Russia is methodically destroying the Ukraine's energy system : Oleksandra Matviichuk

Russia is methodically destroying the Ukraine‘s energy system : Oleksandra Matviichuk

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This night was difficult: Oleksandra Matviichuk

On the map, you can see what the Russian attack on Ukraine looked like on the night of November 7 to 8. The Russians launched 458 drones (of which more than 300 were Shahids) and 45 missiles (of which 32 were ballistic).

Russia is methodically destroying the country’s energy system. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings on these actions, qualifying them as crimes against humanity. Millions of people in Ukraine may face this winter without heating, light, water, and basic survival items.

We need air defense systems and tomahawks to stop these missiles and drones at Russian military airfields.

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The war has not only a military dimension but also a cognitive one: Oleksandra Matviichuk

It seems we’ve already said to the world everything we could over these years. We presented arguments, told stories, explained meanings. And truly, we’ve repeated the important things so many times that I long ago caught myself thinking I’ve grown tired of myself in this role.

But that’s an illusion. Every time I work in yet another country, I see many people who simply never heard our messages. And if the Bible repeats the same truths for millennia, then we must go to the people and speak.

The war has not only a military dimension but also a cognitive one. In the end, this war was caused by a specific idea—that Russia, as a “God-chosen civilization,” has the right to invade other states, kill people, destroy their identity, kidnap children, and re-educate them as Russians.

I have 8 countries ahead in two weeks, three of them in Asia. Because our fatigue does not define us.

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It’s time to believe your own eyes : Oleksandra Matviichuk

I watched a video where a Russian drone attacked a man, a woman, and their dog in the Kharkiv region. The Russians saw that they were civilians. The people were walking along the road with a white flag. Unfortunately, they all died. The dog convulsed for a few more seconds.

It is worth repeating. The main target of the Russians in this war is civilians. War crimes are a deliberate policy of the Russians. This is how they wage war. In Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Mali, Libya, Ukraine. Pain is a tool of subjugation for them. The Russians deliberately inflict pain on the civilian population in order to break people’s resistance and occupy the country.

In 2014, we asked those who survived captivity what had led to their arrest. Yes, there were groups that were specifically targeted. But many people who ended up in torture basements could not name a single reason. I will say more: you can be an ardent supporter of Russia, but if you are a civilian in Russian-occupied territory, your life is meaningless.

People told our mobile groups, who arrived in the Kyiv region immediately after the liberation, about the Russians with horror. They said they simply could not believe that the Russians were capable of such things. And this was after the brutal torture of Volodymyr Rybak in Horlivka and Reshat Ametov in Simferopol. After the cynical shooting of the green corridor near Ilovaisk.

It’s time to believe your own eyes. Unfortunately, there are still people who, for some reason, think that if they are “apolitical,” then nothing threatens them. The Russians don’t care. When they fired tanks at residential buildings in Mariupol, they weren’t particularly interested in the views of the people who lived in those buildings.

Yes, you can deny reality for a while. But in war, the price of such denial can be very high.

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Patriotism is also about loving your neighbor : Oleksandra Matviichuk

Two weeks ago, the French asked me how you would survive the next blackouts? I said that we would warm ourselves with the warmth of our hearts. And I explained that I was not joking.

In the first winter of the full-scale invasion, my apartment suddenly lost heating, electricity, water, and for a while the Internet, and then mobile communication. I had never seen my native Podil so dark and deserted, as if from a movie about the apocalypse. We walked around with reflective tapes, dressed like cabbages, and practiced the habit of having charged power banks.

But on the same day that the electricity went out, messages appeared in my house chat. Someone wrote that they had a gas stove and their doors were open to anyone who needed to cook something. Someone was organizing a fundraiser for a powerful generator for the building. Someone asked an elderly neighbor if she needed to buy something and bring it. And then I realized that we will somehow survive this winter.

They say it is easy to love a nation, much more difficult to love specific people. But patriotism is also about loving your neighbor.

14-11-2025

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