Urgently need mass education about #Ruschism in the West:

"Another brutal crime committed by #Soviet soldiers at the war’s end was the rape of #Jewish #women survivors of concentration camps, inclu #Stutthof, #Ravensbrück and #Auschwitz-Birkenau... This archive, one of many that house the testimonies of #Holocaust survivors, contains more than 500 references to sexual assaults at liberation, mostly by the #SovietMilitary."
https://neweasterneurope.eu/2022/04/21/the-crimes-of-bucha-have-a-long-history/
@EU_Commission @europeangreens @edgeoforever

"Daily life depends on leadership, and so much of the work falls on Mandrych. She sleeps only three to four hours a night. Whenever she gets to go home to her husband and adult son, they live in a basement.

“It’s a good thing my mother taught me to be tough,” she said. “We will relax after we win the war.”

Raised by a widow, Mandrych has spent her whole life in Orikhiv, studying in the town’s now-destroyed school and working for the government since she was 17..."

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#Ukraine #Ruschism

"Most of the day, its streets are practically empty; residents spend most hours underground or near a bunker, emerging only to seek humanitarian aid in the mornings, before 11 a.m., when the shelling usually subsides.

There is no power, water or gas in the town. There’s no longer a hospital or ambulance in the town. Residents must rely on the military to rush them to a field hospital when missiles — or illnesses — strike...."

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#ukraine #Ruschism

But then he paused. His lip started quivering. He turned away.
“My nephew was just killed on the front line,” he said, his voice filled with anguish. “This war....” he said, eyes locked on the road.
He never finished his sentence.
Evelina Riabenko and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn contributed reporting.

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#ukraine #Kherson #Ruschism

https://mastodon.world/@decodingtrolls/109427680717618565

"Serhiy Motrych, a medical examiner with 28 years’ experience, has seen many dead people. On Monday, after hauling decomposing remains from the grave and laying the pieces on sheets of clear plastic, he sat in the front seat of his car, staring straight ahead. “I’ve been doing this so long I don’t feel any emotion,” he said.
But then he paused. His lip started quivering. He turned away..."

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#ukraine #Ruschism #Kherson

"“I knew it would be hard but I wasn’t prepared for this,” said Serhiy Rebizhenko, a handyman who had been drafted by village elders to dig out the common grave. “I knew these people. I had just joked with them. And now look at them.”
Even veteran police officers seemed shaken. They catalogued the body parts, barely saying a word. Their eyes lingered on the skulls..."

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#Ukraine #Ruschism #Kherson

https://mastodon.world/@decodingtrolls/109424316754727773