement. Most likely, they planned on executing everyone before leaving the city. We know that to be true because this happened to a different house on a neighboring street.
When russians didn’t manage to break the door, they threw a grenade on the stairway. On the other side of it, Leonid - the only man beside Mykola who stayed alive - was holding the door. The people inside heard the explosion, and then silence. For a full day, his dead body was lying there, on the blood-stained stairway. On the next day, russians knocked on the door and said that (the people) had 20 minutes to bury the man. When Mykola stepped outside, he saw the head and legs of his friend, torn apart from his body.
Mykola gathered the remains and dug another grave - the third one. Due to his old age and limited time, he didn’t manage to dig it deep enough. Now he worries that once it starts raining, it will wash off the sand and the stray dogs will come to eat the remains.
Among all this horror, pain, and death it is easy to lose hope. But today Mykola is my hero. He saw the worst that humankind has to offer but didn’t lose his own humanity. During the interview, he was holding back his tears. After we turned off the camera, he started crying and thanked us for listening to him.
The guy in the photo is a volunteer who helps to exhume bodies from mass graves in Kyiv region.
Facebook and Instagram restrict the visibility of pictures from Bucha and other towns due to sensitive content concerns. Well, to understand the horrors of the Bucha massacre, you can just look at the face of this guy. He has just pulled dozens of brutally murdered Ukrainians from the ground.
Americans keep making posts about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is about the US or is affecting the US and it’s baffling.
This is NOT about you. Keep your mouth shut for once in your life, spread the info and donate if you can. That’s all you have to do. Stop trying to make everything about you and your country ffs
The tensions and wars between Ukraine and russia have been happening since before the US even existed, so yeah, just listen and learn.
Russian soldiers keep hitting new lows, even tho you might wonder how lower one can fall after killing civilians, children and raping women. The answer is - trying to sell things they stole in Ukraine from the people they killed and sending it home to their families. I hope that shit will haunt them and their families to death.
Russia should be recognised a terrorist state. Every time you encounter russians in your countries from now on, you can never know if one of them is wearing clothes of killed ukrainians or using stuff their murderous 'loved ones’ send them. All russians have ukrainian blood on their hands and it’s time you finally start to see it
Let’s repeat after me again ALL RUSSIANS HAVE UKRAINIAN BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.
I feel like in order to understand what is going on we need to see pictures of the war. We can read the words and think we understand, that we can imagine it but we can’t. So here’s few pictures from the past few days, nothing too graphic.
A man walks with a bicycle next to a truck that carries black bags with corpses of people killed during the war with Russia and exhumed from a mass grave for investigations in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Writing covers a wall and a door in the basement of a school in Yahidne, near Chernihiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Residents say more than 300 people were trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in the basement of the school in Yahidne. They wrote the names of people who died during the Russian occupation of their village. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A boy shows the shell of a bullet in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man with a bicycle walks in front of a destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Graves of local residents who died during the fighting with Russia are seen in a street behind private houses in an area that Russian-backed separatists claim to control in the Ukraine city of Mariupol, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Cars drive near a damaged bridge following a Russian attack in the previous weeks in the town of Makarov, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) serviceman plays with a cat during an operation to arrest suspected Russian collaborators in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
People walk down a street near past a building damaged by shelling in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A cemetery worker takes a rest from working on the graves of civilians killed in Bucha during the war with Russia, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Residents stand outside their apartments as shops burn after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Thank you for this post OP! I just wanted to point out one more thing, that really touched me on the second picture.
If you look closely, you’ll see that people trapped in that basement not only documented names and dates of death of others. They also made this calendar on the door. At the top it says in ukrainian “March 2022” and below they wrote initial letters of days of the week. We can see that they were stuck in there since 4th of March, and below they even started doing similar calendar for April (we can see April being written in ukrainian and 1, 2, 3, 4)
But also you can see that mark after 30th of March, separating all March days from 31st.
What happened on 31st you might ask? Oh, it’s written below in all caps.
I feel like in order to understand what is going on we need to see pictures of the war. We can read the words and think we understand, that we can imagine it but we can’t. So here’s few pictures from the past few days, nothing too graphic.
A man walks with a bicycle next to a truck that carries black bags with corpses of people killed during the war with Russia and exhumed from a mass grave for investigations in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Writing covers a wall and a door in the basement of a school in Yahidne, near Chernihiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Residents say more than 300 people were trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in the basement of the school in Yahidne. They wrote the names of people who died during the Russian occupation of their village. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A boy shows the shell of a bullet in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man with a bicycle walks in front of a destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Graves of local residents who died during the fighting with Russia are seen in a street behind private houses in an area that Russian-backed separatists claim to control in the Ukraine city of Mariupol, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Cars drive near a damaged bridge following a Russian attack in the previous weeks in the town of Makarov, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) serviceman plays with a cat during an operation to arrest suspected Russian collaborators in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
People walk down a street near past a building damaged by shelling in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A cemetery worker takes a rest from working on the graves of civilians killed in Bucha during the war with Russia, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Residents stand outside their apartments as shops burn after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
