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While I'll be reporting news again, I'll also be sending my photo albums & books to safer places, hoping they don't burn. Between reports, I will be running to shelters, carrying my documents & camera, while texting loved ones to know if they are still alive, & hoping to survive, too. 5/

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I used my time off to do things I can barely touch on in the whirlwind of news: first, having time with loved ones here, video calls with dear friends abroad, discovering new places, spending entire days with the cats. Learning. Reading. Painting. Taking masterclasses in various things. 4/

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Well-meaning people urge me/us correspondents to get out. But not all of us are detached from the country we report on: my loved ones are here. I don't want to spend my time off away from them. So I relaxed by simply surviving & enjoying almost no work calls, no speaking on TV or doing admin. 3/

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As Kyiv suffers, I'm bracing myself to resume work, having had a few weeks of being (burnt-out) bombed daily without having to give a professional take on it in news bulletins. Ukraine is my home so I didn't want to leave for a few weeks - I'd have been too worried to have no flat to return to. 2/

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Right now, living in Kyiv feels like being in a giant cat & mouse game that the rest of the world watches with deep concern. Each day is a life lottery for everyone - you wake up from a horrific night to dive into a horrific day, and you try to go through it alive. And repeat. Every day. 1/

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"In rural Ukraine, 16% of ethnic Ukrainians died as a result of the famine, along with other ethnicities (7%). In the countryside of Ukraine's two largest provinces, Kyiv & Kharkiv, one in four people died. In urban areas, 3.7% of ethnic Ukrainians died, as did 1.6% of other ethnic groups."

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🇺🇦 Il faut parler d'Oleshky, où la situation humanitaire continue de se détériorer: plus de 2000 personnes y meurent de faim. Parmi eux, une cinquantaine d'enfants, coincés dans cette ville occupée depuis 2022. 📽️Video complète à voir sur le lien 🔗 emmanuellechaze.substack.com/p/il-faut-pa...

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Pardon mais l'intelligence artificielle pour aller plus vite dans les transcriptions de vidéos, chez moi Oleshky ça donne: haut les skis, à daesh, échiquier, à lefty, etc. "Dmytro Lubinets" est devenu "depuis le micro blogging" (oui), Bizarrement Staline ça passe sans problème.

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My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.

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((🤓Nerd on holidays/my idea of down time: using my last couple of days off to finish my Coursera Holodomor education and learn as much as possible before resuming news reporting...))

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Reposted by Emmanuelle Chaze

There are ~2000 Ukrainians trapped inside the occupied city of Oleshky, Kherson region. They are deprived of food, in what is painfully reminding Ukrainians of another man-made famine, almost a century ago: the Holodomor. 📽️Full video here🔗 emmanuellechaze.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

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In one of the modules, this horrible, heartbreaking fact: "At the peak of the famine in June 1933, 28,000 people were dying each day in Ukraine on average.".

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Aleksander Glogowski 🌹🇪🇺 @chourka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Reposted by Emmanuelle Chaze

🇺🇦 Ces petits Européens d'Ukraine auront une expérience de la vie totalement différente de celle de leurs concitoyens. L'union européenne de demain devra en tenir compte. 🇪🇺 @ec.europa.eu @soniastolper.bsky.social

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In a comment to Ukrainian media, Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's Human Rights Ombudsman, denounces the catastrophic situation, the ineffectiveness of the international community, and Russia's refusal of a ceasefire to evacuate civilians 👇

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The Ukrainian Army drone-delivered ~4 tons of food to occupied Oleshky's residents. ~2,000 Ukrainians remain there, incl. 50 children, with no access to food, water, electricity. The occupiers try to shoot down drones, take away/resell provisions. Locals can be detained/tortured for receiving aid.

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For those interested in learning further, I also recommend to look for parallels with Ireland's Great Famine, as British colonial policies also greatly contributed to the massive death toll that occurred at that time. Studying Irish History helped me understand Ukraine's struggle for independence.

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I'm three quarters into that course, which I started over the summer. It gives a lot of insights into the Holodomor itself, Ukraine in the 1920s & 1930s, and shows the silence of foreign governments & attempts by Moscow to downplay the famine & its denials that collectivization went awfully wrong.

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Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine

In light of the man-made starvation that is unfolding in occupied Oleshky, I recommend to take that free course on the Holodomor, by the University of Alberta. It shows that Oleshky isn't an isolated event, and that Moscow repeatedly uses hunger against Ukrainians👇 www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...

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Offered by University of Alberta. The Holodomor, one of the major tragedies of the twentieth century, became the subject of serious study ... Enroll for free.

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