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Veronika Melkozerova

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Ukraine reporter for Politico Europe, journalist based in Kyiv

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · Jul 5

My corridor provides me with a strange feeling of safety, as if I am in a circle, drawn in chalk, that would scare away monsters. #Ukraine #US #Weapons
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Reporter’s notebook: My deadly routine in Kyiv.

Here’s how it feels to survive Russia’s drone and missile attacks while the U.S. turns its back on us.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 18d

And this is coming from administration that ran into office on a motto of stopping aid to Ukraine as we re the “most corrupt country in the world”. That’s a typical post-Soviet thing to do, closing the probe into your political ally. Guys hating Ukraine, should know our corrupt officials are same

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 18d

Imagine abandoning Afghanistan to be swallowed by terrorist regime and then threatening them if they don’t return your airbase? Coming from the author “I doubt NATO would fight for US” when the only time they triggered Art5 ever was for US! And we’re still bowing cause the alternative is worse

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 20d

Doing reporting today in Kyiv on an upcoming story “What happens after Russian missile fell” telling about the bureaucratic hell Ukrainians have to endure to get their flats restored. Some have to return to occupation as they simply cannot afford to be refugees. Every Russian missile is a tragedy

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 20d

Russia’s gasoline sales hit a two-year low on Tuesday as Ukrainian drone strikes and surging harvest-season demand intensify the country’s fuel shortage.

Russia gasoline sales hit 2-year low amid Ukrainian drone strikes and harvest-season demand

Ukraine has hit two Russian refineries during the last week.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 21d

It’s becoming harder to keep dodging the pendulum swings.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 22d

Life in #Kyiv is surreal. You can do your job, go shopping, or visit doctors, as if nothing is happening. But then everything stops as you hear this music. That means another hero gave up his or her life for you to be able to fool yourself and continue catching last moments of normal life. Listen

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 24d

I am back to work.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24d

US President Donald Trump finally labeled Russia the aggressor in the war against Ukraine, further demonstrating a hardening of his position toward Moscow.

Trump finally calls Russia the ‘aggressor’ in war on Ukraine

After resisting the label for months, the U.S. president goes there.

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Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social · 28d

Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era www.politico.eu/article/appl...
By @heroceane.bsky.social

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

So you create internal enemies. We were also busy with that. Russia fuels differences, and then weakens and invades. I am so sorry you don’t get it

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

That’s just racism as it is. I talked to people of different colors and did not spot any differences. And also men and women are people too, and difference is hormones and upbringing, as well as social demands. But thanks, now I get it, guys. You can’t deal with real strong threats, like Russia

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

I believe race is a color of skin and nothing else. It’s yet another way to rule by antagonising mythical “us against them”.I am technically white, Slav and Ukrainian. The same white Slavs Russians believe I don’t have the right to exist as I am and invade me as they think I should be Russian.

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

I think problem here is marginalisation of them and weak law enforcement system.

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Racism is a very strange phenomenon for me. Also don’t trust AI. Read books

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

I know my history as a literal Slav, thanks. I just was responding to your strange White civilisation argument,cause when colored people
Were a resource that was ok to have them there, but now the color of one’s skin is a reason for hate and blame… I don’t understand the logic

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Also radical liberalism is smth that can’t exist ) please think

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Grok and X is not reliable in any way. As I already caught him being biased and trained by Russia to lie about us. So no, not lazy here, on the contrary, preferring good old research and traditional methods of checking info on my own.

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

People, you literally arrived at a continent where local population was not white, invaded them and founded your white nations there. And also then used non white slave labour to become economically strong) please explain your logic to my Slavic soul. Also am I white?

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Also do not consider random X accounts as real sources of information

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Racism is a thing I can’t comprehend as a Slav, really.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

What about Putin killing thousands of whites? He is white

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

What?

Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 28d

Her name was Iryna Zarutska. And her death is now not mourned but used as a tool in internal racial and political game.Trump wants death penalty for a guy that killed one Ukrainian, but rolled a red carpet and wants to do business with a maniac, who killed hundreds of thousand of my Ukrainians.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 29d

Just my neighbours launching a vegetable garden next to their 16-story residential building in Kyiv. Using compost they are getting from organic waste neighbours produce. Apocalyptic future dictates new waves in urbanisation

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · 29d

Hope Poland will be ok after tonight’s attack of Russian drones. Russians threw more than 480 at Ukraine, 8 entered into Poland. We would’ve shot them down if we had enough air defense from allies. Our air defense is working beyond capabilities, but any country can’t deal with it alone for so long.

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Veronika Melkozerova @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today Russia killed over 20 seniors in Donetsk region it claims to be liberating. Russians dropped a bomb at a spot where people gathered to collect their monthly pensions.

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