i usually don't do this but desperate times call for desperate measures. i'm hosting 2 ukrainian refugees in my berlin flat until further notice. this Telegram Messenger group connects ukrainians with all sorts of help in germany - but dozens of messages are posted there per minute 👇

Russian Forces Destroyed the Art of Ukrainian Painter Maria Prymachenko vice.com/en/article/dyp… via @vice

So it's "not occupation, it's liberation". Why the fuck do you put up the Russian flag then?

Canadian Chris Pavloski is now complicit in the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Re Syria: I'm already seeing the same loathsome people who called the White Helmets terrorists, called the war crimes non-existent or false-flag ops, asserted heart-wrenching photos of children in an ambulances featured "crisis actors," doing the same with news out of Ukraine.

Freestyle skier Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine's only medal at the Beijing Olympics. Tonight he sleeps in a Kyiv parking garage with his family. I asked him to take a photo and send it to me. This is him with his wife, Alexandra, and their 2-year-old, Dmitry.

This is reportedly in Melitopol. Russian forces continue to face resistance in cities they’ve occupied. t.me/uniannet/35346

“Imagine if Tom Brady were being held by Russian officials right now.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Deutsche Welle's entire media and information network, as well as its logo in the form of the two letters D and W, are now considered extremist in Belarus. dw.com/en/belarus-cla…

I spoke to Alexei Zhitnik from the front lines in Ukraine. He’s been working to get people to safety while Russian rockets strike. theathletic.com/3176170/2022/0…

In the Prairies’ deeply proud Ukrainian farming communities, Russia’s war prompts grief and guilt /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius died in Mariupol. We first met in Grozny about 15 years ago, when he was shooting documentary about enforced disappearances by Russian federal and Chechen forces. He was very brave, bright and funny. RIP.

I hate funerals. I hate journalists’ funerals and even more I hate my friends’ funerals. Max was one of the greatest Ukrainian photojournalist. R.I.P.

Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.

Source: instagram.com/p/Cbz_4zBtewq/…

‘He Is a Child of War’: Giving Birth Amid Chaos in Ukraine nytimes.com/2022/04/07/wor…

I will describe here who Ukrainians are and why they are resisting. This resistance has very deep historical roots, and are based upon a specific Ukrainian political culture. A thread 0/8

More revolting, openly genocidal rhetoric on Russian state TV. The very idea of being Ukrainian, he says, “has to be erased once and for all.” Meanwhile, calling this a war is still punishable by years in Russian prison.

A visibly shaken and angry Senator Elizabeth Warren just spoke in-front of #SCOTUS. The National

Thank you for your support during this time. GW