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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 10d

Russia once again assured the UN that it wants peace, but bombed peaceful cities in Ukraine for 12 hours straight. Four people died in Kyiv, including a nurse and a patient at the cardiology institute. A whole street was destroyed in Petropavlivskyi Borshchagovka.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have a very strange life. And a very fragile one. No one knows when it will end. That's why we value life so much - our families, our friends, our time together. Because as long as we hold back Russian aggression, we have a chance to survive. If Russia occupies us, it will kill us all.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Sep 7

My cat Sourcream hasn't come out of hiding since this morning. She always does this after intense shelling. Today was a record. Russia launched more than a thousand drones against us. I heard missiles flying over my house. Quite a night, to be honest.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Aug 28

In Kyiv, people bring flowers to a makeshift memorial in memory of the children whose lives were taken by Russia today.

Russian missiles killed 18 people, including 4 children.

📷 State Emergency Service

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Aug 28

A wonderful illustration of how Russia wants peace. Another massive attack on Kyiv. Children among the dead

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Aug 14

Nobel laureates, human rights defenders, journalists, and families of those freed from Russian captivity have addressed an open letter to the President of the United States ahead of his meeting with Putin.

Read the appeal people1st.online/open-letter-...

#People1st #BringPeopleHomeFirst

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jul 3

People in the Kyiv subway are hiding from explosions.
Photo Yan Dobronosov

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jul 3

We've been hearing explosions in Kyiv for several hours now. It hasn't scared me for a long time. It's just that the fatigue from constant lack of sleep is accumulating. And every time you find out who died after another Russian shelling of peaceful cities. War is a lottery.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 23

After another Russian attack on civilians, people in Kyiv are starting their morning in this way.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Jun 18

#HRC59 Ukraine 🇺🇦

43,610 civilians killed or injured📍
Evidence of executions, torture, deaths in custody 🧠
Forensic teams can't keep up with scale of #warcrimes 🔬
Survivors face trauma without enough support, incl children 🧒

👉 UN calls for support & accountability

🔗 docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/...

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 17

If world leaders do not have the personal power to stop Putin, they should at least not flatter and encourage him.

His son is under the rubble. The rescue operation is ongoing. We pray.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 17

Putin's footprint in history. When a person is unable to create something, he destroys. This is my native Kyiv in the massive Russian shelling.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 17

President Trump continues to compliment Putin. Putin continues to destroy and kill people. The only language Putin understands is strength. It's time to change policies that aren't working.

This is my native Kyiv after the massive shelling of residential areas.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 14

I am very grateful to His Majesty King Charles III for the private audience at Buckingham Palace and the opportunity to talk about the human dimension of this war.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is what Putin thinks about a peace agreement. Civilian facilities are burning. It's time to tighten sanctions because there will be no peace without force against Putin.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our morning after another Russian attack on civilian objects and civilians. My colleagues wrote in the chat, "We have survived, so see you in the office." People are going to work. Russia, you will never break us.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 10

Tonight, Russia damaged a world architectural monument - St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. This temple was built in the 11th century during Kyivan Rus and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Let me remind you that the Moscow state arose much later.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 9

Kyiv is under air attack again…
Putin can’t win on the battlefield, so he tries to kill civilians and hit civilian objects. The barbarian tactic of the army that pretends to be strong, but it is weak and can fight only with families and children.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Despite the sleepless night, we have been rehearsing since the very morning. Putin's Russia will end sooner or later. So let there be an eternity for your soul.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kyiv metro during Russian ballistic and drone shelling this night.

📷 Yan Dobronosov

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

And this is Chernihiv after the Russian night attack. There are wounded in the city, damaged residential infrastructure, there may be people under the rubble. Russia cannot conduct successful military operations, so it terrorizes civilians.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Rescuers pay tribute to a fallen colleague… Today, three rescuers were killed by Russian shelling while they were rescuing people.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Russian missiles and drones bomb my city again. When Ukrainians conduct cool operations and eliminate military facilities, Russians are not capable of anything like that, so they shell houses and schools. Russians know that we are not afraid of them. And that is what annoys them the most.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Russia doesn't know how to do anything else except send missiles at residential buildings. Here it is again. An army of losers.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · May 24

This is what our night in Kyiv looked like. Photo by Reuters

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