Educating about Azov
Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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A few things you can do to #StandWithUkraine today:
⚡️Educate yourself on what Azov Regiment is.
⚡️Raise awareness of people around you and any journalists/thought leaders you know, a lot of helpful info for that is here: twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
@Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov pic.twitter.com/pjXKoTGIMT
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🇬🇧 If you want to help the «Azov» Regiment financially:
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Links to financial accounts:
https://t.co/goTaLOmc1A
Thank you for your support! 🇺🇦 https://t.co/Xx4LkW3tM0
Quick summary⬇️
@Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
3/ What Azov is:
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✅ a highly professional military unit playing crucial part in resisting the 🇷🇺 genocidal aggression.
✅ includes ethnic 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, 🇧🇾, 🏴, 🇬🇷 & Ukrainian patriots of all backgrounds
What Azov ISN'T:
❌ political organisation
❌ militia
❌ far-right battalion https://t.co/GQHVQkxXAL
🇬🇧 translation of the @BackAndAlive post in my blog: cryptodrftng.substack.com: Day 86. #SaveAzov
I know this is a "controversial" subject for many people and the reason for that is that ruscists were putting a lot of 💰 and effort into information attacks against Azov. Fuck them.
Drftng with Ukraine. Day 86. #SaveAzov
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Dedicated to @Kozatsky_D ❤️
@BackAndAlive
https://t.co/XGtqZJAqcG
⚡️When you hear someone sharing incorrect information about them - speak out.
If the people you're speaking to are incapable of taking in new information and are so arrogant that they think they know better than 🇺🇦 people - send them my thoughts and prayers 🕊 #ꑭ #SaveAzov
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✨ if russians want to kill fascism in Europe, they'll need to kill themselves. @_Tymoshenko
#ꑭ #SaveAzov #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
✨ 🧵 about why Ukrainians shouldn't have to listen about "Ukrainian Nazis":
After all the indescribable suffering that russia has inflicted on Ukraine, if it's still the "Ukrainian Nazis" that concern you and you're worried about safety of russians who are "not to blame" - you're sick in your head.
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Ukrainians shouldn't have to listen to this bullshit.
Other things you can do:
⚡️ Share these photos by @Kozatsky_D with everyone you can: drive.google.com: Photo full size - Google Drive
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 @Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
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Here's a special message from my mum to people who lecture me about Azov ⬇️
BTW, when I said "drama" I meant the shitstorm that was happening on Twitter that day. What happened to #Azovstal defenders is an actual tragedy.
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 @Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov
Forgot to say: also mentioned the Azov drama to mum.
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"Tell all the people talking shit about Azov there to stop embarrassing themselves and shut the fuck up"❤️
Support the Association of the families of #Azovstal defenders - @AzovstalFam
✨Telegram channel - t.me: Асоціація родин захисників «Азовсталі»
@Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
‼️Асоціація родин захисників «Азовсталі» розпочала свою діяльність 🇺🇦
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Повернути рідних додому – з такою надважливою і водночас складною метою рідні захисників Маріуполя об‘єдналися в єдину команду – Асоціацію родин захисників «Азовсталі».
Деталі: https://t.co/cnJjYapS5T
Going back to info attacks - I personally really don't like it when people trying to defend Azov in public start from saying "every country has its own far-right people".
❌ This is the wrong place to start from - it legitimises the false accusations.
4/ Popular Ukrainian joke:
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- You are a neo-Nazi!
- I know! Our whole synagogue is like this!
https://t.co/hAlzRgmvKJ
⚡️I guess it's also important to know who's been speading disinfo about Azov and who to watch out for.
Exhibit 1: @ChristopherJM - he's not going to see this tweet because he's blocked me along with most other Ukrainians, lol #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 @Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov
1/ I can't believe this guy has the audacity to be posting this.
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@ChristopherJM has Ukrainian blood on his hands.
He is personally responsible for creating a completely wrong perception of @Polk_Azov for the Western audience, describing them as "Ukrainian Nazis".
#ꑭ https://t.co/ShZIlQvEFt
I just saw this tweet by @EliotHiggins and I'm very sorry to hear that @bellingcat still has a fantasy writer @ColborneMichael on the team.
Can't believe someone pays to read those Narnia Chronicles. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 #ꑭ #SaveAzov #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow twitter.com/EliotHiggins/s…
@ColborneMichael “Thanks to Azov, 🇺🇦 has emerged as a new hub for the transnational far-right” “What’s clear is this: Azov is certainly a key node in a global far-right extremist network, one that includes sympathizers and even perpetrators of far-right terrorism.”
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@ColborneMichael was Exhibit 2 in this Disinformation Squad I'm telling you about.
Exhibit 3 - @Reuters - have some decent people with them unfortunately, but generally this is the most awful russian propaganda news agency in the West. Lies on top of lies on top of lies.
3/ This is what @Reuters had the audacity to publish when Azov's heroes who showed superhuman courage and resilience while defending Mariupol in inhumane conditions ended up in ruscists hands.
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Btw, @New_Narrative, that article should be titled "Nonsense about Azov Regiment". https://t.co/uQ8j6qtsAr
My tweet about #ReutersLies from 05 Jun 2022. @Reuters @GuyReuters People didn't believe me, I was being yelled at in public for questioning their conduct, accused of being a conspiracy theorist etc etc.
#ArmUkraineNow #ArmUkraine #StandWithUkraine #stoprussia
7/ Some naive people tell me that @reuters announced they ended their partnership with @tass_agency (example: https://t.co/q4sgcyWMAn )
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For those people, I have breaking news:
⚡️ I am not an idiot ⚡️
@Reuters publish RU propaganda every single day. @GuyReuters #ReutersLies https://t.co/Ayx9PjFtpT
A.: - @Reuters are spreading 🇷🇺 propaganda. Everyone: - No but they said they don't do it anymore. Reuters: - We do. A: - They confirmed they do. Everyone: - No they don't .
I feel like I live in a big madhouse full of people with 0 critical thinking skills. #ReutersLies
Look, everyone. New article from the biggest russian propaganda news agency @reuters, quoting @tass_agency - the biggest 🇷🇺 propaganda platform that @Reuters claim to have ended the partnership with 🤡
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@GuyReuters how are you doing?
🧵 #ReutersLies - https://t.co/Ayx9PjFtpT https://t.co/mGr9suBqzK https://t.co/4sfNS8DjIF
🧵by @antonohaio about Allan Ripp article for @NBCNewsTHINK twitter.com/antonohaio/sta…
🧵 about how I reached to Allan Ripp for comment. Check it out, it also contains other disinfo highlights by @BBCNews, @nytimes
#ꑭ #SaveAzov #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
1/ The most ridiculous example in my experience is Allan Ripp: https://t.co/Oeft1PHpVa
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He wrote this absolute nonsense for @NBCNewsTHINK. When I reached out to him asking to explain, he told me that there is actually a much longer version of the article and he can send it to me. https://t.co/VixHVrdVWY https://t.co/cEHAJ5t55M
Forgot to say - @GuyReuters responded to me:
"tHiS iS My sToRy" what a clown. He is the most despicable man I've heard of in my life. putin and the war crimes that ruscists committed in 🇺🇦 would not be possible without dickheads like him in the West. #ReutersLies
Send that nonsense to @reuters lawyers, you disgraceful bitch. They'll need it.
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"...🇷🇺 officials do not use the words war or invasion, saying it is a "special military operation" aimed at preventing the persecution of 🇷🇺 speakers in eastern Ukraine." 🤡 @guyreuters #ReutersLies https://t.co/kIcdI3WKOF
Interesting discussion here with @brokenpixelua allegedly a member of a fascist militia 🤣 I've lost count of Exhibits - there are too many of them these days, I apologise.
#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
@OzKaterji At least he managed to visit a real front line and not only restaurants in a very city center of Kyiv and a maybe a couple areas where dramatic pictures for Twitter can be taken. Following you, Oz, I realized that you actually good in pretending and just a banal careerist.
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You can catch up on our conversation with @brokenpixelua and @chrisocchicone by listening to the Twitter Spaces we recorded at @Ukraine_DAO the other day - a lot of great insights there. #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraine #ArmUkraineNow
1/ Tomorrow (or in some timezones - today) we are speaking to 2 very exciting guests:
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✨ @chrisocchicone - photojournalist covering 🇺🇦 since 2014
✨@brokenpixelua - Ukrainian film maker, currently 🇺🇦 soldier
❗️The exact time may still change
https://t.co/TenYJTNTzL
I'm not a journalist by have this useful reference material for "journalists" covering Ukraine these days. I can't imagine how sick and tired @brokenpixelua is being called a fascist, he's actually super patient considering what he's been through.
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@OzKaterji @Gabrielanseo @replytomorons It is about you sharing post where I , personally, and my folks called a “fascist militia”. That’s fucking problem, man. Aris fucked up with his tweet. Why you involved “Ukrainian fascist” in it?
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New entry - @snopes
1/ So let me make sure I got this right:
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1) @snopes call themselves "fact-checkers" ?
2) The author, Bethania Palma, is a "journalist"?
Is that supposed to be correct? https://t.co/hXQlAAVcZt https://t.co/F2Hsoc3aVZ
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What an amazing afternoon in Kharkiv 🇺🇦🙏
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This patch speaks for itself.
#Azov https://t.co/hr5e7dWGiU
Full circle from 1/
He came home ❤️❤️❤️
I love you my brother 💙💛 #saveazov #FreeAzovstalDefenders #TAVR @JoeBiden @ABC @UNHumanRights @BreakingNews @WSJ @thetimes https://t.co/kh1OJ7tNk3
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