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Борітеся — поборете,
Вам Бог помагає!
За вас правда, за вас слава
І воля святая!
(Тарас Шевченко, «Кавказ», 1845)
Battle on – you will prevail,
God helps you in your fight!
Glory, truth, and holy freedom
Do stand on your side!
(Taras Shevchenko, “The Caucasus,” 1845)
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
They come to your home, destroy everything, take people to Russia, and then say: “Here’s a drawing from a child who chose to live in Russia.”
The height of cynicism.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
On this day, in 1956 Hungary was invaded by a Soviet army to “liberate” Hungarian people. Soviet tanks crushed protestors who just wanted the freedom to choose their own future free from Moscow. So, Moscow decided to “liberate” them. Thousands were killed.
Today, russia is doing the same in Ukraine.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Alice Weidel (AfD) verbreitet offenbar völlig ungeprüft Fake News.
Sie verhält sich nicht anders als ein russischer Spam-Bot.
Eine Schande.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Bravo Carney, bravo Canada.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Russia will not participate in the 2027 World Junior Championship on Canadian soil.
@frank_seravalli has more on what this means for the IIHF and future international tournaments. sportsnet.ca/world-juniors/a…
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Fascist Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin has articulated the dark core of Moscow's imperial worldview.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
X is a cesspit, an actual stain on humanity. As now illustrated with degenerates latest claim on the 14 kid who was recused from a Ukraine 'torture chamber'
So bad is Putin's war going, they have to resort to the most absurd, the most farcical of propaganda. Yet, as the footage shows - this kid was not in fact rescued as he was filmed breaking into the premises.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Russian propagandists have spent all day claiming that a 14-year-old boy Ukrainian boy had been forcibly mobilized and held against his will by a military unit in private house in Kyiv where he was also being tortured before being freed by a crowd who turned up at the building after videos went viral online.
In reality, the boy had been in the building for just an hour. He was part of the crowd that showed up at the building which serviced as temporary housing for mobilized servicemen and soldiers who had previously gone AWOL.
The group of soldiers in that building were about to be transferred to their units.
The boy had climbed a wall next to the building, had been throwing objects at the police and soldiers but fell down from the wall and found himself on the premises of the building.
The picture below show that it was the same boy, with his green pants and black-and-white sneakers, on the wall and who later came out of the building wrapped in a blanket.
The video of the boy on the wall will be posted in the comments below ⬇️
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Every post about banning russia from hockey tournaments attracts scores of angry Canadian hockey fans. Canadians who are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine/pro-democracy suddenly become vatnik fiends. Sportswashing is very real and that's why the russian state invests so much in it.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Good
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
I thank Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden, and their national hockey federations, for publicly refusing to share the ice with Russia.
I urge all others, especially the great hockey nations, to follow suit. If CAS lacks a moral compass, let's show that hockey still has values. Refuse to play against Russia and deny visas to its players.
Keep Russia off the ice! A war of aggression and hockey are incompatible.
Special thanks to my Latvian colleague @Braze_Baiba for her leadership.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
The best response to all the bullshit the Russians have managed to spread in just 24 hours)
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Following false rumors of a "torture chamber" at a National Guard base near Kyiv, violent clashes erupted on November 2 as a crowd attacked the facility.
See the investigation below:
🧵 1/8 ⬇️
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
How can you be inside being tortured, when you are outside the house throwing stones at the Police?
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
There are those who claim that a 14-year-old has been forcibly mobilized and held by a military unity in a “torture cellar” in a building near Kyiv and was freed yesterday by a crowd.
In reality, he arrived there with the crowd and can be seen here in his green pants, throwing bricks at soldiers and police officers
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Russian ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, often called “Putin’s brain,” addresses Ukrainians:
“We love you, we respect you. And even if we are forced to kill you, we do it by shooting our own brothers and sisters in the heart, in the face, in the head. It’s very difficult, but we are doing it for some very important purpose… This goal exceeds all our formally declared objectives. We do this in the name of salvation, in the name of transformation.”
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Український інститут @UA_Institute представив серію англомовних відеолекцій «Калейдоскоп історій. Мистецтво з України» на міжнародній онлайн-платформі Google Arts & Culture.
artsandculture.google.com/ex…
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
To understand Russian culture, understand that Russians just dropped nine multi-ton guided bombs on 60 people that had come to a local school to line up for weekly humanitarian aid distribution.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Dostoyevsky. Tolstoy. The great ballet. Hockey.
This here is the real Russian culture.
Roman Ivashkiv retweeted
Finland, the reigning world champion, has announced that it will refuse to play against Russia at the Ice Hockey World Championships as long as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues.
Finland is now working with other Nordic and major European hockey nations to form a united boycott front.
If enough countries join, holding the tournament with Russia participating could become impossible.
Meanwhile, Germany is considering withdrawing as host of the 2027 World Championships if Russia is allowed to compete.
