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Olga Onuch

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Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM Democracy in wartime, GeoPols EU DisInfo Vote Protest Identity Polls 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺 📚Zelensky Effect 📚Mapping Mass Mobilization VProf College D’Europe Prev @ox.ac.uk Nuffield/StAntonys @harvard.edu @uoft.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦🇬🇧 .. more

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Olga Onuch is Professor (Chair) of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester. In 2023 she became the first person to be appointed a Full Professor of Ukrainian politics at a university in the English-speaking world. She is the author of the books The Zelensky Effect and Mapping Mass Mobilization, and editor of Revolutionary Moments. .. more

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 2h

Explosions in
Zaporizhzhia
Kamyanske
Kryvyi Rih
Dnipro.

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 3h

It’s just before 5 am in Kyiv and Russia is sending hypersonic missiles. No one gets to sleep. May everyone stay safe.

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 18h

NEW Harris & Harvard CAPS Poll shows Americans (Replicans + Democrats alike) want President Trump to punish Russia & support Ukraine.

77% of American voters support additional sanctions on Russia

68% believe the Trump administration should continue to arm Ukraine + impose sanctions

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 4d

From Ukrainian air force

„Russians launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine with 549 aerial targets”

478 objects destroyed
-439 drones
-1 kinxhal missile
-32 cruise missiles Kh-101/Iskander-K
-6 Calibr missiles

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 4d

Russian attack overnight on Ukraine: 50 missiles and 500 drones.

Via @united24media.com and monitorwar_ua

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 11d

The findings are sickening. But no one can look away or fail to understand them.

Russian “play” “Human Safari”
Purposely targeting ordinary citizens with drones to kill.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social

Tochnyi @tochnyi.info · 11d

🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.

Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

Tochnyi » The Human Safari

An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

maps.tochnyi.info

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 11d

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 11d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pro-EU party in Moldova set to win election mired in claims of interference

The vote was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.

www.bbc.com

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Tochnyi @tochnyi.info · 11d

Tochnyi » The Human Safari

An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

maps.tochnyi.info

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 11d

I always say Russia lost the war it set out to win and moreover the war it is currently continuing is an unwinable war for Russia - at least in Ukraine.
www.ft.com/content/2a4d...

Why Ukraine is winning the war

Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

www.ft.com

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