Serhii Antonov
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Ukrainian veteran from Luhansk. Ukrainian warrior since February 2022. Debunking propaganda. Stories from the frontline/Donbas. PayPal [email protected]
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A clear visual proof of how armed Russian "tourists" occupied my Luhansk. So when pro-Russian bots show up claiming "Donbas wanted to join Russia" - just show them this video and my threads (from Donbas resident). As I already wrote in my previous thread - on March 1, 2014, the operation to occupy Donbas began. A flood of Russian "tourists" arrived, pretending to be locals and demanding to join Russia. This was recorded in many cities - including Luhansk. Despite direct orders from their FSB curators not to reveal their presence in Ukraine, many of them were stupid enough to film themselves. On March 4, 2014, Russian flags were hung all over Luhansk. Russian propaganda immediately called it "Luhansk residents want to join Russia". But one group of these "activists" couldn’t resist and recorded an archival video for themselves. Now the osinters have identified some of them 👇
Serhii Antonov131,760 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
As a resident of Donbas, I was asked to tell about the beginning of war in Donbas in 2014. But this is a long story. So I'll do it in a few threads over the next few days. I realized that before I talk about the beginning of the war in Donbas, I need to talk a little about the period before the war. In particular, about Yanukovych's term (because during his term, Russia started taking over Ukraine) and about the Revolution of Dignity. After all, for those who do not know this period, the following story may be incomplete. In addition, Russian propaganda also pays attention to this topic. I have repeatedly seen how Russian propaganda, through its Western servants, distributed the map of the presidential elections in 2010, in which Ukraine is divided in half. At the same time, they claim that this is a map of the pro-Russian population and that these regions should be given to Russia. Yanukovych focused more on economic issues and his program was populist. He spoke "for everything good and against everything bad." And the majority in his program could find something of their own and interpret it in their own way. As for the Ukrainian language, his program stated that it remains the only state language. And the Russian language and other languages have the right to exist in Ukraine. That is, he repeated what was stated in the constitution and how it worked before and after his tenure. Yanukovych's pre-election program was not pro-Russian, he spoke Ukrainian and never advocated joining Russia before the election Yanukovych positioned himself as a politician who is friendly to Russia but who will cooperate closely with Europe. That is, he showed some neutrality between East and West and his neutral path. Like once President Kuchma. And the majority of Ukrainians (until 2014) supported it. The majority of Ukrainians did not support the idea of joining NATO. After all, when we gave up nuclear weapons, the USA, Britain, Russia and other countries guaranteed our sovereignty and territorial integrity. As history has shown, these hopes were in vain and Russia violated the agreements. But some Ukrainians remembered well the history of the extermination of Ukrainians by the Russians and were worried about Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008, which showed that Russia has not changed and will repeat its fascist-imperialist path. They turned out to be right. The share of these Ukrainians, in my subjective opinion, was 20%-30%, including me. It should be noted that these are people who did not want a war with Russia and did not plan it. But based on historical and modern realities, it was suspected that Russia would try to seize Ukraine or part of it in one way or another. And when Yanukovych finally canceled the European integration processes in November, people took to the streets both those who were against the cancellation of this process and those who feared that Russia, through Yanukovych, had started the process of absorbing Ukraine. There was another group of people who opposed the government because of great corruption and the transformation of the state into a totalitarian one. Or those that came out due to a combination of these factors. However, the final factor that pushed the protests into the Revolution of Dignity was the beating of protesters in the center of Kyiv. Then a peaceful and legal rally, which at the time consisted mainly of young people, was surrounded and then beaten by the police. The police beat people lying down. They even beat journalists. Then on December 1, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians came out in response to this brutality, the beginning of the establishment of a dictatorship and the suppression of people's rights. From that time, people did not leave the central square of Kyiv until Yanukovych fled to Russia. The first video shows the beating of protesters in the center of Kyiv. The second video is the start of the Revolution of Dignity in response to this.
Serhii Antonov845,857 просмотров • 3 лет назад
One of many incidents that Russian propaganda desperately tries to hide. In March 2014 in Donetsk, Russian "tourists" mixed up the flags and tried to burn the flag of FC Shakhtar Donetsk - the most popular and beloved club across the entire Donbas region. The funny thing is they couldn't burn it. Watch the video to see their awkward attempt and hear what real Donetsk residents said about it the next day. As someone born and raised in Donbas, I never met a single person who didn’t know Shakhtar. Almost everyone in the region followed the team passionately and went absolutely crazy with joy when we won the UEFA Cup. This is exactly why Kremlin media and their local collaborators always silence this story. It completely destroys the myth that these "protests" were organized by locals. It reminds me of the April 2014 incident in Kharkiv, when Russian "tourists" confused the buildings and stormed a theater instead of the regional administration headquarters. Russian propaganda stays silent about that one too. Yet pro-Russian trolls still come to tell us - actual Donbas residents - that "it was all organized by locals", not by Russians.
Serhii Antonov77,225 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Before the full-scale invasion (February 21), Russians were trolling Ukrainians. They called Kyiv restaurants and booked tables for February 24. But they should’ve booked cemetery plots instead of restaurants. They’ll find out about that later. His 106th Division never made it to Kyiv.
Serhii Antonov75,254 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
12 years ago today, the Parliament of Ukraine removed Viktor Yanukovych from the office of President and scheduled presidential elections for May 25, 2014. For all these years, Russian propaganda has been pushing the narrative of an "undemocratic coup" and the "illegitimacy" of Ukrainian authorities. But this is very easy to debunk: 1. The Parliament voted with a constitutional majority - 328(!) votes out of 450 (over 72%). A constitutional majority (300+ votes) has the full right to amend the Constitution, call early elections, and remove the President from office. 2. Representatives of all 5 parliamentary parties (including the president’s own Party of Regions) and independents voted in favor. It was a complete consensus of the entire parliament. Opposition MPs said they were fulfilling the will of the Ukrainian people. MPs from the ruling coalition explained that the President had fled at the most critical moment - while Russia had already begun the annexation of Crimea. 3. Elections were held, and the next President was democratically elected by the majority of Ukrainians. This was the only correct decision in a situation where Russia had launched aggression and the President had betrayed the country and fled to the aggressor. Russian propaganda searches for controversial legal nuances. But the reality is simple: parliamentary consensus and democratic elections that clearly expressed the will of the people. Let me remind you: a coup is an unconstitutional change of power that lacks support from the majority of society. So how can a decision by the constitutional majority of Parliament to hold elections - which the majority of Ukrainians then won - be called a "coup"? Russians and their fans have called "illegitimate": Turchynov (acting President according to the Constitution of Ukraine), Poroshenko (democratically elected by the majority), and now Zelenskyy (who received a record number of votes). In the end, Russians would call ANY President of Ukraine illegitimate if he refuses to give Russia what it wants - or to turn Ukraine into a Kremlin puppet like Belarus. #RevolutionOfDignity #12YearsOfResistance #StandWithUkraine
Serhii Antonov70,430 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
A video for those who still claim "Russia is not a threat to Europe". Classic 2015 Kremlin propaganda: subtly showing how Russia defeats both Europe and the United States. These narratives existed long before 2015 and continue to this day. Yet while marching towards Warsaw, the Russian army got bogged down in Donbas. Context: In 2015, Poland’s Foreign Minister proposed celebrating the end of WWII in Gdansk rather than Moscow (where the war was actually planned). The Kremlin threw a fit and pretended to forget that World War II began with the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the joint Soviet-German invasion of Poland in 1939. For their domestic audience, the war "magically" starts in 1941. Many Russians still believe that to this day.
Serhii Antonov32,091 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
I was cracking up at this video 😂 Russians who literally refuse to believe they're in Ukrainian captivity until the bitter end. And in the final moment they're still going: "Wait... are we actually prisoners for real?" They're tied up and aren't even fazed that their "own guys" tied them? Apparently that's just normal practice in the Russian army
Serhii Antonov29,526 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Every time Russians start spreading stories about how "Ukraine was killing people in Donbas" - show this video of a Russian "hero" to pro-Russian trolls. This is Arsen Pavlov, a citizen of Russia, who fought in Donbas against Ukraine in 2014. He chaotically shoots in a peaceful city, without hiding from the camera, endangering civilian local residents. When asked if there's anyone in the direction he's shooting, he honestly replies - "I don't care." This video perfectly characterizes those events. Russian citizens (whom Russian propaganda calls "local residents") are shooting at civilian buildings - and then Russian propaganda claims it was Ukraine doing the shooting. Not to mention the tortures and murders of local residents who openly supported Ukraine. Perhaps later, I'll make a thread about how Russians terrorized the local population of Donbas in 2014. #Ukraine #RussianPropaganda #RussianWarCrimes
Serhii Antonov41,388 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
1/6 Today - exactly 12 years ago - the bloody сulmination of the Revolution of Dignity began. And right in those days, February 18-20, 2014, Russia started its war against Ukraine. The final preparations had been secretly underway for months. Back then, just like today, skeptics told us Ukrainians could never win. Yanukovych’s repressive machine looked unbeatable. But in just a few days it collapsed. Yanukovych, his inner circle, and many of his security forces and enforcers fled in panic. Those who stayed behind were later traded for Ukrainian POWs.
Serhii Antonov32,784 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
This day in 2014 completely destroys the main Russian propaganda myth that "the West controlled the Maidan". On February 21, Yanukovych, opposition leaders, and European representatives signed an agreement: presidential elections by December 2014, with Yanukovych remaining president until the vote. They made a deal. But they failed to make a deal with the Ukrainian people. When the politicians came to the Maidan stage to announce it, the crowd booed and whistled them off. Representatives of the people broke through to the stage and delivered a clear ultimatum: "Yanukovych resigns immediately - and the murderers stand trial". Ukrainians did not want to live even one more day under the dictator who had drowned Kyiv in blood. They demanded justice for the killers. The EU insisted on negotiating with a murderer. Politicians searched for compromise. But those compromises were shot dead by Berkut’s rifles. It was the Ukrainian people who decided - not the EU and not individual Western politicians.👇
Serhii Antonov23,599 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Here's how the Russian army "stamps" its "victories" 😄 In the video, he was boasting about how he's "liberating" Kostiantynivka and claiming there's zero resistance from the AFU. In reality, this is a classic Russian military tactic - they send small groups into the nearby Ukrainian rear (where most of them end up dead or captured) and then announce that they've seized the territory. Basically, the presence of just 3-4 saboteurs is enough for them to claim "control".
Serhii Antonov19,749 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
March 20, 2014, Sevastopol. The Russians were tearing down Ukrainian flags at the Naval Academy and raising their own. But despite the pressure and intimidation, a group of cadets walked out of the building and sang the Ukrainian National Anthem loud and proud. These archival videos still give me chills every single time. Young guys who refused to betray their oath and stood firm against the enemy. In total, more than 100 cadets rejected swearing allegiance to Russia. By early April they were evacuated from occupied Crimea. Later, many of them stood up to defend Ukraine - and some even survived Russian captivity.
Serhii Antonov15,552 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
The beginning of open confrontation and violence against Ukrainians in Donbas started on March 5, 2014. 1/3 As I wrote in my previous thread - starting from March 1 in Luhansk, Donetsk and other cities, local residents began noticing the arrival of Russian "tourists". Posing as locals, they started seizing state administration buildings, raising Russian flags and demanding to join Russia. It was the Crimean scenario repeating itself, just with a delay of several weeks. Seeing this, city residents started organizing pro-Ukrainian protests. These rallies were held under calls for peace, Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and demands that Russia not interfere in our internal affairs. On March 5, Donetsk residents organized a massive rally in support of Ukraine in just one day. Thousands gathered, chanting "Putin go away" (a direct greeting to Russian propaganda that claims Donbas was calling for Putin) and "Rostov, go home!" - right at the Russian "tourists" who had come to occupy our land.
Serhii Antonov13,248 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Powerful footage from Maidan showing how Ukrainians received the news of Yanukovych’s flight and new elections being called. Joy. Exhaustion. Grief for the fallen. Ukrainians won that battle. But the fight for our freedom continues to this day. #RevolutionOfDignity #12YearsOfResistance #StandWithUkraine
Serhii Antonov13,739 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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