Ukraine has been “shadow-banned” over the Kakhovka disaster - opinion
It has been only days since Ukraine’s second Chornobyl. Half a thousand square kilometers of our beautiful land is underwater, taking everything alive with it.
Yesterday, my friend showed me video footage from her aunt sitting on the roof of her house in the Kherson region, of the moment when a mother with twins choked and drowned with them in her arms, unable to hold on to her roof by the pipe.
Many catastrophic videos are circulating on the internet these days. Even more footage of how Ukrainians rushed to help from all corners of the country: how they saved people and animals and brought necessities.
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The UN is probably still celebrating Russian Language Day, because there is no action. The shameful behavior of this organization cancels out everything their Ukrainian representative has done during the war. The Red Cross is giving money to the residents of Shebekino because they are apparently more important than the people and animals drowning in Kherson. Elon Musk writes about how "not everything is clear." The EU admits that Europe doesn't really want to accept new refugees because the previous ones are tired. All international organizations sat down to meet, and on the way out, they only expressed their "concern about the tragedy." Why am I writing about all of them? Because they all have global influence! Because people, as it happens, are used to relying on their "expert" opinion. Because Musk's "not everything is clear" is retweeted by 500 million people.
Almost all posts and stories by Ukrainians about the truth of the consequences of the explosion at the Kakhovka hydropower station are mercilessly deleted by the Meta company. My appeal to the hostile people yesterday was able to get 300,000 reposts in three hours, but it has already been removed. For all of us who write the truth, each such removal is a shadow ban - when you can publish something, but no one sees it! We'll survive it - not even for the hundredth time. But will Ukraine survive such a massive shadow ban? When everyone knows the truth?! Absolutely everyone, in fact, knows who is to blame for all our tragedies. But they continue to express only "concerns."
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