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15-year-olds Yana and Masha. 💔 Killed by a Russian missile strike on Chernihiv on today.
The girls were 10th-grade students. They had their whole lives ahead of them. If only it weren't for Russia.
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Thank you for your condolences, António. Today, Russia carried out cynical strikes that claimed the lives of 19 people. Another 71 people were injured, including 11 children. Dozens of those wounded are now in hospitals. Our medical professionals are providing care and doing everything they can to save lives.
Once again, Russia is showing its true attitude towards de-escalation and the efforts by Ukraine, the United States, Europe, and our other partners around the world to end this war and stop the killings.
Of course, support from the EU and every EU Member State is extremely important to us right now. We deeply appreciate all the assistance you are providing. We must further mobilize our joint efforts ahead of this winter to ensure that Ukraine has the necessary capabilities to defend itself against Russian missiles and drones.
Yet another cruel and devastating series of Russian strikes against civilians in Ukraine.
My condolences to President @ZelenskyyUa and the people of Ukraine following Russia’s drone attack on Dnipro railway station, as well as attacks in residential neighbourhoods in Chernihiv and Kremenchuk.
The EU will continue to increase the pressure on Russia and to support Ukraine until a just and lasting peace is achieved.
We call on all our international partners to do the same.
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ATTENTION, FELLAS!
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💔💔A father screams in agony beside the lifeless body of his daughter.
This is Chernihiv, Ukraine, where a russian attack killed two 15-year-old girls.
No parent should ever have to experience this horror💔
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I’ve seen Caolan Robertson’s response, where he acknowledges lifting our video. He blames it on his editor but ultimately takes responsibility.
It’s always good to see people own their mistakes, it makes this space better for everyone. I appreciate it and accept his apology.
The five seconds of video is easy to dismiss, but five seconds of an animated map takes hours of work — research from a journalist and manual work from a videographer and a graphic designer. Our video team is small but we do our best to make sure our video reporting is well researched and properly sourced.
Caolan @CaolanReports says he wants to learn from this and improve his practices. I think that’s the right call, especially since other journalists have spoken out about past cases where Caolan used their work without credit. Hopefully, this will be the push to review those practices. It would help to look into the video’s origin before launching a public attack, too.
As for further steps.
Caolan says he emailed us to resolve it. We have checked our inboxes, including organization’s and my own, and found no messages from him. He is very welcome to reach me or the team directly. A private conversation is always more effective.
On the copyright claim. Yesterday, Caolan filed an appeal to our claim with Youtube, which automatically blocks our right to retract the claim while the appeal is being considered.
That said, we decided we will not contest his appeal or take legal action about the copyright infringement. If we don’t participate, YouTube will likely remove the strike from his channel. We made this decision because Caolan acknowledged his mistake and pledged to improve.
I hope this ends it and we can all move on and focus on our actual work: bringing truthful reporting from Ukraine to the world.
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It’s like clockwork.
Every time I start a fundraiser.
I get hit by a massive deboost.
I don’t care about my own engagement.
But I do care about providing STING interceptors to Ukrainian defenders so they can defend the innocent.
So if you see this.
Please share it!
Wild Hornets Raffle for the 114th Kyiv TD Brigade
Help fund 10 STINGs and a Hornet Vision station—in partnership with @fellaraktar
Win Grit's knife!
Donate $10/entry: linktr.ee/WildHornets
-Merch = raffle tix
-$500 = named STING + strike video
-First $1K matched—tix doubled
Buy 1 ticket, get 1 more for free—thanks to our generous matching donors
GOAL: $19,250 for 10 STING interceptors and a Hornet Vision drone control station to protect the Kyiv region from ruzzian drone strikes
GRAND PRIZE
Handcrafted 11.5-inch knife made by Grit @croissantintel and donated to us by @xJonNYC, who won it in an earlier Wild Hornets raffle
RUNNERS-UP #1-2
Flag of the 114th Kyiv Territorial Defence Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit. The unit is based in the Kyiv suburb Irpin, the site of ruzzian atrocities in spring 2022
RUNNER-UP #3
"I don’t want to play goalie anymore"—limited edition serigraph by acclaimed Ukrainian-Canadian artist Peter Shostak, who is renowned for depicting early Ukrainian pioneer life in Canada. Donated by William Szuch, founder of the @UkeTube YouTube channel
RUNNER-UP #4
Challenge coin of the 114th TD Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit
RUNNERS-UP #5-12
Patch + sticker of the 114th TD Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit
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Merch and named drones count for raffle tickets!
👉Shop merch at our Wild Hornets online store, including items from 5 hero units: bonfire.com/store/wildhornet…
👉 Donate $500 to name a STING interceptor and get a guaranteed video of it downing a ruzzian drone. Details: nitter.cf/ArmedMaidan/status/208…
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To get raffle tickets, please reply to this post with a screenshot of your donation or store receipt—or DM @fellaraktar or our raffle support team: @wendehopes, @kanarifella or @kerri970
Please like, reply, share (ideally with a quote tweet), bookmark and turn on notifications to boost the fundraiser
It's free for you, but gold for us!
Thank you to the 114th Brigade, raffle partner Rak, matching donors, and prize donors Grit @croissantintel, @xJonNYC and William Szuch
