"The Ukrainian colleague who walks into her office on the 25th of February 2022 at a Western institution: The professor comes up to her and says, “I am so sorry! It’s just awful! I love Russia so much!”" by @efdavies.bsky.social efdavies.substack.com/p/have-you-h...

Have you heard these stories?

Why the challenges of colonialism and sexism are so similar.

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While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com

Ukrainian literature in English translation – Chapter Ukraine

Build your own bookshelf dedicated to Ukrainian literature in English translation. | Chapter Ukraine

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The amnesty is perhaps the most offensive part of the unworkable Trump proposal.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 9mo ago

⚡️ Ukraine is investigating a staggering 178,000 Russian war crimes as Trump’s peace plan raises fears it could grant amnesty to Russian troops.

It is striking how much this is not understood, including by many who regularly weigh into discussions on global justice and from leftist positions

If this is indeed the plan, I am humbly calling on the world's most powerful leaders to stop asking dilettante real estate developers to feed ChatGPT with prompts along the lines of "Ignore all history and write me a plan to achieve a world peace in our lifetime and make Putin happy."

Christopher Miller@christopherjm.ft.com · 10mo ago

Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan on.ft.com/4ibYCHp

Hi it’s 7am we are under attack daily reminder that you can help here www.sternenkofund.org/en

Sternenko Community Foundation

The Sternenko Community Foundation was established to continuously provide the Ukrainian Defence Forces with drones, primarily FPV, as well as to promote the development of UAV technologies.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦@reshetz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A donation a day keeps the fsb torture chamber away

Russia attacked kindergarten in Kharkiv. Russia’s daily terror across Ukraine continues.

"Understanding [Russia's] long-term patterns of strategic deception is essential in order to effectively counter" them. Important long read from @katri.bsky.social and @atolvin.bsky.social breaking down how Russia shapes outcomes through narratives over decades. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reconstructing Kremlin strategic deception: the logic of disinformation narratives during the first phase of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Official Kremlin rhetoric about the ‘special military operation’ produces clashing, often contrasting interpretations of reality. This article applies perspectives from Soviet ideological language ...

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Our paper with @atolvin.bsky.social at #iccees2025 about Russia's strategic deception, will be published later this year!

They hit a subway station in Kyiv where people were hiding from explosions

The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live

Ceasefire shmeasefire. Air alert in Kyiv - threat of ballistic missile launches from east. Explosions reported in Kharkiv.

Ru ceasefires are always lies. Time for a broader audience to learn what Ukrainians have known for 11 yrs.

Status-6 (Military & Conflict News)@archer83able.bsky.social · last yr.

No signs of a ceasefire announced by Putin today, Ukrainian officials and soldiers say. Russian drone attack reported in the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Foreign policy asks a fantastic question - why don’t Russian soldiers revolt. After all they all die. Here is the answer. 1/

Russia killed at least 21 people in Sumy, northern Ukraine, today, on Palm Sunday. Two ballistic missiles hit the center of the city. More than 80 people are injured. This attack made absolutely no sense other than to terrorise civilians and to showcase Russia's impunity.

My first Foreign Policy essay is out - it examines the role of violence in Russia's military, which both creates docility in the face of meatgrinder tactics, and encourages increased violence towards fellow soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?

Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.

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"Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders." - a brilliant piece by @atolvin.bsky.social at foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?

Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome @atolvin.bsky.social's debut piece in Foreign Policy, on how the ingrained violence of Russia's military system helps explain both acquiescence in the meatgrinder and atrocities toward its victims. Keep writing please. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?

Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.

foreignpolicy.com

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

this is just abjectly fucking terrifying nobody should be disappeared because they wrote an op-ed nobody should be disappeared at all

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

None of these crimes will stop if Russia manages to formally keep the occupied territories. On the contrary, they will escalate. Because they are not the product of the war per se but of Russia’s objective of erasing the Ukrainian nation as Ukrainians define it and imposing a ru-defined Ukr identity

Alex Raufoglu@ralexdc.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW!!! UN investigation concludes that russia has committed the crimes against humanity of enforced disappearances and torture in its war in Ukraine…

On this International Women's Day, please consider donating to VETERANKA - a Ukrainian charity that helps women who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and female veterans. uwvm.org.ua/uk/

Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim. President Zelensky was the only one in the room to behave with dignity.

Helsinki tonight

Today, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki is hosting a series of roundtable discussions on three years of Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale invasion

Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!

New: Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. Story w/ @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social + @cen4infores.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fTNzAL

Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones

Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

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brilliant presentation on the Shiyes Protests and waste colonialism by @lenagorbacheva.bsky.social at this year’s ASEEES!