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Crystal retweeted
"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
Crystal retweeted
A reminder that this war could be over tomorrow if Putin wanted to end it
So many people seem genuinely astonished by this local ceasefire in Oleshky, where Russian occupation and the fighting have driven the city into a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe.
Turns out, all it takes is an order from the Kremlin, and Russians and Ukrainians stop shooting at each other. They can calmly and civilly arrange the evacuation of innocent civilians facing starvation, even allow Ukrainian and American journalists to be present on the ground, and so on.
Well, duh.
There is not, and never has been, a single adequate, rational, even remotely sane reason to wage a war aimed at destroying Ukraine. This is the stupidest, most brainless, absurd, pointless, contrived, and deceitful war in human history.
The Kremlin wanted to give Donald Trump a little gift ahead of the elections, so the Kremlin gave an order to put the bloodbath on hold for a few dozen hours.
All it would take is a single order from the Kremlin, and not only would a local ceasefire become possible, but the entire war would end. Just like that. Instantly.
And 95% of Russians wouldn't give a single damn. They would happily accept absolutely anything as yet another "great victory of Russian arms," provided that's how state television explained it to them.
And with a snap of the fingers, all those insane fairy tales about "NATO expansion," "Nazi Satanists," the "multipolar world," "historical Russian lands," and all the rest of that bullshit would simply vanish into thin air.
The problem is that, in this insane, upside-down looking-glass world, absolutely everything is being done to encourage a megalomaniacal maniac, driven mad by impunity and boredom, to never, ever, under any circumstances stop the war, but to keep it going indefinitely.
Instead, he is constantly appeased and rewarded for it.
Crystal retweeted
Last night, Russian “shaheds” struck a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv. In the Dnipro region, four electrical substations were hit in a single night. In the early morning, a Russian drone struck a combined heat and power plant in Shostka. Railway infrastructure in Dnipro and Kharkiv was hit as well. Russia also attacked a gas distribution facility in the Dnipro region.
These Russian strikes have created a difficult situation with electricity supplies across our regions. Around 200,000 households in Dnipro and the region are without electricity. Another 80,000-plus households in the Kyiv region are also without power. Repair crews are working to deal with the aftermath of the strikes and doing everything they can to restore electricity supplies.
The world sees that Russia is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure every day. And everyone who does not want to see this Russian escalation spread further into Europe must help Ukraine. Strong steps that will really lead toward peace are needed – sanctions against the aggressor and new support packages for Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who is helping.
Crystal retweeted
Apparently, russians could have stopped the human safari in Kherson at any moment.
Murdering civilians with FPV drones was always a choice and russians were choosing to kill. So many people would have been alive if russians didn’t choose to kill them.
"Ukrainian Witness" journalist Viktoriia Hnatiuk reached Antonivka-one of the most dangerous settlements in the Kherson region, located on the bank of the Dnipro River opposite occupied Oleshky.
Previously, getting here was virtually impossible due to russian FPV drones. However, during a ceasefire declared to evacuate residents of Oleshky, locals were able to return to their destroyed homes for the first time in a long while to retrieve surviving belongings. Despite the truce, coastal areas remain dangerous due to mines, while Oleshky itself remains under russian occupation on the other side of the Dnipro. While people in Kherson walk the streets, the russians on the opposite bank are quietly conducting rotations and pulling up reinforcements. This silence, a necessary measure to save lives, is also a deadly trap ahead of another russian attempt to cross the Dnipro... People fear what will happen once the ceasefire ends...
Crystal retweeted
International sport is a cesspool of greed and appeasement of authoritarians. Sportswashing is a useful lever for some of the worst regimes in the world. It’s never "just sports" for them. It’s propaganda and normalization.
Crystal retweeted
For nearly 5 years, Ukraine has been going through the hardest times in its history, fighting an existential war for survival.
For over 4.5 years, you have stood with UNITED24, back to back — through every hardship that came our way.
Thank you for that. For every campaign we’ve aced together. For every drone you’ve fundraised. For every home, school and hospital you’ve contributed towards rebuilding. For every life you’ve helped save.
Thank you for letting us know we can count on you. Always. For becoming our true friends. Ones we shall never forget.
Thank you for standing with Ukraine. Do know that we’ll be forever grateful for that. To each and every single one of you.
With love and infinite gratitude. Yours truly💙💛
Crystal retweeted
17 busloads of ordinary people from the Ukrainian town of Oleshky, who had been on the brink of starvation under Russian occupation, chose to evacuate to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Only 4 busloads chose to go to Russia.
That, pretty much, tells you everything you need to know about what Ukrainians want, even after all these years of this inhumane war.
Crystal retweeted
Trump continues his desperate attemots to save his Russian master from Ukraine's wrath.
Crystal retweeted
With cover provided by the Americans, militants of the Russian terrorist state are kidnapping Ukrainian civilians from Oleshky and taking them deeper into occupied territory or to the Russian Federation.
Putin and Trump are at the head of a crime against humanity that amounts to genocide.
Crystal retweeted
So basically what everyone feared would happen is happening.
Russian forces have begun taking civilians from occupied Oleshky to Russia, apparently disregarding previously announced agreements governing the operation.
The operations are being conducted by the Russian military, without American representatives or teams from either side’s ombudsman office present. Russia’s state news agency TASS is openly filming the operation.
There is no indication that civilians are being given a choice of where they wish to go. No buses or other vehicles designated to transport evacuees to Ukrainian-controlled territory are visible.
The operation raises serious concerns that Russia is once again exploiting a humanitarian evacuation to forcibly transfer Ukrainian civilians.
The parallels with the evacuation of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant are disturbing. Once again, Moscow appears to be disregarding agreed procedures while controlling the fate of Ukrainian civilians.
Crystal retweeted
These motherfuckers didn’t just screw over a Pope with cancer. The whole Oleshky story is a Putin information operation designed to save that old orange ass from electoral defeat.
Guys, this needs to become an atomic bomb for the bastards in the White House. If you haven’t written about it yet, share this post. As many people as possible need to know this story.
What I had previously only suspected on instinct has now been confirmed.
It turns out that the absurd “Melania Trump ceasefire” in Oleshky was literally Putin’s idea. He personally “very much wanted” Melania to act as mediator, her senior adviser Mark Beckman told the Kyiv Independent.
Well, you could have guessed that, and I did immediately. A person who can barely string two words together was hardly going to organize something like this better than the Pope.
More than that, Putin sent her a special letter saying that Russia officially recognized Melania as its “exclusive intermediary.”
Do you understand what that means?
Russia has occupied Oleshky for four and a half years, blocked the city, prevented humanitarian aid from getting in, and driven the remaining residents into an acute shortage of food and medicine.
And then Putin picks Trump’s wife as the person who will be allowed to “solve” the problem.
And he does it right before the elections, when Trump’s collapsing ratings desperately need saving. Trump, the politician who is now effectively helping Putin force Ukraine into capitulation.
The White House has already announced that it was Melania who “secured the ceasefire,” while four journalists from Newsmax, Trump’s pet TV network, have been sent to Oleshky as “neutral observers” to present the entire operation to an American audience in exactly the right light.
You can bet your ass they won’t just advertise the orange ape as the greatest humanitarian genius in human history. They’ll advertise Putin right alongside him.
John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, is calling this exactly what it is: a deliberate Kremlin operation. “They know exactly what they’re doing.” According to him, allowing Melania to take credit for the ceasefire gives Russia a way to present the Trumps to the MAGA audience as peacemakers immediately before the midterms.
In other words, Moscow first creates a humanitarian catastrophe, then allows the family of the U.S. president to stage a spectacular “rescue” of that catastrophe in order to save themselves from political disaster.
Fuck, I genuinely don’t have enough words to express how unbelievably vile and disgusting this is. I’m choking on the hatred of it.
They have turned one of the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century into a fucking medal pinned to an orange ass.
Crystal retweeted
Today, the evacuation of civilians from the russian-occupied city of Oleshky is supposed to begin.
Moscow has created a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, and today, there will be no independent third-party observers, such as the UN, and no free press. Only a handful of journalists, escorted and controlled by russians throughout their visit to the city, will be allowed access.
Civilians will not be permitted to evacuate to Ukrainian-controlled territory. Instead, they will be forcibly taken to russia or occupied Crimea. What happens next to these 2,000 people, including 47 children, remains unknown.
Today, we may witness not an evacuation, but a forced deportation. All eyes on Oleshky.
Crystal retweeted
We have every indication that the Trump administration, together with Newsmax, are going to shortly engage in an attempt to whitewash the crime that Russia has committed in Oleshky.
We can’t let them get away with this.
Crystal retweeted
Please read my article on the political spectacle staged by the Kremlin in Oleshky.
Many thanks to @TheAtlantic and @anneapplebaum for their support of Ukraine and the Kherson region at this critical moment.
Get ready for the unfolding of a Russian propaganda operation, carried out with the aid of the White House, in the battered town of Oleshky. From @ZarinaZabrisky, who has been reporting from Kherson, just across the river, since 2023
theatlantic.com/internationa…
Crystal retweeted
A father screams in anguish beside the body of his dead daughter. Two 15-year-old girls were killed in a russian attack on the center of Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Dozens are injured, including four children aged 10, 16, and 17, and a 10-month-old baby girl.
Meanwhile, Trump has ordered Ukriane not to hit russian oil refineries, so that russia could make billions and build more rockets and drones to kill more Ukrainians.
