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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · 20d

3rd Congress of Women of Donetsk happening today in Kyiv 🇺🇦
Representatives from Donetsk Region Administration, women rights organizations, private sector, international partners sharing how every day they support Donetsk women & girls: incredibly inspiring

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Sep 9

Honored & impressed to meet Oleksii Sobolev Minister of Economy, Environment & Agriculture of Ukraine 48hrs after 🇺🇦 Cabinet of Ministers damaged by Russian attack
Government resilience at work: including for women’s economic empowerment & employment

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Its has been another long night in Ukraine
From Mayor Klitschko: “In the Pechersk district, a fire broke out in a government building as a result of a probable UAV strike.
Firefighters are working on the scene.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, warehouse premises are burning again.”
From my window:

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Aug 16

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s 12:40 in Kyiv 🇺🇦
Rather than doom scrolling
Getting 1000 times angry & depressed
Im going to sleep, a long deep sleep, confident that all that red carpet stuff was bought with a promise not to send missiles against Kyiv tonight
Good night 💤

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Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social · Aug 9

in terms of concrete steps, there seems to be only one. The agreement to abolish OSCE's Minsk Group that had anyway failed it's mission.

I wish this puts pressure on Baku to agree on some additional steps re. Turkey-Armenia normalisation, while Americans can try to sort out the tripp.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan Sign Deal Aimed At Ending Decades Of Conflict

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a US-brokered peace deal aimed at ending decades of conflict between the two countries at a ceremony hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House...

www.rferl.org

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · May 17

Hard to get excited about the carefree camp of #eurovision2025 this year with such a mess around all of us

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 20

Wishing all who celebrate a peaceful & happy Easter from Kyiv!

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Kyiv 17:25: Easter eve supermarket shopping interrupted by a drone overhead. Literally above me according to Telegram channel Eи, Киiв!

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Where am I?
Tashkent? Nope: Kyiv (Podil)
And a group of Hasidic jews just walked by…
Beautiful Easter weekend in 🇺🇦

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Apr 18

Forged in occupation, Bucha's women turned from war victim into drone hunters, protecting the very ground where they once ran for cover.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/19/b...

Bucha’s women take down the drones that once hunted them

Forged in occupation, Bucha's women turned from war victim into drone hunters, protecting the very ground where they once ran for cover.

euromaidanpress.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Apr 18

Russian drones attacked a bread bakery in Sumy today.

A 61 year old driver who was loading Easter cakes into the vehicle was killed.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Apr 18

Friends,

For Christians, today is Good Friday.

I guess it is a symbol of the words "it is always darkest before dawn".

We in Ukraine are waiting for our dawn to come - we are exhausted and fragile, we continue fighting and living, but over three years of full-scale war are taking their toll.

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 14

In Sumy where Russia killed at least 34 civilians on Sunday & continued to attack w/drones & missiles on Monday, women’s right organizations & activists persevere. In their words, there’s no alternative:

ukraine.unwomen.org/en/stories/o...

Russia's attack on Sumy on April 13: UN Women calls for unwavering support for Ukrainian women’s rights organizations

Every day, millions of Ukrainians in cities and villages across the country live under the persistent threat of indiscriminate attacks by the Russian armed forces. Human and women’s rights organisati...

ukraine.unwomen.org

Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 12

Dream and Achieve in Ukraine
Love hearing women pitching their new businesses after 3 months of mentorship & skills development with UN Women & Impact Force

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Cagil M. Kasapoglu @cagilkasapoglu.bsky.social · Apr 10

#Turkey’s two prominent investigative journalists Murat Ağırel and Timur Soykan have been detained this morning
#Journalismisnotacrime

Ruşen Çakır @rusencakir.bsky.social · Apr 10

Timur Soykan ve Murat Ağırel gözaltına alındı - Medyascope medyascope.tv/2025/04/10/t...

Timur Soykan ve Murat Ağırel gözaltına alındı - Medyascope

Gazeteciler Timur Soykan ve Murat Ağırel bu sabah saatlerinde gözaltına alındı.

medyascope.tv

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Melissa Fleming @melissafleming.un.org · Apr 8

❗️If implemented, this could amount to a death sentence for millions of people facing extreme hunger and starvation.” @wfp.org

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 7

Can you imagine starting your Monday morning with an air alert saying ballistic missiles target where you live?

That’s the reality for many this morning in Ukraine

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 6

Kyiv 5:20: after an overnight drone attack, Russia launched several ballistics on the city. V loud. Now we wait to hear if cruise missiles are also coming our way

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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · Apr 5

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Why Georgians Won’t Give Up | Journal of Democracy

As the ruling party grows more repressive, the people keep protesting. They know the government’s true goal is to appease Russia and will never accept it.

www.journalofdemocracy.org

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · Apr 5

Something remarkable is happening on 5th Ave right now.

100s of 1000s of people, a spontaneous outpouring of anger, demanding Trump/Musk keep their hands off our healthcare, our schools, our democracy.

This is a turning point in the fight back against the Trump presidency.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · Apr 4

This is just gutting. I spent four years at Wilson. It made my 1st book, HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR, possible, and funded important work on free speech and online harms. It was never a place concerned with splashy headlines, just quality, nonpartisan work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u... 1/

Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown

About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.

www.nytimes.com

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 3

Russia is clearly not grateful
Though the US imposed no new tariffs
Tonight massive Russian drone attack on Ukraine including on Dnipro, Kyiv and Kharkiv where 2 reported killed so far

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 1

What’s happening in Georgia’s parliament is shocking …
In addition to the measures described below gender & gender equality is being taken out of laws

George Melashvili 🇺🇦🇬🇪 @mel.ge · Apr 1

What’s unfolding in #Georgia right in front of our eyes is not just authoritarian drift, or democratic backsliding - it is a full-on dismantling of democracy & Russification of Georgia. Here's what the new wave of laws means and why we should all be alarmed. [1/10]

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Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social · Apr 1

Wow. I never thought that Dodik would give up & flee to Russia.
If the High Representative had known many years ago that this would be the outcome, he could have done a lot sooner to protect BiH state level institutions & laws. BiH could have been a much stronger country today

Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · Apr 1

Dodik joins Putin's collection of ex-presidents with Akayev, Yanukovych, and Assad.

Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, previously sentenced to prison and who did not recognize the decision after a court in Sarajevo issued an international arrest warrant for him - fled to Moscow.

Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit

Bosnia’s most wanted man turns up in Russia after Sarajevo requested Interpol issue a red notice for his international arrest.

www.politico.eu

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