Part 2: The Early Crisis (Apr–Jun 2022)
Enforced disappearances, torture, and the first nuclear blackmail.
46 tweets in this section.
April 2022
[2022-04-02]
Occupied ☢️ Enerhodar’s mayor: “Despite difficult wartime, almost all health workers go to work… As if everything is as usual & there is no great pain or roar in the soul… Since beginning of the war, 37 children (20 girls and 17 boys) have been born here.”
[2022-04-02]
☢️ town, occupied Enerhodar: “Russian soldiers arrived and bundled [pro-🇺🇦 demonstrators] into detention vans. “The occupiers are dispersing the protesters with explosions,” … sharing a video of what appeared to be multiple stun grenades landing in a square…”
[2022-04-03]
My friend ☢️ Enerhodar’s mayor Orlov has been uncharacteristically quiet. Hasn’t posted since Wednesday Yesterday, Reuters reported Russian occupiers of Enerhodar, site of Europe’s biggest ☢️ power plant, violently attacked peaceful residents demonstrating against the occupation.
[2022-04-03]
Silence from Mayor Orlov of occupied ☢️ town Enerhodar, after Reuters reports Russia violently attacked peaceful demonstrators yesterday. [photo from 28th March’s peaceful protests, led by Mayor Orlov].
[2022-04-04]
Increasing numbers of reports from Bucha 👇🏽, Zaporizhzhia & Kherson that Russians are hunting for Ukrainians who fought against Russia in eastern 🇺🇦. In one account from today a mother of a vet was disappeared by 🇷🇺 & interrogated in occupied Melitopol (
[2022-04-07]
@kgb_files Mayor of occupied Enerhodar Dimitri Orlov has been uncharacteristically quiet since last Wednesday.
[2022-04-08]
@ValdefOrg “Steppe” in Russian means: “Waste Land.” The Soviets left 10s of billions of tonnes of hazardous toxic waste in 🇺🇦. There’s 100s millions of tonnes of radioactive waste. Taking Chornobyl & Enerhodar ☢️ power plants early on told me: “We’ll waste this place again.”
[2022-04-12]
@TheStanislawski @Garashchenko98 @ICRC Red Cross does amazing work on the ground. I’ve worked with Ukraine’s Red Cross committee in Zaporizhzhia. Have you? Are you aware that the Kremlin is trying to turn us against the Red Cross as part of its hybrid war & genocide against Ukrainians? I suspect you are aware of this.
[2022-04-12]
@galinash @pavlentij @mefimus I think the stamps are quite rare. They should make them into Non Fungible Tokens. Would raise zillions. Everyone wants one. One for @FedorovMykhailo perhaps. Mext issue: Russian tanks go F yerself, to commemorate the two postal workers in Zaporizhzhia the Russians killed.
[2022-04-12]
@JMPSimor Sunak, reportedly, thinks Russia will win the war 🙄. & that, ergo, Britain shouldn’t bother building nuclear power stations. Johnson, having watched Chornobyl & Enerhodar power plants being occupied by Russians, thinks UK should build nuclear power plants 😒 They should both go.
[2022-04-12]
Journo Viktoria Roshchyna was forcibly disappeared by Russia while researching this👇🏽story about occupied Berdiansk. Now, she’s free. Previously, Ms Roshchyna published this amazing story about occupied ☢️ Enerhodar: Mayor Orlov’s Telegram now silent☹️.
[2022-04-13]
My friend Yuriy Karapetyan elected leader of Komysh Hromada in Zaporizhzhia publishes evidence of the use of banned phosphorus munitions: @EliotHiggins @TimothyDSnyder @yarotrof
[2022-04-13]
@davidjwbailey @GermanAmbUSA Subjugating tolerance for genocide to “economic rationalism” won’t pass muster. 🇩🇪 HAS made huge leaps forward in just one month. BUT, after 8 years of unsuccessfully forcing 🇺🇦 to capitulate & sacrifice its people in “LPR,” “DPR,” & Crimea. S Zaporizhzhia is a horror show NOW.
[2022-04-14]
@olgatokariuk I have a serious suggestion for the head of Ukr Poshta, apart from these less than serious suggestions👇🏽 A stamp to commemorate the murder of two postal workers in Zaporizhzhia last month. By a Russian tank. They were delivering pensions at the time -
[2022-04-18]
@YMarchinsky Russia has forcibly disappeared the son of the governor of Zaporizhzhia. Over to you @EmmanuelMacron, @Bundeskanzler, @BorisJohnson, @POTUS. I’ve met Oleh Buryak. One glance at any random post on shows you what he’s been doing for people in occupied Zap.
[2022-04-19]
@visegrad24 @ChaChaChanges Around Huliopol👇🏽 (Zaporizhzhia région), where fierce fighting’s ongoing, there was an anarcho-syndicalist republic of 7m souls. It ended when the Bolsheviks lured its leaders away for “peace talks.” The Soviets executed the Ukrainian delegation.
[2022-04-27]
“Today, Russian cruise missiles flew over [Europe’s largest nuclear power plant-occupied by the Ruschists] Zaporizhzhya NPP, the danger of hitting which is extremely high,” the minister said. “air defenses, tanks & other military equipment have been installed at Enerhodar☢️”
[2022-04-28]
@24tvua Yesterday, 🇷🇺 fired cruise missiles over Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia. In 1941 Soviets drowned 100,000 Ukrainian residents of Zaporizhzhia - blowing up a dam to prevent Nazis killing 100,000 🇺🇦 🙄. Today, Russia sends missiles to kill Zaporozhzhans
[2022-04-28]
@UAWeapons Heroic Mayor Orlov of Enerhodar hasn’t updated his Telegram since 30/03. Reuters reported shooting by Russians at a residents’ demonstration there in early April.
[2022-04-30]
Something cooking at Europe’s largest nuclear plant? Occupied by Ruschistsz for 55 days. Regional Ruschistsz media reports a death there of an occupying Ruschistsz guard: “The 27-year-old senior lieutenant died while guarding the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar.”
May 2022
[2022-05-01]
Even if you don’t understand either Ukrainian or Russian, you’ll understand what these newly liberated Ukrainians are saying. I can’t wait for the people in southern Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Crimea, Donetsk & Luhansk to be liberated too. Though I fear the Bucha-like revelations.
[2022-05-01]
@shashj @yarotrof Painful to read, though necessary to do so🙏🏾. My friend Mayor Orlov of Enerhodar posted again after a month’s silence. No word on state of the forcibly disappeared deputy mayor. Or on how a Ruschist occupyier died while “guarding” nuclear power station.
[2022-05-05]
Still don’t know reason for my friend mayor of occupied Enerhodar’s (site of Europe’s largest ☢️ power plant) radio silence. Relieved to see photos, now. Here Mayor Orlov says it doesn’t matter that other plant in city run outta coal. My info was that the ☢️ relies on the TPP 🤷🏽♀️
[2022-05-16]
“Russian military went to apartments & took men in Enerhodar [site of Europe’s largest nuclear plant], tied their hands and took them out in an unknown direction. 6 abductees are already known. During the crimes, Russians kept everyone living in apartments on an automatic sight.”
[2022-05-17]
My friend Mayor of ☢️Enerhodar Dmitry Orlov appealed to the 🇺🇦 military & political leadership to save his deputy Ivan Samoydyuk (see article below about Ivan- whose author herself was disappeared). Russian occupiers been holding Ivan captive for 2 months.” War Against Democracy!
[2022-05-18]
@RichardKraemer7 @_JakubJanda @EuropeanValues Their aspiration for “European Values” & “European Future” came up in every one of 100s of meetings I had with elected leaders in villages in 🇺🇦, currently under occupation. In southern Zaporizhzhia, Bucha is happening in these communities. I’ve been trying to keep the receipts.
[2022-05-20]
@avalaina @sosmaydan Deputy Mayor of Enerhodar was forcibly disappeared two months ago - no word about him. Forcibly disappearing the head of the fire service in the town hosting Europe’s largest nuclear power station is typically Ruschist. What’s their plan?!
[2022-05-22]
“A Russia-appointed mayor of a occupied Enerhodar, site of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant town was injured in an explosion on Sunday.” Russia forcibly disappeared the elected deputy mayor two months ago. No-one including his wife knows where Ivan Samoydyuk is.
[2022-05-22]
My friend the elected mayor of Enerhodar, site of Europe’s largest nuclear plant reports that the corrupt Russia appointed self-proclaimed “mayor” was injured in an explosion this morning.
[2022-05-22]
@GlasnostGone @BErickson_BIO They’ve replaced the self-declared “mayor” with a real gem. Elected mayor of Enerhodar offers some advice to Ruschists: “Occupiers should check how much of the money squeezed outta entrepreneurs reaches them & how much remains with “acting ‘mayor.‘”
[2022-05-24]
@Flash43191300 @BSBonner Nuclear plant workers at Enerhodar been in the gunsights of Ruschist occupiers since early March (see thread👇🏽). After near-assassination of Ruschist “mayor,” on Sunday, now Ruschists start killing again. War against democracy. Germany, France, & Italy are enabling this.
[2022-05-24]
@MaxBoot @Morning_Joe Last time US let Europe sort out its own problems… We’ll, here are. France & Germany since 2014 have been botching it. Now, we got Bucha every day in southern Zaporizhzhia & Kherson. Time before that? Well, WWII. That’s what’s at stake.
June 2022
[2022-06-02]
“Ukrainian resistance efforts seem to be having an impact. ‘Every night we are fighting with sabotage groups,’ said one Russian soldier based near Enerhodar in an intercepted call… ‘I want to go home. Many people are on the edge. We just want to get the f*** out of here.’” 2/2
[2022-06-13]
@TimothyDSnyder @Gerashchenko_en Putin’s also doing the Stalinist purges & show trials plan. I’ve been keeping some of the receipts. Bucha was just what had happened in Luhansk, Crimea and Donetsk since 2014. Now, Bucha happening every day in occupied Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk.
[2022-06-13]
“In the temporarily occupied Energodar, Ruschist occupiers continue to kidnap people. Only during the last week they detained and took out about 20 energy workers to an unknown direction, 11 of them are employees of the Zaporozhye ☢️NPP…Where the kidnapped are now is unknown.”
[2022-06-17]
In 1941 Soviets drowned 100,000 Ukrainian residents of Zaporizhzhia - blowing up a dam to prevent Nazis killing 100,000 🇺🇦. 🙄. Today, Ruschia today still claims a monopoly on killing Ukrainians, either with false flag operations in Donetsk or by bombing dams in Zap.
[2022-06-17]
Here’s Putin visiting Zaporizhzhia in 2002. There’s his would-be dictator of Ukraine Medvedchuk. General Electric built that dam for Stalin - got no thanks. Ruschia blew it up in 1941 - killing 100,000 Ukrainians. Yesterday Ruschia bombed a dam in nearby Vascilivka.
[2022-06-18]
What news of this sixteen-year-old child? Forcibly disappeared by the Ruschians in April. His father is the legitimate governor of part-occupied Zaporizhzhia.
[2022-06-19]
@apmassaro3 @Lucashealthlaw Lesson of Ukraine war is that Ruschia occupies nuclear installations & holds Europe hostage. I never forget that Muscovy terrorists are currently occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power station at Enerhodar. Ruschists forcibly disappeared 20 its crucial workers last week.
[2022-06-19]
“Ivan Samoidyuk, deputy mayor of occupied Nuclear city Enerhodar, been in captivity by Ruschists for exactly three months. 3 months of hell of uncertainty and uncertainty for his family and friends… 3 months of hope & faith that a person who is a true patriot of his country.”
[2022-06-19]
Welcome to Kyiv @EamonGilmore! Please ask about occupied Enerhodar, site of Europe’s largest ☢️nuclear ☢️plant. My friend deputy mayor Ivan Samoydyuk forcibly disappeared exactly 3 months ago today by the Ruschists. Ivan & Europe hostages of this terror. 🇷🇺 war on democracy.
[2022-06-20]
@alexstubb @FT Lesson of Ukraine war is that Ruschia occupies nuclear installations & holds Europe hostage. I never forget that Muscovy terrorists are currently occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power station at Enerhodar. Ruschists forcibly disappeared 20 its crucial workers last week.
[2022-06-22]
“Ruschist invaders released from captivity the kidnapped fire chief of occupied Energodar, site of Europes biggest ☢️plant. After almost a month of arrest, Vitaly Troyan, apparently under pressure from the Rashists, gave an interview to pro-Russian journalists & confessed.”
[2022-06-25]
@trishgreenhalgh Lesson of Ukraine war is that Ruschia occupies nuclear installations & holds Europe hostage. I never forget that Muscovy terrorists are currently occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power station at Enerhodar. Ruschists forcibly disappeared 20 its crucial workers last week.
[2022-06-28]
@KyivIndependent Occupied Enerhodar’s, site of Europe’s largest ☢️ power plant… Deputy mayor, my friend Ivan Samoidyuk, forcibly disappeared 3 months ago. Held by Ruschists incommunicado. A terrorist war against democracy, holding all Europe hostage to ☢️ blackmail:
[2022-06-28]
@CanadianUkrain1 Europes only ever Anarcho-syndicaliste republic led by Makhanov was in Zaporizhzhia-Dnipropetrovsk. At its height 7m souls lived in freedom. Bolsheviks killed the leadership. To this day Kremlin hacks use term “Makhonivite” as short hand not for hero but for Ukrainian traitor.
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