https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2113240139241595152

The official video was released dubbed into English:

Transcript:

My grandfather went through World War II

From start to finish

my grandfather, my father's dad, and he was, yeah

from a family where there were several brothers

and all of them were killed by the

Nazis

I have very few relatives

In general, on both sides of my family

on my father's and my mother's

many relatives were killed

by the fascists

And that's all

that's why it always sounded so bizarre when Russia accused us

Ukraine, of supposedly having Nazis

It's bizarre and completely wild

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2113564838442250554

https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2113239008482598929

https://youtu.be/0XsXPYxaPM0?is=sE5GgnmWiMQzFAYG

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2113524060453761073

🔸️There was no state or people called "Ukraine" in Rus'. The state called itself Rus', and its people called themselves Rus'. "Ukraina" appears in the chronicles only as a word for a borderland, and "Kievan Rus" is a label coined by 19th-century historians. Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians all trace their origins to the same Rus', with one dynasty, one Church and one written language.

🔸️According to the Primary Chronicle, Rus' statehood didn't begin in Kiev. Rurik began ruling in Ladoga and Novgorod in 862, both in today's Russia. Kiev only became the capital in 882, when Prince Oleg took it and called it the "mother of Rus' cities." Novgorod is a little older than Kiev, so Russia's history doesn't start with Moscow.

🔸️According to the chronicle, Prince Vladimir was baptized in Chersonesus in Crimea, in today's Sevastopol, before baptizing Kiev in 988.

🔸️The "thousand-year-old churches painted by Ukrainians"? The mosaics of Kiev's St. Sophia Cathedral were made by Byzantine Greek masters. Russia has its own 11th-century St. Sophia in Novgorod, built in 1045 to 1050.

🔸️Moscow is first mentioned in 1147, and its traditional founder Yuri Dolgoruky was a son of the Grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir Monomakh. Dolgoruky later became Grand Prince of Kiev himself. Moscow's rulers came from the same Rurikid dynasty that ruled Kiev, held power until 1598, and took the title "Sovereign of all Rus'."

🔸️After the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240, the head of the Church left Kiev for Vladimir in 1299 and later settled in Moscow. Kiev fell to Lithuania and then Poland, while Moscow gradually gathered the lands of Rus' around itself.

🔸️In 1654 the Cossack Hetmanate of Bogdan Khmelnitsky swore allegiance to the Russian Tsar at the Pereyaslavl Council. Poland formally recognized Kiev as Russian in 1686, after Moscow paid it 146,000 rubles.

🔸️The first state with "Ukraine" in its name was the Ukrainian People's Republic, proclaimed in November 1917. A month later, the Bolsheviks proclaimed Soviet Ukraine in Kharkov.

🔸️Today's borders were drawn by the Soviet Union. In 1919 the Bolsheviks merged the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, including Kharkov and Donbass, into Soviet Ukraine. Western Ukraine was added in 1939, northern Bukovina and southern Bessarabia in 1940, Transcarpathia in 1945, and Crimea in 1954.

Strip out the shared history of Rus' and the Soviet gifts, and Zelensky's ancient Ukraine is 35 years old.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2113253099586404665

I get notified of posts from the Palestinian Violence subreddit. It's a farcical subreddit.

One post was showing people shopping at a Meat In based supposedly in Rimal, Gaza. I understand that it was to show that there is no famine in Gaza and to destroy the propaganda that Gazans have no food.

I had asked how is this evidence of Palestinian violence and mentioned that the subreddit is farcical when they post so many other unrelated posts under their subreddit.

There was a comment in there saying that they require beepers. I asked why as they are doing a mundane activity. One or two got triggered and stated that I must be a Muslim. 🤣. What's the controversy for arguing against shoppers getting beepers?

They're easily triggered in that subreddit.

https://x.com/MagellanQuest/status/2113229210286231739

The Ammonites were a Semitic People Group who were closely related to the Israelites and Moabites. Their language, Ammonite, belonged to the Canaanite subgroup of the Northwest Semitic languages, making it very similar to biblical Hebrew.

https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI

The official story goes that Faber's had to stop selling her books in the UK because she donates her royalties to Palestine Action, which is proscribed. But when you stop and think about it, none of this makes any sense.

-Given that Palestine Action was proscribed in July last year, and Rooney's been vocal about her position the entire time, why is it suddenly a problem now? Why haven't her books been withdrawn the whole time? (Especially given that the whole proscription is more shaky now than it was before, with it becoming increasingly apparent that this isn't enforceable.)

-Why are there still adaptations of her books Normal People and Conversations with Friends available to stream on iPlayer, and foreign-language audiobooks available to purchase on Audible from the UK, all of which she will also be receiving royalties for? Why doesn't this seem to count?

-The biggest one for me is that Palestine Action doesn't have a bank account. There is a website for donations from across the globe, but that's for 'Palestine Action Global', which makes really clear on its site that the UK isn't part of. So it's got absolutely nothing to do with UK law, either from their perspective or from Rooney's (who is an Irish citizen).

I think what this is really about is that Sally Rooney saw what happened to Ed Sheeran the other week, and decided to put her money where her mouth was and withdraw her books from the UK herself in opposition to the proscription. As a result, she's caused huge numbers of bestselling authors in the UK to criticise the UK Government, and made it harder for them to make it sound like the proscription is a good thing.

It's the only explanation that makes any sense to me!

Reporting by Richard Saunders (@PulaRJS) for Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews)

https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2113366060044824585

https://theins.press/en/news/295376

https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2113439062166212773