Jan 27: Ariana Gic, Lest we forget
Thread published on January 24, 2023
Who is Ariana Gic…
Ariana Gic is a Canadian writer, activist, political and legal analyst focused on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Director, Direct Initiative International Centre for Ukraine. She has been sanctioned by Russia.
Ariana Gic, Lest we forget
It is 100% false and grossly unethical to say that Russia's war of aggression started in Feb 2022.
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. It has been waging that SAME war of aggression EVER SINCE.
ONE war. NINE years.
Donetsk International Airport, destroyed by Russia, November 2014👇
January 24, 2015. Russian attack on the city of Mariupol caused mass casualties. Germany said "no red lines had been crossed" in this unprovoked attack on civilians. Not ONE Western sanction was imposed.
2015. 2015. 2015. 2015. 2015.
May 28, 2014. Ukrainian students hide in school basement during Russian shelling of Sloviansk, Ukraine.
2014. 2014. 2014. 2014. 2014.
Mass graves of killed Ukrainians were discovered in liberated Sloviansk, resulting from Moscow’s occupation of the region in 2014, which was later liberated by Ukrainian forces.
This was one of several exhumations of a mass grave of Ukrainian victims of Russian invasion forces.
September 17, 2016.
Graffiti on blown up bridge behind in Slovyansk: "The Russian world was here"
Yup, that's then Chancellor Steinmeier.
April 28, 2014.
Yuri Diakovsky's body was found in a river near Slovyansk. Yuri had been captured by Russian invaders on April 17.
His body showed signs of torture & a violent death, similar to other Ukrainian victims of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
2014. 2014. 2014. 2014.
August 24-25, 2014.
Russia agreed to create a humanitarian corridor for encircled Ukrainian troops in Ilovaisk. Instead, they brutally massacred hundreds of Ukrainians as they attempted to retreat.
One soldier who escaped described it as a “meat grinder”
2014. 2014. 20104.
January 22, 2015
A kindergarten after Russian shelling in Debaltseve, Ukraine.
February 3, 2015
Ukrainian civilians fleeing Russian shelling in Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast.
July 23, 2014.
16 year old Stepan Chubenko was tortured for days before being shot in the back of the head multiple times. His broken, toothless, mutilated body was found in a dump.
Killed for being pro-Ukrainian.
April 17, 2014.
Volodymyr Rybak's body was left to be discovered with signs of horrifying torture.
The Horlivka city council rep put the Ukrainian flag back up on a government building after Russia invaded.
Last photo of him as he was being kidnapped.
2014. 2014. 2014.
January 2015.
A children's playground in Donetsk, Ukraine, seen from the air following Russian shelling in a residential area.
2015. 2015. 2015. 2015.
By March 2015, UN Data revealed that over 6,000 Ukrainians had been killed, 1 million internally displaced, and >600,000 had fled the country.
Mykolaivka after Russian shelling.
January 2015.
Hospital in Donetsk after Russian shelling. Russia had been deliberately attacking medical centres and hospitals in the region.
2016.
A house destroyed by fighting in Semenivka, Ukraine. Just like in 2022, Russia destroyed entire villages and deliberately struck critical infrastructure.
Same war crimes as Moscow commits today. THE SAME.
January 2015.
House decimated by Russian invasion forces in Donetsk.
Residences attacked by barbaric Russian forces. Just like today.
Building in Donetsk destroyed by Russian shelling in September 2014.
2014. 2014. 2014. 2014.
October 18, 2015.
Then president Poroshenko with the remains of a Ukrainian flag damaged in battle between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders.
This ever growing memorial wall in Kyiv commemorates the fallen Ukrainian defenders from Russian evil from 2014. 2014. Because that is when Russia invaded. 2014.
RU has been attacking and destroying critical civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, schools, churches, hospitals, cultural centres, erasing villages from existence, running torture/death camps & committing genocide, ethnocide & other war crimes in UA since 2014. 2014.
These children are now in their mid-late teens. These photos of elementary schools in Ukraine to protect Ukrainian children from Russian shelling are from 2017 and 2018.
NOT 2022 or 2023. WHY? Because Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. The war in approaching its TENTH year.
