Ukraine Explainers

This is a Ukraine Explainers megathread compiling all of our issues so far. Hope it helps to navigate and share our content here on Twitter! ✊🇺🇦

@buymeacoffee leaving your platform because you decided to abandon Ukrainians

tell me what are you planning to do today but only in emojis ✨🫶☕️

@all4bavovna Thanks for sharing!

📢📢📢Ukr Exp to the rescue! Here what we can do, fellas: On it, all of us!

- Vote for representatives who understand the threat coming from Russia and are ready to lead your country in these tough times. No far-right or left populists, no Russia appeasers are fit for the job. - Keep being an ally of Ukraine. We need you now more than ever. Thanks. 4/4

- More lethal help to Ukraine is the only thing that can PREVENT attacks like today’s. Unfortunately, Russia is not interested in peace, so it must be pressured into peace by adequately arming Ukraine for victory. There are no easy alternative solutions here. 3/

To-do list for everyone shocked and horrified by the images of bombed children hopsital in Kyiv: - Ask your representatives to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine. They could’ve saved those children today. - Donate to the bombed Kyiv hospital: ohmatdytfund.org/en/donate 1/

To sum up, the current strategy of some of Ukraine’s partners makes it very hard to achieve true peace in this war, instead cementing Russia’s gain and setting the tone for the next decades in foreign policy. Only arming Ukraine for victory can get us out of this trap. 6/6

Losing time and resource to restore justice in Ukraine means Russia will gain a lot with its illegal invasion — even though it initially wanted all of Ukraine at a much lower cost. With this precedent, nuclear blackmail and wars of aggression will become the norm globally. 5/6

Russia knows how to capitalize on Western delays and doubts in arming Ukraine: they are building a coastal railway to improve their frontline logistics. This illustrates a much deeper issue with some of Ukraine’s partners current approach to this war. A short thread 1/6

Sumy is not in the South or East of Ukraine, it doesn’t have an “active frontline” based on most OSINT maps — but it shares a border with Russia. This devastation is left almost invisible to the foreign eye, and media largely ignores these attacks. (Map by @TheStudyofWar) 2/2

You won’t see it in the news, but last night alone Russia launched 144 attacks on Ukraine’s Sumy region. This northern region has suffered 2,000 attacks just in March alone. Entire settlements are being evacuated bc the intensity of attacks makes these areas uninhabitable. 1/2

Ukraine can't afford to single-handedly fight off the biggest threat to NATO while also doing all the sanctions legwork. We need your help. Thank you.

We need to talk about today's 158-missile attack and how sanctions against Russia are failing Ukraine – and hurting trust among all allies. A short visual thread explaining the economy behind today's attack and how the current sanctions regime has enabled it.

If you have questions about that tone-deaf Politico opinion from a Russian opposition member: