Sofia Oliynyk

🟣 À l’approche du 8 mars, l’ambassade de France en Ukraine célèbre les droits des femmes! Les Ukrainiennes luttent pour l’indépendance de leur pays, pour leurs droits et leur sécurité. Plus que jamais, la diplomatie 🇫🇷 se tient aux côtés des femmes, et aux côtés de l’🇺🇦.

🇫🇷🇺🇦 Échanges à Kyiv avec la Team France : @businessfrance, @expertisefrance, @AFD_France et @Les_CCE ! Présents sur le terrain, ils agissent chaque jour au service de nos entreprises et du partenariat économique franco-ukrainien. Un engagement exemplaire.

Kyiv is the only capital on earth where New Year arrives in silence. While the world celebrates with fireworks, Ukrainians have to listen for drones. Wherever you are in the world, think of Ukraine and remember who caused this

🎶The Carol of the Bells began as a Ukrainian folk song called Shchedryk (pronounced 'Shedrik'): composed over a century ago to celebrate hope and prosperity. Today its hypnotic melody is known around the world at Christmas time. But this year, from the wreckage of a Ukrainian power plant destroyed by russia, Shchedryk has become a symbol of our resilience. After a brief break to film the Svitlo Concert ('Light Concert') choir, our repair crews picked up their tools and resumed work to restore power in millions of Ukrainian homes. Please share this story and support our efforts to defend light in Ukraine this Christmas.

Team France together for a great cause 🇨🇵🇺🇦

🌍Україна стала членом Робочої групи з питань хабарництва при Організації економічного співробітництва та розвитку – міжнародної структури, яка моніторить боротьбу з підкупом іноземних чиновників у різних країнах світу. @FranceenUkraine @SwissUA @expertisefrance

@expertisefrance alongside with @francediplo_EN and @FranceenUkraine proud to support #Ukraine's cyber resilience.

📢Ouverture à Kyiv de la Conférence sur les Partenariats Médicaux Internationaux par @ZelenskaUA, @ViktorLiashko et @GaelVeyssiere. Partenariats entre hôpitaux, spécialités médicales de pointe, formation de médecins🇺🇦: 🇫🇷soutient résolument la résilience du système de santé🇺🇦! 💪

Russia escalates its terror against Ukraine and this needs to get a strong response from our allies. For the first time, more than 800 (!) drones and missiles overnight. Civilians killed and injured, civilian infrastructure damaged in Kyiv, Odesa, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, among other cities. For the first time since the beginning of full-scale war, Russia damaged the Ukrainian Government building in Kyiv. This alone is a serious escalation. The greatest cynicism is that these brutal attacks come just as President Trump makes every effort to achieve peace. But instead of reciprocating these efforts and agreeing to a leaders’ meeting, Putin rejects diplomacy and escalates terror. Only pressure on Moscow can end its escalation of terror. The Russian war machine runs on oil and gas revenues. We urge our allies to defund it in order to end the war. Russian terror “anti-records” require strong responses. New severe sanctions on Russia and new strengthening for Ukraine, particularly in air defense. Waiting will not bring results—action is needed now.

Russia’s combined strike on Kyiv left death and destruction. At least eight people, including one child, were killed. More than 30 others sustained injuries of varying severity, including at least five children aged 7 to 17. Russia hit residential areas as well as a shopping mall in the city center. @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc @LaraMarlowe @IrishTimes @nytimes

Last night's Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's civilian population. This is what Russia does with the money they earn from selling oil. It can easily be stopped if allies are interested in doing so.

Seriously concerned over today’s vote in the Rada. The dismantling of key safeguards protecting NABU’s independence is a serious step back. Independent bodies like NABU & SAPO, are essential for 🇺🇦’s EU path. Rule of Law remains in the very center of EU accession negotiations.

Réforme judiciaire: un bilan du @EUPravoJustice, mis en œuvre par @expertisefrance. Des avancées significatives en réponse aux aspirations de l'🇺🇦 au bénéfice de l'avenir démocratique, souverain et 🇪🇺pour lequel les soldats 🇺🇦 se battent ; et des défis à surmonter ensemble. 1/2

Реформування судової системи: підсумки @EUPravoJustice, реалізованого @ExpertiseFrance. Значні досягнення у відповідь на прагнення 🇺🇦 суспільства та на користь демократичного, суверенного та 🇪🇺майбутнього, за яке воюють 🇺🇦 солдати; та виклики, які нам потрібно здолати разом. 1/2

Hearing lots of helicopters overhead this morning - a very unusual sound here in wartime Kyiv - following massive air raid by fascist Russia on the Ukrainian capital overnight. Likely it's these fire-fighting helicopters, helping to douse the numerous fires around the city.

🇺🇦🇲🇩This week, @RiouxRemy travelled to #Ukraine and #Moldova to meet with AFD group partners and confirm our contribution to supporting these countries' European trajectories, in the interests of stability, reconstruction and inclusive and sustainable development. Find out more: bit.ly/3SZzgAQ

The King of Drones…

The tradition goes on - this weekend all roads lead to the Book Arsenal again.U come here to get new books,inspiration from the discussions, but also meet all the friends. All of this, while only last weekend was marked with a heavy shelling. But this weekend - everyone is here🇺🇦

This weekend all roads in Kyiv lead to Book Arsenal - the main book forum of the year. While Russia might try to destroy publishing houses with missiles, crowds of Ukrainians are waiting in line to buy even more books and to support UA publishers and writers.

Chaque nuit ces derniers jours amène son lot de frappes russes sur les villes d'Ukraine et de victimes civiles. L'🇺🇦 a recensé près de 90 missiles et 500 drones rien que pour ce we. Des attaques constantes qui visent la population mais, en Ukraine, un peuple debout.

The horrors of the nights and the last couple of days that have followed them here in Ukraine, and the world's reaction to them, makes me think of how pervasivly evil becomes banal and how this pervasive, banal evil eventually leads to a complicity of indifference. The effect of this on achieving peace and a just resolution of this major international armed conflict are devastating. Although apathy is often referred to as indifference, it appears that we are facing a particular type of indifference. It's one of choice rather than one due to a general lack of interest. Some say that indifference is worse than hate. «The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference» (Elie Wiesel). Indifference can be more painful than hate, as hate originates from your enemy, while indifference is a thing rather of friends, partners, nice crowd. Those who happen to forget, overlook your suffering. It “normalizes” suffering, and dehumanizes those who do suffer. Thus indifference is also a betrayal of humanity. That is why indifference is complicity in crime. It’s not something new or rare. Indifference was pervasive pre-WW2 and at least in the initial stages of WW2. It resulted in genocide and the Holocaust then, and in atrocities and genocide in post-WW2 Europe. It is happening right now. Come on! Disagree with me! Raise your voice! Make it loud and clear this weekend! Then I know that you at least are angry, and have the fortitude to match your anger!