Russian invasion of Ukraine/Ukrainian voices

Collected

• This page contains testimonies of civilians in Ukraine about the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war that began on February 24, 2022.

• #UkraineWorldTestimony

• UkraineWorld

By region/city

• кїт в пінджаку

• We, Ukrainians, will fight up to the end. We will not accept RussianZ occupation. We will not go quietly into the night, nobody can count on that.

• Nika Melkozerova, Russia and its supporters claim we deserve this horror cause we persecute and even kill ethnic Russians, and destroy their language. I read that as a person who can be considered an “ethnic Russian” and think of all the people like me who died after Russia came to my land.

• Dmitry Grozoubinski

Eastern Ukraine

“ I am russian speaking Jewish-Ukrainian veteran from eastern Ukraine.

Please tell me more about the nazis in Ukraine and how russian speakers were oppressed in Ukraine. I really want to hear a story from someone who never knew about Ukraine before 2022.

— Constantine

Kyiv

• https://twitter.com/m_zablotskyy

• https://twitter.com/UA_Yuliia

• https://twitter.com/MargoGontar

Kharkiv

• Iryna Voichuk

• Kate from Kharkiv

• https://twitter.com/Storytelless
  • https://twitter.com/dreamsunderash

Luhansk

• https://twitter.com/YMonastyrskyi/status/1626056484734832640

• https://twitter.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1648235784112152577

Donetsk

• https://twitter.com/Poetic_Fella

Dnipro

• https://twitter.com/DniproCityUA

• https://twitter.com/jeanosis_ef/

• https://twitter.com/artursorin

Donbas

“ I’m Ukrainian from Donbas - Russia came in 2014 to “liberate us”. And now a millions people like me “liberated” from our homes and property. We are refuges and our cities in rubbles.

— Maksym Borodin

• https://twitter.com/PsyopRobot/

• Maksym Borodin

• https://twitter.com/HuSnizhne So, as a Donbas native, I’d like to hear what happened in these years, except for Russian occupation of my region?

• https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko

Crimea

“ I am russian speaking Ukrainian from Crimea and always had my full citizenship rights. until 2014. in 2014 russia came and stole my home. stop speaking on our behalf we are more than capable to do it

— молекула кицню

• https://twitter.com/qunfuz2/status/1641710961839972353

• https://twitter.com/zudiyeva

• https://www.facebook.com/emine.ziyatdinova

• Wikipedia: Sevgil Musayeva

• https://twitter.com/alim_aliev

• Crimean Tatar/Ukrainian activist and volunteer from Crimea

• https://x.com/NadinRidiculous/status/1817681252268265875

• Lia Ğazı Qızı Crimean Tatar/Ukrainian activist from Crimea, living in exile for 10 years. Anti-Communist. Human Rights, Politics, History.

Lviv

“ I’ve spent the last eleven months searching for nazis in #Lviv. Twenty-eight years in #Ukraine.

Can someone, who has never been to Ukraine and only reads “independent” media, help me to find them here?

— Alice Zhuravel [1]

• tuvstarr_pale

Odesa

• Kate Levchuk

Kherson

https://twitter.com/juliasskr/status/1688775379958251520 Had an Uber driver from Kherson yesterday, he spent several months in occupation and said he eventually escaped through the woods with many others. One attempt to cross through ruzzian checkpoints was futile because 200 people were held up at a single post by a guard who demanded

• https://twitter.com/slavaUAUSA/status/1688778381368659968 All orc block posts demanded bribes. When I escaped Kherson through Snigurivka, I took cash, chocolate, cigarettes.

Ukrainian Americans

• Roman Skaskiw

See also

• Agency Denial

• Russian invasion of Ukraine/Russians against the war

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