Merry Christmas! Remember Ukraine! Stand with Ukraine!
Olexander Scherba
@olexscherba.bsky.social
Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador, author
This is funny & uncanny at the same time. Russia unveiling a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, one of the worst murderers of Christians from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution - to the tune of “Jesus Christ, superstar!” #StandWithUkraine
Remember that night when Iran attacked Israel and when NATO jets were collectively shooting the drones and missiles down? It’s every night in Ukraine. Only more drones. And no NATO jets. #StandWithUkraine
Volodymyr Mykolayenko, former mayor of Kherson who refused to be exchanged in favour of other 🇺🇦 PoW and who was released only now, 3 years later, tells his story. How he was beaten “almost daily, except on Easter”. And that’s all you need to know about Russia’s “Christianity”.
The more you shake Putin’s hand, the more trigger-happy it gets.
Dictator putin and his clique judging Ukraine’s government legitimacy is like bats opining on a sunrise. Stick to what you know, night dwellers!
11 years ago, 🇺🇦 Olena Kulish & Volodymyr Alyokhin got executed mafia-style in #Donbas. “Guilty” of supplying 🇺🇦 soldiers with food. He was in IT. She was a popular radio host & animal rights activist. Russians killed her 6 dogs too. Just for the fun of it. #RussianWarCrimes
You give me huge chunk of your territory, including major cities. And I will graciously stop killing you. Maybe. For now. Sincerely, Russian Federation Permanent member of the UN Security Council
My sincere gratitude to President @ZelenskyyUA for appointing me Ukraine’s new ambassador to South Africa. It’s an honour & challenge in so many ways. Diplomacy is my life-long passion & the world’s best job which I gladly embrace again. #StandWithUkraine
This a-cappella rendition of a popular Ukrainian love song became an instant hit. In all my years on this earth I haven’t seen 🇺🇦 culture as vibrant as it is now. #StandWithUkraine
An illustration to put russian smugness in perspective. Somewhere around 2018, during my time as 🇺🇦ambassador in Austria, I was informed of contacts between Catholic Church & 🇷🇺 Orthodoxy. Catholics were doing the Christian thing: reaching out a friendly hand, trying to smooth out existing problems. ⬇️
Without too many words. 🇷🇺: You kill PoWs, don’t you? 🇺🇦: We ain’t you. #StandWithUkraine
A stunning account on how #RussianArmy fights this war - from Saïd Ismagilov, Ukraine’s supreme mufti who has been fighting for Ukraine for the last three years. Thread 🧵
Russians started what was supposed their Ukraine blitzkrieg by bombing Kyiv and other 🇺🇦 cities at 4am - just like the Nazis in 1941. They got stopped 19 miles away from Kyiv - just like the Nazis 19 miles from Moscow. History does rhyme. #StandWithUkraine
The best of 🇺🇦 world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Keep it up, Yara! So proud of you! #StandWithUkraine
Overnight, for the first time ever, a fighter jet got shot down by a sea drone. Ukraine‘s another “for the first time ever”. Bye-bye, 🇷🇺 SU-30! #StandWithUkraine
They raze peaceful cities to the ground and sing songs on the ruins. Madness. #Victory80 #StandWithUkraine
They were a family of three. Oleksandr, a war vet, his wife Anna, and their 1.5 month old baby girl. On Wednesday, russia‘s North-Korea-made missile destroyed their Kyiv home and killed Anna. #StandWithUkraine
Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive. #StandWithUkraine
Kyiv last night. One of the most barbaric attacks. I wonder what inspired Russia this time. #StandWithUkraine
6 ballistic missiles and 6 cruise missiles have attacked Kyiv so far - plus an undisclosed number of Iranian-Russian “shahed” drones. More incoming. FU, Russia! #StandWithUkraine
#Zakharova: it was a “high-precision military strike on a restaurant “Magellan” in #Sumy where a military meeting with international instructors took place”. Right. Except it wasn’t high-precision, there’s no such restaurant in Sumy & you scumbags hit civilians on their way to church. #RussiaLies
Ukraine carries to grave the victims of russia’s Palm Sunday “mistake”. Father, mother and son. The family was on their way to church. They put a soccer ball into the son’s casket. The boy loved soccer. #StandWithUkraine #Sumy
Her name was Olena. A Russian missile killed her today in 🇺🇦 Sumy. One of 34 dead (so far). #StandWithUkraine
Ukraine is “Live free or die”. Ukraine is “Don’t tread on me”. Ukraine stands for what US and free world once stood for. #StandWithUkraine
During the Holocaust, there were those who ratted the Jews out, those who saved them - and those who saved them only as long as the Jews paid. And then they ratted them out. They probably said things like “Why prolong the inevitable?” And “What is your endgame, anyways?”
It’s so incredible to see people carrying “Live Free or Die” and “Don’t tread on me” signs not support Ukraine - the one country going all the way through for the very same principles. #StandWithUkraine
What’s this urge with some people to explain Ukraine to Ukrainians? Especially if you’ve never been to Ukraine and know nothing about it. Is there a medical term for that? #StandWithUkraine