#Yanukovich

[lengthofropes]

I’m sorry but I guess right now every Ukrainian out there is having flashbacks of the epic story starring our “beloved” ex-president yanukovich when someone threw an egg (AN EGG!!! A FUCKING EGG!!) at him and he fainted dramatically))))

[wisegardenbluebird]

LA GUERRA DE UCRANIA

En su último libro Francisco Veiga analiza las causas y la situación del actual conflicto bélico Francisco R. Pastoriza          Todas las guerras generan una buena cantidad de libros que tratan de explicar desde sus causas y su desarrollo hasta sus consecuencias. No iba a ser menos la de Ucrania, a más de un año desde que el 24 de febrero de 2022 la Rusia de Putin decidiera invadir este país…

[d1nosaurpower]

My friends, loves, and other folks from USA

Reminder:

Reduce depressants/stimulants, they can mess up your psyche if you are already stressed or depressed. Yes, that includes alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine

Do not follow provocations. Republicans cannot be convinced, and you will just drain energy trying to change their minds. Better spend that energy doing something useful

Check organizations before donating. Some folks will try to steal your money using mass panic. Take a moment before donating or sharing info and ask yourself if there is anything fishy about it, or who it actually benefits.

Also! Donate to Ukrainian causes, they need it a LOT.

Doomscrolling doesn’t help. Consider what you can do, what you have to do, and how you can help others.

Drink water and get cookie. Do not forget to sleep. Prepare for marathon rather than sprint.

We are strong together, and together we are undefeatable.

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Meeting with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych

Vladimir Putin discussed bilateral cooperation and work together in integration groups with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on May 26, 2013, in Sochi, Russia.

[kvietka]

Just went on facebook to check on some items I'm selling (basically the only time I use that cursed website) and this post I wrote 10 years ago came up in my fb memories. *sigh* Times don't change, except now I rant about all the horrible shit Russia is doing to Ukraine on tumblr instead of fb.

[aspiringbelle]

This includes Petro Poroschenko, Zelensky's predecessor.

Ukraine is not a democracy.

[dearansur]

he fled to moscow, i-

Assad down??? holy shit. congratulations🎉

[communist-ojou-sama]

Can you do a deep dive on RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA/Krasnov Trump. I'm surrounded by dems and they all insist it's the most true thing ever, even though it seems hella dumb

sorry to recommend a podcast episode but I feel like this really gets to the bottom of it and Mark Ames really knows his stuff. The truth is very simple: Many of the anti-Yanukovich political and civil-society circles were intimately integrated with center-left political operators in the US/Canada Ukranian diaspora and Trump simply resents Ukraine and Zelensky because they cooperated with the investigation that lead to his failed impeachment.

Zelensky was put in the unenviable position of having his arm twisted into intervening in the imperial hegemon's internal power struggles on behalf of one side, and then that side lost, and so here we are.

[ohsalome]

Again and again and again I see (mostly) westerners accusing Ukraine of "opressing russian-speaking minority" by our language law (without reading the language law itself, obviously). It really looks like people have some kind of pavlovian reflex to the word "minority", immediately jumping to the assumption that minority = opressed by the majority. But a minority by numbers does not automatically mean minority by power. Billionaires, too, make up a minority of population, does that mean that they are opressed by the majority class? Are gaelige speakers in Ireland priveleged in comparison to the English? Are Elon Musk's white emerald mine owning family opressed by the majority black African population?

For the 1000th time, the relationship between Ukraine and russia is that between colonised and coloniser. It is russian identity, russian language, russian culture, russian world that has been privileged on the territory of ukraine for at least last 400 years. It is ukrainian language, ukrainian culture, ukrainian identity that people have been repressed and killed for.

russian propaganda takes this assumption westerners have about how the world fuctions (minority=oppressed) and uses it to twist the reality. To make you believe that Ukrainians somehow "deserve" to be genocided. To make you believe that it's the best course of action for the West to abandon Ukraine to be raped and plundered by russia. But we can call it "peace", because russians won't allow western journalists to report on it, and we all know that if the west doesn't talk about something, it means it doesn't exist :))))

Here are statistics about the "opression of russian language" from 2012 - during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovich, russian puppet and a literal mafioso [source]:

More than 60% of the total circulation of newspapers, 83% of magazines, and about 87% of books (most of which are imported from Russia) are published in Russian in Ukraine.

In October 2012, only 28% of the prime time on the top 8 TV channels was devoted to Ukrainian-language programs, 44% to Russian-language programs and 28% to bilingual programs.

On the 6 top-rated radio stations, songs in Ukrainian account for only 3.4% of the total number of songs in prime time (last year - 4.6%). At the same time, songs in Russian account for 60% of the total number of songs.

Out of 290 restaurants in 29 cities, only 50% of them have signs in Ukrainian, 46% have menus in Ukrainian, and only 36% have employees who answer Ukrainian to Ukrainian-speaking customers (in another 11%, employees switched to Ukrainian during the conversation).

The "oppression of russian speakers in Ukraine" is nothing but the tyranny of russian chauvinism and imperialism losing its footing. Y'all had no trouble understanding how white ethnonationalists complaining about "the great replacement" is nothing but fear of losing the privilege. Y'all had no trouble understanding that "white cis male is the most opressed person" is a moral panic not grounded in the real power structure of the western society. But in this question, you've decided to ally with the opressor.

[justacynicalromantic]

🤣😂🤣 Even Yanukovich didn't officially cut funding to colleges, churches, medical facilities who supported Maidan (although there was unofficial pressure).

The USA is rapidly turning into a dictatorship aligned with Putin.

[aroacebaker]

Today it’s the 24th of February, 2 years after the full-scale war started in Ukraine. Most know that this isn’t completely out of the blue, since Crimea was invaded 10 years ago, but let’s go back even further.

During the first world war, Ukraine was torn to pieces, literally, it was occupied by Poland, Russia, France, anarchists, and the Whites, Kyiv changed hands over five times in a year, communication inside and outside the country was almost completely cut off.

This war eventually resulted in the Soviet Union occupying Ukraine. Due to this Ukrainian people fought in the Soviet army. At the end of the war Ukraine did gain some independence, for some decisions, such as being accepted into NATO as Ukraine, rather than as the Soviet Union.

On the 21st of January 300 000 Ukrainians lined themselves up between Kyiv and Lviv, forming a human chain for independence and on the 24th of August Ukraine declared itself independent from the Soviet Union.

In 2004 there were presidential elections between Yushchenko and Yanukovich, in which Yanukovich won, however the results were falsified, and the Ukrainians protested for 2 months, this is known as the Orange revolution. The protestors won, and the elections were re-done, where Yushchenko won fair and square.

6 years later there are new elections, in which Yanukovich wins, again, fairly. He promised that he’d integrate Ukraine with Europe and join the EU. However, in 2013 when he was about to sign the agreements to improve relations with the EU, he made a complete 180 degree turn, and spoke about rebuilding relations with Russia. This, naturally made upset the Ukrainians very upset, so they protested for three months straight. They’d eat and sleep on the streets to protest every minute of every day and night, this resulted in police brutality. Every February 20th the people lost during these protests are mourned for their sacrifices for Ukraine’s freedom.

Yanukovich, unable to resist these protests fled the country, While the population was looking for a new president Russia invaded Crimea, there was a referendum, which was accepted due to the pressure and the country we are dealing with, Crimea was taken, and soon the fight over Donetsk and Luhansk begins.

Then, on the 24th of February, the full-scale invasion begins. Ukrainians have fought strongly, never ever giving up, fighting for there freedom, for the freedom of Europe, fighting for the truth and honesty Russia has yet to show. Take a minute today, after reading this far (thank you for still sticking around!) and thank the Ukrainians who have lost their lives in these battles, those who have lost their lives in merciless attacks, and those left behind.

Now, let’s listen to the experiences of one awesome Ukrainian: Living in war is terrifying, “you stop caring about food, sleep. Just staying alive, only thing that matters. We [Ukrainians are] Europeans. We’re not Russia. We died for this, and we continue to fight, every day, for this. We’re not just some people dying somewhere. We are real! We have our language, our songs, our fairytales. We exist. We matter.

Finally, a line from the Ukrainian anthem: "Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу, І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду” Meaning “We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom, And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation” Слава Українi!

[thelostdreamsthings]

[Ten years ago, neo-Nazi thugs from the Svoboda party and their affiliated Right Sector militia executed a violent U.S.-backed coup to oust Victor Yanukovich, the lawful President of Ukraine.

These ultra-nationalists took Ukraine down a hate-filled path of confrontation with Russia.

When looking for someone to blame for the tragedy that has unfolded in Ukraine since that day, one need look no further than to the origins of the violence.

One can only hope that the people of Ukraine wake up and rid themselves of the cancer of Banderism.

Otherwise the Russian program of denazification will continue unabated to its bitter end.]

Scott Ritter

William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is an American author, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector

Kharkov to Odessa

~100 years ago, banksters in US/Europe funded a color revolution in Russia.

Two years ago, Putin started Special Military Operation (SMO) to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine, a new geopolitical pawn of the same globalists who have been trying to conquer Russia since the days of Napoleon, who had his own version of NATO.

Hopefully, this will be the last time the psychopaths will poke the Russian bear.

Russian leadership is not elected to suit US.

We understand Washington would've loved a Zelensky in Moscow, ready to sell his country and people for a couple of villas. Not happening.

[reality-detective]

Who is Victoria Nuland? 👇 Part 1

◾️In 2014, Biden oversaw the overthrow of the Ukrainian President Yanukovich.

◾️Victoria Nuland handpicked the new puppet government of Kiev - (listen to the leaked phonecall, in which they call the Mayor of Kiev, Klitschko, a "complicated electron”)

◾️Azov Battalion and other extremist fringe groups were nurtured and weaponized against Russia and Russian-speakers.

◾️Russia then took back Crimea, its historic Naval port and ONLY access to the Black Sea.

◾️Putin did not take back the Donbass then, which is now at the center of the conflict - in hope that Ukraine and its handlers would fulfil the Minsk agreements (which promised referanda in Donbass.)

[etrangersvoyageant]

MH17

It’s 10 years exactly since a Russian Buk missile ended the lives of 298 people, who were on their way to Malaysia.

Over the years I've written multiple times about this event on various blogs, so I'll keep it short this time.

Today not only marks this tragedy, but also the knowledge that the western side of Europe got another wake-up call to the Ukrainian cause. Putin's Russia had already shown up in Chechnya and Georgia. Maidan already happened, Yanukovich had fled and Putin had taken Crimea before this commercial plane was shot out of the sky.

Throughout the years, Russia has denied responsibility, tried to sow seeds of doubt and misinformation and continued to distort the truth on. Yet the evidence in the court cases was crystal clear, Russia is responsible.

My thoughts today go to those who were in the airplane, those who they left behind and the many Ukrainians who suffered because of the EU’s lacklustre response then and now.

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Meeting with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych

Vladimir Putin met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych who is in Russia on a working visit. March 4, 2013

Zavidovo, Tver Region

[fakenerdboy]

Today on just can’t help myself on Reddit, somebody told me I should “look into maidan” (they don’t know me, fair) as an example of a “real protest” because they had weapons, like maidan spontaneously happened one day and wasn’t a buildup over more than a decade of resistance to a corrupt government that had permeated every aspect of its civil society, to the point that the police at maidan were yanukovich’s personal thugs instead of civil servants