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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Skeleton racer Heraskevych's father, Mykhailo, sitting near the start house, broke down in tears when the IOC disqualified his son from Olympics minutes before his first run. The decision was made as the athlete refused to remove a helmet bearing portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed in war.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It should also not be forgotten that Russia has used the Olympics as cover to launch several invasions, Ukraine after Sochi 2014 and in 2022 when China "asked Russia to hold off of the invasion until the Olympics were over", Georgia in 2008 during the Beijing Olympics
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In my view these athletes all were careful to stick to justifiably neutral expressions that do not reference war. A helmet that said "be brave like Ukrainians", photos of killed athletes, and a quote from Lina Kostenko, "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat", all banned
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Without being able to explicitly state how these expressions differ from what is allowable in the Olympics, this policy seems essentially to be wielded discriminatorily against Ukrainians. Other athletes have memorials as part of their uniforms. Is Ukrainian death inherently political?
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Before the IOC banned Ukrainian athlete and flag bearer Vladyslav Heraskevych from participating for wearing a helmet with a memorial for killed Ukrainian athletes, they gave a warning to 2 other Ukrainians for so-called political expressions, and a third for a statement supportive of Heraskevych
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/02/2026
⚡️ 11-year-old child killed alongside mother after Russia strikes Sloviansk with glide bombs. The attack brings the official number of children confirmed killed by Russia's war to 681, according to statistics published by the Prosecutor General's Office. kyivindependent.com/11-year-old-...
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11-year-old child killed alongside mother after Russia strikes Sloviansk with glide bombs
The attack brings the official number of children confirmed killed by Russia's war to 681, according to statistics published by the Prosecutor General's Office.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
When Ru tried a similar campaign in 2022-23, journalists were calling me non-stop, essentially to ask when Ukrainians would crack and demand their govt surrender to Ru. By now, the West has realized Ukr won't surrender and now our media doesn't cover the story as much, maybe because...
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Three people were killed and at least one more injured in a russian attack on Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Seven houses were damaged, one was completely destroyed
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Too few donations today 😭 Fellas, we need to step up. The guys in the Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar directions, one of the hardest fronts, urgently need these drone detectors for survival and to protect logistics.
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Baba Zhenya like so many others survived the Holocaust only for Russia to kill her. They parade themselves demanding they alone get to claim the legacy of liberating us from Nazism. With Putin daring to claim Russia is safer for Jews than the EU when Hannukah commemoration in Moscow was cancelled.
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
On January 13, the first frozen death case in Kyiv. 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Yevgenia Bezfamilna. Parents died in Babyn Yar. The child lived. The orphanage gave her a made-up family name – Bezfamilnaya or Bezfamilna in Ukrainian. Which means “Nameless.”
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Last night in Kyiv Oblast, a russian drone killed both parents of a four-year-old girl. Russia kills civilians, injures them, destroys their homes, and leaves children orphaned. This is not collateral damage — this is russia’s tactic.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Four people were killed in a russian drone attack on a passenger train in Kharkiv Oblast. Two drones struck near the train, while a third hit a carriage, sparking a fire. More than 155 passengers were on board at the time.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
He's talking to Mintpress News lmao
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We will invade you to protect you
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NAFO_trinzu @trinzu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alexi Pretti was a loved and respected nurse helping critically ill veterans. He was beaten and murdered on the streets of Minneapolis by paramilitaries in the employ of Donald Trump. This is not a nation that can be trusted at any level.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Kyiv. Afternoon after the attack. The Dnipro River is still frozen. No heat, water, or electricity in homes. But hope lives. We have much to fight for and to live for.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I had not heard the news yet. I'm very sorry about the situation in Minnesota.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
again my heart just breaks for this person, beaten and executed on the street for trying to defend their community, and for the people of Minneapolis, who have just been targeted for this endless dehumanization and brutalization just because of who they are & the inclusivity the city represents
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Russia’s overnight attack damaged 96 buildings in two districts of Kharkiv. City services have boarded up over 660 shattered windows – 75% of the total.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Ukraine destroyed over 9,000 Russian armored vehicles in three years. Russia replaced them all. Here's the catch: they did it by draining Soviet-era storage from 10,400 vehicles down to 1,800, according to @Rebel44CZ. Production adds just 900 vehicles a year. Russia loses 2,300+.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Fox News is defending feds killing another Minnesotan: "They are literally enforcing the law. These are targeted interactions, these are targeted operations. They are simply doing their jobs."
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I would never in a million years try to whitewash the sins of this country, myself and other Canadians are just trying to get Americans to see how serious this is for us and it's not some thought experiment it's a real threat
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Canada is in fact a deeply flawed country. But that's not what we are fucking talking about right now, we are talking about the US using its position as a global superpower to threaten us and hurt our economy and meddle in our politics
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don't want to hear from Americans that "oh Canada is fucked up too". The point of this whole conversation is America is currently threatening the sovereignty of my country and doing foreign interference with faux separatists. This is the context of this conversation.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The number of people injured in russia’s nighttime attack on Kharkiv has risen to 31, including two children.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The past 36 hours talking to these people on the bad site may have broken my brain permanently
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There are a lot of you who seem to be overly concerned about people being rude to you when the people in question are a bit miffed that we're upending the global order and currently threatening to invade their country using a playbook from 12 years ago that is still currently ongoing
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As "peace talks" resume in Abu Dhabi, Kyiv is reeling from another massive Russian attack overnight that involved 396 drones and missiles. One dead, several injured and 80 per cent of the country facing emergency power cuts. (Some of us are without water too.) Russia continues to seek capitulation
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80% of Ukraine faces emergency power cuts following Russia's overnight aerial attack, focused on Kyiv
One person was killed, and another four were reported injured in Kyiv as Russia launched a mass attack on the capital overnight on Jan. 24, officials reported.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 24/01/2026
🔴 19 injured in Kharkiv after massive Russian drone strike. The relentless assault on the city lasted over two hours as Russian forces launched 25 "Shahed" drones, striking apartment buildings, State Emergency Service reports.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fair enough, I agree with all of that. It's just sort of maddening to continually hear that Canada is just as bad as the US in every way while we watch paramilitaries arresting innocent people.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
many Americans do not care or believe in the threats, and if they can't take it seriously we are all doomed. You are correct that Canada has had an ugly past and present, but we do not have the current fascism of Trump.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
On the other app there have been days of discourse by left wing Americans about how Canadians are conceited and smug and all part of a genocidal settler colonial state so who cares about the Trump threats, so that is the background I am coming to this with. I'm sorry if I was harsh but
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am not mad at you personally, Katherine, I just think Americans in general do not understand that this is existential for us. Please try to keep that in mind, it isn't a thought exercise.
Indigenous leaders say Trump's threats to make Canada a 51st state challenges inherent sovereignity
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don't believe you have spoken to a single Canadian in the past year because this is how my entire country feels. We are dealing with our own fascists and don't need a lecture from those failing to contain their own.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Canada is having to realign our country's trade and military alliances away from the US bc our economy is being manipulated and also our sovereignty has been repeatedly threatened. Greenland is an attempt to encircle us. It is worse than unhelpful to lecture us about our own history right now
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am not posting for the sake of posting, if anything, you are because you didn't like that someone pointed out that the status quo in Canada is not the same as the status quo in the US. This is so patronizing
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
No, you are completely failing to read the room and speaking over Canadians. Your domestic mess is spilling over into Canada and threatening us and you are being incredibly condescending about how "there are lots of problems"
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You may not be doing it intentionally but that is the entire point of this exercise. Canada's sovereignty is being threatened and instead of calling out how wrong this is Americans like you are obfuscating the issue and failing to read the room
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We can go in circles forever talking about the many flawed and genocidal things both our countries are guilty of. But Canada in 2026 is magnitudes different from the US right now. And we don't like the way you are speaking about us.
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Ліна 🌻🇺🇦🍁 @castleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You are manufacturing consent for an invasion. The US is meddling in our politics and trying to cleave Alberta from the rest of the country the same way Russia did to eastern Ukraine. We aren't talking about the foundation and colonization of the Americas but the current threats to our sovereignty
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Does Canada have a federal agency in masks brutalizing people and putting them in concentration camps? Are they trying to manufacture a secessionist movement in order to occupy their neighbor? Are they trying to invade their allies? Be serious.
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are talking about the present not the past. So what if they also have a dark history? If MAGA occupied Alberta and Canadians were chanting “death to the occupiers” would you reply with “no such thing as occupation on stolen land?”
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is exactly the type of toxic mentality I am referring to. As if Trump just happened to us because of the “shape of our government.” Is Canada trying to manufacture a secessionist movement in Minnesota? Are they trying to annex Greenland? Do they have mass shootings often?
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
💔 One person killed, two injured in attack on Rochen factory in Kyiv
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Do not get on the anticipatory moral disengagement train. to it’s exactly what many left & liberal Russians did after the invasion of Georgia, Ukraine, Syria. Russian leftists and liberals talked like this too and kept going at all their neighbors online. “You think you’re so different?!”
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Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A lot of defensive Americans can’t handle the fact that no Canada is not as bad as us. They want to drag Canada down with them. Like a toxic friend who resents you for making better choices and has to gossip to everyone to feel better. It’s both chauvinism and insecurity.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
💔 The body of a woman, the mother of a dead boy who was discovered yesterday, was found under the ruins of a house in Kharkiv…
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Why russia cannot help but invade? Been pondering this question for a decade now... 🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left. Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
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Why Russia cannot help but invade
The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may we...
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