Marta Havryshko
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Scholar / Columnist / Peacemonger / Human Rights Advocate / Neo-Nazi Hunter / War Refugee / Mother ☕https://t.co/ou89RTNr5C
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![“You took my brother [to the war] — and he died! Aren’t you ashamed? Let the boy go! Let him go!” Women in my native city of Lviv shout as they try to free a young man being forcibly mobilized by recruitment officers and police. There is a deeply personal motive behind scenes like this — behind women stepping in to protect other women’s husbands, sons and brothers from forced draft. For them, this is not abstract politics. It is personal loss. One has lost a husband. Another, a son. Another, a brother... They know what that loss feels like. They know the hole it leaves behind, because they still carry it with them. And they do not want another woman to be condemned to the same grief. So they step forward. They defend someone else’s husband. Someone else’s son. Someone else’s brother. These women are among the true heroines of this war. They are its human face — in a war that has stripped far too many others of theirs.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2095182443753959488/amplify_video_thumb/2095181606499594243/img/4n6a2wOIraweFEjr.jpg)
“You took my brother [to the war] — and he died! Aren’t you ashamed? Let the boy go! Let him go!” Women in my native city of Lviv shout as they try to free a young man being forcibly mobilized by recruitment officers and police. There is a deeply personal motive behind scenes like this — behind women stepping in to protect other women’s husbands, sons and brothers from forced draft. For them, this is not abstract politics. It is personal loss. One has lost a husband. Another, a son. Another, a brother... They know what that loss feels like. They know the hole it leaves behind, because they still carry it with them. And they do not want another woman to be condemned to the same grief. So they step forward. They defend someone else’s husband. Someone else’s son. Someone else’s brother. These women are among the true heroines of this war. They are its human face — in a war that has stripped far too many others of theirs.
Marta Havryshko174,469 views • 1 day ago
A dude in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, was just chilling near his home, sipping coffee and puffing on his IQOS. A minute later, plainclothes draft officers speedran his morning routine and stuffed the poor thing into a van. He got so scared he didn’t even manage to close his front door. His buddy caught a kick and got absolutely marinated in pepper spray. Guys, smoking kills. Especially in Ukraine!
Marta Havryshko62,465 views • 2 days ago
“It's my son who is at work while you don’t do a damn thing! Get the hell out of here!” A woman shouts at draft officers as she physically pushes them out of a minibus (marshrutka) in Kyiv. She steps in to protect the men inside from forced mobilization — and makes it crystal clear that the officers are not welcome. That’s a Real Mama Bear☺️
Marta Havryshko69,112 views • 3 days ago
A shootout between Ukraine’s HUR and SBU in Kyiv has reportedly left one HUR officer dead and two wounded. Apparently, the 1990s called and asked for their turf-war aesthetics back. The whole mess started because the SBU abducted Stepan Kaplunov, a neo-Nazi and member of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) who was under HUR’s wing. Former HUR chief Budanov has already declared that “no one has the right to abduct servicemen.” The SBU, meanwhile, insists that Kaplunov was involved as an organizer of a crime connected to some particularly dangerous special operation that it managed to thwart. So what are we left with? Exactly what I’ve been writing about for years. If you turn Ukraine into a safe haven for neo-Nazis and criminals from Russia and elsewhere because your intelligence services regard them as “valuable assets,” don’t act surprised when you eventually get extremism and organized crime. That is, after all, their core competency. And remember they’re apparently doing it on the Western taxpayer’s dime. A charming little public-private partnership in political violence. Behold your beacon of democracy: intelligence agencies shooting at each other over custody of a neo-Nazi operative. Slava Ukraini?
Marta Havryshko36,190 views • 2 days ago
“Mom is gone. They took Dad away. Who am I supposed to live with?!” the boy cries for his father, who was taken away by draft officers to be sent off to war. His father was the boy’s sole legal guardian — which means he was legally entitled to a deferment from military service. Yet violations like this are increasingly becoming the norm. Mobilization quotas won’t fill themselves. Welcome to Zelenskyy’s country of “Four Freedoms.”
Marta Havryshko210,574 views • 13 days ago
“People! Please, help me! I’m begging you!” a man cries out to passersby in Sumy. A young woman approaches and starts filming as draft officers take him away to be sent to the front. There is little else she can do for him. But even this matters. Today, his family will learn that he is not coming home. Perhaps not for a very long time. Perhaps never.
Marta Havryshko13,798 views • 23 hours ago
Brutal “busification” in Vinnytsia. A van bearing the Nova Poshta logo pulls up, apparently to lull men on the street into a false sense of security. Masked draft officers jump out, rush a man, and forcibly drag him into the van. A woman screams and protests. She is pepper-sprayed. Welcome to the country of Zelensky’s “Four Freedoms.”
Marta Havryshko94,968 views • 12 days ago
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Azov founder Andriy Biletsky in 2020, back when he had neither the protection nor the resources of the Presidential Office: “We don’t need awards from a man who betrays everything we fought and went to war for. Not a single volunteer will accept an award from Zelenskyy.” Biletsky in 2026: accepts the title of Hero of Ukraine from Zelenskyy. Apparently, principles of 🇺🇦neo-Nazis don’t die — they just get promoted, decorated, and buried with full state honors and Western funds 🤪
Marta Havryshko53,101 views • 10 days ago
Act One. “Help me!” a man screams desperately as draft officers try to force him into their van. Act Two. Out of nowhere, two young men come running in and, in a scene straight out of an action movie, pull off the rescue. No stuntmen. No screenplay. No Hollywood. Ukraine. Present day.
Marta Havryshko53,513 views • 16 days ago
Swedish journalists accidentally capture busification in Kyiv Swedish journalists inadvertently filmed a dramatic draft hunt in central Kyiv. According to the reporter, the man was chased right past the camera crew. As he tried to flee down the street, a uniformed officer caught up with him. Moments later, a vehicle arrived carrying what appeared to be police or military personnel. The footage shows the man being forcibly restrained against the vehicle and pushed inside as bystanders and his female companion record the scene on their phones. The man can be heard screaming and calling for help.
Marta Havryshko42,982 views • 14 days ago