If you say 'Gorbachev gave me my freedom' - you are totally wrong. Freedom was not given to people, it was taken by them. Many died for freedom. Freedom is never being given, it is always being taken. Think about this. If you were 'given' your freedom - maybe it was not freedom?

🚨🚨 URGENT & CRITICAL: Armed Forces of Ukraine are requesting that everyone go dark on posting any information, videos, photos, with regards to the Battle for Kherson. Operation Security is critical. Please spread this message across all social media channels🚨🚨

⚠️Actuellement souffrant, Lars Vogt, chef d’orchestre et directeur musical de l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris, regrette de ne pouvoir assurer le concert prévu au
@MNGBS Mobilier national / Enclos des Gobelins, le vendredi 9 septembre 2022.

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In 2014 I was very naive. I thought if everybody would know about Russia's involvement in Donbas, their responsibility for the shot down of MH17 etc. the discourse would be different. 2022, full scale invasion and we can see the same #FalseBalance #Whataboutism #Bothesidesism 🧵

14/14 И последнее. ШИЗО - врать не буду - адский чулан и место неприятное во всех отношениях. Но есть в жизни вещи важнее комфорта. Сколько б мне ни пришлось тут сидеть, я не откажусь ни от того, во что верю, ни от того, что я делаю со своими соратниками. Ни в большом, ни в малом

7/14 Так вот. Я отвечаю сразу всем и публично: ничего, посижу. Не я первый, не я последний. За правду и независимость надо платить цену, и я плачу свою. И мне еще не хуже, чем многим, у меня тут бомбы не падают.

Dass in D wirklich diese Jammerdebatte übers Frieren geführt wird, anstatt einfach zu sagen: wir helfen denen, die es nicht bezahlen können gemeinsam, ist beschämend. Habt ihr mal darüber nachgedacht, wie kalt es diesen Winter in der Ukraine wird? Dort zerstören die Russen… 1/2

I wish ppl writing countless op-eds demanding negotiations to end the war would explain:

A) What concessions they want to offer Putin and why he would accept them

B) How they plan to get Ukrainians to accept surrender of their land after they’ve lost so many ppl defending it

Erschütternd, wie sehr Moskau Deutschland und den Westen infiltriert. Habe gerade die neue SPIEGEL-Titelgeschichte dazu gelesen: spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…

Don't make any illusions. If not stopped by weapons and got neutralized, Russia will not stop at anything less than complete extermination of the Ukrainian nation: physical extermination for hundreds of thousands (maybe some millions), and cultural extermination of the rest. /7

Wenn man das lesen dieses Artikels schon kaum erträgt, bekommt man eine ganz vorsichtige Ahnung, was dieses Kind ertragen musste. #Ukraine

(S+) Schicksal im zerstörten Mariupol: Wie Kolja seine Familie verlor – aber nicht seine Hoffnung spiegel.de/ausland/mariup… via DER SPIEGEL

🇩🇪Foreign Min Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock:
'We must put an end to the self-delusion that we have ever received cheap gas from Russia. We may not have paid a lot of 💰for it, but we have paid for it with our security &independence. Ukrainians have already paid for it with thousands of their lives”

War cannot be cheap. Someone loses their life or home, and someone – their comfort. RF aggression changes game rules for Europeans. This winter will make you reconsider habits. But we are grateful to those who understand the priorities: a free Europe and the end of gas blackmail.

Russian top nationalist Yegor Kholmogorov, who was also a colleague of Daria Dugina at Russian far-right Tsargrad TV (sponsored by Konstantin Malofeyev), answering a question 'how many Ukranians must be killed for Daria' posted on his TG 'every Ukrainian must be killed' /5

In Aug2022, Russian Telegram channels started to share a video (an older one, I need to say) with a little girl reading the verse 'Kill him' by Stalinist poet Simonov, which literally says 'kill the fascist! It is his mother who must cry! Kill him asap!'/4
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THREAD There are hundreds of proofs that Russians willingly chose their genocidal war against Ukraine. This is today's video of a Russian soldier who holds a skull of a Ukrainian soldier, saying, his goal is to kill everyone who identifies as Ukrainian. /1

Mitten in Moskau, neben dem Kreml, hielt ein Mann namens Adam Halketschew ein kleines Plakat hoch, A3-Größe. „Nein zum Krieg. Bringt die Truppen heim“, stand darauf.

Er wurde festgenommen.

We have to deal with the #Russia we have.

Not the Russia some Western intellectuals & politicians wish we had.

Had the privilege of speaking with Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський about the ongoing war in Ukraine. I want the people of Ukraine to know that we see them we hear them and are here to help. I encourage us all to stay engaged and continue to support the people of Ukraine in anyway we can.