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Nataliya Gumenyuk

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Nataliya Gumenyuk

@ngumenyuk

Journalist specialized in conflict reporting, human rights. Co-founder Public Interest Journalism Lab @PIJLab, The Reckoning Project

Ukraine

Joined May 2010

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Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Feb 14, 2023
This article is based on a few dozen testimonies of UA local authorities,volunteers, teachers persecuted under the Russian occupation. With @anneapplebaum and @TRPUkraine team, we explained not just why Ukrainians fight, but why the occupation can't last
‘They Didn’t Understand Anything, but Just Spoiled People’s Lives’
From theatlantic.com
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Apr 7, 2022
The head of Motyzhyn Olga Suhenko, her husband,son were tortured,killed by Russians.The family was delivering bread,medicine,evacuated their people.300 ppl walked after the coffins:”They could leave,they stayed to help us.They were killed for us”.Literally—died for their village
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Sep 8, 2022
Ladies greet 🇺🇦 soldiers in liberated Balakliya after 6 months of 🇷🇺 occupation. “Boys, we have some pancakes left, would you like?” “A bit later, please, better still hide, shelling is still possible”. I can watch endlessly
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Jun 14, 2022
The best of us dies. Famous 🇺🇦activist Roman Ratushnyy was killed in the Izium battle. Roma was THAT 17 year old student beaten in the Maidan, which led to the Revolution of Dignity. He saved his neighbourhood park in Kyiv from real estate builders. It should not be his memorial
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Mar 5, 2022
Southern town of Kherson now. The fact the Russian troops are in the town doesn’t mean the city is occupied.
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Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Apr 6, 2022
Our beautiful Kyiv comes back to live. Subway is to run, restaurants to open, least important check-points are removed to make traffic easier. Mayors asks ppl not to come at least for a week, but they return. Border police confirms more ppl come back then leave Ukraine now
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
May 6, 2022
A professor from Uzhgorod university gives an online lecture to his students having a moment
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Apr 5, 2022
In a moment of crisis Ukraine turns to be an incredibly functioning & effective state.Volodya&Igor job is to restore internet connection in the most destroyed street of Bucha - their “office”.They’re so determined,that even don’t mention there’s something unusual in what they do
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Mar 23, 2022
I unfolded this camp-cot to sleep in the corridor due to air raids threat. My father,military doctor,brought it from his peacekeeping missions to foreign wars.I’m relieved he,who served in the Soviet army and in Russia since he was 18,passed away, and doesn’t know why I need it
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Apr 9, 2022
I’m tired,so easily triggered,but I ‘m getting annoyed by articles on why Ukraine isn’t yet defeated. For us it’s simple: Ukraine is a functioning democracy with active pluralistic society. This is our strength.The world didn’t experience total wars against democracies to compare
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Apr 6, 2022
My best friends house near Kyiv was robbed by the Russian soldiers as every single house in their village. Apart from stealing PlayStation, creating a mess searching for money,they destroyed Hanna Arendt’s “The Banality of Evil”. They might not know what’s the book is about.
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Sep 24, 2022
Zelensky in Russian addressed Russian soldiers 1) promised to follow all rules regarding POW 2) not to reveal whether a person surrendered or was captured 3) not to give back a prisoner if he doesn’t want return to Russia.
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Jul 20, 2022
I have seen thousands of photos, this by AP Photo/Andrii Marienko from Kharkiv is in particular strong. The father of 13 years old killed by the Russian airstrike today was praying for two hours, the policewomen all this time stayed with him holding the hand or supporting
Nataliya Gumenyuk
@ngumenyuk
Mar 6, 2022
The closest friend in Kharkiv tells of deliberate attacks on civilians, like in lines to the shop, dozens killed. Down town destroyed.The scale is such that emergency can’t handle. Kharkiv has no strong air defence system. Closing the sky is critical for saving civilians lives.