Olena Churanova

@churanova.bsky.social

fact-checker, editor at StopFake.org, media trainer, and senior lecturer at NaUKMA, Kyiv, Ukraine

Pathetic how so called “disinformation experts”, “experts on Russian-Ukrainian war” which appears recently thousands by number, even don’t know or couldn’t agree that this war started in 2014 not in 2022.

How am I? The house is shaking. Kids in the corridor. Very loud in Kyiv. And remember, several days ago, people interested in Russian OSINT discussed how Dostoyevsky is a great author. Yeah, guys, come to Kyiv, listen to ballistic missile explosions, and then we'll talk about “great Russian culture”

According to the Mariupol City Council, about 300 people died in the theater bombing. The AP, in its own investigation, concluded that up to 600 people died. Today, Russia opened its own theater there, destroying evidence of one of its greatest war crimes during the full-scale war.

Literally no silent nights in Ukraine (tonight we have hundreds of drones and missiles). All these quotes that peace is SO CLOSE are bullshit. Russia understands only language of power, never language of diplomacy.

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This is our night today. For those who in Kyiv. Red title as a target for Russian army. Very loud. It was fire and destruction near our house, but still it Is Ukraine who need to agree to barbaric conditions to end this war. Not the aggressor who start it.

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Cherkasy, Ukraine. Parents are lighting up a soccer field with car lights for their kids to be able to have their usual practice and live kind of “normal” life. Russians can destroy our electricity but they can’t destroy our love and light inside Ukrainians. Credit to Olena Shabunina.

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That was the night in Kyiv. Son's school has no windows on the first floor. Kids go for learning anyway. Diplomats will talk about how they were disturbed. Soldiers will fight for our land. Russia still exists.

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Ukraine hit targets in Russia that used in this barbaric war. Russia hit civilians, killed kids. Today 4 kids died because of Russians. And Trump administration put this in the same row as an evidence that nobody want to end this war. Crazy.

This isn’t just a new tattoo. It’s a symbol of the Evil Mavka - resistance movement of UA women during the Russian occupation. It’s my sign of respect for the incredibly heroic women who do not give up in the most difficult life circumstances, and believe in Ukraine even more than the rest of us.

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That’s why I don’t believe in “good Russians”. Navalnaya: Crimea belongs to UA and it actually belongs to Russia now. It becomes a complicated question, because we should not forget that millions of people now have Ru passports and even UA authorities admit that this is a very complicated question.