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Veronika Melkozerova

@nikamelkozerova.bsky.social
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Ukraine reporter for Politico Europe, journalist based in Kyiv

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
And this is coming from administration that ran into office on a motto of stopping aid to Ukraine as we re the “most corrupt country in the world”. That’s a typical post-Soviet thing to do, closing the probe into your political ally. Guys hating Ukraine, should know our corrupt officials are same
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Imagine abandoning Afghanistan to be swallowed by terrorist regime and then threatening them if they don’t return your airbase? Coming from the author “I doubt NATO would fight for US” when the only time they triggered Art5 ever was for US! And we’re still bowing cause the alternative is worse
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Doing reporting today in Kyiv on an upcoming story “What happens after Russian missile fell” telling about the bureaucratic hell Ukrainians have to endure to get their flats restored. Some have to return to occupation as they simply cannot afford to be refugees. Every Russian missile is a tragedy
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/09/2025
Russia’s gasoline sales hit a two-year low on Tuesday as Ukrainian drone strikes and surging harvest-season demand intensify the country’s fuel shortage.
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Russia gasoline sales hit 2-year low amid Ukrainian drone strikes and harvest-season demand
Ukraine has hit two Russian refineries during the last week.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It’s becoming harder to keep dodging the pendulum swings.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Life in #Kyiv is surreal. You can do your job, go shopping, or visit doctors, as if nothing is happening. But then everything stops as you hear this music. That means another hero gave up his or her life for you to be able to fool yourself and continue catching last moments of normal life. Listen
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am back to work.
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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era www.politico.eu/article/appl... By @heroceane.bsky.social
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
So you create internal enemies. We were also busy with that. Russia fuels differences, and then weakens and invades. I am so sorry you don’t get it
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
That’s just racism as it is. I talked to people of different colors and did not spot any differences. And also men and women are people too, and difference is hormones and upbringing, as well as social demands. But thanks, now I get it, guys. You can’t deal with real strong threats, like Russia
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I believe race is a color of skin and nothing else. It’s yet another way to rule by antagonising mythical “us against them”.I am technically white, Slav and Ukrainian. The same white Slavs Russians believe I don’t have the right to exist as I am and invade me as they think I should be Russian.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think problem here is marginalisation of them and weak law enforcement system.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Racism is a very strange phenomenon for me. Also don’t trust AI. Read books
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I know my history as a literal Slav, thanks. I just was responding to your strange White civilisation argument,cause when colored people Were a resource that was ok to have them there, but now the color of one’s skin is a reason for hate and blame… I don’t understand the logic
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Also radical liberalism is smth that can’t exist ) please think
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Grok and X is not reliable in any way. As I already caught him being biased and trained by Russia to lie about us. So no, not lazy here, on the contrary, preferring good old research and traditional methods of checking info on my own.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
People, you literally arrived at a continent where local population was not white, invaded them and founded your white nations there. And also then used non white slave labour to become economically strong) please explain your logic to my Slavic soul. Also am I white?
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Also do not consider random X accounts as real sources of information
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Racism is a thing I can’t comprehend as a Slav, really.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
What about Putin killing thousands of whites? He is white
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
What?
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Her name was Iryna Zarutska. And her death is now not mourned but used as a tool in internal racial and political game.Trump wants death penalty for a guy that killed one Ukrainian, but rolled a red carpet and wants to do business with a maniac, who killed hundreds of thousand of my Ukrainians.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just my neighbours launching a vegetable garden next to their 16-story residential building in Kyiv. Using compost they are getting from organic waste neighbours produce. Apocalyptic future dictates new waves in urbanisation
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Hope Poland will be ok after tonight’s attack of Russian drones. Russians threw more than 480 at Ukraine, 8 entered into Poland. We would’ve shot them down if we had enough air defense from allies. Our air defense is working beyond capabilities, but any country can’t deal with it alone for so long.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Today Russia killed over 20 seniors in Donetsk region it claims to be liberating. Russians dropped a bomb at a spot where people gathered to collect their monthly pensions.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The day after her stroke my granny disappeared. I was so worried, but it emerged she spontaneously went to her friend’s country house for a day, with no signal there. She returned so happy I couldn’t even be mad at her. “I needed something positive in my life,” she said.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The fire is out.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In a normal world we would think “ the deserve” criteria matters. But in this world only one thing matters “who can’t and can do this with no real punishment”
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Main government building in Kyiv
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I am not getting even “are you ok” messages from abroad anymore after the attacks. Polish defense minister said it right “Russia won because YOU are tired and got used to war”. He talks good, I wonder how much it cost to fly jets to observe the attack and do nothing every time.? Logistics mission
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Ukraine bombed and occupied, Gaza bombed and occupied have become the new norm. People will justify anything when it comes to this word “interest”. But they fail to admit that they enjoy talking about their rights and interests because they have enough money and because evil is busy dealing with us
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Our interests keep always being lost somewhere. Cause you don’t have the right for interests when you’re bleeding. China, Russia, NK, India do have the right. Even Fico and Orban still enjoy, while we’re on Russia’s way. But how long until Western world collapses ?
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
And then there’s me, my poor granny and my people that just have to hang on, be there, praised for resilience or condemned for not willing to all go to war that we have no money for left. Corrupt, not grateful enough, not fighting right, or lawful enough.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Hungary says we’re also fighting for survival wrong and attack Hungary. While Russia is just there, fighting for its interests. Russia=good, Ukraine = bad, burden. And against Hungary’s interests. America now is all so tired with its revived and flourishing weapons industry, also interests
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Ukrainians are raising their kids Polish in Poland. But yes, they are the problem. Why do those refuges have such cool cars? Maybe cause you got some really loaded people, not only the burden that must go home.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Poland said it helped enough and now hates Ukraine (cause they are tired of us being ungrateful while we’re still fighting what they hate even more than us. But who cares, block the border). Ukrainians paid billions of taxes, brought businesses from Ukraine to Poland. Opened companies.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Granny said her heart is failing because we have to endure this almost every damn night. And coalition of the willing now seems to people as some sort of not real Avengers squad that looks good on camera but in fact still wants Ukraine to fight this all along. While everyone else’s gives money.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Yesterday Fico said Ukraine must also take other countries’ interests into account when bombing Russia.Today Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 800 drones and missiles. In one night. Cabinet of ministers building on fire. Ganny had a small stroke, survived only cause of nitroglycerin.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
But again the tired of the system in superstates forget what for them is an experiment is fucking up the rest of the world that made them super, while they in four years might decide to chose someone else and see what happens.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
But I don’t think he is the sign that people are stupid. I just think the fact that people around the world decide to chose guys like him is a symptom of a system that stopped being relevant and failed people. So they now instinctively want to abort it and see what happens.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Superstates have fucked up the rest of the world so badly, now everyone will portray an idiot as a genius and great leader just hoping he would one day decide to stop being a dangerous idiot
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
No. First time took several days off cause of mental and physical burnout
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We’re desperate for help of a guy, who deploys national guard against his own people, renames departments and gulfs and posts offensive third grade memes mocking his opponents. Says a lot about state of play.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Today Ukrainian doctor told me:oh, your thyroid is like an empty house, where anti-bodies threw everyone out. What a poet. And yeah, war affects you in so many dimensions.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 03/09/2025
A creeping barrage of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure has knocked out a major share of the country’s crude refining capacity in recent weeks, triggering domestic shortages and leaving the Kremlin’s most important strategic industry teetering on the brink.
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Ukrainian drone strikes strangle Putin’s fuel supplies
Refinery attacks have triggered a fuel crisis and halted Moscow’s lucrative gas exports — as pressure grows on the Russian president to start negotiating.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
We are so unreasonably late and naive at the same time.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I have little to no motivation these days. As it’s so painful Ukraine was and has been fighting to be accepted into Western civilisation that will soon be gone. And there are no place for Ukraine in China-led world.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/09/2025
Ukrainian authorities have detained a suspect in the murder of Andriy Parubiy, a senior politician and former parliamentary speaker, and allege there is a Russian link to the killing.
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Ukrainian police say Russia linked to murder of former parliament speaker
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the killing of Andriy Parubiy, a prominent politician who played a major role in Ukraine’s pro-Western Euromaidan Revolution.
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Just to pics side by side. imagine being a Ukrainian in this world, where US army is throwing red carpet and playing games while those three are not joking. Ffs
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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just for the reason we did not want to sacrifice our nation and surrender so that others would be able to live “as if nothing is happening “ for several more years. Hate migrants, who sure come cause they just want to live in Europe
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