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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 14d

Trump gives me more emotional whiplash than my ex 🙄

Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 16d

Today Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia with:
- guided bombs
- ballistic missiles
- drones
- MLRS

It’s four more hours, what’s next?

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 19d

How many airspaces Russia need to violate for some actions?

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 19d

America’s Late night shows closing is an alarm bell

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 21d

I once wrote here about our intern from France. She already wants to take a gap year to live in Ukraine and learn the language.

Come to @pravda.ua for an internship, we professionally make people fall in love with Ukraine ❤️‍🩹

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 27d

It seemed enough

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

I think we can provide Ukrainian airspace for this

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

NATO does not consider Russian UAVs in Polish airspace as an attack – Reuters

Awesome. Can NATO provide the definition on "attack" then?

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

Your bet: how exactly will Karol Nawrocki blame Ukraine?

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

Again tonight Russia will try to kill us

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

Russian language here is not tolerated

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 28d

Ukraine urgently needs 10 Patriot systems and missiles for them, defence minister says.

Ukraine urgently needs 10 Patriot systems and missiles for them, defence minister says

The 30th meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein Format) has taken place.

www.pravda.com.ua

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 29d

Over 20 residents queuing for pensions killed as Russians drop aerial bomb on Donetsk Oblast. Horrific.

Over 20 killed as Russians drop aerial bomb on Donetsk Oblast residents queuing for pensions – video

Russian forces have dropped an aerial bomb on the village of Yarova in Donetsk Oblast as pensions were being handed out to civilians, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Early reports indicate tha...

www.pravda.com.ua

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last month, I visited Indonesia and recorded this interview. It's always interesting how people 10,000 km away see your war.

Radityo Dharmaputra: For Indonesians, Russia is still a friend from Soviet times

While Indonesia officially values freedom of speech, the reality is… selective. Criticising the authorities? Risky. Talking about Russia? Safely “neutral”. Talking about Ukraine? Suddenly “political”....

www.pravda.com.ua

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 7

6 June - Russia launched 452 aerial assets, including 405 drones
17 June - 472/440
29 June - 537/494
9 July - 741/728.
Today - 823/810

The summer I almost turned sleep-deprived.

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · Sep 7

‼️New drone record: Russia launches over 800 UAVs and 13 missiles on Ukraine, 751 targets downed

New drone record: Russia launches over 800 UAVs and 13 missiles on Ukraine, 751 targets downed

Russia carried out a large-scale combined attack on Ukraine using strike UAVs and ground-launched missiles on the night of 6-7 September. Ukrainian air defence intercepted 751 out of 818 aerial assets...

www.pravda.com.ua

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ukrainian government building is on fire after debris from a Russian drone fell.

📷: Serhii Korovayny

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’m wondering are those Russians who launch all these drones and missiles during the night will go to church tomorrow morning.

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wasn’t going to be the small one too

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Sep 3

Xi, Putin, and Kim discussed longevity, with Xi saying "these days" people are "still a child" at 70 years old and Putin's translator mentioning the potential for immortality through biotechnology and organ transplants wasn't on my bingo card.